1 Changes in version 0.2.7.4-rc - 2015-10-21
2 Tor 0.2.7.4-rc is the second release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
3 fixes some important memory leaks, and a scary-looking (but mostly
4 harmless in practice) invalid-read bug. It also has a few small
5 bugfixes, notably fixes for compilation and portability on different
6 platforms. If no further significant bounds are found, the next
7 release will the the official stable release.
9 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness):
10 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
11 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
12 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
13 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
16 o Major bugfixes (correctness):
17 - Fix a use-after-free bug in validate_intro_point_failure(). Fixes
18 bug 17401; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
20 o Major bugfixes (memory leaks):
21 - Fix a memory leak in ed25519 batch signature checking. Fixes bug
22 17398; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
23 - Fix a memory leak in rend_cache_failure_entry_free(). Fixes bug
24 17402; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
25 - Fix a memory leak when reading an expired signing key from disk.
26 Fixes bug 17403; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-rc.
28 o Minor features (geoIP):
29 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
32 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
33 - Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha)
34 vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237.
35 - Fix an integer overflow warning in test_crypto_slow.c. Fixes bug
36 17251; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
37 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
38 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
40 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
41 - Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD to enable backtrace support. Fixes
42 part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from
45 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
46 - Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
47 HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
48 bugfix on tor-0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
50 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
51 - Add unit tests for get_interface_address* failure cases. Fixes bug
52 17173; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by fk/teor.
53 - Fix breakage when running 'make check' with BSD make. Fixes bug
54 17154; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by Marcin Cieślak.
55 - Make the get_ifaddrs_* unit tests more tolerant of different
56 network configurations. (Don't assume every test box has an IPv4
57 address, and don't assume every test box has a non-localhost
58 address.) Fixes bug 17255; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
59 - Skip backtrace tests when backtrace support is not compiled in.
60 Fixes part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch from
64 - Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609.
65 - Note that HiddenServicePorts can take a unix domain socket. Closes
69 Changes in version 0.2.7.3-rc - 2015-09-25
70 Tor 0.2.7.3-rc is the first release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
71 contains numerous usability fixes for Ed25519 keys, safeguards against
72 several misconfiguration problems, significant simplifications to
73 Tor's callgraph, and numerous bugfixes and small features.
75 This is the most tested release of Tor to date. The unit tests cover
76 39.40% of the code, and the integration tests (accessible with "make
77 test-full-online", requiring stem and chutney and a network
78 connection) raise the coverage to 64.49%.
80 o Major features (security, hidden services):
81 - Hidden services, if using the EntryNodes option, are required to
82 use more than one EntryNode, in order to avoid a guard discovery
83 attack. (This would only affect people who had configured hidden
84 services and manually specified the EntryNodes option with a
85 single entry-node. The impact was that it would be easy to
86 remotely identify the guard node used by such a hidden service.
87 See ticket for more information.) Fixes ticket 14917.
89 o Major features (Ed25519 keys, keypinning):
90 - The key-pinning option on directory authorities is now advisory-
91 only by default. In a future version, or when the AuthDirPinKeys
92 option is set, pins are enforced again. Disabling key-pinning
93 seemed like a good idea so that we can survive the fallout of any
94 usability problems associated with Ed25519 keys. Closes
97 o Major features (Ed25519 performance):
98 - Improve the speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519 keypair
99 generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with SSE2
100 available. Implements ticket 16535.
101 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 signature verification by
102 using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support. Implements
105 o Major features (performance testing):
106 - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing.
107 Requires corresponding chutney performance testing changes. Patch
108 by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
110 o Major features (relay, Ed25519):
111 - Significant usability improvements for Ed25519 key management. Log
112 messages are better, and the code can recover from far more
113 failure conditions. Thanks to "s7r" for reporting and diagnosing
115 - Add a new OfflineMasterKey option to tell Tor never to try loading
116 or generating a secret Ed25519 identity key. You can use this in
117 combination with tor --keygen to manage offline and/or encrypted
118 Ed25519 keys. Implements ticket 16944.
119 - Add a --newpass option to allow changing or removing the
120 passphrase of an encrypted key with tor --keygen. Implements part
122 - On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519
123 signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790.
125 o Major bugfixes (relay, Ed25519):
126 - Avoid crashing on 'tor --keygen'. Fixes bug 16679; bugfix on
127 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
128 - Improve handling of expired signing keys with offline master keys.
129 Fixes bug 16685; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
131 o Minor features (client-side privacy):
132 - New KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option to indefinitely extend circuit
133 lifespan when IsolateSOCKSAuth and streams with SOCKS
134 authentication are attached to the circuit. This allows
135 applications like TorBrowser to manage circuit lifetime on their
136 own. Implements feature 15482.
137 - When logging malformed hostnames from SOCKS5 requests, respect
138 SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
140 o Minor features (compilation):
141 - Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an
142 unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901.
143 - Fail during configure if we're trying to build against an OpenSSL
144 built without ECC support. Fixes bug 17109, bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha
145 which started requiring ECC.
147 o Minor features (geoip):
148 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
151 o Minor features (hidden services):
152 - Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this
153 is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14%
154 drop. This change should make some attacks against the hidden
155 service directory system harder. Fixes ticket 15963.
156 - Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc
157 option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. (This keeps
158 track only of the fraction of traffic used by hidden services, and
159 the total number of hidden services in existence.) Closes
161 - Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when
162 to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache. Previously, failures
163 were recorded implicitly, but not explicitly remembered. Closes
166 o Minor features (testing, authorities, documentation):
167 - New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags to
168 explicitly manage consensus flags in testing networks. Patch by
169 "robgjansen", modified by "teor". Implements part of ticket 14882.
171 o Minor bugfixes (security, exit policies):
172 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now also rejects the relay's published
173 IPv6 address (if any), and any publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6
174 addresses on any local interfaces. ticket 17027. Patch by "teor".
175 Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 0.2.0.11-alpha.
177 o Minor bug fixes (torrc exit policies):
178 - In torrc, "accept6 *" and "reject6 *" ExitPolicy lines now only
179 produce IPv6 wildcard addresses. Previously they would produce
180 both IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Patch by "teor". Fixes part
181 of bug 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
182 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now warn for a number of cases
183 where the user's intent is likely to differ from Tor's actual
184 behavior. These include: using an IPv4 address with an accept6 or
185 reject6 line; using "private" on an accept6 or reject6 line; and
186 including any ExitPolicy lines after accept *:* or reject *:*.
187 Related to ticket 16069.
188 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now issue an info-level
189 message when expanding an "accept/reject *" line to include both
190 IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Related to ticket 16069.
191 - In each instance above, usage advice is provided to avoid the
192 message. Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug
193 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
195 o Minor bugfixes (authority):
196 - Don't assign "HSDir" to a router if it isn't Valid and Running.
197 Fixes bug 16524; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
198 - Downgrade log messages about Ed25519 key issues if they are in old
199 cached router descriptors. Fixes part of bug 16286; bugfix
201 - When we find an Ed25519 key issue in a cached descriptor, stop
202 saying the descriptor was just "uploaded". Fixes another part of
203 bug 16286; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
205 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
206 - Repair a warning and a spurious result when getting the maximum
207 number of file descriptors from the controller. Fixes bug 16697;
208 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
210 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
211 - When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove()
212 while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit
213 17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was
214 incorrectly removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
216 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
217 - Advise users on how to configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 exit
218 policies in the manpage and sample torrcs. Related to ticket 16069.
219 - Fix the usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
220 the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
221 - Fix an error in the manual page and comments for
222 TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir
223 required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no
224 way unique to the HSDir flag. Of all the flags, only HSDirs need a
225 DirPort configured in order for the authorities to assign that
226 particular flag. Patch by "teor". Fixed as part of 14882; bugfix
229 o Minor bugfixes (Ed25519):
230 - Fix a memory leak when reading router descriptors with expired
231 Ed25519 certificates. Fixes bug 16539; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
233 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
234 - Allow bridge authorities to run correctly under the seccomp2
235 sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
236 - Allow routers with ed25519 keys to run correctly under the
237 seccomp2 sandbox. Fixes bug 16965; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
239 o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
240 - Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
241 limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug
242 16274; bugfix on tor- 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
244 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
245 - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
246 standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
248 - Check correctly for Windows socket errors in the workqueue
249 backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
250 - Fix the behavior of crypto_rand_time_range() when told to consider
251 times before 1970. (These times were possible when running in a
252 simulated network environment where time()'s output starts at
253 zero.) Fixes bug 16980; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
254 - Restore correct operation of TLS client-cipher detection on
255 OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug 14047; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
257 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
258 - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
259 shutdown is indicated. This fix doesn't currently affect the
260 behavior of Tor, because Tor workers never indicates fatal error
261 or shutdown except in the unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix
263 - Unblock threads before releasing the work queue mutex to ensure
264 predictable scheduling behavior. Fixes bug 16644; bugfix
267 o Code simplification and refactoring:
268 - Change the function that's called when we need to retry all
269 downloads so that it only reschedules the downloads to happen
270 immediately, rather than launching them all at once itself. This
271 further simplifies Tor's callgraph.
272 - Move some format-parsing functions out of crypto.c and
273 crypto_curve25519.c into crypto_format.c and/or util_format.c.
274 - Move the client-only parts of init_keys() into a separate
275 function. Closes ticket 16763.
276 - Simplify the microdesc_free() implementation so that it no longer
277 appears (to code analysis tools) to potentially invoke a huge
278 suite of other microdesc functions.
279 - Simply the control graph further by deferring the inner body of
280 directory_all_unreachable() into a callback. Closes ticket 16762.
281 - Treat the loss of an owning controller as equivalent to a SIGTERM
282 signal. This removes a tiny amount of duplicated code, and
283 simplifies our callgraph. Closes ticket 16788.
284 - When generating an event to send to the controller, we no longer
285 put the event over the network immediately. Instead, we queue
286 these events, and use a Libevent callback to deliver them. This
287 change simplifies Tor's callgraph by reducing the number of
288 functions from which all other Tor functions are reachable. Closes
290 - Wrap Windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools
291 that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that
293 - Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup().
296 - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
297 than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
298 - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
299 to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
303 - The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor
304 distribution, in favor of the pure-Go clone available from
305 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/ . The libraries
306 used by the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very
307 confidence- inspiring in their secure-programming techniques.
309 - Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller
310 connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in
311 0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding
312 their limits. But there is no longer a maximum output buffer size,
313 and flushing data in this way caused some undesirable recursions
314 in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480.
317 - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
318 tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
319 to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
320 test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor) and 16946
321 (chutney). Patches by "teor".
322 - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and Tor sources are side-
323 by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
325 - Use environment variables rather than autoconf substitutions to
326 send variables from the build system to the test scripts. This
327 change should be easier to maintain, and cause 'make distcheck' to
328 work better than before. Fixes bug 17148.
329 - Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to
330 produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which
331 other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify
332 our code structure by identifying illogical dependencies.
333 - Add new 'test-full' and 'test-full-online' targets to run all
334 tests, including integration tests with stem and chutney.
335 - Make the test-workqueue test work on Windows by initializing the
336 network before we begin.
337 - New make target (make test-network-all) to run multiple applicable
338 chutney test cases. Patch from Teor; closes 16953.
339 - Unit test dns_resolve(), dns_clip_ttl() and dns_get_expiry_ttl()
340 functions in dns.c. Implements a portion of ticket 16831.
341 - When building Tor with testing coverage enabled, run Chutney tests
342 (if any) using the 'tor-cov' coverage binary.
343 - When running test-network or test-stem, check for the absence of
344 stem/chutney before doing any build operations.
347 Changes in version 0.2.7.2-alpha - 2015-07-27
348 This, the second alpha in the Tor 0.2.7 series, has a number of new
349 features, including a way to manually pick the number of introduction
350 points for hidden services, and the much stronger Ed25519 signing key
351 algorithm for regular Tor relays (including support for encrypted
352 offline identity keys in the new algorithm).
354 Support for Ed25519 on relays is currently limited to signing router
355 descriptors; later alphas in this series will extend Ed25519 key
356 support to more parts of the Tor protocol.
358 o Major features (Ed25519 identity keys, Proposal 220):
359 - All relays now maintain a stronger identity key, using the Ed25519
360 elliptic curve signature format. This master key is designed so
361 that it can be kept offline. Relays also generate an online
362 signing key, and a set of other Ed25519 keys and certificates.
363 These are all automatically regenerated and rotated as needed.
364 Implements part of ticket 12498.
365 - Directory authorities now vote on Ed25519 identity keys along with
366 RSA1024 keys. Implements part of ticket 12498.
367 - Directory authorities track which Ed25519 identity keys have been
368 used with which RSA1024 identity keys, and do not allow them to
369 vary freely. Implements part of ticket 12498.
370 - Microdescriptors now include Ed25519 identity keys. Implements
371 part of ticket 12498.
372 - Add support for offline encrypted Ed25519 master keys. To use this
373 feature on your tor relay, run "tor --keygen" to make a new master
374 key (or to make a new signing key if you already have a master
375 key). Closes ticket 13642.
377 o Major features (Hidden services):
378 - Add the torrc option HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints, to
379 specify a fixed number of introduction points. Its maximum value
380 is 10 and default is 3. Using this option can increase a hidden
381 service's reliability under load, at the cost of making it more
382 visible that the hidden service is facing extra load. Closes
384 - Remove the adaptive algorithm for choosing the number of
385 introduction points, which used to change the number of
386 introduction points (poorly) depending on the number of
387 connections the HS sees. Closes ticket 4862.
389 o Major features (onion key cross-certification):
390 - Relay descriptors now include signatures of their own identity
391 keys, made using the TAP and ntor onion keys. These signatures
392 allow relays to prove ownership of their own onion keys. Because
393 of this change, microdescriptors will no longer need to include
394 RSA identity keys. Implements proposal 228; closes ticket 12499.
396 o Major features (performance):
397 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations by using the
398 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry").
399 Implements ticket 16467.
400 - Improve the runtime speed of the ntor handshake by using an
401 optimized curve25519 basepoint scalarmult implementation from the
402 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"), based on
403 ideas by Adam Langley. Implements ticket 9663.
405 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy, also in 0.2.6.9):
406 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
407 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group
408 was being overwritten by a default value when the listener
409 connection was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on
410 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by "jojelino".
412 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
413 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
414 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
415 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
416 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
417 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
418 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
419 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
422 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
423 - When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always
424 extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit).
425 Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which
426 changed the original choice of introduction point, and could cause
427 the hidden service to skip excluded introduction points or
428 reconnect to a skipped introduction point. Fixes bug 16260; bugfix
431 o Major bugfixes (open file limit):
432 - The open file limit wasn't checked before calling
433 tor_accept_socket_nonblocking(), which would make Tor exceed the
434 limit. Now, before opening a new socket, Tor validates the open
435 file limit just before, and if the max has been reached, return an
436 error. Fixes bug 16288; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
438 o Major bugfixes (stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
439 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
440 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
441 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
442 by "cypherpunks_backup".
443 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
444 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
445 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
448 o Minor features (directory authorities, security, also in 0.2.6.9):
449 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
450 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
451 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
452 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable to
453 require at the very least 7 days, while maintaining the 96 hours
454 uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
456 o Minor features (client):
457 - Relax the validation of hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, allowing the
458 character '_' to appear, in order to cope with domains observed in
459 the wild that are serving non-RFC compliant records. Resolves
461 - Relax the validation done to hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, and
462 allow a single trailing '.' to cope with clients that pass FQDNs
463 using that syntax to explicitly indicate that the domain name is
464 fully-qualified. Fixes bug 16674; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
465 - Add GroupWritable and WorldWritable options to unix-socket based
466 SocksPort and ControlPort options. These options apply to a single
467 socket, and override {Control,Socks}SocketsGroupWritable. Closes
470 o Minor features (control protocol):
471 - Support network-liveness GETINFO key and NETWORK_LIVENESS event in
472 the control protocol. Resolves ticket 15358.
474 o Minor features (directory authorities):
475 - Directory authorities no longer vote against the "Fast", "Stable",
476 and "HSDir" flags just because they were going to vote against
477 "Running": if the consensus turns out to be that the router was
478 running, then the authority's vote should count. Patch from Peter
479 Retzlaff; closes issue 8712.
481 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.6.10):
482 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
483 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
485 o Minor features (hidden services):
486 - Add the new options "HiddenServiceMaxStreams" and
487 "HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit" to allow hidden services to
488 limit the maximum number of simultaneous streams per circuit, and
489 optionally tear down the circuit when the limit is exceeded. Part
492 o Minor features (portability):
493 - Use C99 variadic macros when the compiler is not GCC. This avoids
494 failing compilations on MSVC, and fixes a log-file-based race
495 condition in our old workarounds. Original patch from Gisle Vanem.
497 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.6.9):
498 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
499 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
500 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
502 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
503 - Add the descriptor ID in each HS_DESC control event. It was
504 missing, but specified in control-spec.txt. Fixes bug 15881;
505 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
507 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, also in 0.2.6.10):
508 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
509 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
510 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
511 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
512 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
514 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
515 - Fix a crash when reloading configuration while at least one
516 configured and one ephemeral hidden service exists. Fixes bug
517 16060; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
518 - Avoid crashing with a double-free bug when we create an ephemeral
519 hidden service but adding it fails for some reason. Fixes bug
520 16228; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
522 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
523 - Use the sandbox in tor_open_cloexec whether or not O_CLOEXEC is
524 defined. Patch by "teor". Fixes bug 16515; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
526 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10):
527 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
528 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
529 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
531 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.9):
532 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay, by allowing the
533 renaming of secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex
534 syscalls. Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by
536 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
537 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
540 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
541 - Fix a rarely-encountered memory leak when failing to initialize
542 the thread pool. Fixes bug 16631; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
545 o Minor bugfixes (systemd):
546 - Fix an accidental formatting error that broke the systemd
547 configuration file. Fixes bug 16152; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
548 - Tor's systemd unit file no longer contains extraneous spaces.
549 These spaces would sometimes confuse tools like deb-systemd-
550 helper. Fixes bug 16162; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
552 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
553 - Use the configured Python executable when running test-stem-full.
554 Fixes bug 16470; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
556 o Minor bugfixes (tests, also in 0.2.6.9):
557 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
558 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
560 o Minor bugfixes (threads, comments):
561 - Always initialize return value in compute_desc_id in rendcommon.c
562 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
563 - Check for NULL values in getinfo_helper_onions(). Patch by "teor".
564 Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
565 - Remove undefined directive-in-macro in test_util_writepid clang
566 3.7 complains that using a preprocessor directive inside a macro
567 invocation in test_util_writepid in test_util.c is undefined.
568 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
570 o Code simplification and refactoring:
571 - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order
572 to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere.
573 - Remove some vestigial workarounds for the MSVC6 compiler. We
574 haven't supported that in ages.
575 - The link authentication code has been refactored for better
576 testability and reliability. It now uses code generated with the
577 "trunnel" binary encoding generator, to reduce the risk of bugs
578 due to programmer error. Done as part of ticket 12498.
581 - Include a specific and (hopefully) accurate documentation of the
582 torrc file's meta-format in doc/torrc_format.txt. This is mainly
583 of interest to people writing programs to parse or generate torrc
584 files. This document is not a commitment to long-term
585 compatibility; some aspects of the current format are a bit
586 ridiculous. Closes ticket 2325.
589 - Tor no longer supports copies of OpenSSL that are missing support
590 for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (We began using ECC when
591 available in 0.2.4.8-alpha, for more safe and efficient key
592 negotiation.) In particular, support for at least one of P256 or
593 P224 is now required, with manual configuration needed if only
594 P224 is available. Resolves ticket 16140.
595 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL before 1.0. (If you are
596 on an operating system that has not upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0 or
597 later, and you compile Tor from source, you will need to install a
598 more recent OpenSSL to link Tor against.) These versions of
599 OpenSSL are still supported by the OpenSSL, but the numerous
600 cryptographic improvements in later OpenSSL releases makes them a
601 clear choice. Resolves ticket 16034.
602 - Remove the HidServDirectoryV2 option. Now all relays offer to
603 store hidden service descriptors. Related to 16543.
604 - Remove the VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 option, since all
605 authorities have long set it to 1. Closes ticket 16543.
608 - Document use of coverity, clang static analyzer, and clang dynamic
609 undefined behavior and address sanitizers in doc/HACKING. Include
610 detailed usage instructions in the blacklist. Patch by "teor".
612 - The link authentication protocol code now has extensive tests.
613 - The relay descriptor signature testing code now has
615 - The test_workqueue program now runs faster, and is enabled by
616 default as a part of "make check".
617 - Now that OpenSSL has its own scrypt implementation, add an unit
618 test that checks for interoperability between libscrypt_scrypt()
619 and OpenSSL's EVP_PBE_scrypt() so that we could not use libscrypt
620 and rely on EVP_PBE_scrypt() whenever possible. Resolves
624 Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12
625 Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden
626 service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and
627 fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of
628 Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version
629 of 0.2.6, should upgrade.
631 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability):
632 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
633 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
634 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
635 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
636 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
637 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
638 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
641 o Major bugfixes (stability):
642 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
643 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
644 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
645 by "cypherpunks_backup".
646 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
647 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
648 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
651 o Minor features (geoip):
652 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
653 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
655 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling):
656 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
657 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
658 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
659 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
660 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
662 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
663 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
664 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
665 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
668 Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11
669 Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the
670 requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small
671 bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation
672 should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade.
674 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
675 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
676 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was
677 being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection
678 was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
681 o Minor feature (directory authorities, security):
682 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
683 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
684 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
685 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which
686 takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96
687 hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
689 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
690 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
691 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
692 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
694 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
695 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of
696 secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes
697 bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader.
698 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
699 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
702 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
703 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
704 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
707 Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
708 Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
709 fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
710 authorities should upgrade.
712 o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
713 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
714 flag to relay without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
715 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
716 on tor-0.2.6.3-alpha.
718 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
719 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
720 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
723 o Minor features (geoip):
724 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
725 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
729 Changes in version 0.2.7.1-alpha - 2015-05-12
730 Tor 0.2.7.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
731 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
732 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
733 notable features are several new ways for controllers to interact with
734 the hidden services subsystem.
736 o New system requirements:
737 - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions
738 before 1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes
741 o Major features (controller):
742 - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
743 and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
745 - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached"
746 commands to get information about hidden services created via the
747 controller. Part of ticket 6411.
748 - New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
749 descriptor. Closes ticket 14847.
750 - New HSPOST command to upload a hidden service descriptor. Closes
751 ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
753 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
754 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
755 flag to relay without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
756 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
757 on tor-0.2.6.3-alpha.
759 o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
760 - Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
761 happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
762 hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
763 fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
765 o Minor features (command-line interface):
766 - Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
767 Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
768 - Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
769 as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
771 o Minor features (controller):
772 - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the
773 output of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
774 present. Implements ticket 14840.
775 - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to
776 retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache.
778 - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-
779 descs" to fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on
780 demand just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
782 o Minor features (DoS-resistance):
783 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
784 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
785 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
787 o Minor features (geoip):
788 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
789 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
792 o Minor features (HS popularity countermeasure):
793 - To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
794 when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
795 cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
796 making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
797 clients that have used the introduction point for a specific HS.
800 o Minor features (logging):
801 - Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people
802 tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements
805 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
806 - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
807 attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
808 pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
810 - When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open
811 stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has
812 terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" environment variable
813 can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior.
814 Resolves ticket 15435.
816 o Minor features (testing):
817 - Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our
818 memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377.
819 - Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes
820 files. Closes ticket 15180.
821 - Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile-
822 time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity
823 of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for
824 bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor".
825 - Command-line argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806.
826 - Integrate the ntor, backtrace, and zero-length keys tests into the
827 automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344.
828 - Remove assertions during builds to determine Tor's test coverage.
829 We don't want to trigger these even in assertions, so including
830 them artificially makes our branch coverage look worse than it is.
831 This patch provides the new test-stem-full and coverage-html-full
832 configure options. Implements ticket 15400.
834 o Minor bugfixes (build):
835 - Improve out-of-tree builds by making non-standard rules work and
836 clean up additional files and directories. Fixes bug 15053; bugfix
839 o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface):
840 - When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not
841 write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix
843 - When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use
846 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests):
847 - Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities,
848 AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options
849 are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is
850 currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behavior when it
851 has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for
852 consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on
853 90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
855 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
856 - For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
857 handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix
859 - Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
860 because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
861 unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36,
864 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
865 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
866 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
868 - Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden
869 service descriptors. Fixes bug 15296; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
871 o Minor bugfixes (interface):
872 - Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without
873 an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording
874 and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix
877 o Minor bugfixes (logs):
878 - When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of
879 parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug
880 15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with
883 o Minor bugfixes (network):
884 - When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface
885 lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are
886 unsuitable for public communications.
888 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
889 - Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
890 not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
891 being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
892 when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay.
893 Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
895 o Minor bugfixes (test networks):
896 - When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to
897 determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The
898 previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
899 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configurations
900 where ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is
901 not. Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor",
902 issue discovered by CJ Ess.
904 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
905 - Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes
906 bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
908 - Set the severity correctly when testing
909 get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and
910 get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
911 instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
912 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
914 o Code simplification and refactoring:
915 - Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into
916 separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
918 - Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently
919 report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases
920 involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391.
921 - Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more
922 control over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
925 - Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in
926 the manpage to describe rationale and possible uses cases. Fixes
928 - Improve the layout and formatting of ./configure --help messages.
929 Closes ticket 15024. Patch from "cypherpunks".
930 - Standardize on the term "server descriptor" in the manual page.
931 Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor",
932 and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987.
935 - Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
936 and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
937 has been part of tor since tor-0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
938 be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
939 - Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
943 - Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti-
944 fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward-
945 secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736.
946 - Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It
947 complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on
948 multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
949 including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742.
950 - Tor no longer contains checks for ancient directory cache versions
951 that didn't know about microdescriptors.
952 - Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by
953 super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly.
956 Changes in version 0.2.4.27 - 2015-04-06
957 Tor 0.2.4.27 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
958 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
959 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
960 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
962 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
963 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
965 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
966 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
967 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
968 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
969 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
970 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
971 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
973 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
974 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
975 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
976 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
977 Resolves ticket 15515.
980 Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06
981 Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an
982 attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden
983 services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients
984 should upgrade whenever packages become available.
986 This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden
987 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
989 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
990 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
991 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
992 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
993 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
994 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
995 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
997 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
998 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
999 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
1000 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
1001 Resolves ticket 15515.
1002 - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs
1003 when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational
1004 cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves
1008 Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24
1009 Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series.
1011 It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance
1012 improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of
1013 sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is
1014 improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much
1015 higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is
1016 improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports
1017 should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance
1018 bugs should be addressed.
1020 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
1021 - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent
1022 compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436;
1023 bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
1025 Changes in version 0.2.6.5-rc - 2015-03-18
1026 Tor 0.2.6.5-rc is the second and (hopefully) last release candidate in
1027 the 0.2.6. It fixes a small number of bugs found in 0.2.6.4-rc.
1029 o Major bugfixes (client):
1030 - Avoid crashing when making certain configuration option changes on
1031 clients. Fixes bug 15245; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
1034 o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
1035 - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
1036 launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
1037 that occured when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
1038 authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
1039 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1041 o Major bugfixes (portability):
1042 - Do not crash on startup when running on Solaris. Fixes a bug
1043 related to our fix for 9495; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Reported
1046 o Minor features (heartbeat):
1047 - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
1048 version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
1049 know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
1050 protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
1052 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1053 - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
1054 easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
1057 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
1058 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
1060 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
1061 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
1062 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
1064 o Directory authority changes:
1065 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
1066 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
1067 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
1068 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
1069 closes ticket 14487.
1071 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
1072 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
1073 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
1076 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
1077 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
1078 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
1079 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
1080 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
1081 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
1082 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
1083 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1085 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
1086 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
1087 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
1088 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
1090 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
1091 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
1092 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
1093 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
1095 o Minor features (controller):
1096 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
1097 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
1098 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
1100 o Minor features (geoip):
1101 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
1102 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
1105 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
1106 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
1107 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
1108 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
1109 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
1110 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
1112 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1113 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
1114 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
1115 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
1117 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
1118 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
1119 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
1120 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
1121 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
1122 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
1123 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
1124 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
1126 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
1127 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
1128 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
1130 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
1131 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
1132 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
1133 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
1134 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
1138 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
1139 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
1140 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
1143 o Directory authority changes:
1144 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
1145 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
1146 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
1147 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
1148 closes ticket 14487.
1150 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
1151 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
1152 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
1153 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
1155 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
1156 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
1157 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
1158 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
1159 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
1160 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
1161 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
1162 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1164 o Minor features (geoip):
1165 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
1166 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
1169 Changes in version 0.2.6.4-rc - 2015-03-09
1170 Tor 0.2.6.4-alpha fixes an issue in the directory code that an
1171 attacker might be able to use in order to crash certain Tor
1172 directories. It also resolves some minor issues left over from, or
1173 introduced in, Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha or earlier.
1175 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
1176 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
1177 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
1180 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
1181 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
1182 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
1183 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
1184 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
1185 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
1186 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
1187 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1189 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
1190 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
1191 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
1194 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
1195 - Pass IPPROTO_TCP rather than 0 to socket(), so that the Linux
1196 seccomp2 sandbox doesn't fail. Fixes bug 14989; bugfix
1198 - Allow AF_UNIX hidden services to be used with the seccomp2
1199 sandbox. Fixes bug 15003; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1200 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
1201 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
1202 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
1204 o Minor features (controller):
1205 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
1206 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
1207 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
1209 o Minor features (geoip):
1210 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
1211 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
1214 o Minor features (logs):
1215 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
1218 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
1219 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
1220 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
1221 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1222 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
1223 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
1224 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
1225 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
1226 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
1228 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1229 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
1231 - Fix a compilation warning on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 15151; bugfix
1234 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
1235 - Fix endianness issues in unit test for resolve_my_address() to
1236 have it pass on big endian systems. Fixes bug 14980; bugfix on
1238 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
1239 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
1240 - When running the new 'make test-stem' target, use the configured
1241 python binary. Fixes bug 15037; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
1243 - When running the zero-length-keys tests, do not use the default
1244 torrc file. Fixes bug 15033; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
1247 o Directory authority IP change:
1248 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
1249 closes ticket 14487.
1252 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
1253 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
1254 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
1258 Changes in version 0.2.6.3-alpha - 2015-02-19
1259 Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha is the third (and hopefully final) alpha release in
1260 the 0.2.6.x series. It introduces support for more kinds of sockets,
1261 makes it harder to accidentally run an exit, improves our
1262 multithreading backend, incorporates several fixes for the
1263 AutomapHostsOnResolve option, and fixes numerous other bugs besides.
1265 If no major regressions or security holes are found in this version,
1266 the next version will be a release candidate.
1268 o Deprecated versions:
1269 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
1270 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
1272 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
1273 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
1274 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
1275 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
1276 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
1277 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
1279 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
1280 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
1281 Implements ticket 11485.
1283 o Major features (changed defaults):
1284 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
1285 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
1286 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
1287 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
1288 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
1289 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
1291 o Major features (directory system):
1292 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
1293 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
1294 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
1295 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
1296 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
1297 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
1298 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
1299 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
1300 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
1301 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
1302 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
1303 227. Closes ticket 10395.
1305 o Major features (guards):
1306 - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
1307 guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
1308 guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
1309 a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
1310 months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
1312 o Major features (performance):
1313 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
1314 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
1315 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
1316 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
1317 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
1318 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
1319 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
1320 Implements ticket 9682.
1322 o Major features (relay):
1323 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
1324 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
1325 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
1327 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
1328 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
1329 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
1330 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
1332 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
1333 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
1334 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
1335 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
1336 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
1337 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
1338 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
1340 o Minor features (build):
1341 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
1342 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
1343 Resolves ticket 13037.
1345 o Minor features (controller):
1346 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
1347 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
1349 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
1350 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
1351 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
1352 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
1353 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
1354 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
1356 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
1357 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
1358 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
1359 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
1360 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
1361 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
1362 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
1363 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
1364 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
1365 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
1367 o Minor features (geoip):
1368 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the January 7 2015 Maxmind
1369 GeoLite2 Country database.
1371 o Minor features (guard nodes):
1372 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
1373 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
1374 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
1376 o Minor features (hidden service):
1377 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
1378 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
1379 hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
1380 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
1381 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
1382 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
1383 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
1384 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
1386 o Minor features (interface):
1387 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
1388 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
1389 the file system. Implements feature 13865.
1391 o Minor features (logging):
1392 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
1393 Resolves ticket 6852.
1394 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
1395 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
1396 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
1398 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
1399 INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
1401 o Minor features (stability):
1402 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
1403 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
1406 o Minor features (systemd):
1407 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
1408 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
1410 o Minor features (testing networks):
1411 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
1412 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
1413 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
1414 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
1415 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
1416 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
1418 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
1419 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
1420 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
1421 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
1422 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
1424 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
1425 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
1426 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
1427 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
1428 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
1430 o Minor bugfixes (client DNS):
1431 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
1432 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
1433 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
1434 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
1435 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
1436 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
1437 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1439 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
1440 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
1441 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
1442 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
1443 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
1444 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
1445 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
1446 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
1448 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
1449 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
1450 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
1453 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
1454 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
1455 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
1456 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
1457 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
1459 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
1460 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
1461 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
1462 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
1463 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
1465 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1466 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
1467 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
1468 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
1469 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
1470 - Avoid warnings when building with systemd 209 or later. Fixes bug
1471 14072; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "h.venev".
1472 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
1473 Addresses ticket 14188.
1474 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
1475 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
1476 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
1477 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
1478 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
1479 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
1480 - Remove the --disable-threads configure option again. It was
1481 accidentally partially reintroduced in 29ac883606d6d. Fixes bug
1482 14819; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
1484 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
1485 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
1486 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
1487 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
1488 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
1489 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
1490 - Add a code for the END_CIRC_REASON_IP_NOW_REDUNDANT circuit close
1491 reason. Fixes bug 14207; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
1493 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
1494 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
1495 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
1496 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
1497 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
1498 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
1499 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
1500 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1501 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
1502 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1503 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
1504 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
1505 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
1507 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
1508 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
1509 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
1510 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
1511 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
1512 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
1513 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
1514 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
1515 state, and key files.
1516 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
1517 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
1520 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
1521 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
1522 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
1523 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
1524 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
1525 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
1526 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
1527 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1528 - Successfully launch Tor with a nonexistent hidden service
1529 directory. Our fix for bug 13942 didn't catch this case. Fixes bug
1530 14106; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
1532 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1533 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
1534 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1535 - Add a string representation for LD_SCHED. Fixes bug 14740; bugfix
1537 - Don't log messages to stdout twice when starting up. Fixes bug
1538 13993; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
1540 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
1541 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
1542 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
1543 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
1544 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
1545 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
1547 o Minor bugfixes (path counting):
1548 - When deciding whether the consensus lists any exit nodes, count
1549 the number listed in the consensus, not the number we have
1550 descriptors for. Fixes part of bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
1551 - When deciding whether we have any exit nodes, only examine
1552 ExitNodes when the ExitNodes option is actually set. Fixes part of
1553 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
1554 - Get rid of redundant and possibly scary warnings that we are
1555 missing directory information while we bootstrap. Fixes part of
1556 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
1558 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
1559 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
1560 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
1562 - Fix scheduler compilation on targets where char is unsigned. Fixes
1563 bug 14764; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Reported by Christian Kujau.
1565 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
1566 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
1567 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
1568 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
1569 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1571 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
1572 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
1573 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
1574 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
1577 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
1578 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
1579 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
1582 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
1583 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
1584 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
1586 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
1587 - Fix detection and operation of systemd watchdog. Fixes part of bug
1588 14141; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
1589 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
1590 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
1591 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
1592 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
1594 - Cause the "--disable-systemd" option to actually disable systemd
1595 support. Fixes bug 14350; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch
1598 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
1599 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
1600 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
1602 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
1603 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
1604 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
1607 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1608 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
1609 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
1610 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
1611 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
1612 the past. Closes ticket 8546.
1613 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
1614 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
1615 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
1617 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
1618 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
1620 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
1624 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
1625 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
1626 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
1627 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
1628 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
1629 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
1631 o Downgraded warnings:
1632 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
1633 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
1636 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
1637 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
1638 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
1639 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
1640 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
1644 - Make the checkdir/perms test complete successfully even if the
1645 global umask is not 022. Fixes bug 14215; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
1646 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
1647 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
1648 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
1649 (existing behavior).
1650 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
1651 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
1652 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
1653 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
1654 Closes ticket 14107.
1655 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
1656 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
1657 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
1658 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
1660 - Avoid undefined behavior when sampling huge values from the
1661 Laplace distribution. This made unittests fail on Raspberry Pi.
1662 Bug found by Device. Fixes bug 14090; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
1665 Changes in version 0.2.6.2-alpha - 2014-12-31
1666 Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha is the second alpha release in the 0.2.6.x series.
1667 It introduces a major new backend for deciding when to send cells on
1668 channels, which should lead down the road to big performance
1669 increases. It contains security and statistics features for better
1670 work on hidden services, and numerous bugfixes.
1672 This release contains many new unit tests, along with major
1673 performance improvements for running testing networks using Chutney.
1674 Thanks to a series of patches contributed by "teor", testing networks
1675 should now bootstrap in seconds, rather than minutes.
1677 o Major features (relay, infrastructure):
1678 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
1679 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
1680 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
1681 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
1682 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
1684 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
1685 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
1686 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
1687 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
1688 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
1689 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
1690 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
1693 o Major features (hidden services):
1694 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
1695 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
1696 Closes ticket 13667.
1697 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
1698 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
1699 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
1700 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
1701 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
1702 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
1703 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
1704 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
1705 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
1706 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
1707 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
1709 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
1710 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
1711 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
1712 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
1713 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
1714 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
1717 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
1718 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
1719 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
1720 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
1721 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
1722 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
1724 o Directory authority changes:
1725 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
1726 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
1727 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
1729 o Major removed features:
1730 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
1731 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
1732 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
1733 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
1735 o Minor features (client):
1736 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
1737 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
1738 Resolves ticket 13315.
1740 o Minor features (controller):
1741 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
1742 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
1745 o Minor features (geoip):
1746 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 15 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
1749 o Minor features (hidden services):
1750 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
1751 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
1752 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
1753 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
1754 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
1755 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
1757 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
1758 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
1759 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
1761 o Minor features (systemd):
1762 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
1763 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
1764 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
1765 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
1767 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
1768 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
1769 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
1770 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
1771 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
1774 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
1775 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
1776 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
1777 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
1778 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
1780 - Clear all memory targetted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
1781 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
1782 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
1785 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
1786 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
1787 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
1788 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
1789 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
1791 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
1792 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
1793 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1795 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1796 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
1797 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
1798 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
1799 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
1801 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
1802 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
1805 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
1806 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
1807 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
1808 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
1809 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
1810 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
1811 - When adding a new hidden service (for example, via SETCONF), Tor
1812 no longer congratulates the user for running a relay. Fixes bug
1813 13941; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
1814 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
1815 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
1816 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
1817 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
1818 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
1821 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
1822 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
1823 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
1824 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
1825 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
1826 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
1828 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1829 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
1830 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
1831 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
1833 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
1834 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
1836 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
1837 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
1838 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
1839 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
1842 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
1843 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
1844 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
1845 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
1846 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
1847 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
1849 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
1850 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
1851 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
1852 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
1853 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
1854 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
1855 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
1856 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
1857 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
1858 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
1859 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
1860 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
1861 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
1862 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
1863 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
1864 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
1865 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
1866 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
1867 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
1868 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
1869 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
1870 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
1871 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
1872 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
1873 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
1874 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
1875 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
1876 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
1877 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
1878 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
1879 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
1880 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
1882 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
1883 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
1884 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
1885 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
1886 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
1888 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1889 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
1890 with a function instead.
1891 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
1892 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
1893 Closes ticket 13172.
1894 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
1895 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
1896 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
1897 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
1898 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
1899 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
1900 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
1901 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
1902 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
1903 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
1904 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
1905 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
1909 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
1910 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
1911 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
1912 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
1913 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
1914 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
1915 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
1916 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
1917 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
1918 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
1919 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
1920 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
1923 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
1924 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
1925 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
1926 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
1927 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
1928 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
1930 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
1934 Changes in version 0.2.6.1-alpha - 2014-10-30
1935 Tor 0.2.6.1-alpha is the first release in the Tor 0.2.6.x series. It
1936 includes numerous code cleanups and new tests, and fixes a large
1937 number of annoying bugs. Out-of-memory conditions are handled better
1938 than in 0.2.5, pluggable transports have improved proxy support, and
1939 clients now use optimistic data for contacting hidden services. Also,
1940 we are now more robust to changes in what we consider a parseable
1941 directory object, so that tightening restrictions does not have a risk
1942 of introducing infinite download loops.
1944 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
1945 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should stay
1946 with 0.2.5.x for now.
1948 o New compiler and system requirements:
1949 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
1950 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
1951 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
1952 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
1954 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
1955 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
1956 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
1957 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
1958 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
1959 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
1960 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
1961 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
1962 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
1964 o Removed platform support:
1965 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
1966 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
1967 Closes ticket 11446.
1969 o Major features (bridges):
1970 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
1971 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
1972 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
1975 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
1976 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
1977 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
1978 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
1981 o Major features (directory system):
1982 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
1983 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
1984 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
1985 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
1987 o Major features (sample torrc):
1988 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
1989 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
1990 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
1991 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
1992 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
1993 generally useful "sample torrc".
1995 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
1996 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
1997 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1999 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
2000 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
2001 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
2002 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
2003 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
2005 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
2006 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
2007 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
2008 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
2010 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
2011 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
2012 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
2013 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
2014 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
2015 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
2018 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
2019 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
2020 document. Implements feature 10427.
2022 o Minor features (client):
2023 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
2024 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
2025 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
2026 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
2028 o Minor features (directory authorities):
2029 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
2030 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
2031 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
2032 argument more than once.
2033 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
2034 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
2035 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
2036 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
2037 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
2038 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
2040 o Minor features (logging):
2041 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
2042 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
2043 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
2044 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
2045 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
2046 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
2047 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
2048 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
2049 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
2051 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
2052 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
2053 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
2054 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
2056 o Minor features (relay):
2057 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
2058 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
2059 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
2061 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
2062 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
2063 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
2064 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
2066 o Minor features (testing networks):
2067 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
2068 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
2069 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
2070 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
2071 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
2074 o Minor features (validation):
2075 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
2076 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
2077 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
2078 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
2079 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
2080 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
2081 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
2082 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
2084 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
2085 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
2086 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
2087 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2089 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
2090 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
2091 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
2092 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
2094 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
2095 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
2096 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
2098 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
2099 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
2100 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
2102 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
2103 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2104 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
2105 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
2106 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
2107 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
2108 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
2110 o Minor bugfixes (client):
2111 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
2112 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
2113 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
2114 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
2115 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
2116 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
2117 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
2118 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
2120 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
2121 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
2122 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
2123 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
2124 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
2126 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
2127 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
2128 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
2130 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
2131 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
2132 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
2133 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
2134 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
2136 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
2137 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
2138 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
2139 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2140 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
2141 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
2142 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2143 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
2144 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
2145 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
2146 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
2149 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
2150 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
2151 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
2152 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
2153 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2155 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
2156 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
2157 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
2158 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
2159 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
2162 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
2163 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
2164 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
2165 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
2166 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
2167 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
2169 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
2170 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
2171 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
2172 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
2174 o Minor bugfixes (testing, Windows):
2175 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
2176 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
2177 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
2179 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
2180 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
2181 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
2182 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
2185 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
2186 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
2187 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
2190 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
2191 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
2192 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
2193 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
2194 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
2197 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2198 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
2199 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
2201 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
2202 Resolves ticket 12205.
2203 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
2204 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
2205 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
2206 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
2208 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
2209 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
2210 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
2212 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
2213 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
2215 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
2216 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
2217 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
2218 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
2219 or_options_t structure.
2222 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
2223 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
2224 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
2225 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
2229 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
2230 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
2231 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
2232 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
2233 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
2234 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
2235 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
2236 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
2237 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
2239 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
2240 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
2242 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
2243 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
2244 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
2245 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
2246 anymore, and ignore it.
2249 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
2250 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
2251 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
2252 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
2253 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
2254 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
2255 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
2256 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
2257 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
2258 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
2259 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
2260 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
2262 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
2263 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
2264 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
2266 o Distribution (systemd):
2267 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
2268 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
2269 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
2270 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
2271 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
2273 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
2274 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
2276 o Removed features (directory authorities):
2277 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
2278 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
2279 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
2280 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
2281 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
2282 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
2283 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
2284 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
2285 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
2287 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
2288 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
2289 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
2290 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
2293 o Testing (test-network.sh):
2294 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
2295 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
2297 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
2299 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
2300 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
2301 Partially implements ticket 13161.
2304 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
2305 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
2307 It adds several new security features, including improved
2308 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
2309 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
2310 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
2311 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
2312 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
2313 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
2314 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
2315 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
2316 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
2317 and features mentioned below.
2319 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
2320 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
2322 o Deprecated versions:
2323 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
2324 attention for some while.
2327 Changes in version 0.2.5.9-rc - 2014-10-20
2328 Tor 0.2.5.9-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
2329 series. It disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
2330 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
2331 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
2332 (which does affect Tor). It also contains a few miscellaneous fixes.
2334 o Major security fixes:
2335 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
2336 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
2337 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
2339 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
2340 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
2341 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
2342 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
2345 - Disable the sandbox name resolver cache when running tor-resolve:
2346 tor-resolve doesn't use the sandbox code, and turning it on was
2347 breaking attempts to do tor-resolve on a non-default server on
2348 Linux. Fixes bug 13295; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
2350 o Compilation fixes:
2351 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
2352 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
2353 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
2355 o Downgraded warnings:
2356 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
2357 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
2360 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
2361 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
2362 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
2363 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
2364 (which does affect Tor).
2366 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
2367 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
2368 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
2369 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
2371 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
2372 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
2373 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
2374 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
2377 Changes in version 0.2.5.8-rc - 2014-09-22
2378 Tor 0.2.5.8-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
2379 series. It fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
2380 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
2381 the directory authorities.
2384 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
2385 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
2386 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
2387 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
2388 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
2389 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
2390 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
2391 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
2392 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
2393 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
2394 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
2395 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
2397 o Directory authority changes:
2398 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
2401 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
2402 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
2403 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
2404 the directory authorities.
2407 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
2408 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
2409 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
2410 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
2411 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
2412 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
2413 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
2414 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
2415 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
2416 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
2417 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
2418 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
2420 o Directory authority changes:
2421 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
2423 o Minor features (geoip):
2424 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
2428 Changes in version 0.2.5.7-rc - 2014-09-11
2429 Tor 0.2.5.7-rc fixes several regressions from earlier in the 0.2.5.x
2430 release series, and some long-standing bugs related to ORPort reachability
2431 testing and failure to send CREATE cells. It is the first release
2432 candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x series.
2434 o Major bugfixes (client, startup):
2435 - Start making circuits as soon as DisabledNetwork is turned off.
2436 When Tor started with DisabledNetwork set, it would correctly
2437 conclude that it shouldn't build circuits, but it would mistakenly
2438 cache this conclusion, and continue believing it even when
2439 DisableNetwork is set to 0. Fixes the bug introduced by the fix
2440 for bug 11200; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
2441 - Resume expanding abbreviations for command-line options. The fix
2442 for bug 4647 accidentally removed our hack from bug 586 that
2443 rewrote HashedControlPassword to __HashedControlSessionPassword
2444 when it appears on the commandline (which allowed the user to set
2445 her own HashedControlPassword in the torrc file while the
2446 controller generates a fresh session password for each run). Fixes
2447 bug 12948; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2448 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
2449 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
2451 o Major bugfixes (relay):
2452 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
2453 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
2454 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
2455 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
2456 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
2457 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
2458 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2460 o Minor features (bridge):
2461 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
2462 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
2464 o Minor features (geoip):
2465 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
2468 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2469 - Reduce the log severity of the "Pluggable transport proxy does not
2470 provide any needed transports and will not be launched." message,
2471 since Tor Browser includes several ClientTransportPlugin lines in
2472 its torrc-defaults file, leading every Tor Browser user who looks
2473 at her logs to see these notices and wonder if they're dangerous.
2474 Resolves bug 13124; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
2475 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
2476 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
2477 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
2478 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
2479 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
2480 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
2481 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
2482 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
2484 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
2485 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
2486 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
2487 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
2488 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
2490 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
2491 - Restore the functionality of CookieAuthFileGroupReadable. Fixes
2492 bug 12864; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2493 - Actually send TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED and HS_DESC events to
2494 controllers. Fixes bug 13085; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
2497 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2498 - Fix compilation of test.h with MSVC. Patch from Gisle Vanem;
2499 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
2500 - Make the nmake make files work again. Fixes bug 13081. Bugfix on
2501 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
2502 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
2503 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
2504 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
2505 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
2506 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
2507 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
2510 o Distribution (systemd):
2511 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
2512 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
2513 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
2514 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
2515 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
2516 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
2517 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
2518 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
2519 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
2523 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
2524 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
2526 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
2530 Changes in version 0.2.5.6-alpha - 2014-07-28
2531 Tor 0.2.5.6-alpha brings us a big step closer to slowing down the
2532 risk from guard rotation, and fixes a variety of other issues to get
2533 us closer to a release candidate.
2535 o Major features (also in 0.2.4.23):
2536 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
2537 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
2538 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
2539 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
2541 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
2542 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
2543 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
2544 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
2545 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
2546 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
2547 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
2548 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
2549 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
2553 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
2554 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
2555 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
2556 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
2557 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
2558 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
2559 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
2563 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
2564 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
2565 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
2566 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
2567 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
2568 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
2569 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
2570 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
2572 - Slightly enhance the diagnostic message for bug 12184.
2574 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
2575 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
2576 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
2577 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
2578 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
2579 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
2580 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
2581 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
2582 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
2583 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2586 - Fix compilation when building with bufferevents enabled. (This
2587 configuration is still not expected to work, however.)
2588 Fixes bugs 12438, 12474, 11578; bugfixes on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
2589 0.2.5.3-alpha. Patches from Anthony G. Basile and Sathyanarayanan
2591 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
2592 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
2593 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
2596 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
2597 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
2598 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
2599 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
2602 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
2603 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
2604 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
2605 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
2606 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
2607 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
2608 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
2609 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
2610 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
2611 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
2614 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
2615 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
2616 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
2617 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
2618 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
2619 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
2620 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
2621 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
2625 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
2626 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
2627 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
2628 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
2629 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
2630 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
2631 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
2632 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
2633 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2634 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
2635 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
2636 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
2637 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
2640 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
2644 Changes in version 0.2.5.5-alpha - 2014-06-18
2645 Tor 0.2.5.5-alpha fixes a wide variety of remaining issues in the Tor
2646 0.2.5.x release series, including a couple of DoS issues, some
2647 performance regressions, a large number of bugs affecting the Linux
2648 seccomp2 sandbox code, and various other bugfixes. It also adds
2649 diagnostic bugfixes for a few tricky issues that we're trying to
2652 o Major features (security, traffic analysis resistance):
2653 - Several major improvements to the algorithm used to decide when to
2654 close TLS connections. Previous versions of Tor closed connections
2655 at a fixed interval after the last time a non-padding cell was
2656 sent over the connection, regardless of the target of the
2657 connection. Now, we randomize the intervals by adding up to 50% of
2658 their base value, we measure the length of time since connection
2659 last had at least one circuit, and we allow connections to known
2660 ORs to remain open a little longer (15 minutes instead of 3
2661 minutes minimum). These changes should improve Tor's resistance
2662 against some kinds of traffic analysis, and lower some overhead
2663 from needlessly closed connections. Fixes ticket 6799.
2664 Incidentally fixes ticket 12023; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2666 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
2667 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
2668 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
2669 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
2672 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
2673 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
2674 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
2676 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
2677 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
2678 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
2679 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
2680 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
2681 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
2682 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
2683 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
2684 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
2685 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
2686 router's identity is not forgeable.
2688 o Major bugfixes (relay):
2689 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
2690 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
2691 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
2692 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
2693 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
2694 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
2695 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
2696 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
2697 bugfix on every version of Tor.
2699 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
2700 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
2701 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
2702 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
2705 o Minor features (diagnostic):
2706 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
2707 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
2708 help diagnose bug 7164.
2709 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
2710 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
2711 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
2712 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
2713 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
2715 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
2716 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
2717 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
2718 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
2719 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
2720 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
2721 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
2723 o Minor features (security, memory management):
2724 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
2725 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
2726 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
2727 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
2728 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
2729 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
2731 o Minor features (security):
2732 - Apply the secure SipHash-2-4 function to the hash table mapping
2733 circuit IDs and channels to circuits. We missed this one when we
2734 were converting all the other hash functions to use SipHash back
2735 in 0.2.5.3-alpha. Resolves ticket 11750.
2737 o Minor features (build):
2738 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
2739 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
2740 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
2742 o Minor features (other):
2743 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 4 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
2746 o Minor bugfixes (security, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
2747 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0;
2748 this will keep the hidden service from running, and also
2749 make it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
2750 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
2752 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
2753 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
2754 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
2755 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
2756 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
2757 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
2758 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
2759 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
2760 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
2761 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
2762 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
2763 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
2765 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2766 - Fix compilation of test_status.c when building with MVSC. Bugfix
2767 on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
2768 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
2769 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
2770 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
2771 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
2772 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
2773 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
2774 - Make Tor compile correctly with --disable-buf-freelists. Fixes bug
2775 11623; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
2776 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
2777 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
2778 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
2779 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
2780 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
2781 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
2782 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
2785 o Minor bugfixes (Directory server):
2786 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
2787 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
2788 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
2789 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
2790 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
2791 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
2793 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp sandbox):
2794 - Make the seccomp sandbox code compile under ARM Linux. Fixes bug
2795 11622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2796 - Avoid crashing when re-opening listener ports with the seccomp
2797 sandbox active. Fixes bug 12115; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2798 - Avoid crashing with the seccomp sandbox enabled along with
2799 ConstrainedSockets. Fixes bug 12139; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2800 - When we receive a SIGHUP with the sandbox enabled, correctly
2801 support rotating our log files. Fixes bug 12032; bugfix
2803 - Avoid crash when running with sandboxing enabled and
2804 DirReqStatistics not disabled. Fixes bug 12035; bugfix
2806 - Fix a "BUG" warning when trying to write bridge-stats files with
2807 the Linux syscall sandbox filter enabled. Fixes bug 12041; bugfix
2809 - Prevent the sandbox from crashing on startup when run with the
2810 --enable-expensive-hardening configuration option. Fixes bug
2811 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
2812 - When running with DirPortFrontPage and sandboxing both enabled,
2813 reload the DirPortFrontPage correctly when restarting. Fixes bug
2814 12028; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2815 - Don't try to enable the sandbox when using the Tor binary to check
2816 its configuration, hash a passphrase, or so on. Doing so was
2817 crashing on startup for some users. Fixes bug 11609; bugfix
2819 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing and node statistics
2820 enabled at the same time. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on
2821 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Michael Wolf.
2822 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing enabled at the same
2823 time as cookie authentication, hidden services, or directory
2824 authority voting. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2825 - Do not allow options that require calls to exec to be enabled
2826 alongside the seccomp2 sandbox: they will inevitably crash. Fixes
2827 bug 12043; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2828 - Handle failures in getpwnam()/getpwuid() when running with the
2829 User option set and the Linux syscall sandbox enabled. Fixes bug
2830 11946; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2831 - Refactor the getaddrinfo workaround that the seccomp sandbox uses
2832 to avoid calling getaddrinfo() after installing the sandbox
2833 filters. Previously, it preloaded a cache with the IPv4 address
2834 for our hostname, and nothing else. Now, it loads the cache with
2835 every address that it used to initialize the Tor process. Fixes
2836 bug 11970; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2838 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
2839 - Enable the ExtORPortCookieAuthFile option, to allow changing the
2840 default location of the authentication token for the extended OR
2841 Port as used by sever-side pluggable transports. We had
2842 implemented this option before, but the code to make it settable
2843 had been omitted. Fixes bug 11635; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2844 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
2845 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
2846 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
2849 o Minor bugfixes (client):
2850 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
2851 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
2852 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
2853 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2855 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
2856 - The Python parts of the test scripts now work on Python 3 as well
2857 as Python 2, so systems where '/usr/bin/python' is Python 3 will
2858 no longer have the tests break. Fixes bug 11608; bugfix
2860 - When looking for versions of python that we could run the tests
2861 with, check for "python2.7" and "python3.3"; previously we were
2862 only looking for "python", "python2", and "python3". Patch from
2863 Dana Koch. Fixes bug 11632; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
2864 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
2865 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
2866 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
2867 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
2869 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
2870 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
2871 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
2872 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
2875 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
2876 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
2877 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
2878 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
2879 versions. Found by "skruffy".
2880 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
2881 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
2882 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
2885 o Minor bugfixes (relay, oom prevention):
2886 - Correctly detect the total available system memory. We tried to do
2887 this in 0.2.5.4-alpha, but the code was set up to always return an
2888 error value, even on success. Fixes bug 11805; bugfix
2891 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
2892 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
2893 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
2894 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
2896 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS module
2897 using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers used by the
2898 v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found
2900 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
2901 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
2902 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
2904 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2905 - Fix a misformatted log message about delayed directory fetches.
2906 Fixes bug 11654; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
2907 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
2908 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
2912 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
2913 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
2914 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
2915 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
2918 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
2919 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
2920 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
2921 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
2923 - Correct the documenation so that it lists the correct directory
2924 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
2926 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
2927 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
2928 caches don't get confused.
2931 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
2932 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
2933 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
2934 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
2935 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
2938 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
2939 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes ticket 11742.
2940 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
2941 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
2942 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
2943 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
2947 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
2948 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
2949 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
2950 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
2951 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
2952 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
2953 of RAM, and several others.
2955 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
2956 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
2957 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
2958 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
2959 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
2961 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
2962 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
2963 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
2964 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
2967 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
2968 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
2969 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
2970 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
2971 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
2972 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
2973 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2974 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
2975 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
2976 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
2977 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
2978 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
2979 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
2980 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
2981 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
2982 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
2983 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
2984 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
2985 Resolves ticket 11438.
2987 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
2988 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
2989 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
2990 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
2991 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
2992 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
2994 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
2995 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
2996 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
2998 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
2999 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
3000 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
3002 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
3003 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
3004 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
3005 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
3007 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
3008 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
3009 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
3011 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
3012 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
3013 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
3016 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
3017 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
3018 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
3019 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
3022 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
3023 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
3024 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
3025 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
3027 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
3028 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
3029 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
3030 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
3032 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
3033 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
3034 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
3038 Changes in version 0.2.5.4-alpha - 2014-04-25
3039 Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha includes several security and performance
3040 improvements for clients and relays, including blacklisting authority
3041 signing keys that were used while susceptible to the OpenSSL
3042 "heartbleed" bug, fixing two expensive functions on busy relays,
3043 improved TLS ciphersuite preference lists, support for run-time
3044 hardening on compilers that support AddressSanitizer, and more work on
3045 the Linux sandbox code.
3047 There are also several usability fixes for clients (especially clients
3048 that use bridges), two new TransPort protocols supported (one on
3049 OpenBSD, one on FreeBSD), and various other bugfixes.
3051 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.2.x; those Tor versions
3052 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
3054 o Major features (security):
3055 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
3056 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
3057 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
3058 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
3059 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
3060 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
3061 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
3062 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
3064 o Major features (relay performance):
3065 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
3066 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
3067 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
3068 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
3069 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
3070 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
3071 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
3072 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
3073 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
3074 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
3076 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
3077 - The seccomp2 sandbox can now run a test network for multiple hours
3078 without crashing. The sandbox is still experimental, and more bugs
3079 will probably turn up. To try it, enable "Sandbox 1" on a Linux
3080 host. Resolves ticket 11351.
3081 - Strengthen sandbox code: the sandbox can now test the arguments
3082 for rename(), and blocks _sysctl() entirely. Resolves another part
3084 - When the sandbox blocks a system call, it now tries to log a stack
3085 trace before exiting. Resolves ticket 11465.
3087 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection):
3088 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
3089 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
3090 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
3091 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
3092 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
3093 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3094 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
3095 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
3096 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
3097 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
3098 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
3099 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
3100 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
3101 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
3102 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
3103 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
3104 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
3105 Resolves ticket 11438.
3107 o Major bugfixes (bridge client):
3108 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
3109 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
3110 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
3112 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
3113 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
3114 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
3115 10267; patch from "yurivict".
3116 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
3117 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
3118 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
3119 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
3120 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
3121 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
3123 o Minor features (security):
3124 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
3125 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
3126 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
3127 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
3130 o Minor features (log verbosity):
3131 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
3132 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
3133 Resolves ticket 5286.
3134 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
3135 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
3136 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
3137 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
3138 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
3139 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
3140 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
3141 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
3142 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
3144 o Minor features (relay):
3145 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
3146 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
3147 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
3149 o Minor features (controller):
3150 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
3151 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
3153 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
3154 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
3155 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
3157 o Minor features (bridge client):
3158 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
3159 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
3160 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
3162 o Minor features (diagnostic):
3163 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
3164 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
3165 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
3166 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
3167 still referenced by a live node_t object.
3169 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
3170 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
3171 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
3172 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
3174 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
3175 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
3176 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
3177 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
3180 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay):
3181 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
3182 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
3184 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
3185 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
3186 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
3187 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3188 - Avoid a 60-second delay in the bootstrapping process when a Tor
3189 client with pluggable transports re-reads its configuration at
3190 just the wrong time. Re-fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
3192 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
3193 - Warn only once if we start logging in an unsafe way. Previously,
3194 we complain as many times as we had problems. Fixes bug 9870;
3195 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3196 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
3197 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
3198 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
3199 - Be more helpful when trying to run sandboxed on Linux without
3200 libseccomp. Instead of saying "Sandbox is not implemented on this
3201 platform", we now explain that we need to be built with
3202 libseccomp. Fixes bug 11543; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3203 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
3204 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
3207 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
3208 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
3209 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
3210 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
3211 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
3213 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
3214 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
3215 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
3218 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
3219 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
3220 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
3222 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
3223 - Allow tor-fw-helper to build again by adding src/ext to its
3224 CPPFLAGS. Fixes bug 11296; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
3226 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
3227 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
3228 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
3229 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
3231 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
3232 - Fix compilation on Solaris, which does not have <endian.h>. Fixes
3233 bug 11426; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
3234 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
3235 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
3237 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
3238 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
3239 early. Fixes bug 10081.
3241 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
3242 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
3243 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
3244 - Free placeholder entries in our circuit table at exit; fixes a
3245 harmless memory leak. Fixes bug 11278; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3246 - Don't re-initialize a second set of OpenSSL mutexes when starting
3247 up. Previously, we'd make one set of mutexes, and then immediately
3248 replace them with another. Fixes bug 11726; bugfix on
3250 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
3251 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
3252 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
3253 should never have affected anyone in practice.
3255 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
3256 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
3257 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3259 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
3260 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
3261 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
3262 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
3263 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
3264 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
3265 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
3266 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
3267 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
3268 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
3269 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
3270 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
3271 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
3272 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
3274 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
3275 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
3276 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
3277 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
3278 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
3279 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
3280 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
3281 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
3285 - Build the torify.1 manpage again. Previously, we were only trying
3286 to build it when also building tor-fw-helper. That's why we didn't
3287 notice that we'd broken the ability to build it. Fixes bug 11321;
3288 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3289 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
3290 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
3291 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
3292 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
3294 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
3296 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
3297 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
3298 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
3299 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
3300 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
3303 o Deprecated versions:
3304 - Tor 0.2.2.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
3305 attention for some while. Directory authorities no longer accept
3306 descriptors from relays running any version of Tor prior to Tor
3307 0.2.3.16-alpha. Resolves ticket 11149.
3310 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
3311 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
3312 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
3313 Patch from Dana Koch.
3316 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
3317 Resolves ticket 11070.
3320 Changes in version 0.2.5.3-alpha - 2014-03-22
3321 Tor 0.2.5.3-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.21. It contains
3322 two new anti-DoS features for Tor relays, resolves a bug that kept
3323 SOCKS5 support for IPv6 from working, fixes several annoying usability
3324 issues for bridge users, and removes more old code for unused
3327 The Tor 0.2.5.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no feature
3328 patches not already written will be considered for inclusion in 0.2.5.x.
3330 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
3331 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
3332 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
3333 streams attached to each circuit.
3335 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
3336 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
3337 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
3338 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
3339 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
3340 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
3341 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
3342 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
3343 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
3344 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
3345 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
3346 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
3347 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
3349 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInQueues to 256 MBytes (but leave
3350 the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi users. Fixes
3351 bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
3353 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
3354 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
3355 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
3356 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
3357 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
3358 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
3359 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
3360 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
3361 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
3363 o Minor features (other):
3364 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
3365 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
3366 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
3367 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
3368 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
3369 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
3370 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
3371 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
3372 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
3375 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.2-alpha, also in 0.2.4.21):
3376 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
3377 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
3378 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
3379 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
3380 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
3381 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
3382 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
3384 o Minor bugfixes (client):
3385 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
3386 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
3387 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
3388 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
3389 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
3390 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
3391 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
3393 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
3394 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
3395 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
3396 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
3397 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
3398 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
3399 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
3400 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
3401 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
3402 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
3403 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
3404 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
3406 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
3407 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
3408 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
3409 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
3410 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
3411 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
3412 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
3413 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
3414 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
3415 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
3416 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
3417 - Stop giving annoying warning messages when we decide not to launch
3418 a pluggable transport proxy that we don't need (because there are
3419 no bridges configured to use it). Resolves ticket 5018; bugfix
3421 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
3422 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
3424 o Minor bugfixes (backtrace support):
3425 - Support automatic backtraces on more platforms by using the
3426 "-fasynchronous-unwind-tables" compiler option. This option is
3427 needed for platforms like 32-bit Intel where "-fomit-frame-pointer"
3428 is on by default and table generation is not. This doesn't yet
3429 add Windows support; only Linux, OSX, and some BSDs are affected.
3430 Reported by 'cypherpunks'; fixes bug 11047; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
3431 - Avoid strange behavior if two threads hit failed assertions at the
3432 same time and both try to log backtraces at once. (Previously, if
3433 this had happened, both threads would have stored their intermediate
3434 results in the same buffer, and generated junk outputs.) Reported by
3435 "cypherpunks". Fixes bug 11048; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
3436 - Fix a compiler warning in format_number_sigsafe(). Bugfix on
3437 0.2.5.2-alpha; patch from Nick Hopper.
3439 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
3440 - Fix a small bug in the unit tests that might have made the tests
3441 call 'chmod' with an uninitialized bitmask. Fixes bug 10928;
3442 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
3445 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
3446 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
3447 the rest of bug 10841.
3450 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
3451 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
3452 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
3453 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
3454 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
3455 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
3456 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
3457 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
3458 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
3459 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
3460 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
3461 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
3462 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
3463 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
3464 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
3466 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
3467 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
3468 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
3470 o Test infrastructure:
3471 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
3472 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
3473 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
3474 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
3477 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
3478 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
3479 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
3480 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
3482 o Major features (client security):
3483 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
3484 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
3485 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
3486 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
3487 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
3488 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
3491 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
3492 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
3493 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
3494 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3496 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3497 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
3498 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
3499 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
3500 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
3503 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
3504 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
3506 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
3507 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
3508 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
3509 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
3510 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
3511 GeoLite2 Country database.
3514 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
3515 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
3516 bugfix on every released Tor.
3517 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
3518 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
3519 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
3520 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3521 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
3522 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
3523 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
3524 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
3525 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
3526 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3527 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
3528 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
3529 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3530 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
3531 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
3533 o Documentation fixes:
3534 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
3535 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
3538 Changes in version 0.2.5.2-alpha - 2014-02-13
3539 Tor 0.2.5.2-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.18-rc and 0.2.4.20,
3540 like the "poor random number generation" fix and the "building too many
3541 circuits" fix. It also further improves security against potential
3542 adversaries who find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and launches
3543 pluggable transports on demand (which gets us closer to integrating
3544 pluggable transport support by default -- not to be confused with Tor
3545 bundles enabling pluggable transports and bridges by default).
3547 o Major features (client security):
3548 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
3549 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
3550 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
3551 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
3552 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
3553 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
3554 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
3555 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
3556 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
3557 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
3558 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
3559 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
3561 o Major features (bridges):
3562 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
3563 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
3564 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
3565 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
3566 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
3567 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
3568 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
3569 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
3572 o Major features (other):
3573 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
3574 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
3575 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
3576 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
3577 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
3578 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
3579 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
3580 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
3581 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
3582 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
3583 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
3584 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
3587 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
3588 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
3589 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3590 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
3591 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
3592 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
3593 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3595 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
3596 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
3597 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
3598 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
3599 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
3600 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
3601 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
3602 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
3603 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
3605 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
3606 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
3607 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
3608 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
3609 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
3610 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
3612 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
3613 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
3614 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
3615 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
3616 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
3617 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
3620 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
3621 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
3622 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
3623 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
3624 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
3625 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
3626 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
3628 o Minor features (security):
3629 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
3630 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
3633 o Minor features (config options and command line):
3634 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
3635 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
3636 Implements ticket 10060.
3637 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
3638 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
3639 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
3641 o Minor features (controller):
3642 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
3643 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
3644 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
3645 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
3646 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
3649 o Minor features (build):
3650 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
3651 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
3652 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
3653 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
3654 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
3655 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
3656 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
3658 o Minor features (testing):
3659 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
3660 the unit test scripts.
3661 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
3662 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
3663 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
3664 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
3666 o Minor features (log messages):
3667 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
3668 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
3669 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
3670 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
3671 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
3672 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
3673 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
3674 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
3675 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
3676 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
3678 o Minor features (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
3679 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
3680 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
3681 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
3682 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
3683 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
3684 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
3685 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
3686 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
3687 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3689 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
3690 - When closing a channel that has already been open, do not close
3691 pending circuits that were waiting to connect to the same relay.
3692 Fixes bug 9880; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Thanks to skruffy for
3695 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
3696 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
3697 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
3698 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
3699 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3701 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
3702 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
3703 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
3704 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
3705 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
3706 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
3707 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
3709 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
3710 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
3711 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
3712 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
3713 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
3714 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
3715 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
3717 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
3718 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
3719 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
3720 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
3722 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
3723 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
3724 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
3725 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
3726 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
3727 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
3728 - When a command-line option such as --version or --help that
3729 ordinarily implies --hush appears on the command line along with
3730 --quiet, then actually obey --quiet. Previously, we obeyed --quiet
3731 only if it appeared later on the command line. Fixes bug 9578;
3732 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3734 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
3735 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
3736 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
3737 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
3738 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
3739 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
3740 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
3741 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
3742 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
3743 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
3745 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
3746 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
3747 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
3748 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
3751 o Minor bugfixes (build):
3752 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
3753 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
3754 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
3755 - Fix compilation warnings and startup issues when running with
3756 "Sandbox 1" and libseccomp-2.1.0. Fixes bug 10563; bugfix on
3758 - Fix compilation on Solaris 9, which didn't like us having an
3759 identifier named "sun". Fixes bug 10565; bugfix in 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3761 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
3762 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
3763 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
3764 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3766 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
3767 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
3768 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
3769 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
3770 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
3771 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
3772 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
3773 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
3774 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
3775 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
3776 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
3777 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
3778 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
3779 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
3781 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
3782 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
3783 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
3784 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
3785 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
3786 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
3788 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.4.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
3789 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
3790 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
3791 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
3792 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
3793 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
3794 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
3795 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
3796 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
3797 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3798 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
3799 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
3801 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.3.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
3802 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
3803 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
3804 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
3805 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
3806 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
3807 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
3808 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
3809 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
3810 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
3811 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
3812 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
3813 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
3814 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
3815 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
3816 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
3819 o Removed code and features:
3820 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
3821 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
3822 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
3823 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
3824 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
3825 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
3827 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
3828 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
3829 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
3830 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
3831 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
3832 part of a fix for bug 10841.
3834 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3835 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
3836 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
3837 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
3838 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
3839 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
3840 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
3841 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
3842 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the addition
3843 of a timestamp to the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which
3844 we did in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve ticket 9093. Implements
3847 o Documentation (man page) fixes:
3848 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
3849 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
3850 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
3851 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
3853 o Documentation fixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
3854 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
3855 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
3856 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
3857 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
3858 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
3859 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
3862 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
3863 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
3864 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
3867 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
3868 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
3869 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
3870 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
3871 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
3872 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
3873 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
3875 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
3876 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
3879 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
3880 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
3881 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
3882 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
3883 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
3884 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
3885 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
3886 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
3888 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
3889 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
3890 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
3891 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
3892 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
3893 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
3896 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
3897 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
3898 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
3899 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
3900 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
3903 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
3904 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
3905 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
3906 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
3907 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
3908 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
3909 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
3910 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
3912 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
3913 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
3914 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
3915 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
3916 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
3917 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
3918 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
3919 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
3920 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
3921 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
3922 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
3923 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
3924 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
3925 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
3926 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
3927 security, and privacy fixes.
3930 Changes in version 0.2.4.18-rc - 2013-11-16
3931 Tor 0.2.4.18-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
3932 series. It takes a variety of fixes from the 0.2.5.x branch to improve
3933 stability, performance, and better handling of edge cases.
3936 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
3937 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
3938 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
3939 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
3940 them to solve bug 6033.)
3943 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
3944 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
3945 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
3946 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
3947 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
3948 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
3949 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
3950 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
3952 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
3953 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
3954 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
3955 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
3957 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.4.x):
3958 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
3959 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
3960 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
3961 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
3962 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
3963 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
3964 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
3965 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
3966 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3967 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
3968 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
3970 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x and earlier):
3971 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
3972 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
3973 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
3974 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
3975 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
3976 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
3977 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
3978 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
3979 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
3980 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
3981 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
3982 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
3983 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
3984 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
3985 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
3988 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
3989 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
3990 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
3991 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
3992 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
3993 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
3994 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
3995 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
3996 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
3997 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
3998 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
3999 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
4000 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
4001 Implements part of proposal 222.
4003 o Minor features (other):
4004 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
4005 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
4006 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
4007 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
4008 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
4009 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
4010 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
4011 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
4012 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4014 o Documentation fixes:
4015 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
4016 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
4017 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
4018 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
4019 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
4020 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
4023 Changes in version 0.2.5.1-alpha - 2013-10-02
4024 Tor 0.2.5.1-alpha introduces experimental support for syscall sandboxing
4025 on Linux, allows bridges that offer pluggable transports to report usage
4026 statistics, fixes many issues to make testing easier, and provides
4027 a pile of minor features and bugfixes that have been waiting for a
4028 release of the new branch.
4030 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
4031 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
4032 stay with 0.2.4.x for now.
4034 o Major features (security):
4035 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
4036 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
4037 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
4038 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
4039 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
4040 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
4041 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
4042 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
4043 Google Summer of Code.
4044 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
4045 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
4046 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
4047 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
4048 them to solve bug 6033.)
4050 o Major features (other):
4051 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
4052 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
4053 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
4054 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
4055 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
4057 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
4058 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
4059 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
4060 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
4061 Implements ticket 8530.
4062 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
4063 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
4066 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
4067 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
4068 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
4069 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
4070 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
4071 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4072 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
4073 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
4074 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
4075 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
4076 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
4077 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
4078 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
4081 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
4082 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
4083 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
4084 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
4085 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
4086 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
4087 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
4088 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
4089 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
4090 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
4094 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
4095 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
4096 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
4097 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
4098 invoking the other functions it calls.
4099 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
4100 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
4101 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
4102 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
4104 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
4105 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
4106 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
4107 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
4108 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
4109 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
4110 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
4111 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
4112 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
4113 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
4114 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
4115 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
4116 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
4117 Implements part of proposal 222.
4119 o Minor features (config options):
4120 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
4121 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
4122 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
4123 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
4124 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
4125 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
4126 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
4127 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
4128 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
4129 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
4130 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
4131 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
4132 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
4133 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
4134 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
4135 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
4136 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
4139 o Minor features (build):
4140 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
4141 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
4142 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
4143 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
4144 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
4147 o Minor features (other):
4148 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
4149 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
4150 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
4151 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
4152 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
4153 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
4154 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
4155 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
4156 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
4157 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
4158 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
4159 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
4161 - Update to the September 4 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4164 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
4165 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
4166 bugfix on every released Tor.
4167 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
4168 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
4169 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
4170 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
4171 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
4172 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
4174 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
4175 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
4176 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
4177 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4178 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
4179 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
4180 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
4181 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
4183 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
4184 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
4185 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
4186 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
4187 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
4189 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
4190 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
4192 o Minor fixes (build, auxiliary programs):
4193 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
4194 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
4196 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
4197 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
4198 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
4199 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
4200 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4202 o Minor code improvements:
4203 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
4204 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
4206 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
4207 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
4208 embarassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
4209 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
4210 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
4213 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
4214 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
4215 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
4216 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
4218 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4219 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
4220 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
4221 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
4222 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
4223 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
4224 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
4225 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
4226 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
4227 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
4228 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
4229 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
4230 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
4231 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
4232 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
4233 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
4236 Changes in version 0.2.4.17-rc - 2013-09-05
4237 Tor 0.2.4.17-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
4238 series. It adds an emergency step to help us tolerate the massive
4239 influx of users: 0.2.4 clients using the new (faster and safer) "NTor"
4240 circuit-level handshakes now effectively jump the queue compared to
4241 the 0.2.3 clients using "TAP" handshakes. This release also fixes a
4242 big bug hindering bridge reachability tests.
4245 - Relays now process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
4246 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
4247 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
4248 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
4249 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
4250 Implements ticket 9574.
4253 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
4254 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
4255 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
4256 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
4257 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
4258 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
4259 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
4260 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
4261 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
4262 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
4263 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
4264 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
4268 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
4269 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
4270 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
4271 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
4273 o Minor fixes (config options):
4274 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
4275 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
4276 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
4277 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
4278 message is logged at notice, not at info.
4279 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
4280 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
4281 or we just won't work.)
4284 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
4285 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
4286 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
4287 - Update to the August 7 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4290 Changes in version 0.2.4.16-rc - 2013-08-10
4291 Tor 0.2.4.16-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
4292 series. It fixes several crash bugs in the 0.2.4 branch.
4295 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
4296 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
4297 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
4298 - Fix an uninitialized read that could in some cases lead to a remote
4299 crash while parsing INTRODUCE2 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
4300 Anybody running a hidden service on the experimental 0.2.4.x
4301 branch should upgrade. (This is, so far as we know, unrelated to
4303 - Avoid an assertion failure when processing DNS replies without the
4304 answer types we expected. Fixes bug 9337; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
4305 - Avoid a crash when using --hash-password. Fixes bug 9295; bugfix on
4306 0.2.4.15-rc. Found by stem integration tests.
4309 - Fix an invalid memory read that occured when a pluggable
4310 transport proxy failed its configuration protocol.
4311 Fixes bug 9288; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
4312 - When evaluating whether to use a connection that we haven't
4313 decided is canonical using a recent link protocol version,
4314 decide that it's canonical only if it used address _does_
4315 match the desired address. Fixes bug 9309; bugfix on
4316 0.2.4.4-alpha. Reported by skruffy.
4317 - Make the default behavior of NumDirectoryGuards be to track
4318 NumEntryGuards. Now a user who changes only NumEntryGuards will get
4319 the behavior she expects. Fixes bug 9354; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4320 - Fix a spurious compilation warning with some older versions of
4321 GCC on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 9254; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
4324 - Update to the July 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4327 Changes in version 0.2.4.15-rc - 2013-07-01
4328 Tor 0.2.4.15-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
4329 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
4330 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
4333 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
4334 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
4335 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4338 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
4339 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
4340 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
4343 Changes in version 0.2.4.14-alpha - 2013-06-18
4344 Tor 0.2.4.14-alpha fixes a pair of client guard enumeration problems
4345 present in 0.2.4.13-alpha.
4348 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
4349 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits consuming the most
4350 memory. This prevents us from running out of memory as a relay if
4351 circuits fill up faster than they can be drained. Fixes bug 9063;
4352 bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond
4353 bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
4355 This change also fixes an earlier approach taken in 0.2.4.13-alpha,
4356 where we tried to solve this issue simply by imposing an upper limit
4357 on the number of queued cells for a single circuit. That approach
4358 proved to be problematic, since there are ways to provoke clients to
4359 send a number of cells in excess of any such reasonable limit. Fixes
4360 bug 9072; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
4362 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
4363 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
4364 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
4367 Changes in version 0.2.4.13-alpha - 2013-06-14
4368 Tor 0.2.4.13-alpha fixes a variety of potential remote crash
4369 vulnerabilities, makes socks5 username/password circuit isolation
4370 actually actually work (this time for sure!), and cleans up a bunch
4371 of other issues in preparation for a release candidate.
4373 o Major bugfixes (robustness):
4374 - Close any circuit that has too many cells queued on it. Fixes
4375 bug 9063; bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further
4376 fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
4377 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
4378 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
4379 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
4381 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
4382 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
4383 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
4385 - Fix a directory authority crash bug when building a consensus
4386 using an older consensus as its basis. Fixes bug 8833. Bugfix
4390 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
4391 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
4392 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
4394 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
4395 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
4396 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
4397 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
4398 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
4399 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
4401 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
4402 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
4403 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
4404 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
4405 - Prevent failures on Windows Vista and later when rebuilding the
4406 microdescriptor cache. Diagnosed by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 8822;
4407 bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
4410 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
4411 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
4412 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
4413 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
4414 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
4415 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
4416 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
4417 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
4418 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
4419 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
4420 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
4421 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta and 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4422 - Relays now treat a changed IPv6 ORPort as sufficient reason to
4423 publish an updated descriptor. Fixes bug 6026; bugfix on
4425 - When launching a resolve request on behalf of an AF_UNIX control
4426 socket, omit the address field of the new entry connection, used in
4427 subsequent controller events, rather than letting tor_dup_addr()
4428 set it to "<unknown address type>". Fixes bug 8639; bugfix on
4431 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
4432 - Fix a scaling issue in the path bias accounting code that
4433 resulted in "Bug:" log messages from either
4434 pathbias_scale_close_rates() or pathbias_count_build_success().
4435 This represents a bugfix on a previous bugfix: the original fix
4436 attempted in 0.2.4.10-alpha was incomplete. Fixes bug 8235; bugfix
4438 - Give a less useless error message when the user asks for an IPv4
4439 address on an IPv6-only port, or vice versa. Fixes bug 8846; bugfix
4443 - Downgrade "unexpected SENDME" warnings to protocol-warn for 0.2.4.x,
4444 to tolerate bug 8093 for now.
4445 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
4446 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
4447 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
4448 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
4449 - Update to the June 5 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4451 o Removed documentation:
4452 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
4453 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
4455 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4456 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
4457 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
4458 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
4461 Changes in version 0.2.4.12-alpha - 2013-04-18
4462 Tor 0.2.4.12-alpha moves Tor forward on several fronts: it starts the
4463 process for lengthening the guard rotation period, makes directory
4464 authority opinions in the consensus a bit less gameable, makes socks5
4465 username/password circuit isolation actually work, and fixes a wide
4466 variety of other issues.
4469 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
4470 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
4471 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
4472 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
4473 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
4474 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
4475 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
4476 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
4478 - Directory authorities that have more than a threshold number
4479 of relays with measured bandwidths now treat relays with unmeasured
4480 bandwidths as having bandwidth 0. Resolves ticket 8435.
4482 o Major bugfixes (assert / resource use):
4483 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
4484 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
4485 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
4486 - Avoid an assertion when we discover that we'd like to write a cell
4487 onto a closing connection: just discard the cell. Fixes another
4488 case of bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4490 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
4491 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
4492 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
4493 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
4494 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
4495 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
4496 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
4497 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
4498 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
4499 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
4500 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
4501 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
4502 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
4503 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
4504 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
4505 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
4506 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
4507 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
4508 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
4509 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
4510 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
4512 o Major bugfixes (other):
4513 - When unable to find any working directory nodes to use as a
4514 directory guard, give up rather than adding the same non-working
4515 nodes to the directory guard list over and over. Fixes bug 8231;
4516 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4519 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
4520 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
4521 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
4522 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
4524 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
4525 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
4527 - Update to the April 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4529 o Minor features (build):
4530 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
4531 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
4533 - Clarify that when autoconf is checking for nacl, it is checking
4534 specifically for nacl with a fast curve25519 implementation.
4536 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
4537 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
4538 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
4541 o Minor bugfixes (build):
4542 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
4543 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
4544 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4545 - Add the old src/or/micro-revision.i filename to CLEANFILES.
4546 On the off chance that somebody has one, it will go away as soon
4547 as they run "make clean". Fix for bug 7143; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
4548 - Build Tor correctly on 32-bit platforms where the compiler can build
4549 but not run code using the "uint128_t" construction. Fixes bug 8587;
4550 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4551 - Fix compilation warning with some versions of clang that would
4552 prefer the -Wswitch-enum compiler flag to warn about switch
4553 statements with missing enum values, even if those switch
4554 statements have a "default:" statement. Fixes bug 8598; bugfix
4557 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
4558 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
4559 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
4560 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
4561 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
4562 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
4563 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
4564 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
4565 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
4566 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
4567 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy."
4568 - Correct our check for which versions of Tor support the EXTEND2
4569 cell. We had been willing to send it to Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha and
4570 later, when support was really added in version 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4571 Fixes bug 8464; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4573 o Minor bugfixes (other):
4574 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors with
4575 an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4576 Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
4577 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
4578 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
4579 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
4580 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
4581 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
4582 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
4583 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
4584 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
4585 Should help resolve bug 8235.
4586 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
4587 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
4588 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
4589 on 0.2.3.21-rc, 0.2.4.5-alpha, 0.2.4.8-alpha, and 0.2.4.10-alpha.
4591 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls):
4592 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
4593 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
4594 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
4595 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
4596 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
4597 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
4598 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
4601 o Minor bugfixes (config):
4602 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
4603 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
4605 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
4606 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
4607 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
4608 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
4609 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
4610 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
4611 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4612 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
4613 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
4614 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
4615 - Allow TestingTorNetworks to override the 4096-byte minimum for
4616 the Fast threshold. Otherwise they can't bootstrap until they've
4617 observed more traffic. Fixes bug 8508; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
4618 - Fix some logic errors when the user manually overrides the
4619 PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option in torrc. Fixes bug 8599; bugfix
4622 o Minor bugfixes (log messages to help diagnose bugs):
4623 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
4624 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
4625 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
4626 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
4627 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
4628 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
4629 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
4631 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
4632 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
4633 or at least make it more diagnosable.
4634 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
4635 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
4636 - Log the purpose of a path-bias testing circuit correctly.
4637 Improves a log message from bug 8477; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4639 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
4640 - Don't attempt to relax the timeout of already opened 1-hop circuits.
4641 They might never timeout. This should eliminate some/all cases of
4642 the relaxed timeout log message.
4643 - Use circuit creation time for network liveness evaluation. This
4644 should eliminate warning log messages about liveness caused
4645 by changes in timeout evaluation. Fixes bug 6572; bugfix on
4647 - Reduce a path bias length check from notice to info. The message
4648 is triggered when creating controller circuits. Fixes bug 8196;
4649 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4650 - Fix a path state issue that triggered a notice during relay startup.
4651 Fixes bug 8320; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
4652 - Reduce occurrences of warns about circuit purpose in
4653 connection_ap_expire_building(). Fixes bug 8477; bugfix on
4656 o Minor bugfixes (pre-0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
4657 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
4658 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
4659 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
4660 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
4661 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
4662 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
4663 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
4664 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
4665 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
4666 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
4667 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
4668 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4669 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
4670 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
4671 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
4672 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
4674 o Documentation fixes:
4675 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
4676 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
4677 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
4678 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
4679 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
4680 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
4681 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
4682 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
4685 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
4686 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
4690 Changes in version 0.2.4.11-alpha - 2013-03-11
4691 Tor 0.2.4.11-alpha makes relay measurement by directory authorities
4692 more robust, makes hidden service authentication work again, and
4693 resolves a DPI fingerprint for Tor's SSL transport.
4695 o Major features (directory authorities):
4696 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
4697 where they cap the published bandwidth of servers for which
4698 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
4699 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
4700 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
4701 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
4702 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
4703 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
4704 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
4705 Implements ticket 8151.
4707 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
4708 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
4709 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
4710 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
4711 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
4713 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
4714 - Allow hidden service authentication to succeed again. When we
4715 refactored the hidden service introduction code back
4716 in 0.2.4.1-alpha, we didn't update the code that checks
4717 whether authentication information is present, causing all
4718 authentication checks to return "false". Fix for bug 8207; bugfix
4719 on 0.2.4.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this is CID 718615.
4721 o Minor features (relays, bridges):
4722 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
4723 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
4725 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
4726 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
4727 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
4728 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
4729 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
4730 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
4731 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2 bridges when making
4732 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
4733 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
4734 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
4735 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
4736 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
4737 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
4738 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
4739 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
4740 - Support a new version of the link protocol that allows 4-byte circuit
4741 IDs. Previously, circuit IDs were limited to 2 bytes, which presented
4742 a possible resource exhaustion issue. Closes ticket 7351; implements
4745 o Minor features (portability):
4746 - Tweak the curve25519-donna*.c implementations to tolerate systems
4747 that lack stdint.h. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4748 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
4749 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
4750 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
4751 - Detect the sign of enum values, rather than assuming that MSC is the
4752 only compiler where enum types are all signed. Fixes bug 7727;
4753 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
4755 o Minor features (other):
4756 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
4757 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
4758 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
4759 - Clear the high bit on curve25519 public keys before passing them to
4760 our backend, in case we ever wind up using a backend that doesn't do
4761 so itself. If we used such a backend, and *didn't* clear the high bit,
4762 we could wind up in a situation where users with such backends would
4763 be distinguishable from users without. Fixes bug 8121; bugfix on
4765 - Update to the March 6 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4767 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
4768 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
4769 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
4770 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
4771 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
4772 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
4773 - Downgrade an assertion in connection_ap_expire_beginning to an
4774 LD_BUG message. The fix for bug 8024 should prevent this message
4775 from displaying, but just in case, a warn that we can diagnose
4776 is better than more assert crashes. Fixes bug 8065; bugfix on
4778 - Lower path use bias thresholds to .80 for notice and .60 for warn.
4779 Also make the rate limiting flags for the path use bias log messages
4780 independent from the original path bias flags. Fixes bug 8161;
4781 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
4783 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
4784 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
4785 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
4786 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
4787 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
4788 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
4789 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
4791 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
4792 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
4793 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
4794 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
4795 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
4797 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
4798 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
4799 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
4800 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
4802 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
4803 - Directory authorities now use less space when formatting identical
4804 microdescriptor lines in directory votes. Fixes bug 8158; bugfix
4807 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks spotted by Coverity -- bug 7816):
4808 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
4809 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
4810 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
4812 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
4813 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
4814 - Avoid memory leak of IPv6 policy content if we fail to format it into
4815 a router descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
4817 o Minor bugfixes (other code correctness issues):
4818 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
4819 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
4821 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
4822 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
4823 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
4824 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
4826 - Fix a copy-and-paste error when adding a missing A1 to a routerset
4827 because of GeoIPExcludeUnknown. Fix for Coverity CID 980650.
4828 Bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
4829 - Fix an impossible-to-trigger integer overflow when estimating how
4830 long our onionskin queue would take. (This overflow would require us
4831 to accept 4 million onionskins before processing 100 of them.) Fixes
4832 bug 8210; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
4834 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4835 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
4839 Changes in version 0.2.4.10-alpha - 2013-02-04
4840 Tor 0.2.4.10-alpha adds defenses at the directory authority level from
4841 certain attacks that flood the network with relays; changes the queue
4842 for circuit create requests from a sized-based limit to a time-based
4843 limit; resumes building with MSVC on Windows; and fixes a wide variety
4846 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
4847 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
4848 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
4849 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
4851 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
4852 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
4853 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
4857 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
4858 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
4859 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug
4860 7708; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
4861 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
4862 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
4863 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
4864 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
4865 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
4866 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
4867 - Rename all macros in our local copy of queue.h to begin with "TOR_".
4868 This change seems the only good way to permanently prevent conflicts
4869 with queue.h on various operating systems. Fixes bug 8107; bugfix
4872 o Major features (relay):
4873 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
4874 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
4875 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
4876 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
4877 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
4878 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
4879 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
4881 o Major features (portability):
4882 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
4883 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
4884 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
4885 - Make the ntor and curve25519 code build correctly with MSVC.
4886 Fix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4889 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
4890 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
4891 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
4892 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
4893 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
4894 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
4896 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
4897 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
4898 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
4899 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
4900 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
4901 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
4902 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
4903 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
4905 o Minor features (path selection):
4906 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
4907 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
4908 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
4909 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
4910 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
4911 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
4912 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
4913 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
4914 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
4915 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
4916 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
4917 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
4918 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
4919 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
4920 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
4921 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
4922 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
4923 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
4924 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
4926 o Minor features (log messages):
4927 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
4928 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
4929 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
4930 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
4933 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
4934 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
4935 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
4936 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
4937 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
4938 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
4939 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
4940 - Detect nacl when its headers are in a nacl/ subdirectory. Also,
4941 actually link against nacl when we're configured to use it. Fixes
4942 bug 7972; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4943 - Compile correctly with the --disable-curve25519 option. Fixes
4944 bug 8153; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4946 o Build improvements:
4947 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
4948 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
4949 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
4950 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
4951 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
4952 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
4953 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
4954 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
4955 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
4956 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
4957 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
4958 than to perform erroneously.
4961 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
4962 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
4963 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
4965 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
4966 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer;
4967 warning the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket
4970 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
4971 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
4973 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
4974 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
4978 Changes in version 0.2.4.9-alpha - 2013-01-15
4979 Tor 0.2.4.9-alpha provides a quick fix to make the new ntor handshake
4983 - Fix backward compatibility logic when receiving an embedded ntor
4984 handshake tunneled in a CREATE cell. This clears up the "Bug:
4985 couldn't format CREATED cell" warning. Fixes bug 7959; bugfix
4989 Changes in version 0.2.4.8-alpha - 2013-01-14
4990 Tor 0.2.4.8-alpha introduces directory guards to reduce user enumeration
4991 risks, adds a new stronger and faster circuit handshake, and offers
4992 stronger and faster link encryption when both sides support it.
4995 - Preliminary support for directory guards (proposal 207): when
4996 possible, clients now use their entry guards for non-anonymous
4997 directory requests. This can help prevent client enumeration. Note
4998 that this behavior only works when we have a usable consensus
4999 directory, and when options about what to download are more or less
5000 standard. In the future we should re-bootstrap from our guards,
5001 rather than re-bootstrapping from the preconfigured list of
5002 directory sources that ships with Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
5003 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
5004 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
5005 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
5008 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
5009 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
5010 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
5011 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
5012 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
5013 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
5014 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
5015 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
5016 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
5017 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
5018 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
5020 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
5021 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
5022 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
5024 Clients don't currently use this protocol by default, since
5025 comparatively few clients support it so far. To try it, set
5026 UseNTorHandshake to 1.
5028 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
5030 o Major features (better link encryption):
5031 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
5032 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
5033 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
5034 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
5035 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
5036 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
5039 Enabling these ciphers was a little tricky, since for a long time,
5040 clients had been claiming to support them without actually doing
5041 so, in order to foil fingerprinting. But with the client-side
5042 implementation of proposal 198 in 0.2.3.17-beta, clients can now
5043 match the ciphers from recent Firefox versions *and* list the
5044 ciphers they actually mean, so relays can believe such clients
5045 when they advertise ECDHE support in their TLS ClientHello messages.
5047 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
5048 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
5049 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
5050 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
5052 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
5055 - Avoid crashing when, as a relay without IPv6-exit support, a
5056 client insists on getting an IPv6 address or nothing. Fixes bug
5057 7814; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
5060 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
5061 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
5062 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
5063 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
5064 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
5065 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
5066 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
5067 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
5068 - Update to the January 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5070 o Minor features (testing):
5071 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
5072 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
5073 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
5075 o Minor features (path bias detection):
5076 - Alter the Path Bias log messages to be more descriptive in terms
5077 of reporting timeouts and other statistics.
5078 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
5079 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
5080 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
5081 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
5082 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
5083 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
5084 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
5085 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
5086 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
5087 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
5088 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
5089 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
5090 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
5091 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
5092 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
5093 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
5094 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
5095 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
5096 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
5097 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
5098 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
5099 detection capability loss.
5101 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
5102 - Rate-limit the "No circuits are opened. Relaxed timeout for a
5103 circuit with channel state open..." message to once per hour to
5104 keep it from filling the notice logs. Mitigates bug 7799 but does
5105 not fix the underlying cause. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
5106 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
5107 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
5108 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
5111 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
5112 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
5113 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
5114 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
5115 and the different handshakes it supports.
5116 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
5117 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
5118 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
5119 any encoding is overkill.
5122 Changes in version 0.2.4.7-alpha - 2012-12-24
5123 Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha introduces a new approach to providing fallback
5124 directory mirrors for more robust bootstrapping; fixes more issues where
5125 clients with changing network conditions refuse to make any circuits;
5126 adds initial support for exiting to IPv6 addresses; resumes being able
5127 to update our GeoIP database, and includes the geoip6 file this time;
5128 turns off the client-side DNS cache by default due to privacy risks;
5129 and fixes a variety of other issues.
5131 o Major features (client resilience):
5132 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
5133 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
5134 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
5135 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
5136 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
5137 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
5138 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
5139 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
5140 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
5141 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
5142 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
5143 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
5144 95-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
5145 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
5146 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
5148 o Major features (IPv6):
5149 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
5150 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
5151 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
5152 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
5153 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait until the
5154 authorities have upgraded, wait for enough exits to support IPv6,
5155 apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort, and use Socks5. Closes
5156 ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as revised in proposal 208.
5158 We DO NOT recommend that clients with actual anonymity needs start
5159 using IPv6 over Tor yet, since not enough exits support it yet.
5161 o Major features (geoip database):
5162 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
5163 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
5164 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
5165 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
5166 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
5167 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
5168 Fixes bug 6266. Also update to the December 5 2012 Maxmind GeoLite
5169 Country database, as modified above.
5171 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
5172 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
5173 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
5174 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
5175 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
5176 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
5177 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
5178 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
5179 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
5180 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
5181 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
5182 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
5183 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
5184 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
5185 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
5186 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
5187 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
5190 o Major bugfixes (other):
5191 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
5192 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
5193 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
5194 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
5195 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
5196 - Fix an assertion that could trigger in hibernate_go_dormant() when
5197 closing an or_connection_t: call channel_mark_for_close() rather
5198 than connection_mark_for_close(). Fixes bug 7267. Bugfix on
5200 - Include the geoip6 IPv6 GeoIP database in the tarball. Fixes bug
5201 7655; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
5204 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
5205 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
5206 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
5207 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
5208 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
5209 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
5210 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
5211 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
5213 o Minor features (IPv6):
5214 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
5215 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
5216 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
5217 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
5218 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
5219 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
5220 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
5221 connect to the wrong addresses.
5222 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
5223 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
5224 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
5225 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
5229 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
5230 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
5231 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
5233 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
5234 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
5235 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
5237 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
5238 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
5239 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
5242 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
5243 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
5245 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5246 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
5247 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
5248 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
5249 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
5252 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
5253 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
5254 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
5255 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
5256 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
5257 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
5258 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
5259 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
5261 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
5262 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
5263 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
5264 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
5265 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
5266 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
5267 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
5268 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
5269 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
5270 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
5271 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
5274 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
5275 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
5276 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
5277 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
5278 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
5279 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
5280 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
5281 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
5282 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
5283 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
5286 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
5287 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
5291 Changes in version 0.2.4.6-alpha - 2012-11-13
5292 Tor 0.2.4.6-alpha fixes an assert bug that has been plaguing relays,
5293 makes our defense-in-depth memory wiping more reliable, and begins to
5294 count IPv6 addresses in bridge statistics,
5297 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur when closing a connection
5298 with a spliced rendezvous circuit. Fix for bug 7212; bugfix on
5300 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
5301 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
5302 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
5303 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
5304 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
5305 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
5306 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
5307 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
5308 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
5309 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
5312 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
5314 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
5315 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
5316 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
5317 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
5318 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
5321 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
5322 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
5323 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
5324 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
5325 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
5327 - Add warning message when a managed proxy dies during configuration.
5328 Fixes bug 7195; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
5329 - Fix a linking error when building tor-fw-helper without miniupnp.
5330 Fixes bug 7235; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha. Fix by Anthony G. Basile.
5331 - Check for closing an or_connection_t without going through correct
5332 channel functions; emit a warning and then call
5333 connection_or_close_for_error() so we don't assert as in bugs 7212
5335 - Compile correctly on compilers without C99 designated initializer
5336 support. Fixes bug 7286; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5337 - Avoid a possible assert that can occur when channel_send_destroy() is
5338 called on a channel in CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSING, CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSED,
5339 or CHANNEL_STATE_ERROR when the Tor process is resumed after being
5340 blocked for a long interval. Fixes bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5341 - Fix a memory leak on failing cases of channel_tls_process_certs_cell.
5342 Fixes bug 7422; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5344 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5345 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
5346 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
5347 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
5348 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
5349 present the same extensions.)
5352 Changes in version 0.2.4.5-alpha - 2012-10-25
5353 Tor 0.2.4.5-alpha comes hard at the heels of 0.2.4.4-alpha, to fix
5354 two important security vulnerabilities that could lead to remotely
5355 triggerable relay crashes, fix a major bug that was preventing clients
5356 from choosing suitable exit nodes, and refactor some of our code.
5358 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
5359 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
5360 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
5361 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
5363 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
5364 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
5365 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
5366 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5368 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
5369 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
5370 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
5371 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
5372 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
5373 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
5374 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
5375 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
5376 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5378 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
5379 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
5380 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
5381 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
5382 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5385 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
5386 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
5387 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
5389 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5390 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
5392 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
5393 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
5397 Changes in version 0.2.3.24-rc - 2012-10-25
5398 Tor 0.2.3.24-rc fixes two important security vulnerabilities that
5399 could lead to remotely triggerable relay crashes, and fixes
5400 a major bug that was preventing clients from choosing suitable exit
5403 o Major bugfixes (security):
5404 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
5405 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
5406 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
5408 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
5409 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
5410 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
5411 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5414 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
5415 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
5416 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
5417 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
5418 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
5419 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
5420 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
5421 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5424 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
5425 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
5426 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
5427 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5430 Changes in version 0.2.4.4-alpha - 2012-10-20
5431 Tor 0.2.4.4-alpha adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
5432 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, fixes a remotely
5433 triggerable assert, and adds new channel_t and circuitmux_t abstractions
5434 that will make it easier to test new connection transport and cell
5435 scheduling algorithms.
5437 o New directory authorities (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
5438 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
5439 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
5441 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy, also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
5442 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
5443 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
5444 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
5445 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
5446 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
5447 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
5448 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
5449 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
5450 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
5451 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
5453 o Internal abstraction features:
5454 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
5455 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
5456 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
5457 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
5458 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
5459 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
5460 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
5461 - Also new is the channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it
5462 to the existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
5463 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
5464 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
5465 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
5466 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
5467 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
5468 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
5469 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
5470 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
5472 o Required libraries:
5473 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
5474 strongly recommended.
5477 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
5478 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
5479 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
5480 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
5481 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
5482 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
5483 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
5484 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
5485 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
5487 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
5488 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a
5489 relay's DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it
5490 might make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
5491 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
5492 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
5493 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
5494 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
5495 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
5496 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
5497 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
5498 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
5499 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
5500 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
5501 more accurate picture. Fixes bug 7037; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
5504 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
5505 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
5506 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
5507 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
5508 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
5509 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
5510 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
5511 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
5512 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
5513 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
5514 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
5515 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
5516 - Make clients running with IPv6 bridges connect over IPv6 again,
5517 even without setting new config options ClientUseIPv6 and
5518 ClientPreferIPv6ORPort. Fixes bug 6757; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
5519 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
5520 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
5521 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
5522 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
5524 o Code refactoring and cleanup:
5525 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
5526 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
5527 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
5528 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
5529 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
5530 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
5533 Changes in version 0.2.3.23-rc - 2012-10-20
5534 Tor 0.2.3.23-rc adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
5535 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, and fixes a variety
5536 of smaller bugs in preparation for the release.
5538 o New directory authorities:
5539 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
5540 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
5542 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy):
5543 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
5544 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
5545 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
5546 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
5547 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
5548 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
5549 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
5550 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
5551 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
5552 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
5555 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
5556 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
5557 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
5559 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
5560 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
5561 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
5562 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
5563 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
5564 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
5565 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
5566 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
5567 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
5569 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
5570 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
5571 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
5572 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
5573 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
5574 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
5575 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
5576 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
5577 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
5578 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
5579 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
5580 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
5581 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
5582 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
5583 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
5584 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
5585 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
5586 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
5588 o Documentation fixes:
5589 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
5592 Changes in version 0.2.4.3-alpha - 2012-09-22
5593 Tor 0.2.4.3-alpha fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
5594 assertion, resumes letting relays test reachability of their DirPort,
5595 and cleans up a bunch of smaller bugs.
5598 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
5599 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
5600 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
5603 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
5604 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
5605 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
5606 - Allow routers to detect that their own DirPorts are running. When
5607 we removed support for versions_supports_begindir, we also
5608 accidentally removed the mechanism we used to self-test our
5609 DirPort. Diagnosed with help from kargig. Fixes bugs 6814 and 6815;
5610 bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
5612 o Security features:
5613 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
5614 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
5615 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
5616 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
5617 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
5618 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
5619 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
5620 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
5621 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
5625 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
5626 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
5627 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
5630 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
5631 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
5632 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
5633 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
5634 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
5635 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
5636 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
5637 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
5638 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
5639 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
5640 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
5641 - Our new buildsystem was overzealous about rebuilding manpages: it
5642 would rebuild them all whenever any one of them changed. Now our
5643 dependency checking should be correct. Fixes bug 6843; bugfix on
5645 - Don't do reachability testing over IPv6 unless AuthDirPublishIPv6
5646 is set. Fixes bug 6880. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
5647 - Correct log printout about which address family is preferred
5648 when connecting to a bridge with both an IPv4 and IPv6 OR port.
5649 Fixes bug 6884; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
5651 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
5652 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
5653 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
5654 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5655 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
5656 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
5657 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5658 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
5659 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
5660 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
5661 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
5662 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
5663 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
5664 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
5665 - Fix building with older versions of GCC (2.95, for one) that don't
5666 like preprocessor directives inside macro arguments. Found by
5667 grarpamp. Fixes bug 6842; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
5668 - Switch weighted node selection rule from using a list of doubles
5669 to using a list of int64_t. This change should make the process
5670 slightly easier to debug and maintain. Needed to finish ticket 6538.
5672 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5673 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
5674 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
5675 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
5676 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
5677 testable, and a little less fragile too.
5678 - Removed the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
5679 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
5681 o Documentation fixes:
5682 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
5683 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
5687 Changes in version 0.2.3.22-rc - 2012-09-11
5688 Tor 0.2.3.22-rc fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
5692 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
5693 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
5694 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
5697 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
5698 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
5702 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
5703 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
5707 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
5708 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
5709 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
5710 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
5711 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
5712 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
5713 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
5717 Changes in version 0.2.4.2-alpha - 2012-09-10
5718 Tor 0.2.4.2-alpha enables port forwarding for pluggable transports,
5719 raises the default rate limiting even more, and makes the bootstrapping
5720 log messages less noisy.
5723 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
5724 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
5728 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
5729 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
5730 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
5731 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
5732 last time we raised it).
5735 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
5736 one we compiled with. This has occasionally given people hard-to-
5738 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
5739 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
5740 part of ticket 6736.
5741 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
5742 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
5743 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
5747 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
5748 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
5749 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
5750 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
5751 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
5753 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
5754 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5755 - Don't follow the NULL pointer if microdescriptor generation fails.
5756 (This does not appear to be triggerable, but it's best to be safe.)
5757 Found by "f. tp.". Fixes bug 6797; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
5758 - Fix mis-declared dependencies on src/common/crypto.c and
5759 src/or/tor_main.c that could break out-of-tree builds under some
5760 circumstances. Fixes bug 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
5761 - Avoid a warning when building common_sha1.i out of tree. Fixes bug
5762 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
5763 - Fix a harmless (in this case) build warning for implicitly
5764 converting a strlen() to an int. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
5767 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
5768 need to work around their missing features. Thus we can remove a
5769 bunch of compatibility code.
5772 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
5773 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
5774 the ORPort and the DirPort.
5777 Changes in version 0.2.4.1-alpha - 2012-09-05
5778 Tor 0.2.4.1-alpha lets bridges publish their pluggable transports to
5779 bridgedb; lets relays use IPv6 addresses and directory authorities
5780 advertise them; and switches to a cleaner build interface.
5782 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
5783 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
5784 stay with 0.2.3.x for now.
5786 o Major features (bridges):
5787 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
5788 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
5789 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
5792 o Major features (IPv6):
5793 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
5794 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
5795 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
5796 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
5797 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
5798 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
5799 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
5800 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports using the new consensus
5801 method 14. Implements ticket 6363.
5803 o Major features (build):
5804 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
5805 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
5806 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
5807 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
5808 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
5809 fixes by Jim Meyering.
5810 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
5811 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
5812 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
5814 o Minor features (code security and spec conformance):
5815 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
5816 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
5817 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
5818 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
5819 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
5820 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
5821 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
5822 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
5823 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
5824 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
5826 o Minor features (streamlining);
5827 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
5828 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
5830 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
5831 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
5832 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
5833 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
5834 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
5835 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5837 o Minor features (controller):
5838 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
5840 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
5841 Implements ticket 4971.
5843 o Minor features (IPv6):
5844 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
5845 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
5846 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
5847 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
5848 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
5850 o Minor features (log messages):
5851 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
5852 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
5853 Resolves ticket 6758.
5854 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
5855 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
5856 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
5857 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
5858 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
5859 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
5860 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
5862 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
5863 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
5864 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
5865 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
5866 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
5869 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
5870 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
5871 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
5872 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
5873 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
5875 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
5876 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
5877 Implements ticket 5529.
5878 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
5879 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
5880 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
5881 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
5882 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
5883 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
5884 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
5885 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
5886 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
5887 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
5890 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
5891 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
5892 from a source distribution.)
5895 Changes in version 0.2.3.21-rc - 2012-09-05
5896 Tor 0.2.3.21-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
5897 series. It fixes a trio of potential security bugs, fixes a bug where
5898 we were leaving some of the fast relays out of the microdescriptor
5899 consensus, resumes interpreting "ORPort 0" and "DirPort 0" correctly,
5900 and cleans up other smaller issues.
5902 o Major bugfixes (security):
5903 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
5904 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
5905 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
5906 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
5907 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
5908 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0. We had committed
5909 this patch previously, but we had to revert it because of bug 6271.
5910 Now that 6271 is fixed, this patch appears to work.
5911 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
5912 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
5913 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
5914 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
5915 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
5916 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
5917 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
5918 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
5922 - Remove the upper bound on microdescriptor length. We were hitting
5923 the limit for routers with complex exit policies or family
5924 declarations, causing clients to not use them. Fixes the first
5925 piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
5926 - Detect "ORPort 0" as meaning, uniformly, that we're not running
5927 as a relay. Previously, some of our code would treat the presence
5928 of any ORPort line as meaning that we should act like a relay,
5929 even though our new listener code would correctly not open any
5930 ORPorts for ORPort 0. Similar bugs in other Port options are also
5931 fixed. Fixes the first half of bug 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
5934 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
5935 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
5936 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
5937 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
5938 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
5939 - Allow one-hop directory fetching circuits the full "circuit build
5940 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
5941 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
5942 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
5943 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
5944 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
5946 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
5947 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
5948 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
5950 - Detect and reject attempts to specify both "FooPort" and
5951 "FooPort 0" in the same configuration domain. (It's still okay
5952 to have a FooPort in your configuration file, and use "FooPort 0"
5953 on the command line to disable it.) Fixes the second half of bug
5954 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
5955 - Make wildcarded addresses (that is, ones beginning with "*.") work
5956 when provided via the controller's MapAddress command. Previously,
5957 they were accepted, but we never actually noticed that they were
5958 wildcards. Fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
5959 - Avoid crashing on a malformed state file where EntryGuardPathBias
5960 precedes EntryGuard. Fix for bug 6774; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
5961 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
5962 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
5963 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
5966 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
5967 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
5968 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
5969 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
5970 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
5971 - Downgrade path-bias warning messages to "info". We'll try to get
5972 them working better in 0.2.4. Add internal circuit construction
5973 state to protect against the noisy warn message "Unexpectedly high
5974 circuit_successes". Also add some additional rate-limited notice
5975 messages to help determine the root cause of the warn. Fixes bug
5976 6475. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
5977 - Move log message when unable to find a microdesc in a routerstatus
5978 entry to parse time. Previously we'd spam this warning every time
5979 we tried to figure out which microdescriptors to download. Fixes
5980 the third piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
5983 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
5984 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
5985 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
5986 - Add missing documentation for consensus and microdesc files.
5987 Resolves ticket 6732.
5990 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
5991 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
5992 attack that could in theory leak path information.
5995 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
5996 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
5997 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
5998 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
5999 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
6000 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
6001 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
6002 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
6003 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
6004 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
6005 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
6006 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
6007 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
6008 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
6011 Changes in version 0.2.3.20-rc - 2012-08-05
6012 Tor 0.2.3.20-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
6013 series. It fixes a pair of code security bugs and a potential anonymity
6014 issue, updates our RPM spec files, and cleans up other smaller issues.
6017 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
6018 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
6019 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6020 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
6021 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
6022 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
6023 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
6024 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
6025 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
6026 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
6027 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
6028 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
6029 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
6030 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
6031 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
6032 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
6033 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
6036 - Try to make the warning when giving an obsolete SOCKSListenAddress
6037 a little more useful.
6038 - Terminate active server managed proxies if Tor stops being a
6039 relay. Addresses parts of bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
6040 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
6041 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
6042 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
6043 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
6044 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
6047 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
6048 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6049 - Ignore ServerTransportPlugin lines when Tor is not configured as
6050 a relay. Fixes bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
6051 - When disabling guards for having too high a proportion of failed
6052 circuits, make sure to look at each guard. Fixes bug 6397; bugfix
6056 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
6057 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
6058 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
6059 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
6060 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
6063 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
6064 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
6065 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
6068 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
6070 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
6072 o Code simplification and refactoring:
6073 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
6074 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
6075 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
6076 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
6079 Changes in version 0.2.3.19-rc - 2012-07-06
6080 Tor 0.2.3.19-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
6081 series. It fixes the compile on Windows, reverts to a GeoIP database
6082 that isn't as broken, and fixes a flow control bug that has been around
6083 since the beginning of Tor.
6086 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
6087 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
6088 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
6089 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
6090 - Revert to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. In the
6091 June 2012 database, Maxmind marked many Tor relays as country "A1",
6092 which will cause risky behavior for clients that set EntryNodes
6093 or ExitNodes. Addresses bug 6334; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
6094 - Instead of ENOBUFS on Windows, say WSAENOBUFS. Fixes compilation
6095 on Windows. Fixes bug 6296; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
6098 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
6099 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
6102 Changes in version 0.2.3.18-rc - 2012-06-28
6103 Tor 0.2.3.18-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
6104 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
6105 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
6108 - Allow wildcarded mapaddress targets to be specified on the
6109 controlport. Partially fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
6110 - Make our linker option detection code more robust against linkers
6111 such as on FreeBSD 8, where a bad combination of options completes
6112 successfully but makes an unrunnable binary. Fixes bug 6173;
6113 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
6115 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
6116 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
6117 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
6118 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
6119 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
6120 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
6121 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
6122 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
6123 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
6124 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
6125 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
6126 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
6127 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
6128 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
6129 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
6130 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
6131 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
6132 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
6133 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
6135 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
6136 - Make format_helper_exit_status() avoid unnecessary space padding
6137 and stop confusing log_from_pipe(). Fixes ticket 5557; bugfix
6139 - Downgrade a message about cleaning the microdescriptor cache to
6140 "info" from "notice". Fixes bug 6238; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
6141 - Log a BUG message at severity INFO if we have a networkstatus with
6142 a missing entry for some microdescriptor. Continues on a patch
6144 - Improve the log message when a managed proxy fails to launch. Fixes
6145 bug 5099; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
6146 - Don't do DNS lookups when parsing corrupted managed proxy protocol
6147 messages. Fixes bug 6226; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
6148 - When formatting wildcarded address mappings for the controller,
6149 be sure to include "*." as appropriate. Partially fixes bug 6244;
6150 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
6151 - Avoid a warning caused by using strcspn() from glibc with clang 3.0.
6152 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
6153 - Stop logging messages about running with circuit timeout learning
6154 enabled at severity LD_BUG. Fixes bug 6169; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
6155 - Disable a spurious warning about reading on a marked and flushing
6156 connection. We shouldn't be doing that, but apparently we
6157 sometimes do. Fixes bug 6203; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
6158 - Fix a bug that stopped AllowDotExit from working on addresses
6159 that had an entry in the DNS cache. Fixes bug 6211; bugfix on
6162 o Code simplification, refactoring, unit tests:
6163 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
6164 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
6165 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
6166 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal function.
6169 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new (in 0.2.3)
6170 semantics for overriding, extending, and clearing lists of
6171 options. Closes bug 4748.
6174 Changes in version 0.2.3.17-beta - 2012-06-15
6175 Tor 0.2.3.17-beta enables compiler and linker hardening by default,
6176 gets our TLS handshake back on track for being able to blend in with
6177 Firefox, fixes a big bug in 0.2.3.16-alpha that broke Tor's interaction
6178 with Vidalia, and otherwise continues to get us closer to a release
6182 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
6183 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
6185 - Implement the client side of proposal 198: remove support for
6186 clients falsely claiming to support standard ciphersuites that
6187 they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL versions, it's not
6188 necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite, and doing so prevents
6189 us from using better ciphersuites in the future, since servers
6190 can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite is really supported or
6191 not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very old versions of OpenSSL
6192 or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC disabled -- will stand
6193 out because of this change; TBB users should not be affected.
6196 - Change the default value for DynamicDHGroups (introduced in
6197 0.2.3.9-alpha) to 0. This feature can make Tor relays less
6198 identifiable by their use of the mod_ssl DH group, but at
6199 the cost of some usability (#4721) and bridge tracing (#6087)
6200 regressions. Resolves ticket 5598.
6201 - Send a CRLF at the end of each STATUS_* control protocol event. This
6202 bug tickled a bug in Vidalia which would make it freeze. Fixes
6203 bug 6094; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
6206 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
6207 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
6208 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
6209 case for flushing marked connections.
6210 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
6211 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
6212 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
6213 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
6214 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
6215 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
6216 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
6217 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
6218 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
6219 - Make sure circuitbuild.c checks LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in all the
6220 right places and never depends on the consensus parameters or
6221 computes adaptive timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049;
6222 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
6223 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
6224 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
6225 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
6226 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
6227 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
6228 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
6229 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
6230 and relays all have an uptime of zero, where the private Tor network
6231 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
6232 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
6233 - Correct the manpage's descriptions for the default values of
6234 DirReqStatistics and ExtraInfoStatistics. Fixes bug 2865; bugfix
6236 - Fix the documentation for the --hush and --quiet command line
6237 options, which changed their behavior back in 0.2.3.3-alpha.
6238 - Fix compilation warning with clang 3.1. Fixes bug 6141; bugfix on
6242 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
6243 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
6244 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
6245 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
6246 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
6247 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
6248 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
6249 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
6250 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
6251 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
6252 - Issue a notice if a guard completes less than 40% of your circuits.
6253 Threshold is configurable by torrc option PathBiasNoticeRate and
6254 consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is additional, off-by-
6255 default code to disable guards which fail too many circuits.
6256 Addresses ticket 5458.
6257 - Update to the June 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6259 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
6260 - Remove validate_pluggable_transports_config(): its warning
6261 message is now handled by connection_or_connect().
6264 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
6265 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
6266 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
6270 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
6271 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
6272 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
6273 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
6274 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
6275 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
6276 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
6277 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
6278 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
6279 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
6280 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
6283 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
6284 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
6287 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
6288 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
6291 Changes in version 0.2.3.16-alpha - 2012-06-05
6292 Tor 0.2.3.16-alpha introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
6293 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
6294 currently). It also fixes a variety of smaller bugs and other cleanups
6295 that get us closer to a release candidate.
6297 o Major bugfixes (general):
6298 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
6299 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
6300 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
6301 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
6302 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
6303 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
6304 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
6305 - Pass correct OR address to managed proxies (like obfsproxy),
6306 even when ORListenAddress is used. Fixes bug 4865; bugfix on
6308 - The advertised platform of a router now includes only its operating
6309 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not its
6310 service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture (for Unix).
6311 We also no longer include the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Resolves
6314 o Major bugfixes (clients):
6315 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
6316 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
6317 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
6318 which introduced predicted ports.
6319 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
6320 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
6321 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
6322 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
6323 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
6324 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
6325 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
6326 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
6327 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
6328 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
6329 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
6330 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
6331 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
6333 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
6334 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
6335 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
6336 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
6337 value: now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Partial
6338 fix for 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
6339 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
6340 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
6341 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
6342 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
6343 but would let it pass otherwise. Partial fix for bug 5786; bugfix
6347 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
6348 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
6349 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
6350 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
6351 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
6352 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
6353 - Allow packagers to insert an extra string in server descriptor
6354 platform lines by setting the preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG.
6355 Resolves the rest of ticket 2988.
6356 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
6357 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
6358 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
6359 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
6360 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
6362 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the
6363 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
6364 - Improve log messages about managed transports. Resolves ticket 5070.
6365 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
6366 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
6367 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
6368 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
6369 sure. Closes bug 5139.
6370 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
6371 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
6372 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
6373 it's dormant (bug 4718). Fixes bug 5954.
6374 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
6375 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
6376 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6378 o Minor bugfixes (already included in 0.2.2.36):
6379 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
6380 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
6381 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
6382 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
6383 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
6384 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
6385 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
6386 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
6387 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
6388 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
6389 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
6390 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
6391 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
6392 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
6393 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
6394 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
6395 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
6396 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
6397 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
6399 o Minor bugfixes (coding cleanup, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
6400 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
6401 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
6402 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
6403 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
6404 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
6405 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
6406 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
6407 network is disabled or the nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes
6408 bug 5916; bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha (for the unconfigurable
6409 nameserver case) and on 0.2.3.9-alpha (for the DisableNetwork case).
6410 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
6411 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
6413 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
6414 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6415 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
6416 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
6418 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
6419 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
6420 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
6421 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed
6422 SETCIRCUITPURPOSE command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796;
6423 bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
6424 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
6425 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
6426 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
6427 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
6429 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
6430 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
6431 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
6433 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
6434 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
6435 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
6436 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
6437 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
6438 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
6439 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
6440 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
6441 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
6442 - If the configuration tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
6443 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
6444 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
6445 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
6446 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
6447 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
6448 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
6449 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
6450 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
6451 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
6452 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
6454 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
6455 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
6456 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
6457 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
6458 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
6459 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
6461 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
6462 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
6463 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
6465 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
6466 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
6467 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
6468 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
6469 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
6470 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36 and 0.2.3.13-alpha.
6472 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
6473 - Turn an assertion (that the number of handshakes received as a
6474 server is not < 1) into a warning. Fixes bug 4873; bugfix on
6476 - Format IPv4 addresses correctly in ADDRMAP events. (Previously,
6477 we had reversed them when the answer was cached.) Fixes bug
6478 5723; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
6479 - Work correctly on Linux systems with accept4 support advertised in
6480 their headers, but without accept4 support in the kernel. Fix
6481 by murb. Fixes bug 5762; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
6482 - When told to add a bridge with the same addr:port as a preexisting
6483 bridge but a different transport, change the transport as
6484 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
6485 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
6486 - Avoid a "double-reply" warning when replying to a SOCKS request
6487 with a parse error. Patch from Fabian Keil. Fixes bug 4108;
6488 bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
6489 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes if it has seen no
6490 directory requests when it's time to write statistics to disk.
6491 Fixes bug 5891; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Also fixes bug 5508 in
6493 - Don't try to open non-control listeners when DisableNetwork is set.
6494 Previously, we'd open all listeners, then immediately close them.
6495 Fixes bug 5604; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
6496 - Don't abort the managed proxy protocol if the managed proxy
6497 sends us an unrecognized line; ignore it instead. Fixes bug
6498 5910; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
6499 - Fix a compile warning in crypto.c when compiling with clang 3.1.
6500 Fixes bug 5969, bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
6501 - Fix a compilation issue on GNU Hurd, which doesn't have PATH_MAX.
6502 Fixes bug 5355; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
6503 - Remove bogus definition of "_WIN32" from src/win32/orconfig.h, to
6504 unbreak the MSVC build. Fixes bug 5858; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
6505 - Resolve numerous small warnings and build issues with MSVC. Resolves
6508 o Documentation fixes:
6509 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
6510 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
6511 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
6512 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
6513 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
6514 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
6517 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
6518 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
6522 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
6523 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
6524 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
6525 and fixes several crash bugs.
6527 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
6528 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
6529 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
6530 those packages and upgrade anyway.
6532 o Directory authority changes:
6533 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
6534 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
6538 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
6539 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
6540 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
6541 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
6542 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
6543 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
6544 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
6545 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
6546 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
6547 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
6548 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
6549 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
6550 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
6551 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
6552 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
6553 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
6554 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
6555 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
6556 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
6557 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
6558 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
6559 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
6560 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
6561 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
6562 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
6563 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
6564 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
6567 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
6568 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
6569 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
6570 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
6572 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
6573 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
6575 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
6576 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
6577 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
6578 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
6579 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
6580 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
6581 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
6582 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
6585 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
6586 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
6587 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
6588 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
6589 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
6590 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
6591 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
6592 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
6593 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
6594 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
6595 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
6596 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
6597 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
6598 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
6599 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
6600 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
6601 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
6602 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
6603 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
6604 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
6605 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
6606 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
6607 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
6608 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
6609 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
6610 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
6611 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
6612 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
6613 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
6614 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
6615 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
6616 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
6617 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
6618 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
6619 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
6620 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
6621 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
6622 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
6623 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
6624 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
6625 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
6626 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
6627 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
6628 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
6629 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
6630 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
6632 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
6633 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
6634 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
6635 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
6636 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
6637 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
6638 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
6639 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
6640 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
6641 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
6642 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
6643 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
6644 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
6645 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
6646 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
6649 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
6650 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
6651 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
6652 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
6654 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6657 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
6658 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
6659 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
6660 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
6661 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
6662 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
6663 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
6666 Changes in version 0.2.3.15-alpha - 2012-04-30
6667 Tor 0.2.3.15-alpha fixes a variety of smaller bugs, including making
6668 the development branch build on Windows again.
6670 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
6671 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
6672 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
6673 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
6674 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
6675 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
6676 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
6677 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
6678 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
6679 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
6680 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
6681 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
6682 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
6683 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
6684 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
6686 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
6687 - When Tor is built with kernel headers from a recent (last few
6688 years) Linux kernel, do not fail to run on older (pre-2.6.28
6689 Linux kernels). Fixes bug 5112; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
6690 - Fix cross-compilation issues with mingw. Bugfixes on 0.2.3.6-alpha
6692 - Fix compilation with miniupnpc version 1.6; patch from
6693 Anthony G. Basile. Fixes bug 5434; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
6694 - Fix compilation with MSVC, which had defined MS_WINDOWS. Bugfix
6695 on 0.2.3.13-alpha; found and fixed by Gisle Vanem.
6696 - Fix compilation on platforms without unistd.h, or where environ
6697 is defined in stdlib.h. Fixes bug 5704; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
6700 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
6701 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
6702 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
6703 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
6704 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
6705 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
6706 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
6707 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
6708 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
6711 - Remove the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays option;
6712 authorities needed to use it for a while to keep the network working
6713 as people upgraded to 0.2.1.31, 0.2.2.34, or 0.2.3.6-alpha, but
6714 that was six months ago. As of now, it should no longer be needed
6718 Changes in version 0.2.3.14-alpha - 2012-04-23
6719 Tor 0.2.3.14-alpha fixes yet more bugs to get us closer to a release
6720 candidate. It also dramatically speeds up AES: fast relays should
6721 consider switching to the newer OpenSSL library.
6723 o Directory authority changes:
6724 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
6728 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
6729 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
6730 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
6731 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
6733 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
6734 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
6735 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
6736 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
6738 - When we start a Tor client with a normal consensus already cached,
6739 be willing to download a microdescriptor consensus. Fixes bug 4011;
6740 fix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
6742 o Major features (performance):
6743 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
6744 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
6745 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
6746 much faster than other AES implementations.
6748 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.2.x and earlier):
6749 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
6750 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
6751 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
6752 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
6753 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
6754 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
6755 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
6756 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
6757 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
6758 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
6759 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
6760 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
6761 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
6762 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
6763 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
6764 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
6765 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
6767 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.3.x):
6768 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes (on a failed assert)
6769 if it has seen no directory requests when it's time to write
6770 statistics to disk. Fixes bug 5508. Bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
6771 - Fix bug stomping on ORPort option NoListen and ignoring option
6772 NoAdvertise. Fixes bug 5151; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
6773 - In the testsuite, provide a large enough buffer in the tor_sscanf
6774 unit test. Otherwise we'd overrun that buffer and crash during
6775 the unit tests. Found by weasel. Fixes bug 5449; bugfix on
6777 - Make sure we create the keys directory if it doesn't exist and we're
6778 about to store the dynamic Diffie-Hellman parameters. Fixes bug
6779 5572; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
6780 - Fix a small memory leak when trying to decode incorrect base16
6781 authenticator during SAFECOOKIE authentication. Found by
6782 Coverity Scan. Fixes CID 507. Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
6785 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
6786 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
6787 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
6788 please let us know about it.
6789 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
6790 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
6791 - Resolve IPv6 addresses in bridge and entry statistics to country
6792 code "??" which means we at least count them. Resolves ticket 5053;
6793 improves on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
6794 - Update to the April 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6795 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
6796 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
6798 o Default torrc changes:
6799 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
6800 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
6802 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
6803 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
6804 - Document unit of bandwidth related options in sample torrc.
6808 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
6809 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
6810 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
6811 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
6814 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
6815 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
6816 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
6817 it would be a bad idea to start.
6820 Changes in version 0.2.3.13-alpha - 2012-03-26
6821 Tor 0.2.3.13-alpha fixes a variety of stability and correctness bugs
6822 in managed pluggable transports, as well as providing other cleanups
6823 that get us closer to a release candidate.
6825 o Directory authority changes:
6826 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
6829 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
6830 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
6831 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
6832 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
6833 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
6834 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
6835 this attack. Fixes bug 5185, implements proposal 193.
6836 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
6837 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
6838 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
6839 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
6840 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
6841 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
6842 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
6843 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
6844 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
6846 o Major bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
6847 - Avoid an assert when managed proxies like obfsproxy are configured,
6848 and we receive HUP signals or setconf attempts too rapidly. This
6849 situation happens most commonly when Vidalia tries to attach to
6850 Tor or tries to configure the Tor it's attached to. Fixes bug 5084;
6851 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
6852 - Fix a relay-side pluggable transports bug where managed proxies were
6853 unreachable from the Internet, because Tor asked them to bind on
6854 localhost. Fixes bug 4725; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
6855 - Stop discarding command-line arguments when TestingTorNetwork
6856 is set. Discovered by Kevin Bauer. Fixes bug 5373; bugfix on
6857 0.2.3.9-alpha, where task 4552 added support for two layers of
6859 - Resume allowing the unit tests to run in gdb. This was accidentally
6860 made impossible when the DisableDebuggerAttachment option was
6861 introduced. Fixes bug 5448; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
6862 - Resume building with nat-pmp support. Fixes bug 4955; bugfix on
6863 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
6865 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
6866 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
6867 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
6868 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
6869 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
6870 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
6871 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
6872 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
6873 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
6874 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
6875 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
6876 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
6877 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
6878 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
6879 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
6880 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
6881 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
6882 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
6883 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
6884 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
6885 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
6886 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
6889 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
6890 - On a failed pipe() call, don't leak file descriptors. Fixes bug
6891 4296; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
6892 - Spec conformance: on a v3 handshake, do not send a NETINFO cell
6893 until after we have received a CERTS cell. Fixes bug 4361; bugfix
6894 on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "frosty".
6895 - When binding to an IPv6 address, set the IPV6_V6ONLY socket
6896 option, so that the IP stack doesn't decide to use it for IPv4
6897 too. Fixes bug 4760; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
6898 - Ensure that variables set in Tor's environment cannot override
6899 environment variables that Tor passes to a managed
6900 pluggable-transport proxy. Previously, Tor would pass every
6901 variable in its environment to managed proxies along with the new
6902 ones, in such a way that on many operating systems, the inherited
6903 environment variables would override those which Tor tried to
6904 explicitly set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha for most Unixoid systems;
6905 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha for Windows.
6908 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
6909 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
6910 - Update to the March 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6913 Changes in version 0.2.3.12-alpha - 2012-02-13
6914 Tor 0.2.3.12-alpha lets fast exit relays scale better, allows clients
6915 to use bridges that run Tor 0.2.2.x, and resolves several big bugs
6916 when Tor is configured to use a pluggable transport like obfsproxy.
6919 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
6920 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
6922 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
6923 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
6924 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
6925 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
6926 - Allow 0.2.3.x clients to use 0.2.2.x bridges. Previously the client
6927 would ask the bridge for microdescriptors, which are only supported
6928 in 0.2.3.x, and then fail to bootstrap when it didn't get the
6929 answers it wanted. Fixes bug 4013; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
6930 - Properly set up obfsproxy's environment when in managed mode. The
6931 Tor Browser Bundle needs LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be passed to obfsproxy,
6932 and when you run your Tor as a daemon, there's no HOME. Fixes bugs
6933 5076 and 5082; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
6936 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
6937 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
6938 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
6939 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
6940 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
6941 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
6942 - Update to the February 7 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6945 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
6946 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
6947 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
6948 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
6949 - Don't put "TOR_PT_EXTENDED_SERVER_PORT=127.0.0.1:4200" in a
6950 managed pluggable transport server proxy's environment.
6951 Previously, we would put it there, even though Tor doesn't
6952 implement an 'extended server port' yet, and even though Tor
6953 almost certainly isn't listening at that address. For now, we set
6954 it to an empty string to avoid crashing older obfsproxies. Bugfix
6956 - Log the heartbeat message every HeartbeatPeriod seconds, not every
6957 HeartbeatPeriod + 1 seconds. Fixes bug 4942; bugfix on
6958 0.2.3.1-alpha. Bug reported by Scott Bennett.
6959 - Calculate absolute paths correctly on Windows. Fixes bug 4973;
6960 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
6961 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
6962 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
6963 - Use the correct CVE number for CVE-2011-4576 in our comments and
6964 log messages. Found by "fermenthor". Resolves bug 5066; bugfix on
6967 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
6968 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
6969 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
6973 Changes in version 0.2.3.11-alpha - 2012-01-22
6974 Tor 0.2.3.11-alpha marks feature-freeze for the 0.2.3 tree. It deploys
6975 the last step of the plan to limit maximum circuit length, includes
6976 a wide variety of hidden service performance and correctness fixes,
6977 works around an OpenSSL security flaw if your distro is too stubborn
6978 to upgrade, and fixes a bunch of smaller issues.
6981 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
6982 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
6983 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
6984 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
6985 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
6986 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
6987 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
6988 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
6990 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
6991 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
6992 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
6993 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
6994 software warned about binding to UDP sockets, regardless of
6995 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
6996 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
6997 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
6999 o Major security workaround:
7000 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
7001 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
7002 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
7003 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
7004 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
7005 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
7006 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
7007 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
7008 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
7009 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
7010 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
7013 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
7014 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
7015 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
7016 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
7017 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
7018 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
7019 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
7020 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha and 0.2.3.1-alpha.
7021 - Do not use OpenSSL 1.0.0's counter mode: it has a critical bug
7022 that was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a. We test for the counter mode
7023 bug at runtime, not compile time, because some distributions hack
7024 their OpenSSL to mis-report its version. Fixes bug 4779; bugfix
7025 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by Pascal.
7027 o Minor features (controller):
7028 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
7029 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
7030 file. Resolves bug 1101.
7031 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
7032 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
7033 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
7034 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
7035 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
7036 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
7038 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
7039 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
7040 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
7041 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
7042 part of ticket 3457.
7043 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
7044 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
7045 circuit-status' control-port command.
7047 o Minor features (directory authorities):
7048 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
7049 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
7050 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
7051 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
7053 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
7054 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
7055 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
7056 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
7057 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
7058 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
7059 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
7061 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
7062 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
7064 o Minor features (other):
7065 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
7066 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
7067 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
7068 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
7069 - Prepend an informative header to generated dynamic_dh_params files.
7070 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
7071 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
7072 - Log more useful messages when we fail to disable debugger
7074 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
7075 them from the other auths.
7076 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
7077 - Add missing documentation for the MaxClientCircuitsPending,
7078 UseMicrodescriptors, UserspaceIOCPBuffers, and
7079 _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents options, all introduced during
7081 - Update to the January 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7083 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
7084 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
7085 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
7086 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
7087 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
7088 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
7089 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
7090 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
7091 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
7092 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
7093 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
7094 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
7095 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
7096 be disabled using the new
7097 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
7098 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
7099 - Make sure we never mark the wrong rendezvous circuit as having
7100 had its introduction cell acknowleged by the introduction-point
7101 relay. Previously, when we received an INTRODUCE_ACK cell on a
7102 client-side hidden-service introduction circuit, we might have
7103 marked a rendezvous circuit other than the one we specified in
7104 the INTRODUCE1 cell as INTRO_ACKED, which would have produced
7105 a warning message and interfered with the hidden service
7106 connection-establishment process. Fixes bug 4759; bugfix on
7107 0.2.3.3-alpha, when we added the stream-isolation feature which
7108 might cause Tor to open multiple rendezvous circuits for the same
7110 - Don't trigger an assertion failure when we mark a new client-side
7111 hidden-service introduction circuit for close during the process
7112 of creating it. Fixes bug 4796; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported
7115 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
7116 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
7117 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta and
7119 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
7120 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
7121 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
7122 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
7123 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
7124 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
7125 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
7127 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
7128 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
7129 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
7130 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
7131 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
7132 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
7133 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
7134 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
7136 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
7137 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
7138 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
7139 - Preprocessor directives should not be put inside the arguments
7140 of a macro. This would break compilation with GCC releases prior
7141 to version 3.3. We would never recommend such an old GCC version,
7142 but it is apparently required for binary compatibility on some
7143 platforms (namely, certain builds of Haiku). Fixes the other part
7144 of bug 4727; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin
7147 o Minor bugfixes (other):
7148 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
7149 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
7150 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
7151 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
7152 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
7153 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
7154 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
7155 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
7156 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un". This was
7157 erroneously listed as fixed in 0.2.3.9-alpha, but the fix had
7158 accidentally been reverted.
7159 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
7160 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
7161 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
7162 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
7163 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
7164 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
7165 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
7166 - Fix an assertion failure when, while running with bufferevents, a
7167 connection finishes connecting after it is marked for close, but
7168 before it is closed. Fixes bug 4697; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
7169 - test_util_spawn_background_ok() hardcoded the expected value
7170 for ENOENT to 2. This isn't portable as error numbers are
7171 platform specific, and particularly the hurd has ENOENT at
7172 0x40000002. Construct expected string at runtime, using the correct
7173 value for ENOENT. Fixes bug 4733; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
7174 - Reject attempts to disable DisableDebuggerAttachment while Tor is
7175 running. Fixes bug 4650; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
7176 - Use an appropriate-width type for sockets in tor-fw-helper on
7177 win64. Fixes bug 1983 at last. Bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
7180 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
7181 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
7182 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
7183 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
7184 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
7185 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
7186 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
7188 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
7189 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
7190 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
7191 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
7192 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
7193 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
7194 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
7196 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
7197 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
7198 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
7199 invalid value, rather than just -1.
7200 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
7201 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
7202 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
7203 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
7204 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
7205 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
7206 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
7210 Changes in version 0.2.3.10-alpha - 2011-12-16
7211 Tor 0.2.3.10-alpha fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in
7212 Tor's buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
7214 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
7215 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
7216 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
7217 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
7218 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
7219 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
7220 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
7221 (which Tor does not do by default).
7223 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
7224 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
7225 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
7226 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
7227 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
7229 This release also contains a few minor bugfixes for issues discovered
7233 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
7234 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
7235 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
7236 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
7239 - If we can't attach streams to a rendezvous circuit when we
7240 finish connecting to a hidden service, clear the rendezvous
7241 circuit's stream-isolation state and try to attach streams
7242 again. Previously, we cleared rendezvous circuits' isolation
7243 state either too early (if they were freshly built) or not at all
7244 (if they had been built earlier and were cannibalized). Bugfix on
7245 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 4655.
7246 - Fix compilation of the libnatpmp helper on non-Windows. Bugfix on
7247 0.2.3.9-alpha; fixes bug 4691. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
7248 - Fix an assertion failure when a relay with accounting enabled
7249 starts up while dormant. Fixes bug 4702; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
7252 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7255 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
7256 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
7257 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
7259 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
7260 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
7261 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
7262 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
7263 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
7264 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
7265 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
7266 (which Tor does not do by default).
7268 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
7269 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
7270 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
7271 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
7272 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
7274 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
7275 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
7276 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
7279 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
7280 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
7281 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
7282 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
7283 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
7285 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
7286 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
7289 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
7290 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
7291 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
7292 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
7293 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
7294 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
7295 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
7296 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
7298 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
7299 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
7300 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
7301 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
7302 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
7303 close based on processing a cell on it.
7304 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
7305 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
7306 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
7307 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
7308 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
7309 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
7310 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
7311 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
7312 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
7313 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
7314 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
7315 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
7316 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
7317 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
7318 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
7321 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
7322 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
7323 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
7324 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
7325 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
7326 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
7327 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
7329 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
7330 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
7331 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
7332 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
7333 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
7334 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
7335 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
7336 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
7337 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7338 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
7339 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
7340 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
7341 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
7342 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
7343 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
7344 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
7345 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
7346 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
7347 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
7348 Reported by "troll_un".
7349 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
7350 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
7351 Reported by "troll_un".
7352 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
7353 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
7354 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
7355 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
7358 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
7359 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
7360 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
7361 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
7362 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
7363 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
7364 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
7365 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
7366 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
7367 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
7368 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7370 o Packaging changes:
7371 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
7372 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
7375 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
7376 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
7377 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
7378 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
7379 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
7381 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
7382 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
7384 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
7385 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
7386 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
7387 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
7388 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
7389 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
7390 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
7391 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
7392 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
7395 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7398 Changes in version 0.2.3.9-alpha - 2011-12-08
7399 Tor 0.2.3.9-alpha introduces initial IPv6 support for bridges, adds
7400 a "DisableNetwork" security feature that bundles can use to avoid
7401 touching the network until bridges are configured, moves forward on
7402 the pluggable transport design, fixes a flaw in the hidden service
7403 design that unnecessarily prevented clients with wrong clocks from
7404 reaching hidden services, and fixes a wide variety of other issues.
7407 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
7408 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
7409 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
7410 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
7411 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
7412 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
7413 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
7414 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
7415 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
7416 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
7417 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
7418 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
7419 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
7420 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins. It
7421 implements the "managed proxy" part of proposal 180 (ticket 3472).
7422 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
7423 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
7424 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
7425 Resolves ticket 4526.
7426 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
7427 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
7428 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
7429 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
7430 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
7431 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
7432 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
7433 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
7434 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
7435 no effect unless Tor has been built with support for bufferevents,
7436 is running on Windows, and has enabled IOCP. This may, in the long
7437 run, help solve or mitigate bug 98.
7438 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
7439 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
7440 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
7441 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
7444 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
7445 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
7446 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
7447 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
7448 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
7449 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
7450 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
7451 - Only use the EVP interface when AES acceleration is enabled,
7452 to avoid a 5-7% performance regression. Resolves issue 4525;
7453 bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
7455 o Privacy/anonymity features (bridge detection):
7456 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
7457 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
7458 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
7459 - Introduce a new config option "DynamicDHGroups", enabled by
7460 default, which provides each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus
7461 to be used during SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help
7462 against censors who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static
7463 identifier for bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
7465 o Minor features (new/different config options):
7466 - New configuration option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
7467 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
7468 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
7469 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
7470 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
7471 Implements issue 933.
7472 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
7473 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
7474 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
7475 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
7476 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
7477 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
7478 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
7479 appending to the list.
7480 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
7481 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
7482 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
7483 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
7485 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
7486 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
7487 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
7488 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
7489 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
7490 reloads both files. (Note: This is an experimental feature; its
7491 behavior will probably be refined in future 0.2.3.x-alpha versions
7492 to better meet packagers' needs.) Implements task 4552.
7495 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
7496 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
7497 Resolves ticket 2474.
7498 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
7499 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
7500 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
7501 Required by fix for bug 3460.
7502 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
7503 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
7504 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
7505 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
7506 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
7507 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
7508 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
7509 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
7510 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
7512 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier):
7513 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
7514 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
7516 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
7518 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
7519 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
7521 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
7522 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
7523 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
7524 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
7525 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
7526 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
7527 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
7529 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str() on an address of
7530 unknown type, we would have done a strdup() on an uninitialized
7531 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
7532 Reported by "troll_un".
7533 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
7534 tor_addr_lookup(). Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
7535 Reported by "troll_un".
7536 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
7537 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
7538 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
7539 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
7541 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
7542 - Fix a compile warning in tor_inet_pton(). Bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha;
7544 - Don't send two ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cells when opening a new
7545 circuit for use as a hidden service client's rendezvous point.
7546 Fixes bugs 4641 and 4171; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Diagnosed
7547 with help from wanoskarnet.
7548 - Restore behavior of overriding SocksPort, ORPort, and similar
7549 options from the command line. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
7552 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
7553 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
7554 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
7555 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7557 o Code simplifications, cleanups, and refactorings:
7558 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
7559 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
7560 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
7561 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
7562 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
7563 - Remove some dead code spotted by coverity. Fixes cid 432.
7564 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha, closes bug 4637.
7567 Changes in version 0.2.3.8-alpha - 2011-11-22
7568 Tor 0.2.3.8-alpha fixes some crash and assert bugs, including a
7569 socketpair-related bug that has been bothering Windows users. It adds
7570 support to serve microdescriptors to controllers, so Vidalia's network
7571 map can resume listing relays (once Vidalia implements its side),
7572 and adds better support for hardware AES acceleration. Finally, it
7573 starts the process of adjusting the bandwidth cutoff for getting the
7574 "Fast" flag from 20KB to (currently) 32KB -- preliminary results show
7575 that tiny relays harm performance more than they help network capacity.
7578 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
7579 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
7580 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
7581 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
7583 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
7584 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
7585 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
7586 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
7587 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
7588 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
7589 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
7590 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
7591 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
7592 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
7593 - Fix a rare assertion failure when checking whether a v0 hidden
7594 service descriptor has any usable introduction points left, and
7595 we don't have enough information to build a circuit to the first
7596 intro point named in the descriptor. The HS client code in
7597 0.2.3.x no longer uses v0 HS descriptors, but this assertion can
7598 trigger on (and crash) v0 HS authorities. Fixes bug 4411.
7599 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha; diagnosed by frosty_un.
7600 - Make bridge authorities not crash when they are asked for their own
7601 descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.3.7-alpha, reported by Lucky Green.
7602 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
7603 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
7604 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
7605 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
7606 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34 and 0.2.3.7-alpha.
7609 - Allow Tor controllers like Vidalia to obtain the microdescriptor
7610 for a relay by identity digest or nickname. Previously,
7611 microdescriptors were only available by their own digests, so a
7612 controller would have to ask for and parse the whole microdescriptor
7613 consensus in order to look up a single relay's microdesc. Fixes
7614 bug 3832; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
7615 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
7616 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
7619 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
7620 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
7621 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
7622 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
7623 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
7624 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
7625 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
7626 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
7627 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
7628 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
7629 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
7630 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
7631 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
7632 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
7633 tor_inet_ntop. Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
7635 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
7636 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
7637 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
7638 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
7639 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
7640 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
7641 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
7642 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7643 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
7644 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
7645 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
7646 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
7647 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
7648 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
7649 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
7650 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
7651 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
7653 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
7654 - Make util unit tests build correctly with MSVC. Bugfix on
7655 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Gisle Vanem.
7656 - Successfully detect AUTH_CHALLENGE cells with no recognized
7657 authentication type listed. Fixes bug 4367; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
7659 - If a relay receives an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell it can't answer,
7660 it should still send a NETINFO cell to allow the connection to
7661 become open. Fixes bug 4368; fix on 0.2.3.6-alpha; bug found by
7663 - Log less loudly when we get an invalid authentication certificate
7664 from a source other than a directory authority: it's not unusual
7665 to see invalid certs because of clock skew. Fixes bug 4370; bugfix
7667 - Tolerate servers with more clock skew in their authentication
7668 certificates than previously. Fixes bug 4371; bugfix on
7670 - Fix a couple of compile warnings on Windows. Fixes bug 4469; bugfix
7671 on 0.2.3.4-alpha and 0.2.3.6-alpha.
7674 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
7675 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
7676 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
7677 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
7678 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
7679 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
7680 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
7681 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
7682 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
7683 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
7684 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
7685 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
7686 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
7687 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
7689 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
7690 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
7691 - Update to the November 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7693 o Packaging changes:
7694 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
7695 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
7697 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
7698 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
7699 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
7700 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
7701 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
7702 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
7703 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
7704 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
7705 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
7708 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
7710 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
7711 ./src/test/bench binary.
7712 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
7713 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
7716 Changes in version 0.2.3.7-alpha - 2011-10-30
7717 Tor 0.2.3.7-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.3.6-alpha introduced by
7718 the new v3 handshake. It also resolves yet another bridge address
7722 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
7723 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
7724 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
7725 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
7726 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
7727 close based on processing a cell on it.
7728 - Fix a double-free bug that would occur when we received an invalid
7729 certificate in a CERT cell in the new v3 handshake. Fixes bug 4343;
7730 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
7731 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
7732 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
7733 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
7734 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
7735 cells were introduced.
7738 - Fixed a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
7739 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
7742 Changes in version 0.2.3.6-alpha - 2011-10-26
7743 Tor 0.2.3.6-alpha includes the fix from 0.2.2.34 for a critical
7744 anonymity vulnerability where an attacker can deanonymize Tor
7745 users. Everybody should upgrade.
7747 This release also features support for a new v3 connection handshake
7748 protocol, and fixes to make hidden service connections more robust.
7751 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
7752 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
7753 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
7754 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
7755 - Allow variable-length padding cells to disguise the length of
7756 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
7758 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
7759 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
7760 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
7761 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
7762 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
7763 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
7764 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
7765 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
7766 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
7767 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
7768 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
7769 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
7770 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
7771 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
7772 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
7773 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
7774 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
7775 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
7778 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
7779 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
7780 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
7781 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
7782 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
7783 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
7784 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
7785 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
7786 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
7787 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
7788 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
7789 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
7790 Partly fixes bug 3825.
7791 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
7792 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
7793 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
7794 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
7795 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
7796 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
7797 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
7799 o Major bugfixes (other):
7800 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
7801 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
7802 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
7803 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
7804 Found by "frosty_un".
7805 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
7806 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
7807 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
7808 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
7809 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by BryonEldridge, who also helped
7810 immensely in tracking this bug down.
7811 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
7812 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
7815 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
7816 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
7817 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
7818 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
7819 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
7820 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
7821 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
7822 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
7823 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
7824 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
7825 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
7826 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
7827 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
7828 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
7829 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
7830 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
7831 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
7832 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
7833 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
7834 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
7835 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
7837 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
7838 - Fix a bug in configure.in that kept it from building a configure
7839 script with autoconf versions earlier than 2.61. Fixes bug 2430;
7840 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
7841 - Don't warn users that they are exposing a client port to the
7842 Internet if they have specified an RFC1918 address. Previously,
7843 we would warn if the user had specified any non-loopback
7844 address. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Fixes bug 4018; reported by Tas.
7845 - Fix memory leaks in the failing cases of the new SocksPort and
7846 ControlPort code. Found by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha;
7847 fixes coverity CIDs 485, 486, and 487.
7850 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
7851 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
7852 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
7853 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
7854 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
7855 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
7856 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
7857 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
7858 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
7859 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
7860 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
7861 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
7862 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
7863 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7865 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
7866 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
7867 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
7868 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
7869 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
7870 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
7871 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
7872 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
7875 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
7876 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
7877 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
7879 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
7880 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
7881 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
7882 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
7883 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
7884 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
7885 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
7886 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
7887 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
7888 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
7889 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
7890 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
7891 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
7893 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
7894 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
7895 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
7896 currently connected to them.
7898 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
7899 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
7900 remain; see for example proposal 188.
7902 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
7903 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
7904 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
7905 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
7906 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
7907 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
7908 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
7909 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
7910 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
7911 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
7912 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
7913 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
7914 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
7915 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
7916 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
7917 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
7918 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
7919 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
7922 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
7923 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
7924 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
7925 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
7926 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
7927 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
7928 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
7929 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
7930 when bridges were introduced.
7931 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
7932 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
7933 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
7934 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
7935 Found by "frosty_un".
7938 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
7939 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
7941 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
7942 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
7943 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
7944 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
7945 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
7946 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
7947 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
7950 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
7951 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
7952 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
7953 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
7954 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
7955 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
7956 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
7957 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
7958 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
7959 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
7960 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
7961 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
7962 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
7963 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
7964 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
7965 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
7966 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
7967 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
7969 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
7970 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
7971 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
7972 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
7973 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
7974 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
7975 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
7976 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
7977 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
7978 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
7979 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
7980 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
7983 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
7984 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
7985 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
7986 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7989 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
7990 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
7991 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
7992 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
7993 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
7995 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
7996 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
7997 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
7998 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
7999 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
8000 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
8001 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
8002 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
8003 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
8004 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
8006 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
8007 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
8008 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
8009 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
8010 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
8011 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
8012 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
8013 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
8014 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
8015 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
8016 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
8017 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
8018 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
8019 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
8020 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
8021 Found by "frosty_un".
8022 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
8023 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
8024 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
8025 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
8026 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
8027 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
8028 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
8029 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
8030 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
8031 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
8032 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
8033 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
8034 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
8035 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
8036 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
8037 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
8038 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
8039 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
8040 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
8042 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
8043 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
8044 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
8045 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
8046 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
8047 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
8048 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
8049 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
8051 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
8052 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
8053 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
8054 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
8055 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
8056 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
8057 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
8058 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
8059 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
8060 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
8061 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
8062 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
8064 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
8065 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8066 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
8067 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8068 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
8069 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
8070 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
8071 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
8072 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
8074 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
8076 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
8077 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
8078 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
8079 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
8080 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
8081 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
8082 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
8083 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
8085 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
8086 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
8087 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
8088 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
8089 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
8091 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
8092 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
8093 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
8094 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
8095 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8098 Changes in version 0.2.3.5-alpha - 2011-09-28
8099 Tor 0.2.3.5-alpha fixes two bugs that make it possible to enumerate
8100 bridge relays; fixes an assertion error that many users started hitting
8101 today; and adds the ability to refill token buckets more often than
8102 once per second, allowing significant performance improvements.
8105 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
8106 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
8107 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
8108 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
8109 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
8110 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
8111 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
8112 when bridges were introduced.
8115 - Fix an "Assertion md->held_by_node == 1 failed" error that could
8116 occur when the same microdescriptor was referenced by two node_t
8117 objects at once. Fix for bug 4118; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha.
8119 o Major features (networking):
8120 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
8121 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
8122 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
8123 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
8124 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
8128 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
8129 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
8130 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
8132 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
8133 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
8134 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
8135 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
8136 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
8138 o Minor features (diagnostics):
8139 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
8140 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
8143 Changes in version 0.2.3.4-alpha - 2011-09-13
8144 Tor 0.2.3.4-alpha includes the fixes from 0.2.2.33, including a slight
8145 tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run
8146 this new version reachable from Iran again. It also fixes a few new
8147 bugs in 0.2.3.x, and teaches relays to recognize when they're not
8148 listed in the network consensus and republish.
8150 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
8151 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
8152 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
8153 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
8155 o Minor features (security, also part of 0.2.2.33):
8156 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
8157 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
8158 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
8159 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
8160 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
8161 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
8162 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
8163 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
8164 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
8165 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
8167 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.33):
8168 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
8169 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
8170 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
8171 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
8172 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
8173 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
8174 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
8175 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
8176 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8178 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
8179 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
8180 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
8181 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
8182 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
8183 fixes part of bug 2442.
8184 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
8185 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
8186 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
8188 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
8189 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
8190 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
8191 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
8192 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
8194 o Build fixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
8195 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
8196 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
8197 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
8198 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
8201 - Fix a bug where the SocksPort option (for example) would get
8202 ignored and replaced by the default if a SocksListenAddress
8203 option was set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 3936. Fix by
8207 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
8208 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
8209 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
8210 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
8211 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
8212 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
8213 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
8216 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
8217 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
8218 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
8219 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
8220 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
8221 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
8222 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
8225 - Abort if tor_vasprintf fails in connection_printf_to_buf (a
8226 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
8227 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
8228 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
8229 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
8230 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
8231 - Make 'FetchUselessDescriptors' cause all descriptor types and
8232 all consensus types (including microdescriptors) to get fetched.
8233 Fixes bug 3851; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
8236 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
8237 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
8240 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
8241 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
8242 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
8243 reachable from Iran again.
8246 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
8247 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
8248 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
8250 o Minor features (security):
8251 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
8252 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
8253 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
8254 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
8255 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
8256 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
8257 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
8258 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
8259 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
8260 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
8263 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
8264 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
8265 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
8266 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
8267 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
8268 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
8269 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
8270 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
8271 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8273 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
8274 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
8275 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
8276 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
8277 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
8279 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
8280 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
8281 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
8282 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
8283 fixes part of bug 2442.
8284 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
8285 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
8286 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
8288 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
8289 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
8290 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
8291 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
8292 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
8295 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
8296 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
8297 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
8298 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
8299 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
8300 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
8303 Changes in version 0.2.3.3-alpha - 2011-09-01
8304 Tor 0.2.3.3-alpha adds a new "stream isolation" feature to improve Tor's
8305 security, and provides client-side support for the microdescriptor
8306 and optimistic data features introduced earlier in the 0.2.3.x
8307 series. It also includes numerous critical bugfixes in the (optional)
8308 bufferevent-based networking backend.
8310 o Major features (stream isolation):
8311 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
8312 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
8313 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
8314 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
8315 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
8316 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
8317 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
8318 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
8319 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
8320 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
8321 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
8322 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
8323 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
8324 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
8326 o Major features (other):
8327 - Enable microdescriptor fetching by default for clients. This allows
8328 clients to download a much smaller amount of directory information.
8329 To disable it (and go back to the old-style consensus and
8330 descriptors), set "UseMicrodescriptors 0" in your torrc file.
8331 - Tor's firewall-helper feature, introduced in 0.2.3.1-alpha (see the
8332 "PortForwarding" config option), now supports Windows.
8333 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
8334 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
8335 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
8336 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
8337 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
8338 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
8339 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
8341 o Major bugfixes (bufferevents, fixes on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
8342 - When using IOCP on Windows, we need to enable Libevent windows
8344 - The IOCP backend now works even when the user has not specified
8345 the (internal, debugging-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option.
8346 Fixes part of bug 3752.
8347 - Correctly record the bytes we've read and written when using
8348 bufferevents, so that we can include them in our bandwidth history
8349 and advertised bandwidth. Fixes bug 3803.
8350 - Apply rate-limiting only at the bottom of a chain of filtering
8351 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal read
8352 buffers and violating rate-limits when filtering bufferevents
8353 are enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
8354 - Add high-watermarks to the output buffers for filtered
8355 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal write
8356 buffers and wasting CPU cycles when filtering bufferevents are
8357 enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
8358 - Correctly notice when data has been written from a bufferevent
8359 without flushing it completely. Fixes bug 3805.
8360 - Fix a bug where server-side tunneled bufferevent-based directory
8361 streams would get closed prematurely. Fixes bug 3814.
8362 - Fix a use-after-free error with per-connection rate-limiting
8363 buckets. Fixes bug 3888.
8365 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
8366 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
8367 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
8368 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
8369 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
8370 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
8373 - Added a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
8374 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
8375 user. Implements ticket 1692.
8376 - Use evbuffer_copyout() in inspect_evbuffer(). This fixes a memory
8377 leak when using bufferevents, and lets Libevent worry about how to
8378 best copy data out of a buffer.
8379 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
8380 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
8381 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
8383 o Minor features (build compatibility):
8384 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
8385 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
8386 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
8388 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
8389 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8391 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x-alpha):
8392 - Fix a spurious warning when parsing SOCKS requests with
8393 bufferevents enabled. Fixes bug 3615; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
8394 - Get rid of a harmless warning that could happen on relays running
8395 with bufferevents. The warning was caused by someone doing an http
8396 request to a relay's orport. Also don't warn for a few related
8397 non-errors. Fixes bug 3700; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
8399 o Minor bugfixes (on 2.2.x and earlier):
8400 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
8401 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
8402 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
8403 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
8405 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
8406 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
8407 the absense of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
8410 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
8411 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
8412 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
8413 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
8414 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
8415 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
8416 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
8417 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
8418 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
8419 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
8420 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
8421 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8422 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
8423 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
8424 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
8425 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
8426 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
8427 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
8428 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
8431 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
8432 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
8433 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
8437 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
8438 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
8439 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
8440 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
8441 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
8442 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
8445 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
8446 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
8447 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
8448 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
8449 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
8450 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
8451 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
8452 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
8453 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
8454 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
8456 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
8457 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
8458 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
8459 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
8460 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
8461 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
8462 many many other features and bugfixes.
8465 Changes in version 0.2.2.31-rc - 2011-08-17
8466 Tor 0.2.2.31-rc is the second and hopefully final release candidate
8467 for the Tor 0.2.2.x series.
8470 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
8471 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
8472 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
8473 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
8474 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
8475 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
8476 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
8477 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
8480 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8483 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
8484 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
8485 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8486 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
8487 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
8488 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
8489 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
8490 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
8491 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
8492 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
8493 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
8494 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
8495 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
8496 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8497 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
8498 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
8499 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
8500 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
8504 Changes in version 0.2.3.2-alpha - 2011-07-18
8505 Tor 0.2.3.2-alpha introduces two new experimental features:
8506 microdescriptors and pluggable transports. It also continues cleaning
8507 up a variety of recently introduced features.
8510 - Clients can now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
8511 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
8512 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change
8513 very rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is
8514 designed to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
8515 connections. It's off by default for now, since nearly no caches
8516 support it, but it will be on-by-default for clients in a future
8517 version. You can use the UseMicrodescriptors option to turn it on.
8518 - Tor clients using bridges can now be configured to use a separate
8519 'transport' proxy for each bridge. This approach helps to resist
8520 censorship by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation
8521 plugins. It implements part of proposal 180. Implements ticket 2841.
8522 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
8523 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
8524 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
8525 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
8527 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
8528 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes (as with
8529 'EntryNodes {cc}' or 'EntryNodes 1.1.1.1/16'), choose only a
8530 random subset to be guards, and choose them in random
8531 order. Fixes bug 2798.
8532 - Tor could crash when remembering a consensus in a non-used consensus
8533 flavor without having a current consensus set. Fixes bug 3361.
8534 - Comparing an unknown address to a microdescriptor's shortened exit
8535 policy would always give a "rejected" result. Fixes bug 3599.
8536 - Using microdescriptors as a client no longer prevents Tor from
8537 uploading and downloading hidden service descriptors. Fixes
8541 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
8542 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
8543 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
8544 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
8546 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
8547 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
8548 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
8549 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
8550 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
8551 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
8552 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
8553 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
8554 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
8555 Implements ticket 3264.
8556 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
8557 implements ticket 3439.
8559 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
8560 - Do not free all general-purpose regular descriptors just
8561 because microdescriptor use is enabled. Fixes bug 3113.
8562 - Correctly link libevent_openssl when --enable-static-libevent
8563 is passed to configure. Fixes bug 3118.
8564 - Bridges should not complain during their heartbeat log messages that
8565 they are unlisted in the consensus: that's more or less the point
8566 of being a bridge. Fixes bug 3183.
8567 - Report a SIGNAL event to controllers when acting on a delayed
8568 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Previously, we would report a SIGNAL
8569 event to the controller if we acted on a SIGNAL NEWNYM command
8570 immediately, and otherwise not report a SIGNAL event for the
8571 command at all. Fixes bug 3349.
8572 - Fix a crash when handling the SIGNAL controller command or
8573 reporting ERR-level status events with bufferevents enabled. Found
8574 by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 3367.
8575 - Always ship the tor-fw-helper manpage in our release tarballs.
8576 Fixes bug 3389. Reported by Stephen Walker.
8577 - Fix a class of double-mark-for-close bugs when bufferevents
8578 are enabled. Fixes bug 3403.
8579 - Update tor-fw-helper to support libnatpmp-20110618. Fixes bug 3434.
8580 - Add SIGNAL to the list returned by the 'GETINFO events/names'
8581 control-port command. Fixes part of bug 3465.
8582 - Prevent using negative indices during unit test runs when read_all()
8583 fails. Spotted by coverity.
8584 - Fix a rare memory leak when checking the nodelist without it being
8585 present. Found by coverity.
8586 - Only try to download a microdescriptor-flavored consensus from
8587 a directory cache that provides them.
8589 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
8590 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
8591 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
8592 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
8593 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
8594 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
8596 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
8597 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
8598 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
8599 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
8600 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
8601 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8602 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
8603 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
8605 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8606 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
8607 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
8608 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
8609 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
8610 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
8611 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
8613 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
8617 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
8618 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
8619 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
8622 Changes in version 0.2.2.30-rc - 2011-07-07
8623 Tor 0.2.2.30-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.2.x
8624 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
8625 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
8628 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
8629 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
8630 discovered by katmagic.
8631 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
8632 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
8633 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
8634 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
8635 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
8636 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
8637 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
8638 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
8639 - Add BUILDTIMEOUT_SET to the list returned by the 'GETINFO
8640 events/names' control-port command. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha;
8641 fixes part of bug 3465.
8642 - Fix a memory leak when receiving a descriptor for a hidden
8643 service we didn't ask for. Found by Coverity; CID #30. Bugfix
8647 - Update to the July 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8650 Changes in version 0.2.2.29-beta - 2011-06-20
8651 Tor 0.2.2.29-beta reverts an accidental behavior change for users who
8652 have bridge lines in their torrc but don't want to use them; gets
8653 us closer to having the control socket feature working on Debian;
8654 and fixes a variety of smaller bugs.
8657 - Revert the UseBridges option to its behavior before 0.2.2.28-beta.
8658 When we changed the default behavior to "use bridges if any
8659 are listed in the torrc", we surprised users who had bridges
8660 in their torrc files but who didn't actually want to use them.
8661 Partial resolution for bug 3354.
8664 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
8665 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
8666 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
8667 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
8668 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
8669 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
8672 - Fix a bug when using ControlSocketsGroupWritable with User. The
8673 directory's group would be checked against the current group, not
8674 the configured group. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio. Fixes bug 3393;
8675 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
8676 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
8677 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
8678 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
8679 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
8680 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
8681 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
8682 fixes part of bug 3407.
8683 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
8684 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
8685 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
8686 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
8687 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
8688 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
8689 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
8690 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
8691 - Avoid a segfault when reading a malformed circuit build state
8692 with more than INT_MAX entries. Found by wanoskarnet. Bugfix on
8694 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
8695 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
8696 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
8697 - Fix a rare memory leak during stats writing. Found by coverity.
8700 - Update to the June 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8702 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
8703 - Remove some dead code as indicated by coverity.
8704 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
8706 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
8708 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
8711 Changes in version 0.2.2.28-beta - 2011-06-04
8712 Tor 0.2.2.28-beta makes great progress towards a new stable release: we
8713 fixed a big bug in whether relays stay in the consensus consistently,
8714 we moved closer to handling bridges and hidden services correctly,
8715 and we started the process of better handling the dreaded "my Vidalia
8716 died, and now my Tor demands a password when I try to reconnect to it"
8720 - Don't decide to make a new descriptor when receiving a HUP signal.
8721 This bug has caused a lot of 0.2.2.x relays to disappear from the
8722 consensus periodically. Fixes the most common case of triggering
8723 bug 1810; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
8724 - Actually allow nameservers with IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug 2574.
8725 - Don't try to build descriptors if "ORPort auto" is set and we
8726 don't know our actual ORPort yet. Fix for bug 3216; bugfix on
8728 - Resolve a crash that occurred when setting BridgeRelay to 1 with
8729 accounting enabled. Fixes bug 3228; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
8730 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
8731 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
8732 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
8733 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
8734 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
8735 - Use the same circuit timeout for client-side introduction
8736 circuits as for other four-hop circuits, rather than the timeout
8737 for single-hop directory-fetch circuits; the shorter timeout may
8738 have been appropriate with the static circuit build timeout in
8739 0.2.1.x and earlier, but caused many hidden service access attempts
8740 to fail with the adaptive CBT introduced in 0.2.2.2-alpha. Bugfix
8741 on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes another part of bug 1297.
8742 - In ticket 2511 we fixed a case where you could use an unconfigured
8743 bridge if you had configured it as a bridge the last time you ran
8744 Tor. Now fix another edge case: if you had configured it as a bridge
8745 but then switched to a different bridge via the controller, you
8746 would still be willing to use the old one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha;
8750 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
8751 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
8752 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
8753 - If "UseBridges 1" is set and no bridges are configured, Tor will
8754 now refuse to build any circuits until some bridges are set.
8755 If "UseBridges auto" is set, Tor will use bridges if they are
8756 configured and we are not running as a server, but otherwise will
8757 make circuits as usual. The new default is "auto". Patch by anonym,
8758 so the Tails LiveCD can stop automatically revealing you as a Tor
8762 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
8763 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
8764 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
8766 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows builds.
8768 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
8769 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
8770 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
8771 - Remove dead code from rend_cache_lookup_v2_desc_as_dir. Fixes
8772 part of bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
8773 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
8774 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
8775 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
8776 info-level messages. Fixes the other part of bug 2748; bugfix
8778 - Clear the table recording the time of the last request for each
8779 hidden service descriptor from each HS directory on SIGNAL NEWNYM.
8780 Previously, we would clear our HS descriptor cache on SIGNAL
8781 NEWNYM, but if we had previously retrieved a descriptor (or tried
8782 to) from every directory responsible for it, we would refuse to
8783 fetch it again for up to 15 minutes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha;
8785 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
8786 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
8788 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
8789 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
8790 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
8793 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
8794 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
8795 Resolves ticket 3252.
8796 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
8797 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
8798 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
8799 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
8800 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
8801 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
8804 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
8805 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
8808 Changes in version 0.2.2.27-beta - 2011-05-18
8809 Tor 0.2.2.27-beta fixes a bridge-related stability bug in the previous
8810 release, and also adds a few more general bugfixes.
8813 - Fix a crash bug when changing bridges in a running Tor process.
8814 Fixes bug 3213; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
8815 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
8816 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
8817 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
8820 - Require that onion keys have exponent 65537 in microdescriptors too.
8821 Fixes more of bug 3207; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
8822 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
8823 Changed the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
8824 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
8825 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
8826 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
8827 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
8828 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
8832 Changes in version 0.2.2.26-beta - 2011-05-17
8833 Tor 0.2.2.26-beta fixes a variety of potential privacy problems. It
8834 also introduces a new "socksport auto" approach that should make it
8835 easier to run multiple Tors on the same system, and does a lot of
8836 cleanup to get us closer to a release candidate.
8838 o Security/privacy fixes:
8839 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
8840 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
8841 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
8842 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
8843 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
8844 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
8845 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
8846 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
8847 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
8848 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
8849 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
8850 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
8851 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
8852 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
8853 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8856 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
8857 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
8858 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
8859 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
8860 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
8861 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
8862 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
8863 part of ticket 3076.
8864 - Set SO_REUSEADDR on all sockets, not just listeners. This should
8865 help busy exit nodes avoid running out of useable ports just
8866 because all the ports have been used in the near past. Resolves
8870 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
8871 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
8872 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
8873 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
8874 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
8875 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
8876 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
8877 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
8879 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
8880 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
8881 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
8882 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
8883 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
8884 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
8885 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
8886 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
8887 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
8888 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
8889 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
8890 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
8891 - Update to the May 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8894 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
8895 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
8896 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
8897 on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 2230.
8898 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
8899 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
8900 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
8902 - Avoid a bug that would keep us from replacing a microdescriptor
8903 cache on Windows. (We would try to replace the file while still
8904 holding it open. That's fine on Unix, but Windows doesn't let us
8905 do that.) Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; bug found by wanoskarnet.
8906 - Add missing explanations for the authority-related torrc options
8907 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey in the
8908 man page. Resolves issue 2379.
8909 - As an authority, do not upload our own vote or signature set to
8910 ourself. It would tell us nothing new, and as of 0.2.2.24-alpha,
8911 it would get flagged as a duplicate. Resolves bug 3026.
8912 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
8913 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
8914 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
8915 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
8916 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
8917 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
8919 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
8920 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
8922 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
8923 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
8925 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
8926 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
8928 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
8929 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
8930 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
8932 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanup):
8933 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
8934 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
8935 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
8936 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
8937 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
8938 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
8939 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
8940 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
8941 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
8942 consensus. Bugfix on tor-0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
8944 - Avoid a possible null-pointer dereference when rebuilding the mdesc
8945 cache without actually having any descriptors to cache. Bugfix on
8946 0.2.2.6-alpha. Issue discovered using clang's static analyzer.
8947 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
8948 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
8949 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
8950 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
8951 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
8952 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
8953 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
8954 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8955 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
8956 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
8960 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
8961 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
8962 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
8966 Changes in version 0.2.3.1-alpha - 2011-05-05
8967 Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha adds some new experimental features, including support
8968 for an improved network IO backend, IOCP networking on Windows,
8969 microdescriptor caching, "fast-start" support for streams, and automatic
8970 home router configuration. There are also numerous internal improvements
8971 to try to make the code easier for developers to work with.
8973 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
8974 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
8975 stay with 0.2.2.x for now.
8978 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
8979 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
8980 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
8981 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
8982 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
8983 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
8984 zero-copy transports where available.
8985 - As an experimental feature, Tor can use IOCP for networking on Windows.
8986 Once this code is tuned and optimized, it promises much better
8987 performance than the select-based backend we've used in the past. To
8988 try this feature, you must build Tor with Libevent 2, configure Tor
8989 with the "bufferevents" buffered IO backend, and add "DisableIOCP 0" to
8990 your torrc. There are known bugs here: only try this if you can help
8991 debug it as it breaks.
8992 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
8993 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these options
8994 because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up to
8995 date. Fixes bug 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved issue here.
8996 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
8997 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the stream was
8998 connected, which slowed down all connections. This change will enable
8999 clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams and send data without
9000 having to wait for a confirmation that the stream has opened. (Patch
9001 from Ian Goldberg; implements the server side of Proposal 174.)
9002 - Tor now has initial support for automatic port mapping on the many
9003 home routers that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. (Not yet supported on
9004 Windows). To build the support code, you'll need to have libnatpnp
9005 library and/or the libminiupnpc library, and you'll need to enable the
9006 feature specifically by passing "--enable-upnp" and/or
9007 "--enable-natpnp" to configure. To turn it on, use the new
9008 PortForwarding option.
9009 - Caches now download, cache, and serve multiple "flavors" of the
9010 consensus, including a flavor that describes microdescriptors.
9011 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors -- small
9012 summaries of router descriptors that are authenticated by all of the
9013 directory authorities. Once enough caches are running this code,
9014 clients will be able to save significant amounts of directory bandwidth
9015 by downloading microdescriptors instead of router descriptors.
9018 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
9019 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
9020 Implements enhancement 1668.
9021 - We log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements ticket
9023 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
9024 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
9025 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
9026 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
9027 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
9028 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
9029 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
9031 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
9032 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
9033 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
9034 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
9035 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
9036 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
9037 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
9039 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
9040 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
9041 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
9042 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
9043 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
9044 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
9045 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
9047 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.25-alpha):
9048 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
9049 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
9050 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
9051 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
9052 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
9053 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
9054 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
9055 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
9056 - If as an authority we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3
9057 legacy keypair, warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead.
9058 Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
9059 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
9060 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
9061 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
9064 o Minor features (controller):
9065 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
9066 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
9067 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
9068 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
9069 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
9070 - Implement some GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
9071 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
9074 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
9075 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
9076 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
9077 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
9078 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
9079 - Our autogen.sh script uses autoreconf to launch autoconf, automake, and
9080 so on. This is more robust against some of the failure modes
9081 associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
9083 o Minor packaging issues:
9084 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it is not
9085 already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
9087 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
9088 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
9089 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
9090 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
9091 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
9092 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
9093 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
9094 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
9095 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
9096 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
9097 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
9098 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
9099 our library structure used to force them to link it.
9102 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
9103 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
9104 are no longer in use as servers.
9106 o Documentation fixes:
9107 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
9108 - Add missing documentation for the authority-related torrc options
9109 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey. Resolves
9113 Changes in version 0.2.2.25-alpha - 2011-04-29
9114 Tor 0.2.2.25-alpha fixes many bugs: hidden service clients are more
9115 robust, routers no longer overreport their bandwidth, Win7 should crash
9116 a little less, and NEWNYM (as used by Vidalia's "new identity" button)
9117 now prevents hidden service-related activity from being linkable. It
9118 provides more information to Vidalia so you can see if your bridge is
9119 working. Also, 0.2.2.25-alpha revamps the Entry/Exit/ExcludeNodes and
9120 StrictNodes configuration options to make them more reliable, more
9121 understandable, and more regularly applied. If you use those options,
9122 please see the revised documentation for them in the manual page.
9125 - Relays were publishing grossly inflated bandwidth values because
9126 they were writing their state files wrong--now they write the
9127 correct value. Also, resume reading bandwidth history from the
9128 state file correctly. Fixes bug 2704; bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
9129 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
9130 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
9131 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
9132 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
9133 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
9134 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
9135 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
9136 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
9137 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
9138 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
9139 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
9140 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
9142 o Security and stability fixes:
9143 - Don't double-free a parsable, but invalid, microdescriptor, even if
9144 it is followed in the blob we're parsing by an unparsable
9145 microdescriptor. Fixes an issue reported in a comment on bug 2954.
9146 Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fix by "cypherpunks".
9147 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
9148 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
9149 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
9150 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
9151 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
9152 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
9153 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
9154 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
9155 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
9156 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
9157 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
9158 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
9161 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
9162 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
9163 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
9164 contributions to the network.
9166 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
9167 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
9168 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and StrictNodes
9169 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
9170 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
9171 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
9172 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
9173 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
9174 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
9175 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
9176 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
9177 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
9178 connections to directory servers.
9179 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
9180 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
9181 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
9182 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
9183 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
9184 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
9185 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
9186 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
9187 information, or fetch directory information.
9188 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
9189 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
9190 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
9191 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
9192 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
9193 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
9194 unless you really want your Tor to break.
9195 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
9196 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
9197 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
9198 - When StrictNodes is 1:
9199 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
9200 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
9201 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
9202 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
9203 reachability self-tests.
9204 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
9205 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
9206 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
9207 - Remove a misfeature that caused us to ignore the Fast/Stable flags
9208 when ExitNodes is set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
9209 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
9210 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
9212 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
9213 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9214 - Revert a change where we would be laxer about attaching streams to
9215 circuits than when building the circuits. This was meant to prevent
9216 a set of bugs where streams were never attachable, but our improved
9217 code here should make this unnecessary. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
9218 - Keep track of how many times we launch a new circuit to handle a
9219 given stream. Too many launches could indicate an inconsistency
9220 between our "launch a circuit to handle this stream" logic and our
9221 "attach this stream to one of the available circuits" logic.
9222 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
9225 - Fix a spurious warning when moving from a short month to a long
9226 month on relays with month-based BandwidthAccounting. Bugfix on
9227 0.2.2.17-alpha; fixes bug 3020.
9228 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
9229 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
9230 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
9231 - Add a forgotten cast that caused a compile warning on OS X 10.6.
9232 Bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
9233 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
9234 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
9235 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
9236 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9237 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
9238 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
9239 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
9240 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
9241 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
9243 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
9244 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
9245 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
9246 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
9247 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
9248 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
9249 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
9250 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP control-port command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
9251 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
9252 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
9253 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
9254 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
9255 - Write the current time into the LastWritten line in our state file,
9256 rather than the time from the previous write attempt. Also, stop
9257 trying to use a time of -1 in our log statements. Fixes bug 3039;
9258 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
9259 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
9260 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
9261 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
9262 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
9265 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
9266 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
9267 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
9268 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
9269 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
9270 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
9271 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
9272 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
9273 Required by fix for bug 3000.
9274 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
9275 by fix for bug 3000.
9276 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
9277 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
9279 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9280 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
9281 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
9282 send a body too). Since only server versions before
9283 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
9284 keep the workaround in place.
9285 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
9286 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
9287 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
9288 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
9289 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
9290 want to do it differently.
9291 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
9292 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
9293 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
9294 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
9295 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch by
9299 Changes in version 0.2.2.24-alpha - 2011-04-08
9300 Tor 0.2.2.24-alpha fixes a variety of bugs, including a big bug that
9301 prevented Tor clients from effectively using "multihomed" bridges,
9302 that is, bridges that listen on multiple ports or IP addresses so users
9303 can continue to use some of their addresses even if others get blocked.
9306 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
9307 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
9308 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it should be
9309 able to advertise those addresses independently and any non-blocked
9310 addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.x. Fixes
9312 - If you configured Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
9313 configured Tor to use bridge B instead, it would happily continue
9314 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
9315 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
9316 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
9317 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
9318 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
9319 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
9320 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
9321 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
9322 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
9323 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
9326 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
9327 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
9328 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
9329 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
9330 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
9331 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
9332 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
9334 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
9335 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
9336 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
9337 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
9338 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
9339 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on
9340 versions 0.2.1.23/0.2.2.8-alpha (the versions introducing
9341 the --with-static-libevent configure option).
9342 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
9343 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
9344 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
9345 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
9346 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
9347 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
9348 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
9349 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
9350 - Avoid a double-mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
9351 transparent proxy connection. (We thought we had fixed this in
9352 0.2.2.23-alpha, but it turns out our fix was checking the wrong
9353 connection.) Fixes bug 2757; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha (the original
9354 bug) and 0.2.2.23-alpha (the incorrect fix).
9355 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
9356 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
9359 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
9361 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
9362 --enable-gcc-warnings by removing two warning options that clang
9363 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Implements
9365 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
9366 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
9367 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
9368 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
9370 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
9371 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
9372 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
9373 - Update to the April 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
9376 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
9377 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
9379 o Documentation changes:
9380 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
9381 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
9383 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
9386 Changes in version 0.2.2.23-alpha - 2011-03-08
9387 Tor 0.2.2.23-alpha lets relays record their bandwidth history so when
9388 they restart they don't lose their bandwidth capacity estimate. This
9389 release also fixes a diverse set of user-facing bugs, ranging from
9390 relays overrunning their rate limiting to clients falsely warning about
9391 clock skew to bridge descriptor leaks by our bridge directory authority.
9394 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
9395 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
9396 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
9397 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
9398 the rest of bug 1074.
9399 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
9400 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
9401 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
9402 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
9403 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
9404 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
9405 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9406 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
9407 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
9408 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
9409 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
9410 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
9411 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
9412 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
9415 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
9416 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved)
9417 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
9418 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
9419 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
9420 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
9421 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
9422 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
9423 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
9424 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
9425 change could take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
9426 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
9427 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
9428 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
9430 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
9431 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
9432 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
9433 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
9434 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
9435 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
9437 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
9438 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
9439 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
9440 - Country codes aren't supported in EntryNodes until 0.2.3.x, so
9441 don't mention them in the manpage. Fixes bug 2450; issue
9442 spotted by keb and G-Lo.
9443 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
9444 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
9445 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
9447 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
9448 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
9449 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
9450 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
9451 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
9452 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
9453 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
9454 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
9455 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
9456 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
9457 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
9458 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
9459 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
9460 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
9461 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
9462 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
9464 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
9465 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
9466 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
9467 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
9468 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
9469 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
9471 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
9472 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
9473 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
9475 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
9476 - Clients should not weight BadExit nodes as Exits in their node
9477 selection. Similarly, directory authorities should not count BadExit
9478 bandwidth as Exit bandwidth when computing bandwidth-weights.
9479 Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 2203.
9480 - Correctly clear our dir_read/dir_write history when there is an
9481 error parsing any bw history value from the state file. Bugfix on
9483 - Resolve a bug in verifying signatures of directory objects
9484 with digests longer than SHA1. Bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
9485 Fixes bug 2409. Found by "piebeer".
9486 - Bridge authorities no longer crash on SIGHUP when they try to
9487 publish their relay descriptor to themselves. Fixes bug 2572. Bugfix
9491 - Log less aggressively about circuit timeout changes, and improve
9492 some other circuit timeout messages. Resolves bug 2004.
9493 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
9494 accepting new connections. Resolves bug 2181.
9495 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
9496 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
9497 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
9498 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
9499 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
9500 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
9501 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
9502 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
9504 - Update to the March 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
9506 o Minor features (log subsystem):
9507 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
9508 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
9509 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
9511 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
9512 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
9514 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
9515 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
9516 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
9519 o Packaging changes:
9520 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
9521 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
9522 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
9525 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
9526 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
9527 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
9528 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
9529 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
9530 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
9533 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
9534 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
9535 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
9536 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
9537 the rest of bug 1074.
9538 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
9539 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
9541 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
9542 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
9543 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
9544 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
9545 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
9546 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
9547 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
9550 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
9552 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
9555 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
9556 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
9557 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
9558 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
9559 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
9560 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
9561 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
9562 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
9563 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
9564 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
9565 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9567 o Packaging changes:
9568 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
9569 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
9570 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
9571 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
9572 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
9573 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
9576 Changes in version 0.2.2.22-alpha - 2011-01-25
9577 Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha fixes a few more less-critical security issues. The
9578 main other change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes
9579 relays and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
9580 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
9581 will buy us a bit more time until we roll out a better solution.
9584 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
9585 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
9587 - Don't assert when changing from bridge to relay or vice versa
9588 via the controller. The assert happened because we didn't properly
9589 initialize our keys in this case. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha; fixes
9590 bug 2433. Reported by bastik.
9593 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
9595 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
9596 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
9597 Implements ticket 2432.
9600 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
9601 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
9602 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28 / 0.2.2.20-alpha. Found by "doorss".
9605 Changes in version 0.2.2.21-alpha - 2011-01-15
9606 Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha includes all the patches from Tor 0.2.1.29, which
9607 continues our recent code security audit work. The main fix resolves
9608 a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote code
9609 execution (CVE-2011-0427). Other fixes address a variety of assert
9610 and crash bugs, most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
9612 o Major bugfixes (security), also included in 0.2.1.29:
9613 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
9614 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
9615 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
9617 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
9618 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
9619 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
9620 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
9621 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
9622 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
9623 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
9624 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
9626 o Major bugfixes (crashes), also included in 0.2.1.29:
9627 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
9628 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
9629 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
9630 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
9631 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
9632 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
9633 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
9634 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
9635 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
9636 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
9637 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
9638 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
9639 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
9642 o Minor bugfixes (other), also included in 0.2.1.29:
9643 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
9644 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
9645 bug reported by doorss.
9646 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
9647 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
9648 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9649 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
9650 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
9652 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
9653 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
9654 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
9655 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
9656 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
9658 o Minor features, also included in 0.2.1.29:
9659 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
9660 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
9662 o Build changes, also included in 0.2.1.29:
9663 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
9664 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
9665 Automake 1.7 or later.
9666 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
9667 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
9668 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
9669 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
9671 o Major bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
9672 - Prevent crash/heap corruption when the cbtnummodes consensus
9673 parameter is set to 0 or large values. Fixes bug 2317; bugfix
9676 o Major features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
9677 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
9678 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
9679 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
9681 o Minor features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
9682 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
9683 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
9684 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
9685 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
9686 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
9687 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
9688 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
9689 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
9691 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
9692 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
9693 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
9696 o Minor bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
9697 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
9698 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
9699 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
9700 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
9701 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
9702 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
9703 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
9704 - Correctly detect failures to create DNS requests when using Libevent
9705 versions before v2. (Before Libevent 2, we used our own evdns
9706 implementation. Its return values for Libevent's evdns_resolve_*()
9707 functions are not consistent with those from Libevent.) Fixes bug
9708 2363; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Found by "lodger".
9710 o Documentation, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
9711 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
9715 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
9716 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
9717 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
9718 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
9719 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
9721 o Major bugfixes (security):
9722 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
9723 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
9724 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
9726 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
9727 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
9728 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
9729 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
9730 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
9731 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
9732 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
9733 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
9735 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
9736 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
9737 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
9738 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
9739 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
9740 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
9741 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
9742 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
9743 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
9744 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
9745 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
9746 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
9747 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
9748 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
9751 o Minor bugfixes (other):
9752 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
9753 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
9754 bug reported by doorss.
9755 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
9756 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
9757 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9758 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
9759 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
9761 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
9762 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
9763 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
9764 - Correctly handle wrapping around to when we run out of virtual
9765 address space. Found by cypherpunks, bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
9766 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
9767 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
9768 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
9769 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
9772 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
9773 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
9776 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
9777 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
9778 Automake 1.7 or later.
9781 Changes in version 0.2.2.20-alpha - 2010-12-17
9782 Tor 0.2.2.20-alpha does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
9783 exploitable bugs. We also fix a variety of other significant bugs,
9784 change the IP address for one of our directory authorities, and update
9785 the minimum version that Tor relays must run to join the network.
9788 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
9789 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
9790 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
9791 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
9792 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
9793 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
9794 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
9795 - Fix a logic error in directory_fetches_from_authorities() that
9796 would cause all _non_-exits refusing single-hop-like circuits
9797 to fetch from authorities, when we wanted to have _exits_ fetch
9798 from authorities. Fixes more of 2097. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha;
9800 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
9801 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
9802 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
9803 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
9805 o Directory authority changes:
9806 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
9809 - Avoid crashes when AccountingMax is set on clients. Fixes bug 2235.
9810 Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha. Diagnosed by boboper.
9811 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
9812 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
9813 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
9814 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
9815 - Do not dereference NULL if a bridge fails to build its
9816 extra-info descriptor. Found by an anonymous commenter on
9817 Trac. Bugfix on 0.2.2.19-alpha.
9820 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
9821 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
9822 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
9823 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
9824 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
9825 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
9826 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
9827 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
9828 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
9829 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
9833 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
9834 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
9835 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
9836 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
9840 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
9841 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
9842 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
9843 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
9845 o Directory authority changes:
9846 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
9849 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
9852 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
9853 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
9854 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
9855 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
9856 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
9859 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
9860 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
9861 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
9862 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
9863 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
9864 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
9865 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
9866 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
9867 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
9868 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
9869 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
9870 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
9871 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
9872 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
9873 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
9874 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
9875 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
9876 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
9877 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
9878 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
9879 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
9880 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
9881 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
9884 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
9885 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
9886 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
9887 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
9889 o New directory authorities:
9890 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
9894 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
9895 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
9896 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
9898 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
9899 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
9900 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
9901 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
9902 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
9903 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
9905 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
9906 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
9907 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
9910 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
9911 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
9912 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
9913 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
9914 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
9915 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
9916 Patch from mingw-san.
9919 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
9920 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
9921 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
9922 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
9923 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
9924 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
9927 Changes in version 0.2.2.19-alpha - 2010-11-22
9928 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
9929 Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha makes relays work with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b.
9932 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
9933 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
9934 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
9935 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
9936 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
9939 - Try harder not to exceed the maximum length of 50 KB when writing
9940 statistics to extra-info descriptors. This bug was triggered by very
9941 fast relays reporting exit-port, entry, and dirreq statistics.
9942 Reported by Olaf Selke. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes bug 2183.
9943 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
9944 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
9945 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
9946 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
9947 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
9950 Changes in version 0.2.2.18-alpha - 2010-11-16
9951 Tor 0.2.2.18-alpha fixes several crash bugs that have been nagging
9952 us lately, makes unpublished bridge relays able to detect their IP
9953 address, and fixes a wide variety of other bugs to get us much closer
9954 to a stable release.
9957 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
9958 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
9959 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
9960 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
9961 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
9962 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
9963 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
9964 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
9965 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
9966 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
9967 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
9968 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
9969 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
9970 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
9971 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
9972 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
9973 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
9974 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
9975 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
9976 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
9977 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
9978 - Avoid an assertion failure when we as an authority receive a
9979 duplicate upload of a router descriptor that we already have,
9980 but which we previously considered an obsolete descriptor.
9981 Fixes another case of bug 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
9982 - Avoid a crash bug triggered by looking at a dangling pointer while
9983 setting the network status consensus. Found by Robert Ransom.
9984 Bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Fixes bug 2097.
9985 - Fix a logic error where servers that _didn't_ act as exits would
9986 try to keep their server lists more aggressively up to date than
9987 exits, when it was supposed to be the other way around. Bugfix
9990 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.1.x and earlier):
9991 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
9992 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
9993 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
9994 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
9995 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
9996 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
9997 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
9998 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
9999 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
10000 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
10001 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
10002 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
10003 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
10004 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
10005 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
10006 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
10008 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
10009 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
10010 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produced during
10011 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
10012 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
10014 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x):
10015 - Enable protection of small arrays whenever we build with gcc
10016 hardening features, not only when also building with warnings
10017 enabled. Fixes bug 2031; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. Reported by keb.
10020 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
10021 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
10022 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
10023 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
10024 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
10025 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
10026 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
10027 - Update to the November 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
10029 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
10030 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
10031 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
10032 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
10033 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
10034 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
10035 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
10036 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
10037 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
10038 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
10039 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
10040 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
10041 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
10042 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
10043 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
10046 Changes in version 0.2.2.17-alpha - 2010-09-30
10047 Tor 0.2.2.17-alpha introduces a feature to make it harder for clients
10048 to use one-hop circuits (which can put the exit relays at higher risk,
10049 plus unbalance the network); fixes a big bug in bandwidth accounting
10050 for relays that want to limit their monthly bandwidth use; fixes a
10051 big pile of bugs in how clients tolerate temporary network failure;
10052 and makes our adaptive circuit build timeout feature (which improves
10053 client performance if your network is fast while not breaking things
10054 if your network is slow) better handle bad networks.
10057 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
10058 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
10059 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
10060 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
10061 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751.
10063 o Major bugfixes (0.2.1.x and earlier):
10064 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
10065 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
10066 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
10067 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
10068 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
10069 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
10070 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
10071 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
10072 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
10073 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
10074 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
10075 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
10076 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
10078 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
10079 - Fix compilation on Windows. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha; related to
10081 - Fix a segfault that could happen when operating a bridge relay with
10082 no GeoIP database set. Fixes bug 1964; bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
10083 - The consensus bandwidth-weights (used by clients to choose fast
10084 relays) entered an unexpected edge case in September where
10085 Exits were much scarcer than Guards, resulting in bad weight
10086 recommendations. Now we compute them using new constraints that
10087 should succeed in all cases. Also alter directory authorities to
10088 not include the bandwidth-weights line if they fail to produce
10089 valid values. Fixes bug 1952; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
10090 - When weighting bridges during path selection, we used to trust
10091 the bandwidths they provided in their descriptor, only capping them
10092 at 10MB/s. This turned out to be problematic for two reasons:
10093 Bridges could claim to handle a lot more traffic then they
10094 actually would, thus making more clients pick them and have a
10095 pretty effective DoS attack. The other issue is that new bridges
10096 that might not have a good estimate for their bw capacity yet
10097 would not get used at all unless no other bridges are available
10098 to a client. Fixes bug 1912; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
10100 o Major bugfixes (on the circuit build timeout feature, 0.2.2.x):
10101 - Ignore cannibalized circuits when recording circuit build times.
10102 This should provide for a minor performance improvement for hidden
10103 service users using 0.2.2.14-alpha, and should remove two spurious
10104 notice log messages. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1740.
10105 - Simplify the logic that causes us to decide if the network is
10106 unavailable for purposes of recording circuit build times. If we
10107 receive no cells whatsoever for the entire duration of a circuit's
10108 full measured lifetime, the network is probably down. Also ignore
10109 one-hop directory fetching circuit timeouts when calculating our
10110 circuit build times. These changes should hopefully reduce the
10111 cases where we see ridiculous circuit build timeouts for people
10112 with spotty wireless connections. Fixes part of bug 1772; bugfix
10114 - Prevent the circuit build timeout from becoming larger than
10115 the maximum build time we have ever seen. Also, prevent the time
10116 period for measurement circuits from becoming larger than twice that
10117 value. Fixes the other part of bug 1772; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10120 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
10121 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
10122 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
10123 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
10124 - Be more generous with how much bandwidth we'd use up (with
10125 accounting enabled) before entering "soft hibernation". Previously,
10126 we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd used up 95% of
10127 our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment, AND make sure
10128 that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of expected traffic,
10129 whichever is lower) remaining before we enter soft hibernation.
10130 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
10131 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
10132 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
10133 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
10134 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
10135 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
10136 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
10137 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
10138 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
10141 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
10142 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
10143 based on the time during which we were active and not in
10144 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
10145 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
10146 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
10147 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
10148 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
10150 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
10151 - Resume generating CIRC FAILED REASON=TIMEOUT control port messages,
10152 which were disabled by the circuit build timeout changes in
10153 0.2.2.14-alpha. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1739.
10154 - Make sure we don't warn about missing bandwidth weights when
10155 choosing bridges or other relays not in the consensus. Bugfix on
10156 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1805.
10157 - In our logs, do not double-report signatures from unrecognized
10158 authorities both as "from unknown authority" and "not
10159 present". Fixes bug 1956, bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
10162 Changes in version 0.2.2.16-alpha - 2010-09-17
10163 Tor 0.2.2.16-alpha fixes a variety of old stream fairness bugs (most
10164 evident at exit relays), and also continues to resolve all the little
10165 bugs that have been filling up trac lately.
10167 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
10168 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
10169 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
10170 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
10171 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
10172 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
10173 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
10174 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
10175 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
10176 the longest-lived bug prize.
10177 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
10178 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
10179 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
10180 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
10181 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
10182 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
10184 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
10185 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
10186 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
10187 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
10188 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
10189 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
10193 - Update to the September 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
10194 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
10195 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
10196 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
10197 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
10198 got suppressed since the last warning.
10199 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
10200 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
10201 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
10202 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
10203 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
10204 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
10205 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
10206 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
10207 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
10208 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
10209 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
10210 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
10211 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
10212 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
10213 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
10214 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
10215 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
10216 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
10217 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
10219 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
10220 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
10221 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
10223 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
10224 - Authorities will now attempt to download consensuses if their
10225 own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This change
10226 means authorities that restart will fetch a valid consensus, and
10227 it means authorities that didn't agree with the current consensus
10228 will still fetch and serve it if it has enough signatures. Bugfix
10229 on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
10230 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
10231 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
10232 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
10233 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
10234 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
10235 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
10236 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
10237 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
10239 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
10240 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
10241 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
10242 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
10243 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
10244 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10245 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
10247 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
10248 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
10249 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
10250 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
10251 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
10254 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
10255 - Fix a regression introduced in 0.2.2.7-alpha that marked relays
10256 down if a directory fetch fails and you've configured either
10257 bridges or EntryNodes. The intent was to mark the relay as down
10258 _unless_ you're using bridges or EntryNodes, since if you are
10259 then you could quickly run out of entry points.
10260 - Fix the Windows directory-listing code. A bug introduced in
10261 0.2.2.14-alpha could make Windows directory servers forget to load
10262 some of their cached v2 networkstatus files.
10263 - Really allow clients to use relays as bridges. Fixes bug 1776;
10264 bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
10265 - Demote a warn to info that happens when the CellStatistics option
10266 was just enabled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha; fixes bug 1921.
10267 Reported by Moritz Bartl.
10268 - On Windows, build correctly either with or without Unicode support.
10269 This is necessary so that Tor can support fringe platforms like
10270 Windows 98 (which has no Unicode), or Windows CE (which has no
10271 non-Unicode). Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1797.
10274 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
10277 Changes in version 0.2.2.15-alpha - 2010-08-18
10278 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha fixes a big bug in hidden service availability,
10279 fixes a variety of other bugs that were preventing performance
10280 experiments from moving forward, fixes several bothersome memory leaks,
10281 and generally closes a lot of smaller bugs that have been filling up
10285 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
10286 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
10287 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
10288 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
10289 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
10290 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
10291 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
10292 - The PerConnBWRate and Burst config options, along with the
10293 bwconnrate and bwconnburst consensus params, initialized each conn's
10294 token bucket values only when the connection is established. Now we
10295 update them if the config options change, and update them every time
10296 we get a new consensus. Otherwise we can encounter an ugly edge
10297 case where we initialize an OR conn to client-level bandwidth,
10298 but then later the relay joins the consensus and we leave it
10299 throttled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 1830.
10300 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
10301 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
10304 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
10305 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
10306 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
10307 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
10308 they first get the Guard flag.
10309 - Allow enabling or disabling the *Statistics config options while
10313 - Update to the August 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
10314 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
10315 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
10316 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
10317 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
10318 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
10319 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
10320 Patch from mingw-san.
10321 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
10322 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
10324 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
10325 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
10326 Implements enhancement 1790.
10328 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
10329 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
10330 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
10331 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
10332 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
10333 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
10334 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
10335 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
10336 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
10337 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
10338 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
10339 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
10340 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
10341 - Users can't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It didn't
10342 work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
10343 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
10344 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
10345 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
10346 0.1.1.9-alpha. Bug 1776 not yet fixed because now we immediately
10347 refetch the descriptor with router purpose 'general', disabling
10349 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
10350 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
10351 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
10352 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
10353 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
10354 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
10355 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
10356 it. Also update the spec to reflect this new reason. Bugfix on
10357 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
10358 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
10359 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
10360 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
10361 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug
10363 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
10364 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
10365 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
10366 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in caches or bridge users
10367 when using a very short voting interval on a testing network.
10368 Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
10370 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
10371 - Alter directory authorities to always consider Exit-flagged nodes
10372 as potential Guard nodes in their votes. The actual decision to
10373 use Exits as Guards is done in the consensus bandwidth weights.
10374 Fixes bug 1294; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
10375 - When the controller is reporting the purpose of circuits that
10376 didn't finish building before the circuit build timeout, it was
10377 printing UNKNOWN_13. Now print EXPIRED. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
10378 - Our libevent version parsing code couldn't handle versions like
10379 1.4.14b-stable and incorrectly warned the user about using an
10380 old and broken version of libevent. Treat 1.4.14b-stable like
10381 1.4.14-stable when parsing the version. Fixes bug 1731; bugfix
10383 - Don't use substitution references like $(VAR:MOD) when
10384 $(asciidoc_files) is empty -- make(1) on NetBSD transforms
10385 '$(:x)' to 'x' rather than the empty string. This bites us in
10386 doc/ when configured with --disable-asciidoc. Bugfix on
10387 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1773.
10388 - Remove a spurious hidden service server-side log notice about
10389 "Ancient non-dirty circuits". Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes
10391 - Fix compilation with --with-dmalloc set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha;
10393 - Correctly report written bytes on linked connections. Found while
10394 implementing 1790. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
10395 - Fix three memory leaks: one in circuit_build_times_parse_state(),
10396 one in dirvote_add_signatures_to_pending_consensus(), and one every
10397 time we parse a v3 network consensus. Bugfixes on 0.2.2.14-alpha,
10398 0.2.2.6-alpha, and 0.2.2.10-alpha respectively; fixes bug 1831.
10400 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
10401 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
10402 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
10403 structures and defines in or.h for now.
10404 - Remove a bunch of unused function declarations as well as a block of
10405 #if 0'd code from the unit tests. Closes bug 1824.
10406 - New unit tests for exit-port history statistics; refactored exit
10407 statistics code to be more easily tested.
10408 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
10409 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
10410 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
10413 Changes in version 0.2.2.14-alpha - 2010-07-12
10414 Tor 0.2.2.14-alpha greatly improves client-side handling of
10415 circuit build timeouts, which are used to estimate speed and improve
10416 performance. We also move to a much better GeoIP database, port Tor to
10417 Windows CE, introduce new compile flags that improve code security,
10418 add an eighth v3 directory authority, and address a lot of more
10422 - Tor directory authorities no longer crash when started with a
10423 cached-microdesc-consensus file in their data directory. Bugfix
10424 on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 1532.
10425 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
10426 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
10427 - Ignore negative and large circuit build timeout values that can
10428 happen during a suspend or hibernate. These values caused various
10429 asserts to fire. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1245.
10430 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Xm' for
10431 Circuit Build Timeout learning to use the weighted average of the
10432 top N=3 modes (because we have three entry guards). Considering
10433 multiple modes should improve the timeout calculation in some cases,
10434 and prevent extremely high timeout values. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha;
10436 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Alpha' to use a
10437 right censored distribution model. This approach improves over the
10438 synthetic timeout generation approach that was producing insanely
10439 high timeout values. Now we calculate build timeouts using truncated
10440 times. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bugs 1245 and 1335.
10441 - Do not close circuits that are under construction when they reach
10442 the circuit build timeout. Instead, leave them building (but do not
10443 use them) for up until the time corresponding to the 95th percentile
10444 on the Pareto CDF or 60 seconds, whichever is greater. This is done
10445 to provide better data for the new Pareto model. This percentile
10446 can be controlled by the consensus.
10449 - Move to the June 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather than the
10450 June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that count
10451 how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we have
10452 more accurate data for many African countries.
10453 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
10454 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
10455 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
10456 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
10457 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
10458 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
10459 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
10460 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
10461 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
10462 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
10463 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
10464 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
10466 o New directory authorities:
10467 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
10471 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
10472 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
10473 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
10474 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
10475 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
10476 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
10477 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
10478 what should go in a patch.
10479 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
10480 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
10481 over our stored history.
10482 - Add ability to disable circuit build time learning via consensus
10483 parameter and via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. Also
10484 automatically disable circuit build time calculation if we are
10485 either a AuthoritativeDirectory, or if we fail to write our state
10486 file. Fixes bug 1296.
10487 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
10488 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
10489 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
10493 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
10495 - When a2x fails, mention that the user could disable manpages instead
10496 of trying to fix their asciidoc installation.
10497 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
10498 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
10499 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
10500 - If you run a bridge that listens on multiple IP addresses, and
10501 some user configures a bridge address that uses a different IP
10502 address than your bridge writes in its router descriptor, and the
10503 user doesn't specify an identity key, their Tor would discard the
10504 descriptor because "it isn't one of our configured bridges", and
10505 fail to bootstrap. Now believe the descriptor and bootstrap anyway.
10506 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10507 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
10508 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
10509 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
10510 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
10511 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
10512 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
10513 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
10514 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
10515 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
10516 two-hop circuits are actually created.
10517 - Make directory mirrors report non-zero dirreq-v[23]-shares again.
10518 Fixes bug 1564; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
10519 - Eliminate a case where a circuit build time warning was displayed
10520 after network connectivity resumed. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10523 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
10524 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
10525 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
10526 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
10527 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
10529 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
10530 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
10533 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
10534 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
10535 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
10536 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
10537 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
10538 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
10539 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
10540 their directory fetches over TLS).
10541 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
10542 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
10543 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
10544 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
10545 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
10546 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
10547 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
10548 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
10551 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
10552 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
10556 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
10557 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10558 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
10559 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
10560 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
10561 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
10562 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10565 Changes in version 0.2.2.13-alpha - 2010-04-24
10566 Tor 0.2.2.13-alpha addresses the recent connection and memory overload
10567 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
10568 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
10569 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
10572 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
10573 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
10574 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
10575 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
10576 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
10577 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
10578 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
10579 their directory fetches over TLS).
10582 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
10583 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
10585 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
10586 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
10587 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
10588 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
10589 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
10590 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
10591 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
10592 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
10593 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
10594 hour of their uptime.
10597 Changes in version 0.2.2.12-alpha - 2010-04-20
10598 Tor 0.2.2.12-alpha fixes a critical bug in how directory authorities
10599 handle and vote on descriptors. It was causing relays to drop out of
10603 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
10604 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
10605 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
10606 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
10607 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
10608 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
10610 - Fix two typos in tor_vasprintf() that broke the compile on Windows,
10611 and a warning in or.h related to bandwidth_weight_rule_t that
10612 prevented clean compile on OS X. Fixes bug 1363; bugfix on
10614 - Fix a segfault on relays when DirReqStatistics is enabled
10615 and 24 hours pass. Bug found by keb. Fixes bug 1365; bugfix on
10619 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
10620 someone tries to talk to their OrPort. It is neither the operator's
10621 fault nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
10625 Changes in version 0.2.2.11-alpha - 2010-04-15
10626 Tor 0.2.2.11-alpha fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL
10627 libraries that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
10630 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
10631 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
10632 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
10633 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
10634 - Fix a parsing error that made every possible value of
10635 CircPriorityHalflifeMsec get treated as "1 msec". Bugfix
10636 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Rename CircPriorityHalflifeMsec to
10637 CircuitPriorityHalflifeMsec, so authorities can tell newer relays
10638 about the option without breaking older ones.
10639 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
10640 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
10641 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
10642 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
10645 - Experiment with a more aggressive approach to preventing clients
10646 from making one-hop exit streams. Exit relays who want to try it
10647 out can set "RefuseUnknownExits 1" in their torrc, and then look
10648 for "Attempt by %s to open a stream" log messages. Let us know
10650 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
10651 --enable-static-zlib, to go with our support for statically linking
10652 openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
10655 - Fix a segfault that happens whenever a Tor client that is using
10656 libevent2's bufferevents gets a hup signal. Bugfix on 0.2.2.5-alpha;
10658 - When we cleaned up the contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file, we left
10659 out the first line. Fixes bug 1295.
10660 - When building the manpage from a tarball, we required asciidoc, but
10661 the asciidoc -> roff/html conversion was already done for the
10662 tarball. Make 'make' complain only when we need asciidoc (either
10663 because we're compiling directly from git, or because we altered
10664 the asciidoc manpage in the tarball). Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
10665 - When none of the directory authorities vote on any params, Tor
10666 segfaulted when trying to make the consensus from the votes. We
10667 didn't trigger the bug in practice, because authorities do include
10668 params in their votes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1322.
10671 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
10672 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10673 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
10674 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
10675 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
10676 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
10677 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10680 Changes in version 0.2.2.10-alpha - 2010-03-07
10681 Tor 0.2.2.10-alpha fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.2.9-alpha that
10682 could prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also
10683 starts the groundwork for another client-side performance boost, since
10684 currently we're not making efficient use of relays that have both the
10685 Guard flag and the Exit flag.
10688 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
10689 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
10690 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
10691 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1269.
10693 o Major features (performance):
10694 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
10695 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
10696 and no flag. Clients that use these weightings will distribute
10697 network load more evenly across these different relay types. The
10698 weightings are in the consensus so we can change them globally in
10699 the future. Extra thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty
10700 security bugs in the first implementation of this feature.
10702 o Minor features (performance):
10703 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
10704 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
10705 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
10706 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
10707 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
10711 - Allow disabling building of the manpages. Skipping the manpage
10712 speeds up the build considerably.
10714 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
10715 - Fix a memleak in the EXTENDCIRCUIT logic. Spotted by coverity.
10716 Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
10717 - Disallow values larger than INT32_MAX for PerConnBWRate|Burst
10718 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
10719 - Ship the asciidoc-helper file in the tarball, so that people can
10720 build from source if they want to, and touching the .1.txt files
10721 doesn't break the build. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
10723 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x or earlier):
10724 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
10725 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
10727 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
10728 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
10729 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
10730 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
10732 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
10733 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
10734 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
10735 - Don't use sed in asciidoc-helper anymore.
10736 - Make the build process fail if asciidoc cannot be found and
10737 building with asciidoc isn't disabled.
10740 Changes in version 0.2.2.9-alpha - 2010-02-22
10741 Tor 0.2.2.9-alpha makes Tor work again on the latest OS X, updates the
10742 location of a directory authority, and cleans up a bunch of small bugs.
10744 o Directory authority changes:
10745 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
10746 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
10747 service directory authority) from the list.
10750 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
10751 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
10752 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
10753 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
10754 libraries in a security patch.
10755 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
10756 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
10757 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
10758 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
10760 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
10761 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
10762 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
10763 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
10764 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
10765 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
10766 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
10769 - Fix static compilation by listing the openssl libraries in the right
10770 order. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha; fixes bug 1237.
10771 - Resume handling .exit hostnames in a special way: originally we
10772 stripped the .exit part and used the requested exit relay. In
10773 0.2.2.1-alpha we stopped treating them in any special way, meaning
10774 if you use a .exit address then Tor will pass it on to the exit
10775 relay. Now we reject the .exit stream outright, since that behavior
10776 might be more expected by the user. Found and diagnosed by Scott
10777 Bennett and Downie on or-talk.
10778 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
10779 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
10780 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
10781 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
10783 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
10784 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
10785 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
10786 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
10787 control-spec.txt said they were.
10788 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
10789 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
10790 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
10791 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
10792 parakeep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10794 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
10795 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
10796 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
10797 produce nicer HTML.
10798 - Remove the --enable-iphone option. According to reports from Marco
10799 Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special tweaking on recent
10800 iPhone SDK versions.
10801 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
10802 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
10803 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
10804 projects directory in svn.
10805 - Enabled various circuit build timeout constants to be controlled
10806 by consensus parameters. Also set better defaults for these
10807 parameters based on experimentation on broadband and simulated
10808 high latency links.
10811 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
10812 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
10813 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
10815 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
10816 to the circuit build timeout.
10817 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
10818 arguments we do not recognize.
10819 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
10820 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
10821 open() without checking it.
10824 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
10825 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
10826 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
10827 several minor potential security bugs.
10830 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
10831 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
10832 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
10833 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
10834 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
10835 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
10836 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
10839 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
10840 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
10842 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
10843 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
10844 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
10845 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
10849 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
10850 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
10854 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
10855 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
10856 customized patches to run/build.
10859 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
10860 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
10861 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
10864 o Major bugfixes (performance):
10865 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
10866 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
10867 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
10868 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
10869 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
10870 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
10871 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
10874 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
10875 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
10876 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
10877 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
10878 libraries in a security patch.
10879 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
10880 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
10881 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
10882 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
10885 o Directory authority changes:
10886 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
10887 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
10888 service directory authority) from the list.
10891 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
10892 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
10895 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
10896 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
10897 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
10898 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
10899 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
10902 Changes in version 0.2.2.8-alpha - 2010-01-26
10903 Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.2.7-alpha that has been
10904 causing bridge relays to disappear. If you're running a bridge,
10908 - Fix a memory corruption bug on bridges that occured during the
10909 inclusion of stats data in extra-info descriptors. Also fix the
10910 interface for geoip_get_bridge_stats* to prevent similar bugs in
10911 the future. Diagnosis by Tas, patch by Karsten and Sebastian.
10912 Fixes bug 1208; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
10915 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
10916 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
10917 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
10921 Changes in version 0.2.2.7-alpha - 2010-01-19
10922 Tor 0.2.2.7-alpha fixes a huge client-side performance bug, as well
10923 as laying the groundwork for further relay-side performance fixes. It
10924 also starts cleaning up client behavior with respect to the EntryNodes,
10925 ExitNodes, and StrictNodes config options.
10927 This release also rotates two directory authority keys, due to a
10928 security breach of some of the Torproject servers.
10930 o Directory authority changes:
10931 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
10934 o Major features (performance):
10935 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
10936 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
10937 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
10938 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
10939 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
10940 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
10941 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
10942 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays can now favor
10943 circuits that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency
10944 for low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
10945 feature based on a setting in the consensus. You can override
10946 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
10947 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
10949 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
10950 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
10951 but never per-conn write limits.
10952 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
10953 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
10954 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
10955 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
10957 o Major features (relay selection options):
10958 - Switch to a StrictNodes config option, rather than the previous
10959 "StrictEntryNodes" / "StrictExitNodes" separation that was missing a
10960 "StrictExcludeNodes" option.
10961 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
10962 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
10963 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
10964 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
10966 - If EntryNodes or ExitNodes are set, be more willing to use an
10967 unsuitable (e.g. slow or unstable) circuit. The user asked for it,
10969 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
10970 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
10971 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
10972 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
10973 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
10974 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
10975 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
10976 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
10977 the network changes.
10980 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
10981 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
10982 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10985 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
10986 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
10987 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
10988 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
10989 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
10990 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
10991 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
10992 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
10993 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
10994 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
10995 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
10996 generated while acting as a relay.
10997 - Ship the bridges spec file in the tarball too.
10998 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
10999 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
11000 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
11001 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
11002 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
11004 o Minor bugfixes (compiling):
11005 - Fix compilation on OS X 10.3, which has a stub mlockall() but
11006 hides it. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
11007 - Fix compilation on Solaris by removing support for the
11008 DisableAllSwap config option. Solaris doesn't have an rlimit for
11009 mlockall, so we cannot use it safely. Fixes bug 1198; bugfix on
11012 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
11013 - Do not segfault when writing buffer stats when we haven't observed
11014 a single circuit to report about. Found by Fabian Lanze. Bugfix on
11016 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
11017 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
11018 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
11020 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
11021 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
11023 o Minor bugfixes (privacy):
11024 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
11025 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
11027 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
11028 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
11031 o Minor bugfixes (other):
11032 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
11033 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
11034 - Fix statistics on client numbers by country as seen by bridges that
11035 were broken in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Also switch to reporting full 24-hour
11036 intervals instead of variable 12-to-48-hour intervals.
11037 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
11038 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
11039 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
11041 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
11044 o Removed features:
11045 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
11046 service authorities could have used to track statistics of overall
11047 hidden service usage.
11050 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
11051 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
11052 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
11053 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
11054 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
11056 o Directory authority changes:
11057 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
11061 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
11062 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
11063 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
11066 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
11067 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
11068 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
11069 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
11070 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
11073 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
11074 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
11075 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
11076 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
11077 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
11078 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
11079 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
11082 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
11083 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
11084 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
11085 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
11086 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
11087 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
11089 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
11090 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
11093 Changes in version 0.2.2.6-alpha - 2009-11-19
11094 Tor 0.2.2.6-alpha lays the groundwork for many upcoming features:
11095 support for the new lower-footprint "microdescriptor" directory design,
11096 future-proofing our consensus format against new hash functions or
11097 other changes, and an Android port. It also makes Tor compatible with
11098 the upcoming OpenSSL 0.9.8l release, and fixes a variety of bugs.
11101 - Directory authorities can now create, vote on, and serve multiple
11102 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
11103 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
11105 - Directory authorities can now agree on and publish small summaries
11106 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
11107 server descriptors. This transition will eventually allow clients
11108 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
11109 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
11110 download consensus + microdescriptors".
11111 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
11112 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
11113 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
11114 hash algorithm in the future.
11115 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
11116 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
11117 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
11118 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
11119 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
11120 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
11121 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
11122 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
11123 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
11126 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
11127 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
11128 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, but OpenSSL 0.9.8l
11129 won't work unless we say we are.
11132 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
11133 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
11134 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
11135 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
11136 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
11137 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
11138 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
11139 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
11140 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
11141 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
11142 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
11143 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
11144 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
11145 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
11146 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
11147 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
11148 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
11149 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
11150 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
11151 on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1113.
11152 - Fix a memory leak on directory authorities during voting that was
11153 introduced in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Found via valgrind.
11156 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
11157 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
11158 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
11159 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
11161 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
11162 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
11164 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
11165 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
11166 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
11167 in the Vidalia Settings window.
11170 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
11171 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
11172 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
11173 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
11174 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
11176 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
11177 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
11179 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
11180 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
11181 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
11184 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
11185 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
11186 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
11188 o New directory authorities:
11189 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
11191 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
11194 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
11195 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
11197 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
11198 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
11199 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
11200 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
11201 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
11202 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
11203 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
11204 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
11205 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
11206 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
11207 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
11208 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
11209 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
11210 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
11211 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
11212 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
11213 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
11215 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
11216 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
11217 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
11219 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
11220 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
11224 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
11225 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
11226 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
11227 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
11228 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
11231 Changes in version 0.2.2.5-alpha - 2009-10-11
11232 Tor 0.2.2.5-alpha fixes a few compile problems in 0.2.2.4-alpha.
11235 - Make the tarball compile again. Oops. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
11237 o Directory authorities:
11238 - Temporarily (just for this release) move dizum to an alternate
11242 Changes in version 0.2.2.4-alpha - 2009-10-10
11243 Tor 0.2.2.4-alpha fixes more crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha. It also
11244 introduces a new unit test framework, shifts directry authority
11245 addresses around to reduce the impact from recent blocking events,
11246 and fixes a few smaller bugs.
11249 - Fix several more asserts in the circuit_build_times code, for
11250 example one that causes Tor to fail to start once we have
11251 accumulated 5000 build times in the state file. Bugfixes on
11252 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1108.
11254 o New directory authorities:
11255 - Move moria1 and Tonga to alternate IP addresses.
11258 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
11259 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
11260 SSL handshake issues.
11261 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
11262 during the TLS handshake.
11263 - Revert to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file. The September one
11264 seems to have removed most US IP addresses.
11265 - Directory authorities now reject Tor relays with versions less than
11266 0.1.2.14. This step cuts out four relays from the current network,
11267 none of which are very big.
11270 - Fix a couple of smaller issues with gathering statistics. Bugfixes
11272 - Fix two memory leaks in the error case of
11273 circuit_build_times_parse_state(). Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
11274 - Don't count one-hop circuits when we're estimating how long it
11275 takes circuits to build on average. Otherwise we'll set our circuit
11276 build timeout lower than we should. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
11277 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
11278 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
11279 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
11282 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
11283 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
11284 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
11285 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
11286 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
11289 Changes in version 0.2.2.3-alpha - 2009-09-23
11290 Tor 0.2.2.3-alpha fixes a few crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha.
11293 - Fix an overzealous assert in our new circuit build timeout code.
11294 Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1103.
11297 - If the networkstatus consensus tells us that we should use a
11298 negative circuit package window, ignore it. Otherwise we'll
11299 believe it and then trigger an assert. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
11302 Changes in version 0.2.2.2-alpha - 2009-09-21
11303 Tor 0.2.2.2-alpha introduces our latest performance improvement for
11304 clients: Tor tracks the average time it takes to build a circuit, and
11305 avoids using circuits that take too long to build. For fast connections,
11306 this feature can cut your expected latency in half. For slow or flaky
11307 connections, it could ruin your Tor experience. Let us know if it does!
11310 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
11311 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
11312 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
11313 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
11314 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
11315 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
11316 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
11317 We are especially looking for reports (good and bad) from users with
11318 both EDGE and broadband connections that can move from broadband
11319 to EDGE and find out if the build-time data in the .tor/state gets
11320 reset without loss of Tor usability. You should also see a notice
11321 log message telling you that Tor has reset its timeout.
11322 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitary integer values as
11323 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
11324 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
11325 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
11326 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
11327 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
11330 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
11331 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
11335 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
11336 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
11337 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
11338 - Fix parsing for memory or time units given without a space between
11339 the number and the unit. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1076.
11340 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
11341 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
11342 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
11343 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
11344 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
11345 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
11346 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
11347 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
11348 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
11349 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
11350 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
11351 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
11352 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
11353 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
11354 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
11355 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
11357 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
11358 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
11359 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090, but more problems
11360 remain. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
11361 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
11362 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
11364 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
11365 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
11366 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
11369 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
11370 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
11371 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
11372 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
11373 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
11374 - Update to the "September 4 2009" ip-to-country file.
11377 Changes in version 0.2.2.1-alpha - 2009-08-26
11378 Tor 0.2.2.1-alpha disables ".exit" address notation by default, allows
11379 Tor clients to bootstrap on networks where only port 80 is reachable,
11380 makes it more straightforward to support hardware crypto accelerators,
11381 and starts the groundwork for gathering stats safely at relays.
11384 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
11385 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
11386 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
11389 o New directory authorities:
11390 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
11394 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
11395 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
11396 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
11397 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
11398 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
11401 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
11402 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
11403 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
11404 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
11405 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
11408 o New options for gathering stats safely:
11409 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
11410 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
11411 --enable-geoip-stats flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few improvements:
11412 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours; 2) estimated
11413 shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean values, not at
11414 the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved requests are listed
11415 with country code '??'; 4) directories also measure download times.
11416 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
11417 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
11419 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
11420 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
11421 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
11422 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
11424 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
11425 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
11426 their extra-info documents.
11429 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
11430 source files Tor was built with.
11431 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
11432 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
11433 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
11434 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
11435 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
11436 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
11438 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
11439 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
11440 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
11441 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
11442 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
11444 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
11445 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
11448 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
11449 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
11450 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
11451 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
11452 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
11454 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
11455 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
11457 o Deprecated and removed features:
11458 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
11459 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
11460 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
11461 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
11462 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
11463 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
11464 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
11465 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
11467 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
11468 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
11469 via application-level web tricks.
11471 o Packaging changes:
11472 - Upgrade Vidalia from 0.1.15 to 0.2.3 in the Windows and OS X
11473 installer bundles. See
11474 https://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/tags/vidalia-0.2.3/CHANGELOG
11475 for details of what's new in Vidalia 0.2.3.
11476 - Windows Vidalia Bundle: update Privoxy from 3.0.6 to 3.0.14-beta.
11477 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: move to Polipo 1.0.4 with Tor specific
11478 configuration file, rather than the old Privoxy.
11479 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: Vidalia, Tor, and Polipo are compiled as
11480 x86-only for better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
11481 - OS X Tor Expert Bundle: Tor is compiled as x86-only for
11482 better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
11483 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: The multi-package installer is now replaced
11484 by a simple drag and drop to the /Applications folder. This change
11485 occurred with the upgrade to Vidalia 0.2.3.
11488 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
11489 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
11490 services on Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18.
11493 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
11494 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
11495 part of patch provided by "optimist".
11498 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
11499 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
11500 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
11501 and confuse fewer users.
11504 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
11505 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
11506 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
11507 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
11508 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
11509 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
11510 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
11513 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
11514 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
11515 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
11516 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
11517 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
11518 other features and bug fixes.
11521 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
11524 Changes in version 0.2.1.17-rc - 2009-07-07
11525 Tor 0.2.1.17-rc marks the fourth -- and hopefully last -- release
11526 candidate for the 0.2.1.x series. It lays the groundwork for further
11527 client performance improvements, and also fixes a big bug with directory
11528 authorities that were causing them to assign Guard and Stable flags
11531 The Windows bundles also finally include the geoip database that we
11532 thought we'd been shipping since 0.2.0.x (oops), and the OS X bundles
11533 should actually install Torbutton rather than giving you a cryptic
11534 failure message (oops).
11537 - Clients now use the bandwidth values in the consensus, rather than
11538 the bandwidth values in each relay descriptor. This approach opens
11539 the door to more accurate bandwidth estimates once the directory
11540 authorities start doing active measurements. Implements more of
11544 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
11545 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
11546 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
11547 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
11548 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
11549 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
11550 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11551 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
11552 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
11553 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
11554 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
11555 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu"
11556 and "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable
11557 flags very wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and
11558 969. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
11561 - Serve the DirPortFrontPage page even when we have been approaching
11562 our quotas recently. Fixes bug 1013; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
11563 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
11564 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
11565 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
11566 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fixed a spurious
11567 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
11568 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
11569 by Marcus Griep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
11570 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
11571 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
11572 Workaround for bug 1024.
11573 - Fix a log message that did not respect the SafeLogging option.
11577 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
11578 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
11579 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
11582 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
11584 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
11585 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
11586 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
11587 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
11588 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
11591 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
11592 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
11593 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
11594 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
11595 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
11596 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
11597 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
11598 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
11599 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
11600 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
11603 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
11604 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
11605 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
11606 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
11607 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
11608 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
11609 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
11610 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
11613 Changes in version 0.2.1.16-rc - 2009-06-20
11614 Tor 0.2.1.16-rc speeds up performance for fast exit relays, and fixes
11615 a bunch of minor bugs.
11618 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
11619 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
11620 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
11622 o Major performance improvements (on 0.2.0.x):
11623 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
11624 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
11625 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Found
11627 - Disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
11631 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
11632 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
11633 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
11635 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
11636 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
11638 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
11639 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
11641 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
11642 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
11643 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
11644 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
11645 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
11646 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
11647 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
11648 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
11650 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
11651 - Don't warn users about low port and hibernation mix when they
11652 provide a *ListenAddress directive to fix that. Bugfix on
11654 - When switching back and forth between bridge mode, do not start
11655 gathering GeoIP data until two hours have passed.
11656 - Do not complain that the user has requested an excluded node as
11657 an exit when the node is not really an exit. This could happen
11658 because the circuit was for testing, or an introduction point.
11662 Changes in version 0.2.1.15-rc - 2009-05-25
11663 Tor 0.2.1.15-rc marks the second release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
11664 series. It fixes a major bug on fast exit relays, as well as a variety
11665 of more minor bugs.
11667 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
11668 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
11669 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
11670 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
11672 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
11673 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
11674 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
11675 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
11676 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
11677 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
11678 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
11679 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
11680 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
11681 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
11682 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
11683 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11684 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
11685 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
11686 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
11687 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
11688 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
11690 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
11691 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
11692 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
11693 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11695 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
11696 - Fix use of freed memory when deciding to mark a non-addable
11697 descriptor as never-downloadable. Bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
11700 Changes in version 0.2.1.14-rc - 2009-04-12
11701 Tor 0.2.1.14-rc marks the first release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
11702 series. It begins fixing some major performance problems, and also
11703 finally addresses the bug that was causing relays on dynamic IP
11704 addresses to fall out of the directory.
11707 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
11708 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
11709 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
11710 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
11712 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0):
11713 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
11714 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
11715 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
11716 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
11717 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
11718 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
11719 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
11720 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
11721 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
11722 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
11723 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
11724 if bandwidthrate or bandwidthburst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
11725 patch by Sebastian.
11726 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
11727 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
11730 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
11731 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
11732 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
11733 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
11734 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
11735 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
11737 - Raise the minimum bandwidth to be a relay from 20000 bytes to 20480
11738 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also update
11739 directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag to relays
11740 with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't suddenly
11741 find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets faster
11743 - Update to the "April 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
11746 - Avoid trying to print raw memory to the logs when we decide to
11747 give up on downloading a given relay descriptor. Bugfix on
11749 - In tor-resolve, when the Tor client to use is specified by
11750 <hostname>:<port>, actually use the specified port rather than
11751 defaulting to 9050. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
11752 - Make directory usage recording work again. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
11753 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
11754 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
11756 - Avoid double-free on list of successfully uploaded hidden
11757 service discriptors. Fix for bug 948. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
11758 - Change memarea_strndup() implementation to work even when
11759 duplicating a string at the end of a page. This bug was
11760 harmless for now, but could have meant crashes later. Fix by
11761 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
11762 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
11763 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
11764 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
11765 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
11766 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
11767 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
11771 Changes in version 0.2.1.13-alpha - 2009-03-09
11772 Tor 0.2.1.13-alpha includes another big pile of minor bugfixes and
11773 cleanups. We're finally getting close to a release candidate.
11776 - Correctly update the list of which countries we exclude as
11777 exits, when the GeoIP file is loaded or reloaded. Diagnosed by
11778 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
11780 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and earlier):
11781 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
11782 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
11783 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
11784 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
11785 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
11786 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
11787 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
11788 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
11789 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
11790 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
11791 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
11792 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
11793 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
11794 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
11795 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
11796 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
11797 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
11798 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
11799 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
11800 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
11801 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
11802 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
11803 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
11804 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
11805 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
11807 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
11808 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
11809 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
11810 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
11811 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
11812 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
11813 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
11814 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
11815 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
11816 of 0. Suggested by lark.
11818 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
11819 - Don't re-extend introduction circuits if we ran out of RELAY_EARLY
11820 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Fixes more of bug 878.
11821 - If we're an exit node, scrub the IP address to which we are exiting
11822 in the logs. Bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
11825 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the user
11827 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
11828 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
11829 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
11830 - Update to the "February 26 2009" ip-to-country file.
11833 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
11834 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
11835 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
11836 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
11837 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
11839 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
11840 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
11841 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
11842 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
11845 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
11846 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
11847 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
11848 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
11849 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
11850 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
11851 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
11852 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
11855 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
11856 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
11857 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
11858 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
11861 Changes in version 0.2.1.12-alpha - 2009-02-08
11862 Tor 0.2.1.12-alpha features several more security-related fixes. You
11863 should upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or
11864 a directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
11865 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit). It also
11866 includes a big pile of minor bugfixes and cleanups.
11869 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
11870 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
11871 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
11872 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
11873 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
11874 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
11877 - Let controllers actually ask for the "clients_seen" event for
11878 getting usage summaries on bridge relays. Bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha;
11879 reported by Matt Edman.
11880 - Fix a compile warning on OSX Panther. Fixes bug 913; bugfix against
11882 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
11883 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
11884 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
11885 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
11887 - Remove a bash-ism from configure.in to build properly on non-Linux
11888 platforms. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
11889 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
11890 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
11891 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
11892 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
11893 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
11894 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
11895 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
11896 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
11897 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
11898 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
11899 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
11900 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
11901 - Support changing value of ServerDNSRandomizeCase during SIGHUP.
11902 Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
11903 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
11904 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
11905 request. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11908 - Support platforms where time_t is 64 bits long. (Congratulations,
11909 NetBSD!) Patch from Matthias Drochner.
11910 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
11911 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
11914 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
11915 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
11916 the letter of C99's alias rules.
11919 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
11920 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
11921 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
11922 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
11924 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
11925 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
11926 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
11929 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
11930 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
11933 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
11934 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
11935 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
11936 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
11937 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
11938 reported by "wood".
11939 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
11940 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
11941 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
11942 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
11943 identify a connection.
11944 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
11945 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
11946 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
11947 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
11948 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
11949 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
11950 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
11951 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
11952 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
11953 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
11955 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
11956 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
11957 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
11958 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
11959 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
11960 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
11961 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
11964 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
11965 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
11967 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
11968 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
11969 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
11970 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
11971 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
11972 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
11973 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
11974 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
11976 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
11977 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
11978 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
11979 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
11980 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
11981 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
11982 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
11983 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
11984 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
11985 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
11986 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
11987 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
11988 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
11989 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
11990 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
11991 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
11992 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
11993 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
11994 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
11995 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
11996 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
11997 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
11998 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
11999 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
12000 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
12001 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
12002 840. Patch from rovv.
12003 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
12004 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
12005 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
12007 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
12008 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
12009 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
12010 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
12011 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
12012 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
12013 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
12015 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
12016 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
12017 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
12020 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
12021 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
12023 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
12024 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
12025 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
12026 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
12027 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
12028 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
12029 ServerDNSRamdomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
12030 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
12031 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
12033 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
12035 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
12036 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
12040 Changes in version 0.2.1.11-alpha - 2009-01-20
12041 Tor 0.2.1.11-alpha finishes fixing the "if your Tor is off for a
12042 week it will take a long time to bootstrap again" bug. It also fixes
12043 an important security-related bug reported by Ilja van Sprundel. You
12044 should upgrade. (We'll send out more details about the bug once people
12045 have had some time to upgrade.)
12048 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
12049 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
12052 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
12053 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
12054 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion
12055 keys in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Bugfix
12056 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
12059 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
12060 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
12062 - Make setting ServerDNSRandomizeCase to 0 actually work. Bugfix
12063 for bug 905. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
12064 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
12065 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
12066 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
12067 entirely. Patch from coderman.
12070 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
12071 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
12072 - When our circuit fails at the first hop (e.g. we get a destroy
12073 cell back), avoid using that OR connection anymore, and also
12074 tell all the one-hop directory requests waiting for it that they
12075 should fail. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
12076 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
12080 Changes in version 0.2.1.10-alpha - 2009-01-06
12081 Tor 0.2.1.10-alpha fixes two major bugs in bridge relays (one that
12082 would make the bridge relay not so useful if it had DirPort set to 0,
12083 and one that could let an attacker learn a little bit of information
12084 about the bridge's users), and a bug that would cause your Tor relay
12085 to ignore a circuit create request it can't decrypt (rather than reply
12086 with an error). It also fixes a wide variety of other bugs.
12089 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
12090 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could
12091 be useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in
12092 practice it just means we spend many minutes trying directory
12093 mirrors that are long gone from the network. Helps bug 887 a bit;
12095 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
12096 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
12097 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
12098 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
12099 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
12100 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
12101 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
12102 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
12103 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
12104 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
12108 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
12109 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
12110 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
12112 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later built
12113 without support for deprecated functions.
12114 - Update to the "December 19 2008" ip-to-country file.
12116 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
12117 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
12118 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
12119 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
12120 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
12121 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
12122 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
12123 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
12124 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
12125 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
12126 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
12127 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
12128 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
12129 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
12130 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
12131 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
12132 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
12133 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
12134 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
12135 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
12136 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
12137 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
12138 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
12140 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
12141 - Make get_interface_address() function work properly again; stop
12142 guessing the wrong parts of our address as our address.
12143 - Do not cannibalize a circuit if we're out of RELAY_EARLY cells to
12144 send on that circuit. Otherwise we might violate the proposal-110
12145 limit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Partial fix for bug 878. Diagnosis
12147 - When we're sending non-EXTEND cells to the first hop in a circuit,
12148 for example to use an encrypted directory connection, we don't need
12149 to use RELAY_EARLY cells: the first hop knows what kind of cell
12150 it is, and nobody else can even see the cell type. Conserving
12151 RELAY_EARLY cells makes it easier to cannibalize circuits like
12153 - Stop logging nameserver addresses in reverse order.
12154 - If we are retrying a directory download slowly over and over, do
12155 not automatically give up after the 254th failure. Bugfix on
12157 - Resume reporting accurate "stream end" reasons to the local control
12158 port. They were lost in the changes for Proposal 148. Bugfix on
12161 o Deprecated and removed features:
12162 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
12163 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
12164 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
12167 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
12168 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
12169 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
12170 with log.h on Android.
12171 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
12172 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
12175 Changes in version 0.2.1.9-alpha - 2008-12-25
12176 Tor 0.2.1.9-alpha fixes many more bugs, some of them security-related.
12178 o New directory authorities:
12179 - gabelmoo (the authority run by Karsten Loesing) now has a new
12183 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
12184 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
12185 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
12186 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
12187 - Avoid a possible memory corruption bug when receiving hidden service
12188 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
12191 - Fix a logic error that would automatically reject all but the first
12192 configured DNS server. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Possible fix for
12193 part of bug 813/868. Bug spotted by coderman.
12194 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
12195 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
12196 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
12197 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
12198 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in 0.1.2.1-alpha;
12199 reported by "wood".
12200 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
12201 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, retry failed
12202 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
12203 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
12206 - Give a better error message when an overzealous init script says
12207 "sudo -u username tor --user username". Makes Bug 882 easier for
12209 - When a directory authority gives us a new guess for our IP address,
12210 log which authority we used. Hopefully this will help us debug
12211 the recent complaints about bad IP address guesses.
12212 - Detect svn revision properly when we're using git-svn.
12213 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
12214 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
12215 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
12216 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
12217 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate.
12218 Partial implementation of proposal 157.
12219 - Start serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
12220 pairs. Partial implementation of proposal 157.
12221 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
12222 Implements proposal 148.
12223 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
12224 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
12225 system to do it for us.
12226 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
12227 or for every cell. On systems where time() is a slow syscall,
12228 this fix will be slightly helpful.
12229 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
12230 - When we download a descriptor that we then immediately (as
12231 a directory authority) reject, do not retry downloading it right
12232 away. Should save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug
12233 888. Patch by Sebastian Hahn.
12234 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
12235 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
12236 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
12237 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
12240 o Minor features (controller):
12241 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
12242 been fetched and validated.
12243 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
12244 descriptors file, print out a more useful error message rather
12245 than triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
12246 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
12247 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the
12248 configuration. Fixes bug 856.
12251 - Resume using the correct "REASON=" stream when telling the
12252 controller why we closed a stream. Bugfix in 0.2.1.1-alpha.
12253 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
12254 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
12255 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
12257 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
12258 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
12259 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
12260 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
12261 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
12262 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
12263 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
12264 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
12265 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
12267 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
12268 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP (bugfix on
12269 0.0.6pre1); also, do not stall hidden services because we're
12270 throwing away introduction points; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Spotted
12271 by John Brooks. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
12272 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous
12273 descriptor to the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor
12274 with the same ID. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
12276 o Deprecated and removed features:
12277 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
12279 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
12280 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
12281 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
12283 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
12284 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
12285 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
12287 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
12288 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
12289 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
12290 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
12291 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
12292 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
12295 Changes in version 0.2.1.8-alpha - 2008-12-08
12296 Tor 0.2.1.8-alpha fixes some crash bugs in earlier alpha releases,
12297 builds better on unusual platforms like Solaris and old OS X, and
12298 fixes a variety of other issues.
12301 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
12302 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
12303 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
12304 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
12307 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
12308 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
12309 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
12310 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
12313 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
12314 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12315 - Fix a possible segfault when establishing an exit connection. Bugfix
12319 - Get file locking working on win32. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fixes
12321 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
12322 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
12323 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
12324 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fix for bug 862.
12325 - Fix a crash bug when changing EntryNodes from the controller. Bugfix
12326 on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fix for bug 867. Patched by Sebastian.
12327 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
12329 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
12330 rest, and don't automatically fail.
12331 - Use fcntl() for locking when flock() is not available. Should fix
12332 compilation on Solaris. Should fix Bug 873. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
12333 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
12334 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
12336 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
12337 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
12338 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
12339 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
12340 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
12341 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
12342 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
12343 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
12344 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
12345 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880. Bugfix
12347 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
12351 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
12352 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
12353 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
12355 o Minor features (controller):
12356 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status. Fixes
12360 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
12361 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
12362 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
12363 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
12364 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
12365 variety of other issues.
12368 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
12369 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
12370 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
12371 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
12372 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
12373 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
12374 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
12375 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
12376 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
12377 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
12378 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
12379 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
12382 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
12383 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12385 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
12386 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
12387 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
12388 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
12389 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
12390 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
12391 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
12392 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
12393 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
12394 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
12395 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
12396 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
12397 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
12398 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
12399 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
12403 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
12404 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
12405 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
12406 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
12407 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
12408 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
12409 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
12410 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
12411 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
12412 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
12413 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
12414 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
12415 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
12416 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
12417 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
12418 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
12419 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
12420 list. It has been gone for many months.
12421 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
12422 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
12423 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
12426 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
12427 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
12428 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
12431 Changes in version 0.2.1.7-alpha - 2008-11-08
12432 Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
12433 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
12434 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
12435 services, adds better defense against DNS poisoning attacks on exit
12436 relays, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
12437 variety of other issues.
12440 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
12441 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
12442 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
12443 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
12444 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
12445 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
12446 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
12447 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
12448 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
12449 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
12450 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
12451 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848.
12452 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
12453 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
12456 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
12457 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
12458 Suggested by Lucky Green.
12459 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
12460 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
12461 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
12462 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
12463 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
12464 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
12466 - Preserve case in replies to DNSPort requests in order to support
12467 the 0x20 hack for resisting DNS poisoning attacks.
12469 o Hidden service performance improvements:
12470 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
12471 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
12472 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
12473 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
12474 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
12475 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
12476 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
12477 faster after restart.
12480 - Minor fix in the warning messages when you're having problems
12481 bootstrapping; also, be more forgiving of bootstrap problems when
12482 we're still making incremental progress on a given bootstrap phase.
12483 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
12484 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
12485 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
12486 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
12487 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
12488 840. Patch from rovv.
12489 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
12490 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
12491 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
12492 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
12493 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
12494 Fixes another case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
12495 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
12496 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
12497 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
12499 - Avoid using a negative right-shift when comparing 32-bit
12500 addresses. Possible fix for bug 845 and bug 811.
12501 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
12502 have already been marked for close.
12503 - Fix read-off-the-end-of-string error in unit tests when decoding
12504 introduction points.
12505 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
12506 memory performance during directory parsing.
12507 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
12508 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
12509 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
12510 because of a pending download.
12513 Changes in version 0.2.1.6-alpha - 2008-09-30
12514 Tor 0.2.1.6-alpha further improves performance and robustness of
12515 hidden services, starts work on supporting per-country relay selection,
12516 and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
12519 - Implement proposal 121: make it possible to build hidden services
12520 that only certain clients are allowed to connect to. This is
12521 enforced at several points, so that unauthorized clients are unable
12522 to send INTRODUCE cells to the service, or even (depending on the
12523 type of authentication) to learn introduction points. This feature
12524 raises the bar for certain kinds of active attacks against hidden
12525 services. Code by Karsten Loesing.
12526 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
12527 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
12528 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
12529 lookups more reliable.
12530 - Start work to allow node restrictions to include country codes. The
12531 syntax to exclude nodes in a country with country code XX is
12532 "ExcludeNodes {XX}". Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
12533 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
12534 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
12535 - Allow ExitNodes list to include IP ranges and country codes, just
12536 like the Exclude*Nodes lists. Patch from Robert Hogan.
12539 - Fix a bug when parsing ports in tor_addr_port_parse() that caused
12540 Tor to fail to start if you had it configured to use a bridge
12541 relay. Fixes bug 809. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
12542 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
12543 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
12544 requests failed, because the router descriptor had not been
12545 downloaded yet. In these cases, we now wait until the router
12546 descriptor is downloaded, and then retry. Likewise, clients
12547 now skip over a hidden service directory if they don't yet have
12548 its router descriptor, rather than futilely requesting it and
12549 putting mysterious complaints in the logs. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
12551 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
12552 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
12553 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
12554 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
12555 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
12556 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
12557 - DNS replies need to have names matching their requests, but
12558 these names should be in the questions section, not necessarily
12559 in the answers section. Fixes bug 823. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
12562 - Update to the "September 1 2008" ip-to-country file.
12563 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
12564 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
12565 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
12566 locked down these days.
12567 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
12568 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
12569 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
12570 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
12571 - Better logging about stability/reliability calculations on directory
12573 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
12574 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
12575 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
12576 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
12577 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
12578 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
12579 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
12580 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
12581 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
12582 people find host:port too confusing.
12583 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
12584 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
12585 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
12588 - Fix compile on OpenBSD 4.4-current. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
12590 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
12591 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
12592 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
12593 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
12594 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
12596 - Catch and report a few more bootstrapping failure cases when Tor
12597 fails to establish a TCP connection. Cleanup on 0.2.1.x.
12598 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
12599 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
12600 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
12601 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
12602 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
12603 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
12604 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
12605 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
12606 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
12607 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
12609 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
12610 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
12611 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
12612 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch by rovv.
12613 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
12614 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
12615 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
12616 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
12617 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
12619 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
12620 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
12621 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
12622 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
12623 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
12624 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
12625 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
12626 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
12627 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
12628 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
12629 bug 820, reported by seeess.
12630 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
12631 list. It has been gone for many months.
12633 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
12634 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
12635 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
12636 actual mistakes we're making here.
12637 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
12638 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
12639 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
12640 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
12643 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
12644 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
12645 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
12646 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
12649 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
12650 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
12651 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
12652 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
12653 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
12654 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
12656 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
12657 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
12658 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
12659 pointed out by rovv.
12662 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
12663 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12664 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
12665 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
12666 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
12667 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
12668 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
12669 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
12670 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
12671 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12672 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
12673 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
12674 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
12675 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
12676 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
12677 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
12678 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
12679 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
12680 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
12681 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
12682 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
12685 Changes in version 0.2.1.5-alpha - 2008-08-31
12686 Tor 0.2.1.5-alpha moves us closer to handling IPv6 destinations, puts
12687 in a lot of the infrastructure for adding authorization to hidden
12688 services, lays the groundwork for having clients read their load
12689 balancing information out of the networkstatus consensus rather than
12690 the individual router descriptors, addresses two potential anonymity
12691 issues, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
12694 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
12696 - Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol elements.
12697 - Make resolver code handle nameservers located at ipv6 addresses.
12698 - Begin implementation of proposal 121 ("Client authorization for
12699 hidden services"): configure hidden services with client
12700 authorization, publish descriptors for them, and configure
12701 authorization data for hidden services at clients. The next
12702 step is to actually access hidden services that perform client
12704 - More progress toward proposal 141: Network status consensus
12705 documents and votes now contain bandwidth information for each
12706 router and a summary of that router's exit policy. Eventually this
12707 will be used by clients so that they do not have to download every
12708 known descriptor before building circuits.
12710 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and before):
12711 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
12712 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
12713 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
12714 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
12715 identify a connection.
12716 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
12717 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
12718 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
12720 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
12721 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
12722 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
12723 pointed out by rovv.
12726 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
12727 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12728 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
12729 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open /dev/pf
12730 before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from Christopher
12731 Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
12732 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
12733 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
12734 - Add a missing safe_str() call for a debug log message.
12735 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
12736 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
12737 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
12738 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
12739 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
12740 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12743 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
12744 a lot. Resolves bug 748.
12745 - Resist DNS poisoning a little better by making sure that names in
12746 answer sections match.
12747 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
12748 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
12751 Changes in version 0.2.1.4-alpha - 2008-08-04
12752 Tor 0.2.1.4-alpha fixes a pair of crash bugs in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
12755 - The address part of exit policies was not correctly written
12756 to router descriptors. This generated router descriptors that failed
12757 their self-checks. Noticed by phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix
12759 - Tor triggered a false assert when extending a circuit to a relay
12760 but we already have a connection open to that relay. Noticed by
12761 phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
12764 - Fix a hidden service logging bug: in some edge cases, the router
12765 descriptor of a previously picked introduction point becomes
12766 obsolete and we need to give up on it rather than continually
12767 complaining that it has become obsolete. Observed by xiando. Bugfix
12770 o Removed features:
12771 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
12772 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
12775 Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-08-03
12776 Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha implements most of the pieces to prevent
12777 infinite-length circuit attacks (see proposal 110); fixes a bug that
12778 might cause exit relays to corrupt streams they send back; allows
12779 address patterns (e.g. 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in ExcludeNodes and
12780 ExcludeExitNodes config options; and fixes a big pile of bugs.
12782 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x-alpha):
12783 - Send a bootstrap problem "warn" event on the first problem if the
12784 reason is NO_ROUTE (that is, our network is down).
12787 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
12788 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
12789 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
12790 certain kinds of DOS attack by requiring that EXTEND commands must
12791 be sent using an "early" cell.
12794 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
12795 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
12796 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
12797 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
12798 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
12799 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
12800 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
12803 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
12804 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
12805 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
12806 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
12807 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
12808 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
12809 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
12810 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
12811 - Allow address patterns (e.g., 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in
12812 ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes lists.
12813 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
12814 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
12815 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
12816 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
12817 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
12818 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
12821 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
12822 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
12823 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
12824 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
12825 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
12826 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
12827 - When a hidden service is giving up on an introduction point candidate
12828 that was not included in the last published rendezvous descriptor,
12829 don't reschedule publication of the next descriptor. Fixes bug 763.
12831 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
12832 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
12833 and nobody claims to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
12834 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
12835 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
12838 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
12839 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit
12840 is getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly.
12841 Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
12843 o Removed features:
12844 - Remove all backward-compatibility code to support relays running
12845 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
12849 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
12851 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
12852 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
12853 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
12856 Changes in version 0.2.0.29-rc - 2008-07-08
12857 Tor 0.2.0.29-rc fixes two big bugs with using bridges, fixes more
12858 hidden-service performance bugs, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
12861 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys,
12862 you would only launch a request for the descriptor of the first one
12863 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
12864 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
12865 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12866 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, and the
12867 connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel all
12868 pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the same
12869 digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12870 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
12871 and Tor had built circuits preemptively for such purposes, we
12872 were ignoring all the preemptive circuits and launching a new one
12873 instead. Bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
12874 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
12875 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
12876 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
12877 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
12878 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
12879 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
12880 - Make directory servers include the X-Your-Address-Is: http header in
12881 their responses even for begin_dir conns. Now clients who only
12882 ever use begin_dir connections still have a way to learn their IP
12883 address. Fixes bug 737; bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc. Reported by goldy.
12886 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
12887 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
12889 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
12890 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
12891 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
12892 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
12893 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
12894 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
12895 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
12897 - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation
12898 stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be trying
12899 session resumption at this point, but apparently some did, in
12900 ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Bug
12901 found by Geoff Goodell.
12904 Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20
12905 Tor 0.2.1.2-alpha includes a new "TestingTorNetwork" config option to
12906 make it easier to set up your own private Tor network; fixes several
12907 big bugs with using more than one bridge relay; fixes a big bug with
12908 offering hidden services quickly after Tor starts; and uses a better
12909 API for reporting potential bootstrapping problems to the controller.
12912 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
12913 previously constant values that, while reasonable, could slow
12914 bootstrapping. Implements proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
12917 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
12918 you would only learn a request for the descriptor of the first one
12919 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
12920 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
12921 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12922 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
12923 and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel
12924 all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the
12925 same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12926 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
12927 originate from cannibalized circuits are completely ignored and not
12928 included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might be another
12929 reason for delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix
12930 from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
12933 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
12934 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
12935 This will cut down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements
12937 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
12938 fingerprints with or without space.
12939 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
12940 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
12941 partway through and wants to catch up.
12942 - Send an initial "Starting" bootstrap status event, so we have a
12943 state to start out in.
12946 - Asking for a conditional consensus at .../consensus/<fingerprints>
12947 would crash a dirserver if it did not already have a
12948 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
12949 - Clean up some macro/CPP interactions: some GCC versions don't like
12950 #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. Bugfix on
12953 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.1-alpha):
12954 - Directory authorities shouldn't complain about bootstrapping
12955 problems just because they do a lot of reachability testing and
12956 some of the connection attempts fail.
12957 - Start sending "count" and "recommendation" key/value pairs in
12958 bootstrap problem status events, so the controller can hear about
12959 problems even before Tor decides they're worth reporting for sure.
12960 - If you're using bridges, generate "bootstrap problem" warnings
12961 as soon as you run out of working bridges, rather than waiting
12962 for ten failures -- which will never happen if you have less than
12964 - If we close our OR connection because there's been a circuit
12965 pending on it for too long, we were telling our bootstrap status
12966 events "REASON=NONE". Now tell them "REASON=TIMEOUT".
12969 Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13
12970 Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha fixes a lot of memory fragmentation problems that
12971 were making the Tor process bloat especially on Linux; makes our TLS
12972 handshake blend in better; sends "bootstrap phase" status events to
12973 the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress (and
12974 problems) fetching directory information and establishing circuits;
12975 and adds a variety of smaller features.
12978 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
12979 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
12980 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
12981 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
12983 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
12984 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
12985 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
12986 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
12988 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
12989 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
12990 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
12991 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
12992 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
12993 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
12994 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
12997 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
12998 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
12999 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
13000 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
13001 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
13003 o Memory fixes and improvements:
13004 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
13005 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
13006 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
13007 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
13008 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
13009 on a typical directory cache.
13010 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
13011 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
13012 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
13013 and may reduce fragmentation.
13014 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
13015 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
13016 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
13018 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
13019 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
13020 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
13022 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
13023 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed,
13027 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
13028 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
13029 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
13030 done that for a long time.
13031 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
13032 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
13033 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
13034 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
13037 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
13038 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
13039 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
13040 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
13041 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
13042 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
13044 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
13045 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
13046 output to messages of warning and error severity.
13047 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
13048 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
13049 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
13050 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
13051 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
13052 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
13053 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
13054 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
13055 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
13056 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
13057 directory requests we should expect to see.
13058 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
13060 - Lots of new unit tests.
13061 - Add a macro to implement the common pattern of iterating through
13062 two parallel lists in lockstep.
13065 Changes in version 0.2.0.28-rc - 2008-06-13
13066 Tor 0.2.0.28-rc fixes an anonymity-related bug, fixes a hidden-service
13067 performance bug, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
13070 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
13071 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
13072 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
13073 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
13074 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
13075 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
13076 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
13079 - While setting up a hidden service, some valid introduction circuits
13080 were overlooked and abandoned. This might be the reason for
13081 the long delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix on
13085 - Update to the "June 9 2008" ip-to-country file.
13086 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
13087 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
13090 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
13091 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
13092 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
13094 - Bridge relays no longer print "xx=0" in their extrainfo document
13095 for every single country code in the geoip db. Bugfix on
13097 - Only warn when we fail to load the geoip file if we were planning to
13098 include geoip stats in our extrainfo document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc.
13099 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
13100 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
13101 bug 688, reported by mfr. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13102 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
13103 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors. Bugfix
13105 - Make relay cells written on a connection count as non-padding when
13106 tracking how long a connection has been in use. Bugfix on
13107 0.2.0.1-alpha. Spotted by lodger.
13108 - Fix unit tests in 0.2.0.27-rc.
13109 - Fix compile on Windows.
13112 Changes in version 0.2.0.27-rc - 2008-06-03
13113 Tor 0.2.0.27-rc adds a few features we left out of the earlier
13114 release candidates. In particular, we now include an IP-to-country
13115 GeoIP database, so controllers can easily look up what country a
13116 given relay is in, and so bridge relays can give us some sanitized
13117 summaries about which countries are making use of bridges. (See proposal
13118 126-geoip-fetching.txt for details.)
13121 - Include an IP-to-country GeoIP file in the tarball, so bridge
13122 relays can report sanitized summaries of the usage they're seeing.
13125 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
13126 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
13127 - Make bridge authorities never serve extrainfo docs.
13128 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
13130 - Fix build on gcc 4.3 with --enable-gcc-warnings set.
13131 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
13132 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
13135 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
13136 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
13137 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
13138 - Make bridge authorities correctly expire old extrainfo documents
13142 Changes in version 0.2.0.26-rc - 2008-05-13
13143 Tor 0.2.0.26-rc fixes a major security vulnerability caused by a bug
13144 in Debian's OpenSSL packages. All users running any 0.2.0.x version
13145 should upgrade, whether they're running Debian or not.
13147 o Major security fixes:
13148 - Use new V3 directory authority keys on the tor26, gabelmoo, and
13149 moria1 V3 directory authorities. The old keys were generated with
13150 a vulnerable version of Debian's OpenSSL package, and must be
13151 considered compromised. Other authorities' keys were not generated
13152 with an affected version of OpenSSL.
13155 - List authority signatures as "unrecognized" based on DirServer
13156 lines, not on cert cache. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
13159 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey option to make it easier for
13160 authorities to change their identity keys if they have to.
13163 Changes in version 0.2.0.25-rc - 2008-04-23
13164 Tor 0.2.0.25-rc makes Tor work again on OS X and certain BSDs.
13167 - Remember to initialize threading before initializing logging.
13168 Otherwise, many BSD-family implementations will crash hard on
13169 startup. Fixes bug 671. Bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc.
13172 - Authorities correctly free policies on bad servers on
13173 exit. Fixes bug 672. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
13176 Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-22
13177 Tor 0.2.0.24-rc adds dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth
13178 v3 directory authority, makes relays with dynamic IP addresses and no
13179 DirPort notice more quickly when their IP address changes, fixes a few
13180 rare crashes and memory leaks, and fixes a few other miscellaneous bugs.
13182 o New directory authorities:
13183 - Take lefkada out of the list of v3 directory authorities, since
13184 it has been down for months.
13185 - Set up dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory
13189 - Detect address changes more quickly on non-directory mirror
13190 relays. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 652.
13192 o Minor features (security):
13193 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
13194 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
13195 - Non-exit relays no longer allow DNS requests. Fixes bug 619. Patch
13198 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
13199 - Avoid a rare assert that can trigger when Tor doesn't have much
13200 directory information yet and it tries to fetch a v2 hidden
13201 service descriptor. Fixes bug 651, reported by nwf.
13202 - Initialize log mutex before initializing dmalloc. Otherwise,
13203 running with dmalloc would crash. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha.
13204 - Use recursive pthread mutexes in order to avoid deadlock when
13205 logging debug-level messages to a controller. Bug spotted by nwf,
13206 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
13208 o Minor bugfixes (resource management):
13209 - Keep address policies from leaking memory: start their refcount
13210 at 1, not 2. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
13211 - Free authority certificates on exit, so they don't look like memory
13212 leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
13213 - Free static hashtables for policy maps and for TLS connections on
13214 shutdown, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
13215 - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on 64-bit
13216 platforms. Bug spotted by aakova.
13218 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
13219 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
13220 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
13221 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
13222 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
13223 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
13224 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
13225 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
13226 - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should
13227 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
13228 Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13229 - Warn less verbosely about clock skew from netinfo cells from
13230 untrusted sources. Fixes bug 663.
13231 - Make controller stream events for DNS requests more consistent,
13232 by adding "new stream" events for DNS requests, and removing
13233 spurious "stream closed" events" for cached reverse resolves.
13234 Patch from mwenge. Fixes bug 646.
13235 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
13236 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
13239 Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24
13240 Tor 0.2.0.23-rc is the fourth release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
13241 makes bootstrapping faster if the first directory mirror you contact
13242 is down. The bundles also include the new Vidalia 0.1.2 release.
13245 - When a tunneled directory request is made to a directory server
13246 that's down, notice after 30 seconds rather than 120 seconds. Also,
13247 fail any begindir streams that are pending on it, so they can
13248 retry elsewhere. This was causing multi-minute delays on bootstrap.
13251 Changes in version 0.2.0.22-rc - 2008-03-18
13252 Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is the third release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
13253 enables encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, fixes
13254 some broken TLS behavior we added in 0.2.0.20-rc, and resolves many
13255 other bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.1 and Torbutton 1.1.17.
13258 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
13259 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
13260 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
13261 certain censored countries by default again.
13264 - Make sure servers always request certificates from clients during
13265 TLS renegotiation. Reported by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
13266 - Do not enter a CPU-eating loop when a connection is closed in
13267 the middle of client-side TLS renegotiation. Fixes bug 622. Bug
13268 diagnosed by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
13269 - Fix assertion failure that could occur when a blocked circuit
13270 became unblocked, and it had pending client DNS requests. Bugfix
13271 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 632.
13273 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
13274 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
13275 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
13276 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
13277 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
13278 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
13279 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
13280 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
13281 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
13282 a directory. Fix from lodger.
13284 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
13285 - Downgrade "sslv3 alert handshake failure" message to INFO.
13286 - If we set RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst very high but
13287 left BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at the default, we would be
13288 silently limited by those defaults. Now raise them to match the
13289 RelayBandwidth* values.
13290 - Fix the SVK version detection logic to work correctly on a branch.
13291 - Make --enable-openbsd-malloc work correctly on Linux with alpha
13292 CPUs. Fixes bug 625.
13293 - Logging functions now check that the passed severity is sane.
13294 - Use proper log levels in the testsuite call of
13295 get_interface_address6().
13296 - When using a nonstandard malloc, do not use the platform values for
13297 HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE or HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE.
13298 - Make the openbsd malloc code use 8k pages on alpha CPUs and
13300 - Detect mismatched page sizes when using --enable-openbsd-malloc.
13301 - Avoid double-marked-for-close warning when certain kinds of invalid
13302 .in-addr.arpa addresses are passed to the DNSPort. Part of a fix
13303 for bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13304 - Make sure that the "NULL-means-reject *:*" convention is followed by
13305 all the policy manipulation functions, avoiding some possible crash
13306 bugs. Bug found by lodger. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
13307 - Fix the implementation of ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses so that it
13308 actually works, and doesn't warn about every single reverse lookup.
13309 Fixes the other part of bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13312 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
13313 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
13314 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
13317 Changes in version 0.2.0.21-rc - 2008-03-02
13318 Tor 0.2.0.21-rc is the second release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
13319 makes Tor work well with Vidalia again, fixes a rare assert bug,
13320 and fixes a pair of more minor bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia
13321 0.1.0 and Torbutton 1.1.16.
13324 - The control port should declare that it requires password auth
13325 when HashedControlSessionPassword is set too. Patch from Matt Edman;
13326 bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Fixes bug 615.
13327 - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message.
13328 This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its
13329 symptoms less severe. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Reported by fredzupy.
13330 - We were sometimes miscounting the number of bytes read from the
13331 network, causing our rate limiting to not be followed exactly.
13332 Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by lodger.
13335 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a. All other supported
13336 OpenSSL versions should have been working fine. Diagnosis and patch
13337 from lodger, Karsten Loesing, and Sebastian Hahn. Fixes bug 616.
13338 Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
13341 Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24
13342 Tor 0.2.0.20-rc is the first release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
13343 makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes
13344 hidden services work better again, helps relays bootstrap if they don't
13345 know their IP address, adds optional support for linking in openbsd's
13346 allocator or tcmalloc, allows really fast relays to scale past 15000
13347 sockets, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs reported by Veracode.
13350 - Enable the revised TLS handshake based on the one designed by
13351 Steven Murdoch in proposal 124, as revised in proposal 130. It
13352 includes version negotiation for OR connections as described in
13353 proposal 105. The new handshake is meant to be harder for censors
13354 to fingerprint, and it adds the ability to detect certain kinds of
13355 man-in-the-middle traffic analysis attacks. The version negotiation
13356 feature will allow us to improve Tor's link protocol more safely
13358 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
13359 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
13360 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
13361 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
13362 stop using it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 437.
13365 - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors.
13366 Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha
13367 and 0.2.0.19-alpha.
13368 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
13369 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
13370 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
13371 by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13372 - Servers that don't know their own IP address should go to the
13373 authorities for their first directory fetch, even if their DirPort
13374 is off or if they don't know they're reachable yet. This will help
13375 them bootstrap better. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 609.
13376 - When counting the number of open sockets, count not only the number
13377 of sockets we have received from the socket() call, but also
13378 the number we've gotten from accept() and socketpair(). This bug
13379 made us fail to count all sockets that we were using for incoming
13380 connections. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
13381 - Fix code used to find strings within buffers, when those strings
13382 are not in the first chunk of the buffer. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
13383 - Fix potential segfault when parsing HTTP headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
13384 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
13385 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
13386 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
13387 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
13388 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
13389 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
13390 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
13392 o Minor features (performance):
13393 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
13395 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc
13396 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly
13397 with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass
13398 --enable-openbsd-malloc to get the replacement malloc code.
13399 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
13400 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for
13401 non-system include paths.
13402 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
13403 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
13406 o Minor features (other):
13407 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
13409 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
13410 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
13411 - Add a --passphrase-fd argument to the tor-gencert command for
13414 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks and code problems):
13415 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
13416 cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2.
13417 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
13419 - We were comparing the raw BridgePassword entry with a base64'ed
13420 version of it, when handling a "/tor/networkstatus-bridges"
13421 directory request. Now compare correctly. Noticed by Veracode.
13422 - Recover from bad tracked-since value in MTBF-history file.
13423 Should fix bug 537.
13424 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
13425 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
13426 unhandled errors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13427 - Make Unix controlsockets work correctly on OpenBSD. Patch from
13428 tup. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
13430 o Minor bugfixes (other):
13431 - If we have an extra-info document for our server, always make
13432 it available on the control port, even if we haven't gotten
13433 a copy of it from an authority yet. Patch from mwenge.
13434 - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c.
13435 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
13436 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
13437 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
13438 - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting.
13439 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten.
13440 - When starting as an authority, do not overwrite all certificates
13441 cached from other authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 606.
13442 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
13443 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
13444 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
13445 on the socket. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13446 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
13447 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
13448 - Even though the man page said that "TrackHostExits ." should
13449 work, nobody had ever implemented it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
13450 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
13451 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
13452 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
13453 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
13454 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
13457 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
13458 - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused,
13459 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
13463 Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09
13464 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS
13465 handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address
13466 guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation
13467 for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable.
13470 - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
13471 Tor's x509 certificates.
13474 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
13475 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
13476 reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13477 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
13478 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
13479 IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13481 o Minor features (security):
13482 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
13483 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
13485 o Minor features (directory authority):
13486 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
13487 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
13488 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
13489 bandwidthburst values.
13491 o Minor features (controller):
13492 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue
13493 processes from running us out of memory.
13495 o Minor features (misc):
13496 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
13497 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
13498 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
13499 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
13501 o Deprecated features (controller):
13502 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
13503 GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol:
13504 treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
13507 - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop
13508 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix
13510 - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities
13511 listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not
13512 recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
13513 - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert
13514 the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as
13515 a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
13516 - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the
13517 library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix
13519 - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority
13520 signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
13521 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
13522 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13523 - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a
13524 private IP address (like 127.0.0.1).
13525 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
13526 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix
13528 - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control
13529 port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of
13530 connections, tell the controller that the request has failed.
13531 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few
13532 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13533 - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure
13534 script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
13535 - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like
13536 cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
13537 - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all
13538 introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from
13539 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
13541 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
13542 - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved
13544 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
13545 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
13546 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
13547 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
13548 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
13549 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
13552 Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25
13553 Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC,
13554 fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options
13555 that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with
13556 vulnerable-plaintext protocols.
13558 o New directory authorities:
13559 - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory
13563 - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS
13564 handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589.
13565 - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake
13566 code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while
13567 renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590.
13568 - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory
13569 responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients
13570 asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially
13574 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
13575 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
13576 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
13577 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
13578 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
13579 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
13580 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
13581 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
13582 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
13583 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any.
13586 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
13587 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
13588 - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than
13589 we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported
13593 - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if
13594 the request isn't encrypted.
13595 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
13596 - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more
13597 robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available;
13598 retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we
13599 already have a usable v0 rend desc.
13602 Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17
13603 Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops).
13606 - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball.
13609 Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17
13610 Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten
13611 Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs.
13613 o New directory authorities:
13614 - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory
13617 o Major performance improvements:
13618 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
13619 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
13620 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
13621 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
13622 memory fragmentation.
13625 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
13626 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
13627 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
13628 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
13629 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out
13630 there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such
13631 bodies when they receive them.
13632 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
13633 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
13634 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
13636 o Minor performance improvements:
13637 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
13638 of them were actually distinct.
13639 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is
13640 interested in a given message.
13643 - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to
13644 download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix
13645 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569.
13646 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
13647 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
13648 list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare
13649 bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222.
13650 - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client
13651 and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't
13652 anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor.
13653 - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on
13655 - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried
13656 to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583.
13657 - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest
13658 estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from
13659 this country" and "1 person from this country".
13660 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.
13661 - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in
13662 crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
13663 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
13664 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
13666 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
13667 router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.
13668 - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix
13670 - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present
13671 but client versions are not.
13672 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
13673 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
13675 - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're
13676 compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k
13677 left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
13678 - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service.
13679 - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre
13681 - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the
13682 control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current
13683 network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on
13686 o Minor features (controller):
13687 - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup.
13688 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
13689 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
13690 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
13692 o Minor features (directory authorities):
13693 - New configuration options to override default maximum number of
13694 servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
13695 running a test network on a single host.
13696 - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert.
13697 - Add a manual page for tor-gencert.
13699 o Minor features (bridges):
13700 - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over
13701 unencrypted connections.
13703 o Minor features (other):
13704 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
13705 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
13706 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
13707 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
13710 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
13711 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
13712 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
13713 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
13716 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
13717 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
13718 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
13719 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
13720 on network address.
13723 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
13724 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
13725 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
13726 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
13727 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
13728 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
13729 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
13730 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
13731 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
13732 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
13733 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
13734 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
13737 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
13738 rebuild our server descriptor.
13739 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
13740 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
13741 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
13742 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
13743 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
13744 nonstandard integer types.
13745 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
13746 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
13747 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
13748 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
13749 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
13751 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
13752 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
13753 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
13754 when they receive them.
13755 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
13756 This includes some 64-bit systems.
13757 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
13758 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
13759 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
13760 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
13761 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
13762 router_get_by_hexdigest().
13763 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
13764 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
13768 Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25
13769 Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the
13770 features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha.
13773 - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests
13774 for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This
13775 was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who
13776 would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash
13777 when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x.
13778 - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than
13779 estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority
13780 compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
13783 - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation.
13784 - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was
13785 previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just
13786 ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes
13788 - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example
13789 self-reachability and authority-reachability tests.
13792 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
13793 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
13796 Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23
13798 - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh
13799 without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported
13801 - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be
13802 unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started
13803 fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we
13804 aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
13805 - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first
13806 time you use a given introduction point for your service, but
13807 on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by
13808 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
13809 - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't
13810 currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on
13814 - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a
13815 snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to
13816 anybody who knows that password. Unset by default.
13819 - Make the unit tests build again.
13820 - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" actually work.
13821 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
13822 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
13823 - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to
13824 be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes
13825 bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
13826 - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an
13827 identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard
13828 the next one as a duplicate.
13831 - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for
13832 PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3".
13833 - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set
13834 RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out.
13837 Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21
13838 Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff
13839 Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for
13842 o New directory authorities:
13843 - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory
13847 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
13848 enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick
13849 two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was
13850 causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been
13851 running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448.
13852 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
13853 service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix
13855 - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds
13856 after opening a circuit -- even a relayed circuit. Bugfix on
13858 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
13859 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
13860 crashing or mis-answering these types of requests.
13861 - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2
13862 directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only
13863 authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities.
13865 - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring
13866 the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose
13867 descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
13868 - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we
13869 were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the
13870 whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13873 - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time
13874 intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they
13875 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
13876 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
13877 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
13878 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
13879 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
13880 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
13881 - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one
13882 of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses
13883 to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country.
13884 - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users
13885 are coming from, and report aggregate information in their
13886 extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn
13887 where Tor is blocked.
13888 - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the
13889 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
13890 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
13891 to a file periodically.
13892 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
13893 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
13894 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
13898 - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network
13899 consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single
13900 IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and
13901 also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed
13902 in the relevant networkstatus document.
13903 - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the
13904 PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman;
13905 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
13906 - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors
13907 that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried
13908 to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have
13909 crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch
13910 by Karsten Loesing.
13911 - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc.
13912 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
13913 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
13914 clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer.
13915 - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr
13916 via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
13917 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
13918 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
13919 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
13920 "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13921 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
13922 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
13923 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
13924 to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13925 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
13926 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown
13927 routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.)
13928 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
13929 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
13930 nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13931 - Fix compilation with --disable-threads set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
13932 - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes
13933 bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
13934 - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should
13935 create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors
13936 used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
13937 - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info
13938 documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13941 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
13942 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
13943 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
13944 less often, now that v3 is encouraged.
13945 - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to
13946 be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes
13947 you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info,
13948 even if your DirPort isn't on.
13949 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
13950 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
13951 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
13953 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
13954 multiple controller passwords.
13955 - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given
13956 router based on the router's purpose.
13957 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
13958 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
13959 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
13960 the approved-routers file.
13963 Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16
13964 This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as
13965 well as a few minor bugs.
13968 - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup.
13969 - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes
13970 package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc.
13972 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
13973 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
13974 rebuild our server descriptor.
13976 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
13977 - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous
13978 operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing.
13979 - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a
13980 newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry.
13981 - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same
13982 IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting
13983 to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a
13984 given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they
13985 never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running'
13987 - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way
13988 the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know
13989 a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to
13990 fall back to asking the bridge authority.
13991 - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our
13992 chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards,
13993 then be flexible about families.
13996 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
13997 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
13998 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for
14002 Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12
14003 This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with
14004 the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit
14005 policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and
14006 fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list.
14009 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
14010 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
14011 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
14012 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
14013 on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
14016 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
14017 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix
14019 - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply
14020 because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22
14021 where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an
14022 old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the
14023 consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548.
14024 Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so,
14025 we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
14027 o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha:
14028 - We were including instructions about what to do with the
14029 src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually
14030 including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now.
14033 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
14034 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
14037 - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document
14038 just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend
14039 to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
14042 Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10
14043 This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority
14044 run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service
14045 descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced
14046 in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation,
14047 fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and
14048 addresses many more minor issues.
14050 o New directory authorities:
14051 - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority.
14054 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
14055 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
14056 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
14057 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
14059 - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to
14060 implement new hidden service descriptor format.
14061 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
14062 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
14063 and are reaching it.
14064 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes
14065 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
14066 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
14067 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
14068 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
14069 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
14072 - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or
14073 maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported
14075 - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in
14076 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges
14077 no longer work for clients.
14078 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
14079 buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544.
14081 o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha):
14082 - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were
14083 mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the
14084 descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers
14085 would start complaining after a few days that they don't have
14086 enough directory information to build a circuit.
14087 - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive
14088 that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only
14089 considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help.
14090 - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the
14091 consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching
14092 the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it
14094 - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad
14095 Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending
14096 requests for all of them.
14097 - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes
14099 - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running
14100 for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly
14101 started authority would vote that everyone was down.
14103 o New requirements:
14104 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
14105 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
14109 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
14110 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
14111 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
14112 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
14113 - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus
14114 networkstatuses that we already have.
14115 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
14116 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
14117 we start knowing some directory caches.
14118 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
14119 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
14120 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
14121 - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that
14122 certificate's claims about the authority's IP address.
14123 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
14124 Good in combination with --hash-password.
14125 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
14126 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
14128 - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful.
14129 - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to
14130 track down the second incarnation of bug 546.
14132 o Minor features (bridges):
14133 - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest
14134 they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall
14135 back to trying the bridge directly.
14136 - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
14137 the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns.
14139 o Minor features (controller):
14140 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
14141 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
14142 report the value as a "minimum skew."
14145 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
14146 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
14150 - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix
14151 on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman.
14152 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
14153 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x;
14154 reported by tup and ioerror.
14155 - Better log message on vote from unknown authority.
14156 - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message.
14158 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
14159 - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix
14161 - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix
14162 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 536.
14163 - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on
14165 - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus.
14166 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
14167 - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature.
14168 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
14169 - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or
14170 a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
14171 - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on
14173 - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a
14174 Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when
14175 using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
14177 - Minor bugfixes (portability):
14178 - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned
14179 long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is
14180 OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In
14181 particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5.
14184 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
14185 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
14186 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
14187 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
14188 lists for a few hours each day.
14190 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
14191 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
14192 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
14193 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
14194 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
14195 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
14196 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
14197 rend_process_relay_cell().
14199 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
14200 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
14201 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
14202 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
14203 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
14204 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
14205 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
14206 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
14208 o Major bugfixes (other):
14209 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
14210 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
14211 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
14212 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
14213 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
14214 circuit cannibalization).
14215 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
14216 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
14217 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
14218 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
14219 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
14220 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
14223 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
14224 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
14226 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
14227 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
14228 absent. Resolves bug 467.
14229 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
14230 a way to trigger this remotely.)
14231 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
14232 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
14233 were reporting the dir port.)
14234 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
14235 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
14236 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
14237 the future. Fixes bug 434.
14238 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
14240 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
14241 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
14242 the onion key from getting rotated.
14243 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
14244 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
14245 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
14246 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
14247 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
14248 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
14249 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
14250 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
14251 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
14254 Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24
14255 This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory
14256 system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they
14257 have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other
14258 bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear
14259 from the network status lists for a few hours each day.
14261 o Major features (directory system):
14262 - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead
14263 of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their
14264 opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only
14265 download router descriptors listed in the consensus.
14266 - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as
14267 a different named server, but list them with a new flag,
14268 "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same
14269 nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
14270 disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122.
14271 - If the consensus lists a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned
14272 to a different router: do not identify the router by that name.
14273 Partially implements proposal 122.
14274 - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to
14275 compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility.
14278 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or
14279 when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish
14280 it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the
14281 authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule.
14283 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
14284 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
14285 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
14286 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
14287 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
14288 consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
14289 - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch
14290 extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not
14291 matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14293 o Minor features (v3 directory protocol):
14294 - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing
14296 - Allow certificates to include an address.
14297 - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting
14298 and download operations.
14299 - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as
14300 we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet.
14301 - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading
14302 certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a
14303 consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure,
14304 and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a
14306 - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a
14307 little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are
14310 o Minor features (router descriptor cache):
14311 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
14312 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
14313 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
14315 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
14316 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
14317 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
14319 o Minor features (performance):
14320 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
14321 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
14322 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
14323 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
14324 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
14325 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
14326 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
14329 o Minor features (compilation):
14330 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
14331 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
14333 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
14334 - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately
14335 after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them
14336 stick around indefinitely.
14337 - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as
14339 - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a
14340 v3 directory authority.
14341 - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed
14342 as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct
14344 - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put
14345 its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to
14346 "moria on moria:9031."
14347 - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and
14348 detached signatures for a divergent vote.
14349 - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus.
14350 - When there's no concensus, we were forming a vote every 30
14351 minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based
14352 on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals
14353 matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't
14354 start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote.
14356 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
14357 - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set.
14358 - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately
14359 after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice.
14360 - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus
14361 should exist before trying to replace the current one.
14362 - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus
14363 downloads than for other types.
14365 o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues):
14366 - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on
14368 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
14369 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
14370 supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
14372 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
14373 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
14374 option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
14375 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
14376 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
14377 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
14378 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
14379 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
14381 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
14382 - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor"
14383 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman.
14384 - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make
14385 it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
14386 - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to
14387 fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough
14388 info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
14389 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
14390 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
14391 yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix
14393 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
14394 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix
14397 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
14398 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
14399 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
14400 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
14401 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
14402 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
14403 - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory.
14404 - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c.
14405 - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server
14406 so that they all take the same named flags.
14409 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
14410 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
14411 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
14414 Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12
14415 This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering
14416 us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge
14417 descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working,
14418 starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors,
14419 and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks.
14421 o Major features (router descriptor cache):
14422 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
14423 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
14424 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
14425 annotations along with descriptors.
14426 - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its
14427 source, and its purpose.
14428 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
14430 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
14431 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
14432 - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning
14433 we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them
14436 o Major features (directory authorities):
14437 - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries
14439 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as
14440 weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding
14441 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
14442 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
14443 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
14444 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
14446 o Major features (v3 directory system):
14447 - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed,
14448 and download the descriptors listed in them.
14449 - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority
14450 certificates, and re-attempt after failures.
14451 - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing.
14453 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
14454 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
14455 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
14456 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on
14459 o Major bugfixes (performance):
14460 - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of
14461 routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info "
14462 string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo
14463 we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like.
14465 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
14466 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
14467 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
14468 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
14469 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
14470 eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
14472 o Minor features (v3 authority system):
14473 - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the
14475 - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or
14476 certificate is requested.
14477 - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of
14478 certificate requests.
14480 o Minor bugfixes (network statuses):
14481 - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most
14482 two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location
14483 of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on
14486 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
14487 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
14488 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
14489 were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
14491 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system):
14492 - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on
14494 - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already
14495 set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may
14496 have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
14497 - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule.
14498 - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting
14499 schedule, not on our preferred schedule.
14500 - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and
14501 downloads more sensible.
14502 - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and
14503 another when serving certificates.
14505 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
14506 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
14507 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
14508 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
14510 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state
14511 file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
14512 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on
14514 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
14515 command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
14517 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
14518 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
14519 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
14520 - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases.
14521 Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha.
14523 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
14524 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
14525 WARN-severity events.
14526 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
14527 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is
14528 fishy. Resolves bug 463.
14530 o Minor bugfixes (anonymity):
14531 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
14532 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
14534 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
14535 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
14536 circuit cannibalization).
14538 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
14539 - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code.
14540 - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a
14541 new module, networkstatus.c.
14542 - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into
14543 routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each
14544 authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally
14545 computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally
14546 modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common
14547 stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use,
14548 clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions;
14549 thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone.
14550 - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more
14552 - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to
14554 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
14555 The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha.
14558 Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21
14559 This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge
14560 authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws
14561 in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues.
14563 o New directory authorities:
14564 - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See
14565 doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design.
14567 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
14568 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
14569 rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
14571 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
14572 - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to
14573 attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers
14574 to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort,
14575 and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
14576 - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge
14577 users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity
14578 fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the
14579 default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits
14580 are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later
14581 connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
14583 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
14584 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
14585 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
14586 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
14587 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
14588 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
14589 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both
14590 are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service
14591 connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing.
14593 o Minor features (security):
14594 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
14595 address maps to an internal address space.
14596 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
14597 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
14599 o Minor features (guard nodes):
14600 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
14601 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
14602 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
14603 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
14605 o Minor features (speed):
14606 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
14607 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
14608 network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e.,
14609 on big-endian hosts.)
14611 o Minor features (controller):
14612 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
14613 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
14614 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
14615 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
14618 o Removed features:
14619 - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their
14620 descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info
14621 documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60%
14622 (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes
14623 implementation of proposal 104.
14624 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
14625 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
14626 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
14627 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
14628 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
14629 patch from Karsten Loesing.
14630 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
14631 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
14634 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
14635 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes
14636 bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
14637 - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault
14638 in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
14639 - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
14640 Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14641 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
14642 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves
14643 bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
14644 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
14645 BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
14646 were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and
14647 RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
14648 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
14649 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
14650 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
14651 code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
14652 - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status.
14653 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode.
14655 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
14656 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
14657 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
14659 - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type.
14660 - Move all NT services code into a separate source file.
14661 - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc.
14662 - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies.
14665 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
14666 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
14667 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
14668 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
14669 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
14672 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
14673 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
14676 o Major bugfixes (security):
14677 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
14678 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
14679 become more of a headache than it's worth.
14681 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
14682 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
14683 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
14685 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
14686 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
14687 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
14688 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
14689 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
14690 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
14692 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
14693 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
14694 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
14695 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
14696 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
14698 o Minor features (controller):
14699 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
14700 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
14701 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
14702 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
14704 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
14705 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
14706 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
14707 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
14708 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
14709 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
14710 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
14711 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
14713 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
14714 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
14715 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
14716 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
14717 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
14718 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
14719 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
14720 if we ran off the end of the list.
14721 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
14722 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
14723 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
14724 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
14725 every time we change any piece of our config.
14726 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
14727 encourage people using them to stop.
14728 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
14730 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
14731 servers to choose a circuit.
14732 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
14733 unparseable piece of it.
14736 Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26
14737 This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the
14738 Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for
14739 the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
14742 In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems
14743 with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many
14744 people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new
14745 mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable,
14746 rather than just looking at the most recent uptime.
14748 o New directory authorities:
14749 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
14752 - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted
14753 mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data,
14754 use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether
14755 to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108.
14757 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
14758 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
14759 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
14761 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
14762 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
14763 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
14764 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
14765 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
14766 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
14768 o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing):
14769 - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug
14770 found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
14773 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
14774 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
14775 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
14776 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
14780 - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added
14781 routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x)
14782 - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected
14783 address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix
14785 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
14786 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
14788 - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0"
14789 in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the
14790 new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman.
14791 - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that
14792 conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman.
14793 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
14794 servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
14795 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
14796 unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
14797 - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit.
14800 Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
14801 This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again;
14802 fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put
14803 extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory
14804 voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based
14805 authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs.
14807 o Removed features:
14808 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
14809 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
14810 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
14811 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
14814 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
14815 - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
14816 - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
14817 not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
14818 - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
14821 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
14822 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
14823 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
14824 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
14825 circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454;
14826 reported by lodger.
14828 o Minor features (directory servers):
14829 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
14830 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
14832 o Minor features (directory voting):
14833 - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
14836 o Minor features (security):
14837 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
14838 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
14839 encourage people using them to stop.
14841 o Minor features (controller):
14842 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
14843 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
14844 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
14845 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
14846 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
14847 cookie authentication file, and config option
14848 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
14850 o Minor features (unit testing):
14851 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
14852 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
14853 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
14854 logging for the unit tests.
14856 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
14857 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
14858 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
14859 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
14860 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
14861 every time we change any piece of our config.
14862 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
14863 the future. Fixes bug 434.
14864 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
14866 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
14867 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
14868 the onion key from getting rotated.
14869 - Clean up torrc sample config file.
14870 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
14871 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
14874 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
14875 - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
14876 the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
14878 - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes
14879 try to print a NULL. Patch from tup.
14880 - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
14881 - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
14884 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
14885 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
14886 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
14887 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
14888 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
14889 TorK, etc. Or worse.
14891 o Major security fixes:
14892 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
14893 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
14896 Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
14897 This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability
14898 for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody
14899 should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha.
14901 o Major security fixes:
14902 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
14903 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
14905 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
14906 - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
14909 o Minor features (performance):
14910 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
14911 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
14912 performance-intensive.
14913 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
14914 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
14915 now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
14916 powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
14917 slightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
14918 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
14922 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
14923 This third development snapshot introduces new experimental
14924 blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3
14925 directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features
14929 - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
14930 are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
14931 people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
14932 with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
14933 See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
14935 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
14936 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
14937 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
14938 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
14940 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
14941 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
14942 on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
14943 - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
14944 traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
14946 o Major features (experimental):
14947 - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
14948 vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
14949 their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
14950 handling before it's ready for use.
14953 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
14954 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
14955 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
14956 complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
14957 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
14958 Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
14960 - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
14961 procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
14962 some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
14963 solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
14964 the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
14966 o Major bugfixes (directory):
14967 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
14968 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
14970 o Minor features (controller):
14971 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
14972 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
14973 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
14974 from Robert Hogan.)
14975 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
14976 from Robert Hogan.)
14977 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
14978 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
14980 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
14981 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
14982 support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
14983 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
14984 tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
14985 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
14986 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
14989 o Minor features (misc):
14990 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
14992 - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
14993 files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
14994 the authority identity key.
14995 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
14997 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
14998 - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
14999 if they generate a network status document that is somehow
15002 o Traffic load balancing improvements:
15003 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
15004 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
15005 (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
15006 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
15007 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
15008 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
15009 if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
15011 o Performance improvements:
15012 - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
15014 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
15015 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
15018 o Deprecated and removed features:
15019 - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
15020 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
15021 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
15022 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
15024 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
15025 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
15026 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
15027 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
15028 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
15029 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
15030 - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
15031 suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
15032 servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
15035 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
15036 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
15037 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
15038 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
15039 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
15041 - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
15042 changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
15045 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
15046 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
15047 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
15048 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
15049 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
15050 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
15051 from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
15052 - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
15053 events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
15056 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
15057 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
15058 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
15059 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
15061 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
15062 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
15064 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
15065 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
15066 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
15067 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
15068 routerlist while inserting a new router.
15069 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
15070 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
15072 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
15073 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
15074 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
15076 o Major bugfixes (security):
15077 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
15079 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
15080 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
15081 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
15082 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
15083 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
15084 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
15085 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
15086 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
15087 guard list unless we need to.
15089 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
15090 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
15091 don't get overused as guards.
15093 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
15094 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
15095 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
15096 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
15097 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
15099 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
15100 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
15101 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
15104 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
15105 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
15106 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
15107 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
15108 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
15109 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
15110 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
15111 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
15114 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
15115 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
15116 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
15117 Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
15119 o Minor features (directory):
15120 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
15121 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
15122 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
15123 are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
15125 o Minor build issues:
15126 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
15127 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
15128 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
15129 in the tarball, not as "x".
15132 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
15133 This early development snapshot provides new features for people running
15134 Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth
15135 config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us
15136 forward on a lot of fronts.
15138 o Major features, server usability:
15139 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
15140 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
15141 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
15142 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
15144 o Major features, client usability:
15145 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
15146 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
15147 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
15148 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
15149 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
15150 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
15151 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
15152 do all of their connections protected by TLS.
15154 o Major features, performance and efficiency:
15155 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
15156 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
15157 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
15158 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
15159 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
15161 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
15162 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
15163 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
15165 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
15166 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
15167 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
15168 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
15169 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
15171 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
15172 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
15173 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
15174 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
15176 o Major features, other:
15177 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
15178 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
15179 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
15180 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
15181 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
15184 - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
15185 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
15186 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
15189 o Minor fixes (resource management):
15190 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
15191 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
15192 our allocated connection limit.
15193 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
15194 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
15195 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
15196 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
15197 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
15199 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
15200 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
15201 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
15203 o Minor features (build):
15204 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
15205 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
15206 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
15207 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
15209 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
15210 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
15211 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
15212 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
15213 Use this version consistently in log messages.
15215 o Minor features (logging):
15216 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
15217 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
15218 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
15219 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
15220 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
15223 o Minor features (directory system):
15224 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
15225 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
15226 not to serve V2 directory information.
15227 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
15228 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
15229 implementing proposal 104 simpler.
15231 o Minor features (controller):
15232 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
15233 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
15235 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
15236 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
15237 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
15238 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
15239 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
15240 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
15242 o Minor features (hidden services):
15243 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
15244 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
15245 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
15246 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
15248 o Minor features (other):
15250 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
15251 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
15252 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
15253 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
15254 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
15255 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
15256 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
15257 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
15258 longer a completely silly thing to do.
15259 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
15260 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
15261 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
15262 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
15264 o Removed features:
15265 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
15266 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
15267 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
15268 back an error and close the connection.
15269 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
15270 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
15273 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
15274 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
15275 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
15276 makes the log messages nicer.
15277 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
15278 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
15279 partial results on small file reads.
15281 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
15282 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
15283 more often than they are allowed to appear.
15284 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
15285 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
15287 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
15288 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
15289 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
15290 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
15292 o Minor bugfixes (other):
15293 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
15294 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
15295 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
15296 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
15297 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
15298 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
15299 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
15300 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
15301 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
15302 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
15304 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
15305 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
15306 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
15308 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
15309 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
15310 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
15311 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
15313 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
15314 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
15315 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
15317 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
15318 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
15321 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
15322 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
15323 implicit in other procedure arguments.
15324 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
15325 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
15326 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
15327 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
15328 properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
15329 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
15330 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
15331 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
15332 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
15335 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
15336 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
15337 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
15338 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
15340 o Directory authority changes:
15341 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
15342 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
15343 or use hidden services.
15345 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
15346 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
15347 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
15348 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
15349 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
15350 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
15351 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
15352 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
15353 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
15356 o Major bugfixes (security):
15357 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
15358 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
15359 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
15361 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
15362 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
15363 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
15364 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
15365 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
15366 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
15367 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
15368 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
15369 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
15370 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
15373 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
15374 purpose=controller.
15375 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
15376 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
15378 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
15379 having a hard time downloading.
15380 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
15381 partial results on small file reads.
15382 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
15383 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
15384 the gaps in the store get very large.
15387 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
15388 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
15390 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
15391 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
15394 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
15395 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
15396 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
15397 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
15398 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
15399 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
15401 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
15402 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
15403 free speech on the Internet.
15406 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
15407 get one we don't recognize.
15408 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
15409 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
15412 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
15414 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
15415 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
15416 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
15417 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
15420 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
15421 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
15424 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
15425 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
15426 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
15427 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
15428 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
15429 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
15430 ask for GUARDS too.
15433 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
15434 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
15435 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
15436 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
15437 on Win98 and friends again.
15439 o Minor bugfixes (other):
15440 - Clarify a couple of log messages.
15441 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
15444 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
15445 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
15446 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
15447 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
15448 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
15449 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
15450 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
15451 and maybe also bug 397.)
15453 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
15454 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
15455 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
15457 o Minor bugfixes (server):
15458 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
15461 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
15462 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
15463 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
15464 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
15465 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
15467 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
15468 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
15469 load on authorities.
15471 o Minor bugfixes (other):
15472 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
15473 cleared EntryNodes. Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.
15474 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
15476 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
15478 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
15479 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
15480 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
15481 the last of bug 326.)
15482 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
15483 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
15487 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
15488 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
15489 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
15490 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
15491 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
15492 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
15493 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
15495 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
15496 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
15498 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
15499 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
15500 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
15502 o Major bugfixes (accounting):
15503 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
15504 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
15506 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
15507 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
15508 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
15509 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. Resolves part
15511 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
15512 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
15514 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
15515 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
15516 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
15519 o Minor bugfixes (other):
15520 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
15521 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
15522 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
15523 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
15524 from all known directories, not that it will have the average
15525 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
15526 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
15527 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
15528 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
15529 user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
15530 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
15531 other than file-not-found.
15532 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
15533 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
15534 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
15535 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
15536 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
15537 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
15538 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
15539 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
15540 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
15541 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
15542 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
15543 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
15544 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
15545 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
15546 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
15548 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
15550 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
15551 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
15553 o Minor features (controller):
15554 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
15555 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
15556 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
15558 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
15559 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
15560 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
15561 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
15562 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
15563 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
15564 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
15565 connected or resolved cell.
15567 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
15568 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
15569 some profiles, but not others.)
15570 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
15571 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
15572 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
15575 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
15577 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
15578 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
15579 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
15580 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
15581 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
15582 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
15583 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
15584 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
15585 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
15586 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
15587 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
15588 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
15589 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
15590 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
15591 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
15593 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
15596 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
15597 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
15598 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
15599 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
15600 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
15601 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
15602 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
15604 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
15605 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
15606 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
15607 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
15608 buckets go absurdly negative.
15609 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
15610 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
15613 o Major bugfixes (NT services):
15614 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
15615 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
15616 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
15617 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
15618 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
15619 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
15620 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
15623 o Major bugfixes (other):
15624 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
15625 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
15626 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
15627 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
15629 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
15631 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
15632 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
15634 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
15635 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
15636 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
15637 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
15638 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
15639 to wait for 0.2.0.)
15641 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
15642 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
15643 possible memory-stomping bugs.
15644 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
15645 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
15647 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
15648 in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
15649 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
15650 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
15651 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
15652 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
15654 o Minor bugfixes (other):
15655 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
15656 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
15657 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
15659 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
15660 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
15661 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
15662 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
15663 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
15664 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
15665 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
15666 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
15667 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
15668 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
15669 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
15670 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
15671 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
15673 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
15674 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
15675 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
15676 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
15677 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
15678 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
15679 to the resulting address.
15682 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
15683 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
15684 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
15685 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
15688 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
15689 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
15691 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
15692 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
15693 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
15694 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
15695 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
15696 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
15697 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
15698 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
15699 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
15700 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
15701 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
15702 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
15703 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
15704 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
15705 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
15706 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
15707 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
15710 o Minor features (controller):
15711 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
15712 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
15713 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
15714 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
15715 - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
15716 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
15717 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
15721 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
15723 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
15724 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
15725 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
15726 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
15727 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
15728 Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
15731 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
15732 weren't planning to resolve.
15733 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
15734 unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
15735 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
15736 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
15737 the controller from learning about current events.
15739 o Minor features (more controller status events):
15740 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
15741 learn when our address changes.
15742 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
15743 can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
15744 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
15745 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
15747 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
15748 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
15749 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
15750 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
15751 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
15752 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
15753 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
15754 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
15755 are accepted by a directory.
15756 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
15757 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
15758 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
15759 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
15760 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
15762 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
15763 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
15764 about changes to DNS server status.
15766 o Minor features (directory):
15767 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
15768 too much load to the exit nodes.
15771 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
15773 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
15774 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
15775 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
15776 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
15777 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
15779 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
15780 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
15781 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
15783 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
15784 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
15785 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
15786 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
15787 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
15788 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
15789 config options if you like.
15791 o Minor features (config and docs):
15792 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
15793 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
15794 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
15795 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
15796 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
15798 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
15799 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
15800 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
15801 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
15802 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
15804 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
15805 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
15806 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
15807 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
15808 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
15809 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
15810 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
15811 documentation: "make check-docs".
15812 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
15813 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
15815 o Minor features (DNS):
15816 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
15817 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
15818 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
15819 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
15820 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
15821 our tests for DNS hijacking.
15823 o Minor features (directory):
15824 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
15825 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
15826 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
15827 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
15828 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
15829 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
15830 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
15831 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
15832 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
15833 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
15834 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
15835 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
15836 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
15837 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
15838 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
15839 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
15840 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
15841 for the thing we're trying to download.
15842 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
15843 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
15844 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
15846 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
15847 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
15848 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
15851 o Minor features (controller):
15852 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
15853 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
15855 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
15856 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
15857 entry guard status as it changes.
15859 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
15860 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
15861 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
15862 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
15863 to set log options.
15864 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
15865 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
15866 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
15867 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
15870 o Major bugfixes (security):
15871 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
15872 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
15873 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
15874 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
15876 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
15877 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
15878 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
15879 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
15880 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
15882 o Major bugfixes (other):
15883 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
15884 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
15885 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
15886 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
15888 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
15889 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
15890 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
15891 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
15892 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
15893 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
15897 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
15898 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
15899 unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
15900 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
15901 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
15903 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
15904 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
15906 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
15907 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
15908 family lists conveniently.
15909 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
15910 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
15911 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
15913 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
15914 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
15916 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
15917 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
15918 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
15919 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
15920 if their identity keys are as expected.
15921 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
15922 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
15923 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
15925 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
15926 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
15927 reported by Mike Perry.
15928 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
15929 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
15930 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
15931 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
15934 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
15935 o Security bugfixes:
15936 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
15937 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
15938 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
15939 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
15943 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
15944 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
15945 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
15948 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
15950 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
15951 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
15952 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
15955 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
15956 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
15957 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
15958 watching for STREAM events.
15959 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
15960 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
15961 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
15962 operations, for profiling.
15965 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
15966 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
15967 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
15968 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
15969 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
15970 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
15972 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
15976 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
15977 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
15978 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
15979 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
15980 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
15982 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
15983 correctly in the Windows installer.
15984 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
15985 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
15986 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
15987 MIPSpro C compiler.
15988 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
15989 when we're running as a client.
15992 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
15994 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
15995 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
15996 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
15997 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
15998 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
15999 its circuits on demand.
16000 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
16001 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
16002 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
16003 connections more stable on average.
16004 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
16005 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
16006 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
16008 o Security bugfixes:
16009 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
16010 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
16013 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
16015 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
16016 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
16017 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
16018 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
16019 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
16020 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
16021 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
16022 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
16025 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
16027 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
16028 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
16029 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
16030 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
16031 routers for even longer.
16032 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
16033 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
16034 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
16035 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
16036 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
16037 caching HTTP proxies.
16038 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
16041 o Minor features, controller:
16042 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
16043 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
16044 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
16045 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
16047 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
16048 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
16049 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
16050 working much like those for circuit events.
16051 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
16052 about the current status of a router.
16053 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
16054 a router's status has changed.
16055 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
16056 can tell which events and features are supported.
16057 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
16058 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
16060 o Security bugfixes:
16061 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
16062 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
16065 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
16066 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
16067 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
16068 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
16069 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
16070 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
16071 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
16072 long nicknames where appropriate.
16073 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
16074 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
16075 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
16076 chews through many circuits before giving up.
16077 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
16078 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
16079 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
16080 stop. Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.
16081 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
16082 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
16084 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
16085 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
16086 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
16088 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
16089 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
16090 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
16091 with mmap). This bug was harmless.
16092 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
16093 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
16094 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
16095 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
16096 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
16097 (reported by fookoowa).
16098 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
16099 and reported by some Centos users.
16100 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
16101 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
16102 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
16103 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
16104 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
16105 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
16106 before we check for libevent.
16109 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
16111 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
16112 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
16113 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
16114 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
16115 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
16116 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
16117 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
16118 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
16119 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
16120 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
16121 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
16122 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
16123 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
16124 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
16125 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
16126 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
16127 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
16128 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
16129 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
16130 lets you turn it off.
16131 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
16132 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
16133 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
16134 us into the directory more quickly.
16136 o New/improved config options:
16137 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
16138 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
16139 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
16140 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
16141 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
16142 all the machines on the same subnet.
16143 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
16144 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
16145 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
16146 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
16147 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
16148 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
16149 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
16150 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
16151 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
16152 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
16154 o Minor features, controller:
16155 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
16156 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
16157 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
16158 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
16159 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
16160 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
16161 for more information.
16162 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
16163 best guess to the user.
16164 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
16165 descriptor has changed.
16166 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
16168 o Minor features, other:
16169 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
16170 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
16171 useful to the network.
16172 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
16173 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
16174 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
16175 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
16176 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
16177 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
16178 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
16179 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
16180 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
16181 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
16182 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
16183 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
16184 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
16185 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
16186 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
16188 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
16189 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
16190 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
16191 could return an unnamed server instead.
16192 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
16193 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
16194 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
16195 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
16196 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
16197 a more attractive target for compromise.)
16198 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
16199 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
16200 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
16202 o Major bugfixes, other:
16203 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
16204 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
16205 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
16206 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
16207 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
16208 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
16209 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
16210 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
16211 its circuits on demand.
16212 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
16213 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
16214 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
16215 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
16217 o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
16218 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
16219 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
16220 we don't recognize.
16221 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
16223 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
16224 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
16225 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
16226 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
16227 "extendcircuit" request.
16228 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
16229 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
16230 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
16232 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
16233 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
16234 instead of "X resolved to X".
16235 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
16236 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
16237 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
16238 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
16239 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
16240 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
16241 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
16242 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
16243 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
16245 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
16246 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
16247 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
16248 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
16249 result more than once.
16250 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
16251 non-versioning dirservers.
16252 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
16253 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
16255 o Minor bugfixes, performance:
16256 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
16257 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
16258 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
16259 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
16260 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
16261 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
16262 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
16263 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
16265 o Packaging, features:
16266 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
16267 now universal binaries.
16268 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
16269 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
16270 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
16272 o Packaging, bugfixes:
16273 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
16274 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
16275 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
16276 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
16278 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
16279 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
16280 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
16283 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
16284 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
16285 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
16289 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
16291 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
16292 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
16293 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
16294 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
16295 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
16296 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
16297 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
16298 it can't resolve its hostname.
16301 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
16302 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
16303 "extendcircuit" request.
16304 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
16305 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
16306 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
16307 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
16309 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
16310 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
16311 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
16313 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
16314 methods: these are known to be buggy.
16315 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
16316 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
16317 we don't recognize.
16320 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
16322 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
16323 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
16324 --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
16325 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
16326 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
16327 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
16328 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
16329 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
16330 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
16331 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
16332 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
16333 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
16334 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
16335 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
16336 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
16337 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
16338 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
16339 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
16340 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
16341 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
16342 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
16343 /16 network when constructing a circuit.
16344 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
16345 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
16348 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
16349 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
16350 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
16351 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
16352 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
16353 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
16354 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
16355 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
16356 recommendation system saner.)
16357 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
16359 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
16360 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
16361 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
16362 - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
16363 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
16364 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
16365 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
16366 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
16367 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
16368 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
16369 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
16370 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
16371 your ORPort is set.
16372 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
16373 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
16374 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
16375 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
16376 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
16377 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
16378 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
16379 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
16380 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
16381 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
16382 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
16383 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
16385 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
16386 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
16387 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
16388 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
16389 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
16390 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
16393 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
16394 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
16395 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
16396 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
16397 our DirPort now, etc.
16398 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
16399 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
16400 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
16401 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
16402 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
16403 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
16404 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
16406 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
16407 whether the config options are bad or good.
16408 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
16409 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
16410 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
16411 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
16412 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
16413 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
16414 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
16415 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
16418 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
16419 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
16420 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
16421 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
16422 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
16423 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
16424 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
16425 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
16426 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
16427 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
16428 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
16429 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
16430 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
16431 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
16432 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
16433 of it), is not therefore "up".
16434 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
16435 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
16436 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
16437 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
16438 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
16439 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
16442 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
16444 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
16445 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
16446 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
16447 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
16448 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
16449 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
16450 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
16451 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
16452 test reachability, so you won't publish.
16455 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
16456 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
16457 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
16458 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
16459 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
16461 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
16462 own server descriptor yet.
16465 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
16467 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
16468 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
16469 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
16470 make sure to test via one of these.
16471 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
16472 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
16473 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
16474 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
16475 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
16477 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
16478 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
16479 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
16482 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
16483 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
16484 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
16485 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
16486 directory authority.
16487 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
16488 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
16489 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
16490 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
16493 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
16494 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
16495 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
16497 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
16498 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
16499 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
16500 current guards when picking a new guard.
16501 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
16502 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
16503 when we had more than one pending.
16504 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
16505 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
16506 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
16507 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
16508 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
16509 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
16510 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
16511 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
16512 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
16513 debug the reachability problems better.
16515 o Log / documentation fixes:
16516 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
16517 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
16518 about protocol violations by others.
16519 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
16520 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
16521 about what happened to our old torrc.
16524 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
16526 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
16528 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
16529 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
16530 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
16531 more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
16534 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
16536 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
16537 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
16538 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
16539 old ORPort and receive connections.
16540 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
16542 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
16543 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
16544 and network-statuses.
16545 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
16546 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
16547 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
16548 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
16550 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
16553 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
16554 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
16555 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
16558 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
16560 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
16561 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
16562 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
16563 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
16564 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
16567 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
16568 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
16570 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
16571 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
16572 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
16573 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
16574 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
16575 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
16576 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
16577 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
16578 rather than not sending anything back at all.
16579 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
16580 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
16581 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
16582 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
16583 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
16584 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
16585 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
16586 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
16587 clients more convinced that it's recommended.
16588 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
16589 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
16590 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
16591 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
16592 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
16593 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
16594 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
16595 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
16596 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
16597 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
16598 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
16599 default ulimit -n is 1024.
16602 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
16603 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
16604 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
16605 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
16608 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
16610 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
16611 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
16612 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
16613 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
16614 entry guards running these flawed versions.
16615 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
16616 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
16617 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
16618 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
16619 include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
16622 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
16623 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
16625 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
16626 and it is confusing some users.
16627 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
16628 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
16629 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
16630 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
16631 win32 versions it thinks it's found.
16634 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
16636 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
16637 message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
16638 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
16639 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
16640 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
16641 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
16642 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
16643 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
16644 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
16645 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
16646 dirport is set for now.
16648 o New config options rather than constants in the code:
16649 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
16650 unattached before we fail it?
16651 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
16652 at least this many seconds ago.
16653 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
16654 at least this many seconds ago.
16657 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
16658 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
16659 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
16660 or resolve-wait stream.
16661 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
16662 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
16663 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
16664 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
16665 can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
16666 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
16667 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
16668 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
16670 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
16671 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
16672 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
16673 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
16674 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
16675 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
16676 given as hex digests.
16677 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
16678 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
16679 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
16680 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
16681 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
16682 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
16683 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
16684 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
16687 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
16688 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
16689 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
16690 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
16691 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
16692 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
16693 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
16694 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
16695 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
16696 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
16697 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
16700 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
16701 directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
16702 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
16703 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
16704 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
16705 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
16706 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
16709 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
16710 o Bugfixes and cleanups:
16711 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
16712 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
16713 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
16714 misreading their logs.
16715 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
16716 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
16717 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
16718 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
16719 valid router descriptors.
16720 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
16721 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
16722 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
16723 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
16724 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
16725 silently resetting it to its default.
16726 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
16728 - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
16731 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
16732 use clean circuits.
16733 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
16734 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
16735 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
16736 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
16737 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
16739 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
16740 because older Tors do not understand it.
16741 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
16745 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
16746 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
16747 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
16748 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
16749 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
16750 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
16751 fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
16752 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
16753 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
16754 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
16755 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
16757 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
16758 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
16759 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
16760 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
16762 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
16763 permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
16766 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
16767 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
16768 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
16769 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
16770 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
16771 without getting overloaded.
16772 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
16774 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
16775 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
16776 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
16777 be forward-compatible.
16778 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
16779 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
16780 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
16781 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
16783 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
16784 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
16785 and OR conns to port 443.
16786 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
16787 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
16789 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
16790 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
16791 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
16792 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
16793 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
16794 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
16795 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
16798 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
16799 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
16800 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
16801 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
16803 o Other important bugfixes:
16804 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
16805 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
16806 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
16807 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
16809 o Backported features:
16810 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
16811 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
16812 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
16813 without getting overloaded.
16814 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
16815 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
16816 503's whenever they feel busy.
16817 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
16818 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
16819 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
16820 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
16821 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
16824 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
16825 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
16826 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
16827 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
16828 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
16829 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
16830 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
16831 know if the crashes continue.
16832 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
16833 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
16834 seg faults in at least some cases.)
16835 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
16836 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
16837 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
16840 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
16841 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
16842 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
16843 try to be a bit more fair.
16844 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
16845 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
16846 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
16847 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
16848 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
16849 bug that let it go negative.
16850 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
16851 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
16852 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
16853 transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
16854 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
16855 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
16856 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
16857 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
16858 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
16859 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
16860 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
16863 - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running
16865 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
16866 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
16867 service descriptors.
16870 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
16871 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
16872 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
16873 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
16875 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
16876 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
16877 versions *are* still recommended.
16878 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
16879 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
16880 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
16881 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
16882 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
16883 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
16884 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
16885 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
16887 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
16888 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
16889 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
16890 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
16891 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
16892 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
16893 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
16894 on it. Not used by clients yet.
16895 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
16896 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
16897 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
16898 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
16899 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
16900 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
16901 established a circuit.
16902 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
16903 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
16904 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
16905 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
16908 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
16909 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
16910 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
16911 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
16912 quickly enough. Oops.
16913 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
16915 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
16916 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
16919 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
16920 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
16921 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
16922 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
16923 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
16924 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
16925 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
16926 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
16927 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
16928 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
16929 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
16930 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
16931 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
16932 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
16933 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
16934 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
16935 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
16938 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
16939 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
16940 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
16941 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
16942 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
16943 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
16944 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
16945 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
16946 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
16947 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
16948 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
16949 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
16950 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
16951 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
16952 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
16953 connections more reliable.
16956 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
16957 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
16958 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
16959 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
16960 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
16961 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
16962 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
16963 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
16964 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
16965 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
16966 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
16967 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
16968 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
16969 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
16973 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
16974 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
16975 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
16976 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
16977 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
16978 need to be uint64_t's.
16979 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
16980 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
16981 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
16983 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
16985 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
16986 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
16987 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
16988 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
16989 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
16990 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
16991 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
16993 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
16994 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
16995 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
16996 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
16997 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
16998 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
16999 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
17000 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
17001 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
17002 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
17003 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
17004 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
17005 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
17008 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
17009 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
17010 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
17011 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
17012 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
17013 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
17014 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
17016 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
17017 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
17018 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
17019 can answer v2 directory requests too.
17020 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
17021 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
17022 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
17023 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
17025 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
17026 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
17027 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
17028 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
17029 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
17030 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
17031 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
17032 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
17033 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
17034 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
17035 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
17036 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
17037 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
17038 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
17039 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
17041 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
17042 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
17045 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
17046 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
17047 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
17048 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
17049 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
17050 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
17051 too -- so detect and avoid this.
17052 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
17054 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
17055 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
17056 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
17057 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
17058 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
17059 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
17060 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
17061 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
17062 rendezvous circuits.
17063 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
17065 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
17066 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
17067 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
17068 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
17069 advertising it because of hibernation.
17070 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
17071 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
17072 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
17073 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
17074 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
17075 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
17076 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
17077 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
17078 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
17079 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
17080 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
17081 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
17082 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
17083 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
17086 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
17087 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
17088 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
17089 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
17090 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
17091 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
17092 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
17093 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
17094 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
17095 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
17096 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
17097 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
17098 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
17099 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
17100 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
17101 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
17102 connections once a week.
17103 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
17104 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
17105 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
17106 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
17107 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
17108 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
17110 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
17111 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
17112 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
17114 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
17115 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
17116 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
17117 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
17118 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
17119 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
17120 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
17121 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
17122 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
17123 firewall options forbid.
17124 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
17125 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
17126 can only proxy to certain destinations.
17127 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
17128 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
17129 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
17130 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
17131 aids some statistical attacks.
17132 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
17133 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
17134 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
17135 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
17137 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
17138 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
17139 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
17140 server descriptor sometimes.
17141 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
17142 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
17143 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
17144 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
17145 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
17146 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
17147 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
17148 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
17150 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
17151 case the controller wants to change that too.
17152 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
17153 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
17154 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
17155 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
17157 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
17158 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
17159 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
17161 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
17162 descriptors that they know they will reject.
17164 o Features and updates:
17165 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
17166 significantly faster.
17167 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
17168 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
17169 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
17170 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
17171 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
17172 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
17173 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
17174 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
17175 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
17176 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
17177 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
17178 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
17179 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
17180 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
17181 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
17182 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
17183 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
17184 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
17185 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
17186 as authoritative dirserver.
17187 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
17188 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
17189 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
17192 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
17193 o Usability improvements:
17194 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
17195 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
17197 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
17198 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
17199 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
17201 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
17202 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
17203 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
17204 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
17205 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
17206 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
17207 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
17208 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
17209 memory leaks better.
17210 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
17211 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
17212 their operators to pay close attention.
17213 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
17214 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
17216 o Performance improvements:
17217 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
17218 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
17219 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
17220 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
17221 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
17222 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
17223 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
17224 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
17225 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
17226 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
17227 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
17228 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
17229 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
17230 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
17231 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
17232 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
17233 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
17235 o Security improvements:
17236 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
17237 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
17238 fingerprint of server.
17239 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
17240 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
17241 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
17243 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
17244 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
17245 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
17246 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
17247 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
17248 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
17249 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
17250 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
17251 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
17252 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
17253 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
17254 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
17255 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
17256 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
17257 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
17258 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
17259 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
17260 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
17261 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
17262 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
17263 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
17265 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
17266 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
17267 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
17269 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
17270 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
17272 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
17273 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
17274 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
17275 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
17276 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
17277 of the controller protocol.
17278 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
17279 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
17280 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
17283 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
17284 o New features (major):
17285 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
17286 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
17287 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
17288 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
17289 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
17290 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
17291 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
17292 we're using a default DirPort.
17293 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
17295 o New features (minor):
17296 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
17297 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
17298 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
17299 mirrors still cache and serve it).
17300 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
17301 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
17302 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
17303 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
17304 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
17305 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
17306 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
17307 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
17308 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
17309 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
17310 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
17311 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
17312 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
17313 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
17314 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
17316 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
17317 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
17318 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
17319 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
17320 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
17321 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
17322 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
17323 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
17325 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
17326 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
17327 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
17328 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
17329 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
17330 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
17331 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
17332 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
17333 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
17334 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
17336 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
17337 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
17338 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
17339 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
17340 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
17342 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
17343 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
17344 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
17346 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
17347 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
17349 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
17350 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
17351 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
17352 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
17353 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
17354 don't warn twice about the same name.
17355 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
17356 if we've not heard of the server.
17357 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
17358 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
17361 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
17362 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
17363 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
17364 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
17365 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
17366 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
17367 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
17368 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
17369 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
17370 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
17371 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
17372 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
17373 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
17374 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
17375 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
17378 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
17379 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
17380 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
17381 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
17382 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
17384 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
17385 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
17386 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
17387 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
17388 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
17389 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
17393 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
17394 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
17395 nickname) is reachable by you.
17396 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
17399 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
17400 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
17401 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
17402 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
17403 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
17404 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
17405 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
17406 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
17407 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
17408 we fail to connect).
17409 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
17410 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
17411 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
17412 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
17414 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
17415 it was self-testing that told us so.
17418 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
17419 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
17420 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
17421 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
17422 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
17423 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
17424 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
17425 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
17426 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
17427 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
17428 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
17429 exit policy using him for any exits.
17430 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
17433 o New controller features/fixes:
17434 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
17435 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
17436 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
17437 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
17438 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
17439 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
17440 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
17441 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
17442 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
17444 o Start on the new directory design:
17445 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
17446 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
17448 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
17449 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
17450 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
17451 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
17453 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
17454 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
17455 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
17456 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
17457 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
17458 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
17459 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
17460 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
17463 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
17464 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
17465 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
17466 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
17467 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
17468 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
17469 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
17470 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
17471 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
17472 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
17474 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
17475 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
17476 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
17477 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
17478 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
17479 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
17480 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
17481 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
17482 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
17484 o Config option changes:
17485 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
17486 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
17487 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
17488 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
17489 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
17490 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
17492 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
17493 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
17494 people have started using them for spam too.
17495 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
17496 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
17497 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
17498 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
17499 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
17500 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
17501 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
17502 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
17503 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
17504 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
17505 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
17506 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
17507 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
17508 services faster on the service end.
17509 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
17510 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
17511 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
17512 it a fair shake next time we try.
17513 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
17514 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
17515 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
17516 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
17517 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
17518 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
17519 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
17520 able to discover them.
17521 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
17522 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
17523 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
17524 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
17525 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
17526 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
17527 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
17528 testing for reachability.
17529 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
17530 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
17532 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
17534 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
17535 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
17538 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
17539 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
17541 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
17542 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
17543 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
17544 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
17547 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
17548 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
17549 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
17551 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
17552 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
17555 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
17556 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
17559 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
17560 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
17561 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
17562 options, getinfo keys.
17565 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
17566 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
17567 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
17568 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
17569 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
17570 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
17571 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
17573 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
17574 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
17578 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
17579 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
17580 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
17582 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
17584 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
17585 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
17586 circuit events and we go offline.
17587 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
17588 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
17589 you don't have enough intro points already.
17591 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
17592 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
17593 many bytes we've used in this time period.
17594 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
17595 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
17596 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
17597 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
17598 enabled by default yet.
17600 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
17601 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
17602 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
17603 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
17604 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
17607 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
17608 o New directory servers:
17609 - tor26 has changed IP address.
17611 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
17612 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
17613 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
17614 pthreads libraries.
17615 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
17616 claims its dirport is 0.
17617 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
17618 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
17622 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
17623 o New directory servers:
17624 - tor26 has changed IP address.
17626 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
17627 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
17629 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
17630 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
17631 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
17632 ports that have changed.
17633 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
17635 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
17636 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
17637 Windows-style errno back.
17638 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
17640 want to make it an NT service.
17641 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
17642 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
17643 name, give the full name in our response.
17644 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
17645 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
17646 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
17647 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
17648 pthreads libraries.
17650 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
17651 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
17655 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
17656 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
17657 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
17658 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
17659 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
17662 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
17663 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
17664 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
17665 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
17666 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
17667 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
17668 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
17669 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
17672 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
17674 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
17675 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
17676 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
17677 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
17678 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
17679 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
17681 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
17682 temporarily unreachable.
17683 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
17687 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
17688 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
17689 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
17690 our protocol works.
17691 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
17695 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
17696 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
17697 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
17698 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
17699 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
17703 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
17704 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
17705 libevent before 1.1a.
17708 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
17710 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
17711 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
17712 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
17713 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
17714 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
17716 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
17717 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
17718 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
17719 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
17720 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
17721 of CPU time plus memory.
17722 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
17723 normal web requests.
17724 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
17725 tor_lookup_hostname().
17726 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
17727 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
17728 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
17729 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
17730 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
17731 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
17733 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
17734 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
17735 HttpProxyAuthenticator
17736 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
17737 pretend that getting these occassionally is normal and fine.
17738 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
17740 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
17741 the user asks you to.
17742 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
17743 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
17744 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
17745 their descriptors are being rejected.
17746 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
17750 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
17752 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
17753 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
17754 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
17756 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
17758 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
17760 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
17761 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
17762 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
17763 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
17764 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
17765 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
17766 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
17767 keys) from the exit server's process.
17768 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
17769 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
17770 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
17771 so it doesn't seg fault on error.
17772 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
17773 point at your Tor server.
17774 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
17775 you're not sending a socks reply back.
17778 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
17779 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
17780 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
17781 to make it easier to write controllers.
17784 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
17786 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
17787 installing on Tiger.
17788 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
17789 complain during installation.
17790 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
17791 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
17792 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
17793 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
17794 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
17795 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
17797 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
17798 something more reasonable when first installing.
17799 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
17802 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
17804 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
17805 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
17807 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
17808 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
17809 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
17810 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
17811 when using the default exit policy.
17812 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
17813 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
17814 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
17815 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
17816 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
17817 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
17818 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
17819 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
17820 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
17821 we fetched a new directory.
17822 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
17823 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
17826 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
17827 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
17828 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
17829 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
17830 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
17831 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
17832 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
17833 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
17835 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
17836 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
17837 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
17838 save memory on systems that need to fork.
17839 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
17840 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
17841 is valid without actually launching Tor.
17842 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
17843 rather than just rejecting it.
17846 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
17848 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
17849 we didn't like its cert.
17851 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
17852 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
17853 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
17854 on patch from Adam Langley.
17855 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
17856 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
17857 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
17858 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
17860 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
17861 directory every time you regenerate it.
17862 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
17863 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
17866 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
17867 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
17868 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
17869 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
17870 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
17873 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
17875 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
17876 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
17877 TLS errors better in other situations too.
17878 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
17879 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
17880 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
17881 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
17882 and don't log when you are.
17883 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
17884 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
17886 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
17887 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
17888 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
17889 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
17890 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
17893 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
17894 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
17895 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
17896 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
17897 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
17898 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
17899 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
17900 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
17901 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
17902 nickname+key are allowed.
17903 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
17904 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
17905 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
17906 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
17907 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
17908 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
17909 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
17910 have quite wrong clocks).
17911 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
17912 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
17913 - Efficiency improvements:
17914 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
17915 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
17916 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
17917 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
17918 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
17919 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
17920 lowercase and be done with it.
17921 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
17922 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
17923 to abandon partially built circuits.
17924 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
17925 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
17927 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
17929 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
17930 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
17931 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
17932 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
17934 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
17935 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
17937 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
17938 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
17939 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
17940 obeying the exit policy internally.
17941 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
17942 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
17944 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
17945 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
17946 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
17947 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
17949 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
17950 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
17951 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
17952 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
17953 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
17955 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
17956 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
17957 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
17958 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
17959 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
17960 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
17961 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
17962 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
17963 descriptors we just dropped.
17964 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
17965 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
17966 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
17967 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
17968 artificially capped at 500kB.
17971 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
17972 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
17973 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
17974 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
17975 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
17976 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
17977 busy for more than 100 seconds.
17980 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
17981 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
17982 - Fixes on reachability detection:
17983 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
17984 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
17985 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
17986 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
17987 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
17988 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
17989 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
17990 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
17991 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
17992 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
17993 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
17994 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
17995 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
17996 server not already connected to them.
17997 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
17998 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
17999 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
18001 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
18003 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
18004 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
18005 are in a different state than they actually are.
18006 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
18007 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
18008 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
18010 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
18011 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
18012 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
18014 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
18015 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
18016 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
18017 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
18018 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
18019 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
18020 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
18022 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
18023 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
18024 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
18025 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
18028 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
18029 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
18030 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
18031 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
18032 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
18033 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
18034 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
18035 creating actual system users.
18036 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
18037 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
18041 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
18043 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
18044 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
18045 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
18046 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
18047 hidden services better.
18048 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
18050 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
18051 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
18052 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
18053 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
18054 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
18055 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
18056 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
18057 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
18058 patch by Matt Edman).
18059 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
18060 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
18061 required exit node for certain sites.
18062 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
18063 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
18064 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
18065 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
18066 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
18067 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
18068 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
18069 rather than just "success" or "failure".
18070 - A more sane version numbering system. See
18071 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
18072 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
18073 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
18075 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
18076 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
18077 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
18078 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
18079 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
18080 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
18081 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
18083 o Robustness/stability fixes:
18084 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
18085 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
18086 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
18088 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
18089 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
18090 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
18092 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
18093 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
18094 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
18096 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
18097 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
18098 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
18099 that will want high uptime circuits.
18100 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
18101 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
18102 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
18103 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
18104 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
18105 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
18106 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
18107 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
18108 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
18109 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
18110 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
18111 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
18112 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
18113 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
18114 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
18115 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
18116 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
18117 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
18118 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
18119 when we try to launch one.
18120 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
18121 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
18122 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
18123 "ShutdownWaitLength".
18124 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
18125 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
18126 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
18127 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
18128 and to take errno into account where possible.
18131 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
18132 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
18133 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
18134 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
18135 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
18136 file more reasonable.
18137 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
18138 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
18139 addresses -- it won't.
18140 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
18141 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
18142 for google.com" problem.
18143 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
18144 so it's not just "unknown platform".
18145 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
18146 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
18147 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
18148 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
18150 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
18151 they could use instead.
18152 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
18153 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
18154 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
18155 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
18156 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
18157 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
18158 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
18159 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
18160 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
18162 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
18166 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
18167 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
18169 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
18170 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
18171 private-IP addresses.
18172 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
18173 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
18175 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
18176 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
18177 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
18178 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
18179 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
18180 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
18181 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
18183 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
18184 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
18185 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
18186 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
18187 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
18188 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
18189 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
18190 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
18192 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
18194 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
18195 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
18196 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
18197 whether the server is hibernating.
18200 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
18201 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
18202 - Add new end stream reasons to maintainance branch. Fix bug where
18203 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
18204 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
18205 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
18206 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
18207 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
18208 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
18209 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
18210 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
18211 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
18212 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
18213 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
18214 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
18216 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
18217 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
18218 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
18219 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
18220 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
18221 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
18222 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
18223 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
18224 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
18225 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
18226 existing torrc files.
18227 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
18230 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
18231 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
18232 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
18233 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
18234 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
18235 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
18236 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
18237 the win32 SYSTEM account.
18238 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
18239 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
18240 file descriptors available.
18241 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
18242 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
18243 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
18246 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
18247 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
18248 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
18249 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
18251 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
18252 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
18253 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
18254 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
18255 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
18257 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
18258 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
18259 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
18260 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
18261 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
18262 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
18263 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
18264 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
18265 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
18266 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
18267 800kB/s of capacity.
18268 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
18271 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
18272 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
18273 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
18274 need as much processor time.
18275 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
18276 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
18277 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
18278 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
18279 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
18280 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
18281 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
18282 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
18283 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
18284 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
18285 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
18286 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
18288 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
18289 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
18290 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
18291 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
18292 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
18293 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
18294 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
18297 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
18298 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
18299 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
18301 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
18302 style address, then we'd crash.
18303 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
18304 a dirserver is broken.
18305 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
18307 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
18308 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
18309 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
18311 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
18312 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
18313 name out of the warning/assert messages.
18314 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
18315 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
18316 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
18318 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
18319 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
18320 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
18322 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
18324 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
18325 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
18326 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
18327 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
18328 values at once couldn't work.
18329 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
18330 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
18331 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
18332 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
18333 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
18334 they can handle any number of routers.
18335 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
18336 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
18337 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
18338 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
18339 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
18340 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
18341 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
18342 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
18343 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
18346 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
18347 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
18348 - Make hibernation actually work.
18349 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
18350 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
18351 don't use the stream status code.
18354 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
18356 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
18357 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
18359 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
18362 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
18363 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
18364 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
18365 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
18366 ports we need to build circuits to cover.
18367 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
18368 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
18369 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
18370 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
18371 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
18373 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
18374 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
18375 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
18376 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
18377 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
18378 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
18379 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
18380 - Make unit tests work on win32.
18383 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
18384 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
18385 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
18387 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
18388 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
18389 than just chopping them off.
18390 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
18392 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
18393 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
18394 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
18395 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
18396 right after sending the begin cell.
18397 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
18398 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
18399 exit nodes too. Oops.
18402 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
18403 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
18404 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
18405 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
18406 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
18407 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
18408 the user knows which one it's talking about.
18409 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
18410 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
18411 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
18414 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
18415 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
18416 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
18417 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
18419 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
18421 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
18422 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
18423 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
18425 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
18426 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
18427 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
18428 Clip rather than rejecting.
18429 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
18430 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
18433 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
18434 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
18435 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
18436 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
18438 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
18441 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
18442 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
18443 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
18444 win32 socket errors better.
18446 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
18447 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
18450 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
18451 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
18452 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
18453 so we don't see those messages days later.
18455 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
18456 - Make tor-resolve work again.
18457 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
18458 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
18461 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
18462 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
18463 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
18464 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
18466 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
18467 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
18468 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
18471 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
18472 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
18473 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
18474 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
18475 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
18476 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
18477 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
18478 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
18479 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
18481 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
18482 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
18483 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
18484 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
18486 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
18487 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
18490 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
18491 hibernation properties by
18492 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
18493 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
18494 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
18495 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
18496 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
18497 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
18498 get back to normal.)
18499 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
18501 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
18502 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
18503 to fill the last cell completely.
18504 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
18507 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
18508 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
18509 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
18510 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
18511 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
18512 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
18513 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
18514 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
18515 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
18516 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
18517 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
18519 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
18520 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
18521 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
18522 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
18523 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
18524 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
18525 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
18526 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
18528 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
18529 - Make kill -USR1 work again.
18530 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
18531 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
18532 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
18533 have it on start-up.
18536 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
18537 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
18538 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
18539 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
18540 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
18541 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
18542 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
18543 configuration to torrc.
18544 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
18545 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
18546 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
18547 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
18548 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
18550 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
18551 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
18552 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
18553 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
18554 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
18555 log more informatively.
18556 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
18557 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
18558 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
18559 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
18560 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
18561 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
18562 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
18563 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
18564 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
18565 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
18566 from each other, to hinder linkability.
18569 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
18570 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
18571 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
18572 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
18573 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
18574 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
18575 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
18577 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
18578 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
18579 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
18580 they ran out of file descriptors.
18581 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
18582 enough version of the resolve code to work right.
18583 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
18584 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
18585 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
18586 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
18587 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
18589 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
18592 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
18593 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
18594 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
18595 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
18596 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
18597 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
18598 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
18599 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
18600 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
18601 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
18602 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
18603 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
18604 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
18605 with the control port.
18606 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
18607 use in authenticating to the control interface.
18608 - New log format in config:
18609 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
18610 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
18613 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
18614 from their dirserver.
18615 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
18617 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
18618 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
18619 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
18620 them act more like real nodes.
18621 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
18622 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
18624 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
18625 nickname to its identity key.
18626 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
18627 not on the command line.
18628 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
18629 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
18630 1024) file descriptors.
18632 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
18633 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
18635 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
18636 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
18637 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
18640 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
18641 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
18642 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
18643 exit policy, not reject *:*.
18644 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
18645 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
18646 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
18647 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
18648 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
18649 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
18650 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
18653 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
18654 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
18655 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
18656 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
18657 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
18658 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
18659 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
18662 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
18663 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
18664 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
18665 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
18666 the ones we find in directories.)
18667 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
18669 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
18670 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
18672 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
18673 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
18674 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
18676 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
18677 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
18678 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
18679 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
18681 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
18682 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
18683 any more exit policy lines.
18686 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
18687 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
18688 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
18689 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
18690 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
18691 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
18692 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
18693 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
18694 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
18695 will be able to get a directory.
18696 - Http proxy support
18697 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
18698 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
18699 be routed through this host.
18700 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
18701 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
18702 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
18703 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
18706 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
18708 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
18709 clients/servers with an open dirport.
18710 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
18711 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
18712 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
18713 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
18714 intermittent connections.
18715 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
18716 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
18718 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
18719 in reporting stats locally.
18720 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
18721 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
18722 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
18725 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
18727 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
18728 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
18731 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
18733 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
18734 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
18735 if you don't want it open.
18736 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
18737 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
18738 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
18739 intermittent connections.
18740 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
18742 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
18743 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
18744 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
18745 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
18746 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
18747 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
18748 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
18749 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
18750 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
18751 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
18752 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
18753 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
18754 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
18755 the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
18756 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
18757 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
18760 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
18761 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
18762 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
18763 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
18764 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
18766 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
18768 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
18769 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
18770 specified in HTTP 1.0.
18771 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
18772 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
18773 than once per minute.
18774 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
18775 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
18778 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
18779 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
18782 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
18783 o Make it compile on cygwin again.
18784 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
18785 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
18788 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
18789 o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
18791 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
18792 don't put it into the client dns cache.
18793 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
18794 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
18795 until we get our next directory.
18797 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
18798 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
18799 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
18800 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
18801 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
18802 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
18803 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
18804 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
18805 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
18806 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
18807 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
18809 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
18811 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
18812 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
18814 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
18815 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
18816 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
18818 o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
18820 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
18821 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
18822 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
18823 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
18824 routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
18825 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
18826 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
18827 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
18830 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
18831 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
18832 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
18833 - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
18836 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
18837 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
18838 ask them to resolve the host "".
18841 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
18842 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
18843 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
18844 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
18845 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
18846 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
18847 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
18848 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
18849 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
18850 clients don't use this yet.)
18851 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
18852 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
18853 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
18854 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
18855 for pointing out this bug.)
18856 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
18857 fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
18858 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
18859 kazaa, gnutella ports.
18860 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
18862 o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
18863 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
18864 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
18865 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
18866 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
18867 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
18868 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
18869 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
18870 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
18871 wolf unpredictably.
18872 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
18873 that's still handshaking.
18874 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
18875 you'll choose it for your path.
18876 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
18877 end relay cell, etc.
18878 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
18879 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
18880 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
18883 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
18884 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
18886 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
18887 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
18888 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
18889 list to decide who's running or verified.
18890 - Bugfixes and features:
18891 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
18892 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
18893 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
18894 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
18895 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
18896 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
18898 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
18899 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
18900 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
18901 know you might want to get it verified.
18902 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
18905 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
18907 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
18908 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
18909 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
18910 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
18912 o Protocol changes:
18913 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
18914 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
18915 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
18916 hadn't heard of before.
18919 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
18920 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
18921 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
18922 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
18923 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
18924 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
18925 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
18926 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
18927 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
18928 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
18929 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
18930 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
18931 - Directory caching.
18932 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
18933 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
18934 directory they've pulled down.
18935 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
18936 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
18937 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
18938 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
18939 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
18940 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
18941 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
18943 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
18944 This isn't used yet.
18945 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
18946 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
18947 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
18948 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
18949 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
18950 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
18951 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
18952 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
18953 - File and name management:
18954 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
18955 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
18957 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
18958 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
18959 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
18960 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
18961 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
18962 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
18963 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
18965 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
18966 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
18967 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
18968 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
18969 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
18971 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
18972 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
18973 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
18974 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
18975 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
18976 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
18977 - New docs in the tarball:
18979 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
18982 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
18983 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
18984 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
18987 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
18988 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
18989 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
18992 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
18993 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
18996 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
18997 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
18998 - Make it build on Win32 again.
18999 o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
19000 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
19004 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
19006 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
19007 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
19008 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
19009 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
19010 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
19011 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
19012 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
19013 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
19014 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
19015 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
19018 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
19021 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
19022 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
19023 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
19024 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
19026 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
19027 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
19028 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
19030 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
19031 hidden service per 15-minute period.
19032 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
19033 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
19034 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
19035 o Fixes for security bugs:
19036 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
19037 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
19038 a trusted dirserver.
19040 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
19041 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
19042 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
19043 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
19044 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
19045 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
19046 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
19047 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
19048 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
19049 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
19051 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
19052 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
19053 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
19054 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
19056 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
19057 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
19058 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
19059 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
19060 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
19061 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
19062 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
19063 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
19064 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
19065 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
19066 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
19067 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
19068 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
19071 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
19072 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
19073 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
19074 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
19077 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
19078 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
19079 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
19080 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
19081 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
19082 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
19083 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
19087 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
19088 [version bump only]
19091 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
19092 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
19093 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
19094 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
19095 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
19097 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
19100 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
19101 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
19102 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
19103 when they had a stream attached. oops.)
19104 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
19105 o Better debugging for tls errors
19106 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
19107 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
19108 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
19109 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
19110 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
19111 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
19112 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
19113 o win32's close can't close a socket.
19116 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
19117 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
19118 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
19119 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
19120 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
19121 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
19122 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
19123 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
19124 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
19125 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
19126 just close the circ.
19127 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
19128 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
19129 (this was quite rare).
19132 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
19133 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
19134 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
19135 if you decrypted them correctly.
19136 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
19137 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
19138 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
19141 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
19142 o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
19143 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
19144 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
19145 a second one and it works.
19146 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
19147 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
19148 alice would just have to wait to time out.
19149 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
19150 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
19151 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
19152 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
19153 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
19154 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
19155 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
19156 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
19157 i'd still like to find the bug though.
19158 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
19160 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
19164 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
19165 o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
19166 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
19167 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
19168 he retries a couple of times
19169 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
19170 (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
19171 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
19172 too long (they were sticking around forever).
19173 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
19177 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
19178 o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
19179 - make hup work again
19180 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
19181 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
19182 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
19183 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
19184 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
19185 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
19187 - bob publishes intro points more correctly
19188 o changes from 0.0.5:
19189 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
19190 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
19191 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
19192 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
19193 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
19195 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
19196 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
19197 in-memory directories too
19200 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
19201 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
19204 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
19206 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
19207 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
19208 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
19209 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
19212 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
19213 [version bump only]
19216 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
19217 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
19219 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
19220 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
19221 but that aren't warnings
19224 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
19225 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
19226 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
19227 the dns farm to do it.
19228 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
19229 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
19231 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
19232 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
19233 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
19236 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
19237 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
19238 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
19239 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
19240 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
19241 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
19242 expect it to have a nickname.
19243 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
19244 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
19247 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
19248 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
19252 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
19253 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
19254 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
19255 - include missing header fcntl.h
19256 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
19257 - deal with hardware word alignment
19258 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
19259 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
19260 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
19261 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
19262 by kill -USR1 currently.
19263 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
19264 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
19265 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
19268 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
19269 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
19270 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
19273 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
19275 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
19276 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
19277 - And fix a few endian issues.
19280 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
19282 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
19283 try that circuit again: try a new one.
19284 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
19285 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
19286 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
19287 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
19288 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
19289 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
19291 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
19292 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
19293 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
19295 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
19297 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
19298 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
19299 side isn't reading right then.
19300 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
19301 RecommendedVersions
19302 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
19303 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
19304 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
19307 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
19309 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
19310 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
19313 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
19317 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
19319 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
19320 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
19321 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
19322 connection is finished.
19323 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
19324 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
19325 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
19326 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
19327 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
19328 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
19329 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
19330 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
19331 rather than warn and continue.
19332 - Make --version work
19333 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
19336 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
19338 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
19339 knows it's working.
19340 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
19341 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
19343 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
19344 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
19345 so you can collect coredumps there.
19347 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
19348 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
19349 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
19350 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
19351 dns cache actually gets populated.
19352 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
19353 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
19354 end cell down it first.
19355 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
19356 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
19359 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
19361 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
19362 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
19364 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
19365 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
19366 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
19367 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
19368 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
19369 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
19371 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
19373 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
19374 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
19375 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
19376 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
19377 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
19378 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
19380 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
19381 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
19384 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
19386 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
19387 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
19388 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
19389 tor. It even has a man page.
19390 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
19391 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
19392 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
19393 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
19395 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
19397 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
19400 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
19402 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
19403 it, apt-getters. :)
19404 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
19405 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
19406 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
19407 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
19408 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
19409 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
19410 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
19411 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
19412 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
19413 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
19414 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
19416 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
19417 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
19420 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
19422 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
19423 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
19426 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
19428 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
19429 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
19430 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
19431 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
19432 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
19433 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
19434 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
19435 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
19436 logfile so you know it's working.
19437 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
19438 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
19441 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
19443 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
19444 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
19445 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
19448 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
19450 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
19451 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
19452 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
19455 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
19456 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
19457 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
19459 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
19460 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
19462 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
19463 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
19464 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
19466 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
19467 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
19471 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
19473 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
19474 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
19475 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
19478 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
19479 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
19480 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
19481 - Add port ranges to exit policies
19482 - Add a conservative default exit policy
19483 - Warn if you're running tor as root
19484 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
19485 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
19486 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
19487 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
19489 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
19492 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
19493 o Robustness and bugfixes:
19494 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
19495 really screw things up.
19496 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
19498 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
19499 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
19501 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
19502 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
19503 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
19504 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
19505 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
19506 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
19509 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
19512 - Change default loglevel to warn.
19513 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
19514 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
19516 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
19519 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
19520 o Robustness and bugfixes:
19521 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
19522 - to get ownership/permissions right
19523 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
19524 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
19525 pull down a directory again
19526 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
19527 causing server crashes
19528 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
19529 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
19530 - exit if bind() fails
19531 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
19532 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
19533 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
19534 - fix minor bias in PRNG
19535 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
19538 - Wrote the design document (woo)
19540 o Circuit building and exit policies:
19541 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
19543 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
19544 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
19545 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
19546 exists, rather than failing
19547 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
19548 which AP connections are standing by
19549 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
19550 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
19551 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
19553 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
19554 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
19557 - APPort is now called SocksPort
19558 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
19560 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
19561 hardcoded (for dirservers)
19562 - Reloads config on HUP
19563 - Usage info on -h or --help
19564 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
19567 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
19568 o General stability:
19569 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
19570 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
19571 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
19572 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
19573 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
19574 to take down the network when I approve a new router
19575 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
19578 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
19579 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
19581 o Autoconf improvements:
19582 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
19583 - Make install now works
19584 - create var/lib/tor on make install
19585 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
19586 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
19588 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
19589 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
19590 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
19591 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup