1 Changes in version 0.4.4.6 - 2020-11-12
2 Tor 0.4.4.6 is the second stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. It
3 backports fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
4 005, a security issue that could be used, under certain cases, by an
5 adversary to observe traffic patterns on a limited number of circuits
6 intended for a different relay.
8 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
9 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
10 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
11 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
12 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
13 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
14 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
16 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
17 - Authorities now list a different set of protocols as required and
18 recommended. These lists have been chosen so that only truly
19 recommended and/or required protocols are included, and so that
20 clients using 0.2.9 or later will continue to work (even though
21 they are not supported), whereas only relays running 0.3.5 or
22 later will meet the requirements. Closes ticket 40162.
23 - Make it possible to specify multiple ConsensusParams torrc lines.
24 Now directory authority operators can for example put the main
25 ConsensusParams config in one torrc file and then add to it from a
26 different torrc file. Closes ticket 40164.
28 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
29 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
30 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
31 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
34 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
35 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
36 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
38 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
39 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
40 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
42 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
43 - Fix compiler warnings that would occur when building with
44 "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" and "--disable-module-relay" at the
45 same time. Fixes bug 40129; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
46 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
47 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
49 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
50 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
51 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
53 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
54 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
55 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
58 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
59 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
60 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
61 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
64 Changes in version 0.4.3.7 - 2020-11-12
65 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
66 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
67 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
68 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
70 Please be aware that support for the 0.4.3.x series will end on 15
71 February 2021. Please upgrade to 0.4.4.x or 0.4.5.x before then, or
72 downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will be supported until at least 1
75 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
76 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
77 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
78 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
80 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
81 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
82 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
83 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
84 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
85 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
86 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
88 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
89 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
90 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
91 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
92 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
95 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
96 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
97 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
98 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
99 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
100 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
102 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
103 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
104 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
105 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
108 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
109 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
110 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
111 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
113 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
114 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
115 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
117 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
118 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
119 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
121 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
122 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
123 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
124 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
125 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
127 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
128 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
129 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
131 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
132 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
133 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
134 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
135 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
136 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
137 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
139 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
140 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
141 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
144 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
145 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
146 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
147 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
148 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
149 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
152 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
153 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
154 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
155 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
157 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
158 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
159 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
160 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
162 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
163 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
164 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
166 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
167 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
170 o Removed features (backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
171 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
172 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
173 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
174 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
175 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
176 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030. ticket 40030.
179 Changes in version 0.3.5.12 - 2020-11-12
180 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
181 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
182 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
183 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
185 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
186 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
187 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
188 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
190 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
191 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
192 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
193 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
194 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
195 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
196 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
198 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
199 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
200 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
201 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
202 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
205 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
206 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
207 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
208 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
209 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
210 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
212 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
213 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
214 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
215 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
217 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
218 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
219 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
220 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
223 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
224 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
225 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
226 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
228 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
229 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
230 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
232 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
233 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
234 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
236 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
237 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
238 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
239 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
240 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
242 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
243 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
244 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
246 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
247 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
248 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
249 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
250 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
251 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
252 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
254 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
255 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
256 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
259 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
260 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
261 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
262 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
263 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
264 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
267 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
268 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
269 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
270 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
272 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
273 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
274 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
275 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
277 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
278 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
279 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
281 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
282 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
286 Changes in version 0.4.5.1-alpha - 2020-11-01
287 Tor 0.4.5.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.4.5.x series. It
288 improves support for IPv6, address discovery and self-testing, code
291 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
292 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
293 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay. To
294 mount this attack, the adversary would need to actively extend
295 circuits to an incorrect address, as well as compromise a relay's
296 legacy RSA-1024 key. We'll be backporting this fix to other release
297 series soon, after it has had some testing.
299 Here are the changes since 0.4.4.5.
301 o Major features (build):
302 - When building Tor, first link all object files into a single
303 static library. This may help with embedding Tor in other
304 programs. Note that most Tor functions do not constitute a part of
305 a stable or supported API: only those functions in tor_api.h
306 should be used if embedding Tor. Closes ticket 40127.
308 o Major features (metrics):
309 - Introduce a new MetricsPort which exposes, through an HTTP
310 interface, a series of metrics that tor collects at runtime. At
311 the moment, the only supported output format is Prometheus data
312 model. Closes ticket 40063. See the manual page for more
313 information and security considerations.
314 o Major features (relay, IPv6):
315 - The torrc option Address now supports IPv6. This unifies our
316 address discovery interface to support IPv4, IPv6, and hostnames.
318 - Launch IPv4 and IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits on relays and
319 bridges. Closes ticket 33222.
320 - Relays now automatically bind on IPv6 for their ORPort, unless
321 specified otherwise with the IPv4Only flag. Closes ticket 33246.
322 - When a relay with IPv6 support is told to open a connection to
323 another relay, and the extend cell lists both IPv4 and IPv6
324 addresses, the first relay now picks randomly which address to
325 use. Closes ticket 33220.
326 - Relays now track their IPv6 ORPort reachability separately from
327 the reachability of their IPv4 ORPort. They will not publish a
328 descriptor unless _both_ ports appear to be externally reachable.
331 o Major features (tracing):
332 - Add event-tracing library support for USDT and LTTng-UST, and a
333 few tracepoints in the circuit subsystem. More will come
334 incrementally. This feature is compiled out by default: it needs
335 to be enabled at configure time. See documentation in
336 doc/HACKING/Tracing.md. Closes ticket 32910.
338 o Major bugfixes (security):
339 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
340 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
341 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
342 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
343 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
344 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
346 o Major bugfixes (TLS, buffer):
347 - When attempting to read N bytes on a TLS connection, really try to
348 read all N bytes. Previously, Tor would stop reading after the
349 first TLS record, which can be smaller than the N bytes requested,
350 and not check for more data until the next mainloop event. Fixes
351 bug 40006; bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc.
353 o Minor features (address discovery):
354 - If no Address statements are found, relays now prioritize guessing
355 their address by looking at the local interface instead of the
356 local hostname. If the interface address can't be found, the local
357 hostname is used. Closes ticket 33238.
359 o Minor features (admin tools):
360 - Add a new --format argument to -key-expiration option to allow
361 specifying the time format of the expiration date. Adds Unix
362 timestamp format support. Patch by Daniel Pinto. Closes
365 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
366 - When reporting bootstrapping status on a relay, do not consider
367 connections that have never been the target of an origin circuit.
368 Previously, all connection failures were treated as potential
369 bootstrapping failures, including connections that had been opened
370 because of client requests. Closes ticket 25061.
372 o Minor features (build):
373 - When running the configure script, try to detect version
374 mismatches between the OpenSSL headers and libraries, and suggest
375 that the user should try "--with-openssl-dir". Closes 40138.
376 - If the configure script has given any warnings, remind the user
377 about them at the end of the script. Related to 40138.
379 o Minor features (configuration):
380 - Allow using wildcards (* and ?) with the %include option on
381 configuration files. Closes ticket 25140. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
382 - Allow the configuration options EntryNodes, ExcludeNodes,
383 ExcludeExitNodes, ExitNodes, MiddleNodes, HSLayer2Nodes and
384 HSLayer3Nodes to be specified multiple times. Closes ticket 28361.
385 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
387 o Minor features (control port):
388 - Add a DROPTIMEOUTS command to drop circuit build timeout history
389 and reset the current timeout. Closes ticket 40002.
390 - When a stream enters the AP_CONN_STATE_CONTROLLER_WAIT status,
391 send a control port event. Closes ticket 32190. Patch by
393 - Introduce GETINFO "stats/ntor/{assigned/requested}" and
394 "stats/tap/{assigned/requested}" to get the NTor and TAP circuit
395 onion handshake counts respectively. Closes ticket 28279. Patch by
398 o Minor features (control port, IPv6):
399 - Tor relays now try to report to the controller when they are
400 launching an IPv6 self-test. Closes ticket 34068.
401 - Introduce "GETINFO address/v4" and "GETINFO address/v6" in the
402 control port to fetch the Tor host's respective IPv4 or IPv6
403 address. We keep "GETINFO address" for backwards-compatibility.
404 Closes ticket 40039. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
406 o Minor features (directory authorities):
407 - Authorities now list a different set of protocols as required and
408 recommended. These lists have been chosen so that only truly
409 recommended and/or required protocols are included, and so that
410 clients using 0.2.9 or later will continue to work (even though
411 they are not supported), whereas only relays running 0.3.5 or
412 later will meet the requirements. Closes ticket 40162.
413 - Add a new consensus method 30 that removes the unnecessary "="
414 padding from ntor-onion-key. Closes ticket 7869. Patch by
416 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
417 Tor versions from the obsolete 0.4.1 series. Resolves ticket
418 34357. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
419 - Make it possible to specify multiple ConsensusParams torrc lines.
420 Now directory authority operators can for example put the main
421 ConsensusParams config in one torrc file and then add to it from a
422 different torrc file. Closes ticket 40164.
423 - The AssumeReachable option no longer stops directory authorities
424 from checking whether other relays are running. A new
425 AuthDirTestReachability option can be used to disable these
426 checks. Closes ticket 34445.
427 - When looking for possible Sybil attacks, also consider IPv6
428 addresses. Two routers are considered to have "the same" address
429 by this metric if they are in the same /64 network. Patch from
430 Maurice Pibouin. Closes ticket 7193.
432 o Minor features (directory authorities, IPv6):
433 - Make authorities add their IPv6 ORPort (if any) to the trusted
434 servers list. Authorities previously added only their IPv4
435 addresses. Closes ticket 32822.
437 o Minor features (ed25519, relay):
438 - Save a relay's base64-encoded ed25519 identity key to the data
439 directory in a file named fingerprint-ed25519. Closes ticket
440 30642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
442 o Minor features (heartbeat):
443 - Include the total number of inbound and outbound IPv4 and IPv6
444 connections in the heartbeat message. Closes ticket 29113.
446 o Minor features (IPv6, ExcludeNodes):
447 - Handle IPv6 addresses in ExcludeNodes; previously they were
448 ignored. Closes ticket 34065. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
450 o Minor features (logging):
451 - Add the running glibc version to the log, and the compiled glibc
452 version to the library list returned when using --library-versions.
453 Patch from Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40047.
454 - Consider an HTTP 301 response to be an error (like a 404) when
455 processing a directory response. Closes ticket 40053.
456 - Log directory fetch statistics as a single line. Closes
458 - Provide more complete descriptions of our connections when logging
459 about them. Closes ticket 40041.
460 - When describing a relay in the logs, we now include its ed25519
461 identity. Closes ticket 22668.
463 o Minor features (onion services):
464 - Only overwrite an onion service's existing hostname file if its
465 contents are wrong. This enables read-only onion-service
466 directories. Resolves ticket 40062. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
468 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
469 - Add an OutboundBindAddressPT option to allow users to specify
470 which IPv4 and IPv6 address pluggable transports should use for
471 outgoing IP packets. Tor does not have a way to enforce that the
472 pluggable transport honors this option, so each pluggable transport
473 needs to implement support on its own. Closes ticket 5304.
475 o Minor features (relay address tracking):
476 - We now store relay addresses for OR connections in a more logical
477 way. Previously we would sometimes overwrite the actual address of
478 a connection with a "canonical address", and then store the "real
479 address" elsewhere to remember it. We now track the "canonical
480 address" elsewhere for the cases where we need it, and leave the
481 connection's address alone. Closes ticket 33898.
483 o Minor features (relay):
484 - If a relay is unable to discover its address, attempt to learn it
485 from the NETINFO cell. Closes ticket 40022.
486 - Log immediately when launching a relay self-check. Previously we
487 would try to log before launching checks, or approximately when we
488 intended to launch checks, but this tended to be error-prone.
491 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
492 - If Address option is not found in torrc, attempt to learn our
493 address with the configured ORPort address if any. Closes
496 o Minor features (relay, IPv6):
497 - Add an AssumeReachableIPv6 option to disable self-checking IPv6
498 reachability. Closes part of ticket 33224.
499 - Add new "assume-reachable" and "assume-reachable-ipv6" consensus
500 parameters to be used in an emergency to tell relays that they
501 should publish even if they cannot complete their ORPort self-
502 checks. Closes ticket 34064 and part of 33224.
503 - Allow relays to send IPv6-only extend cells. Closes ticket 33222.
504 - Declare support for the Relay=3 subprotocol version. Closes
506 - When launching IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits, make sure that the
507 second-last hop can initiate an IPv6 extend. Closes ticket 33222.
509 o Minor features (specification update):
510 - Several fields in microdescriptors, router descriptors, and
511 consensus documents that were formerly optional are now required.
512 Implements proposal 315; closes ticket 40132.
514 o Minor features (state management):
515 - When loading the state file, remove entries from the statefile
516 that have been obsolete for a long time. Ordinarily Tor preserves
517 unrecognized entries in order to keep forward-compatibility, but
518 these entries have not actually been used in any release since
519 before 0.3.5.x. Closes ticket 40137.
521 o Minor features (statistics, ipv6):
522 - Relays now publish IPv6-specific counts of single-direction versus
523 bidirectional relay connections. Closes ticket 33264.
524 - Relays now publish their IPv6 read and write statistics over time,
525 if statistics are enabled. Closes ticket 33263.
527 o Minor features (subprotocol versions):
528 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
529 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
530 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
532 - Use the new limitations on subprotocol versions due to proposal
533 318 to simplify our implementation. Part of ticket 40133.
535 o Minor features (testing configuration):
536 - The TestingTorNetwork option no longer implicitly sets
537 AssumeReachable to 1. This change allows us to test relays' self-
538 testing mechanisms, and to test authorities' relay-testing
539 functionality. Closes ticket 34446.
541 o Minor features (testing):
542 - Added unit tests for channel_matches_target_addr_for_extend().
543 Closes Ticket 33919. Patch by MrSquanchee.
545 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services):
546 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
547 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
549 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
550 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
551 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
553 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
554 - When circpad_send_padding_cell_for_callback is called,
555 `is_padding_timer_scheduled` flag was not reset. Now it is set to
556 0 at the top of that function. Fixes bug 32671; bugfix
558 - Add a per-circuit padding machine instance counter, so we can
559 differentiate between shutdown requests for old machines on a
560 circuit. Fixes bug 30992; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
561 - Add the ability to keep circuit padding machines if they match a
562 set of circuit states or purposes. This allows us to have machines
563 that start up under some conditions but don't shut down under
564 others. We now use this mask to avoid starting up introduction
565 circuit padding again after the machines have already completed.
566 Fixes bug 32040; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
568 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
569 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
570 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
571 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
572 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
573 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
574 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
576 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
577 - Fix compiler warnings that would occur when building with
578 "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" and "--disable-module-relay" at the
579 same time. Fixes bug 40129; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
580 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
581 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
583 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
584 - Fix bug where %including a pattern ending with */ would include
585 files and folders (instead of folders only) in versions of glibc <
586 2.19. Fixes bug 40141; bugfix on 0.4.5.0-alpha-dev. Patch by
589 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
590 - Make sure we send the SOCKS request address in relay begin cells
591 when a stream is attached with the purpose
592 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_CONTROLLER. Fixes bug 33124; bugfix on 0.0.5.
593 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
595 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
596 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
597 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
598 - When logging a rate-limited message about how many messages have
599 been suppressed in the last N seconds, give an accurate value for
600 N, rounded up to the nearest minute. Previously we would report
601 the size of the rate-limiting interval, regardless of when the
602 messages started to occur. Fixes bug 19431; bugfix
605 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash):
606 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
607 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
610 o Minor bugfixes (rust, protocol versions):
611 - Declare support for the onion service introduction point denial of
612 service extensions when building with Rust. Fixes bug 34248;
613 bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
614 - Make Rust protocol version support checks consistent with the
615 undocumented error behavior of the corresponding C code. Fixes bug
616 34251; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
618 o Minor bugfixes (self-testing):
619 - When receiving an incoming circuit, only accept it as evidence
620 that we are reachable if the declared address of its channel is
621 the same address we think that we have. Otherwise, it could be
622 evidence that we're reachable on some other address. Fixes bug
623 20165; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
625 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
626 - Use the correct key type when generating signing->link
627 certificates. Fixes bug 40124; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
629 o Minor bugfixes (subprotocol versions):
630 - Consistently reject extra commas, instead of only rejecting
631 leading commas. Fixes bug 27194; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
632 - In summarize_protover_flags(), treat empty strings the same as
633 NULL. This prevents protocols_known from being set. Previously, we
634 treated empty strings as normal strings, which led to
635 protocols_known being set. Fixes bug 34232; bugfix on
636 0.3.3.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
638 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services):
639 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
640 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
641 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
643 o Code simplification and refactoring:
644 - Add and use a set of functions to perform down-casts on constant
645 connection and channel pointers. Closes ticket 40046.
646 - Refactor our code that logs descriptions of connections, channels,
647 and the peers on them, to use a single call path. This change
648 enables us to refactor the data types that they use, and eliminates
649 many confusing usages of those types. Closes ticket 40041.
650 - Refactor some common node selection code into a single function.
652 - Remove the now-redundant 'outbuf_flushlen' field from our
653 connection type. It was previously used for an older version of
654 our rate-limiting logic. Closes ticket 33097.
655 - Rename "fascist_firewall_*" identifiers to "reachable_addr_*"
656 instead, for consistency with other code. Closes ticket 18106.
657 - Rename functions about "advertised" ports which are not in fact
658 guaranteed to return the ports that have been advertised. Closes
660 - Split implementation of several command line options from
661 options_init_from_torrc into smaller isolated functions. Patch by
662 Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40102.
663 - When an extend cell is missing an IPv4 or IPv6 address, fill in
664 the address from the extend info. This is similar to what was done
665 in ticket 33633 for ed25519 keys. Closes ticket 33816. Patch by
668 o Deprecated features:
669 - The "non-builtin" argument to the "--dump-config" command is now
670 deprecated. When it works, it behaves the same as "short", which
671 you should use instead. Closes ticket 33398.
674 - Replace URLs from our old bugtracker so that they refer to the new
675 bugtracker and wiki. Closes ticket 40101.
678 - We no longer ship or build a "tor.service" file for use with
679 systemd. No distribution included this script unmodified, and we
680 don't have the expertise ourselves to maintain this in a way that
681 all the various systemd-based distributions can use. Closes
683 - We no longer ship support for the Android logging API. Modern
684 versions of Android can use the syslog API instead. Closes
686 - The "optimistic data" feature is now always on; there is no longer
687 an option to disable it from the torrc file or from the consensus
688 directory. Closes part of 40139.
689 - The "usecreatefast" network parameter is now removed; there is no
690 longer an option for authorities to turn it off. Closes part
694 - Add unit tests for bandwidth statistics manipulation functions.
695 Closes ticket 33812. Patch by MrSquanchee.
697 o Code simplification and refactoring (autoconf):
698 - Remove autoconf checks for unused funcs and headers. Closes ticket
699 31699; Patch by @bduszel
701 o Code simplification and refactoring (maintainer scripts):
702 - Disable by default the pre-commit hook. Use the environment
703 variable TOR_EXTRA_PRE_COMMIT_CHECKS in order to run it.
704 Furthermore, stop running practracker in the pre-commit hook and
705 make check-local. Closes ticket 40019.
707 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay address):
708 - Most of IPv4 representation was using "uint32_t". It has now been
709 moved to use the internal "tor_addr_t" interface instead. This is
710 so we can properly integrate IPv6 along IPv4 with common
711 interfaces. Closes ticket 40043.
713 o Documentation (manual page):
714 - Move them from doc/ to doc/man/. Closes ticket 40044.
715 - Describe the status of the "Sandbox" option more accurately. It is
716 no longer "experimental", but it _is_ dependent on kernel and libc
717 versions. Closes ticket 23378.
719 o Documentation (tracing):
720 - Document in depth the circuit subsystem trace events in the new
721 doc/tracing/EventsCircuit.md. Closes ticket 40036.
724 Changes in version 0.4.4.5 - 2020-09-15
725 Tor 0.4.4.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. This
726 series improves our guard selection algorithms, adds v3 onion balance
727 support, improves the amount of code that can be disabled when running
728 without relay support, and includes numerous small bugfixes and
729 enhancements. It also lays the ground for some IPv6 features that
730 we'll be developing more in the next (0.4.5) series.
732 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
733 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
734 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
735 that 0.4.4.x will be supported until around June 2021--or later, if
736 0.4.5.x is later than anticipated.
738 Note also that support for 0.4.2.x has just ended; support for 0.4.3
739 will continue until Feb 15, 2021. We still plan to continue supporting
740 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until Feb 2022.
742 Below are the changes since 0.4.4.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
743 since 0.4.3.6, see the ReleaseNotes file.
745 o Major bugfixes (onion services, DoS):
746 - Correct handling of parameters for the onion service DoS defense.
747 Previously, the consensus parameters for the onion service DoS
748 defenses were overwriting the parameters set by the service
749 operator using HiddenServiceEnableIntroDoSDefense. Fixes bug
750 40109; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
752 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services):
753 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
754 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
755 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
756 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
758 o Minor features (control port):
759 - If a ClientName was specified in ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD for an
760 onion service, display it when we use ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW.
761 Closes ticket 40089. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
763 o Minor features (denial-of-service memory limiter):
764 - Allow the user to configure even lower values for the
765 MaxMemInQueues parameter. Relays now enforce a minimum of 64 MB,
766 when previously the minimum was 256 MB. On clients, there is no
767 minimum. Relays and clients will both warn if the value is set so
768 low that Tor is likely to stop working. Closes ticket 24308.
770 o Minor features (tests):
771 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
772 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
773 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
775 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection algorithm):
776 - Avoid needless guard-related warning when upgrading from 0.4.3 to
777 0.4.4. Fixes bug 40105; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
779 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
780 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
781 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
782 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
785 Changes in version 0.4.4.3-alpha - 2020-07-27
786 Tor 0.4.4.3-alpha fixes several annoyances in previous versions,
787 including one affecting NSS users, and several affecting the Linux
790 o Major features (fallback directory list):
791 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
792 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
793 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
795 o Major bugfixes (NSS):
796 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
797 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
798 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
799 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
802 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
803 - Fix a regression on sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall. The
804 fix for bug 25440 fixed the problem on systems with glibc >= 2.27
805 but broke with versions of glibc. We now choose a rule based on
806 the glibc version. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 27315;
808 - Makes the seccomp sandbox allow the correct syscall for opendir
809 according to the running glibc version. This fixes crashes when
810 reloading torrc with sandbox enabled when running on glibc 2.15 to
811 2.21 and 2.26. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 40020; bugfix
814 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability):
815 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
816 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
817 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
818 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
819 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
823 - Replace most http:// URLs in our code and documentation with
824 https:// URLs. (We have left unchanged the code in src/ext/, and
825 the text in LICENSE.) Closes ticket 31812. Patch from Jeremy Rand.
828 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
829 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
830 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
831 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
832 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
833 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030.
836 Changes in version 0.3.5.11 - 2020-07-09
837 Tor 0.3.5.11 backports fixes from later tor releases, including several
838 usability, portability, and reliability fixes.
840 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
841 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
842 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
843 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
844 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
845 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
846 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
849 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
850 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
851 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
852 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
855 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
856 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
857 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
858 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
859 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
860 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
862 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
863 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
864 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
865 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
866 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
867 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
869 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
870 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
871 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
873 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
874 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
875 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
876 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
879 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
880 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
881 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
882 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
885 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
886 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
887 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
888 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
889 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
891 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
892 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
893 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
895 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
896 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
897 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
898 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
899 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
902 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
903 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
904 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
905 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
906 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
907 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
909 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
910 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
911 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
912 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
914 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
915 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
916 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
917 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
920 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
921 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
922 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
923 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
924 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
925 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
926 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
927 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
931 Changes in version 0.4.2.8 - 2020-07-09
932 Tor 0.4.2.8 backports various fixes from later releases, including
933 several that affect usability and portability.
935 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
936 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
937 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
938 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
939 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
940 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
941 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
944 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
945 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
946 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
947 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
950 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
951 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
952 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
953 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
954 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
955 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
957 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control, backport form 0.4.3.4-rc):
958 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
959 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
960 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
961 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
963 o Minor features (diagnostic, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
964 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
965 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
966 code. Closes ticket 33290.
968 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
969 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
970 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
971 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
972 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
973 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
975 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
976 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
977 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
979 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
980 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
981 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
982 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
985 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
986 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
987 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
988 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
991 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
992 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
993 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
994 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
995 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
996 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
999 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1000 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
1001 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
1003 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
1004 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
1005 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
1006 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1008 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1009 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
1010 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
1011 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
1012 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
1015 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1016 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
1017 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
1018 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
1019 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
1020 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1022 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-rc):
1023 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
1024 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
1025 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
1026 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1028 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1029 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
1030 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
1031 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
1033 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1034 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
1035 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
1036 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1038 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1039 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
1040 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
1041 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
1044 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1045 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
1046 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
1047 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
1048 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
1049 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
1050 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
1051 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
1055 Changes in version 0.4.3.6 - 2020-07-09
1056 Tor 0.4.3.6 backports several bugfixes from later releases, including
1057 some affecting usability.
1059 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
1060 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
1061 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
1062 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
1063 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
1064 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
1065 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
1068 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1069 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
1070 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
1071 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
1074 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1075 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
1076 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
1078 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1079 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
1080 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
1081 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
1084 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1085 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
1086 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
1088 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, nss, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1089 - Fix a startup crash when tor is compiled with --enable-nss and
1090 sandbox support is enabled. Fixes bug 34130; bugfix on
1091 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1093 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1094 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
1095 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
1096 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1098 o Minor bugfixes (manual page, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1099 - Update the man page to reflect that MinUptimeHidServDirectoryV2
1100 defaults to 96 hours. Fixes bug 34299; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1102 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1103 - Prevent an assert() that would occur when cleaning the client
1104 descriptor cache, and attempting to close circuits for a non-
1105 decrypted descriptor (lacking client authorization). Fixes bug
1106 33458; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
1108 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1109 - Fix a portability error in the configure script, where we were
1110 using "==" instead of "=". Fixes bug 34233; bugfix on 0.4.3.5.
1112 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1113 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
1114 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
1115 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1117 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1118 - Fix several doxygen warnings related to imbalanced groups. Closes
1122 Changes in version 0.4.4.2-alpha - 2020-07-09
1123 This is the second alpha release in the 0.4.4.x series. It fixes a few
1124 bugs in the previous release, and solves a few usability,
1125 compatibility, and portability issues.
1127 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
1128 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
1129 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
1130 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
1131 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
1132 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
1133 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
1136 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security):
1137 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
1138 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
1139 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
1142 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
1143 - Report more detailed reasons for bootstrap failure when the
1144 failure happens due to a TLS error. Previously we would just call
1145 these errors "MISC" when they happened during read, and "DONE"
1146 when they happened during any other TLS operation. Closes
1149 o Minor features (directory authority):
1150 - Authorities now recommend the protocol versions that are supported
1151 by Tor 0.3.5 and later. (Earlier versions of Tor have been
1152 deprecated since January of this year.) This recommendation will
1153 cause older clients and relays to give a warning on startup, or
1154 when they download a consensus directory. Closes ticket 32696.
1156 o Minor features (entry guards):
1157 - Reinstate support for GUARD NEW/UP/DOWN control port events.
1158 Closes ticket 40001.
1160 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, portability):
1161 - Allow Tor to build on platforms where it doesn't know how to
1162 report which syscall caused the linux seccomp2 sandbox to fail.
1163 This change should make the sandbox code more portable to less
1164 common Linux architectures. Closes ticket 34382.
1165 - Permit the unlinkat() syscall, which some Libc implementations use
1166 to implement unlink(). Closes ticket 33346.
1168 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows):
1169 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
1170 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
1172 o Minor bugfix (onion service v3 client):
1173 - Remove a BUG() warning that could occur naturally. Fixes bug
1174 34087; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1176 o Minor bugfix (SOCKS, onion service client):
1177 - Detect v3 onion service addresses of the wrong length when
1178 returning the F6 ExtendedErrors code. Fixes bug 33873; bugfix
1181 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings):
1182 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
1183 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
1185 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion service):
1186 - Consistently use 'address' in "Invalid v3 address" response to
1187 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH commands. Previously, we would sometimes say
1188 'addr'. Fixes bug 40005; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
1190 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1191 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
1192 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
1193 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1195 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
1196 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion failure in certain edge-cases when
1197 opening an intro circuit as a client. Fixes bug 34084; bugfix
1200 o Deprecated features (onion service v2):
1201 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
1204 o Removed features (IPv6, revert):
1205 - Revert the change in the default value of ClientPreferIPv6OrPort:
1206 it breaks the torsocks use case. The SOCKS resolve command has no
1207 mechanism to ask for a specific address family (v4 or v6), and so
1208 prioritizing IPv6 when an IPv4 address is requested on the SOCKS
1209 interface resulted in a failure. Tor Browser explicitly sets
1210 PreferIPv6, so this should not affect the majority of our users.
1211 Closes ticket 33796; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
1214 Changes in version 0.4.4.1-alpha - 2020-06-16
1215 This is the first alpha release in the 0.4.4.x series. It improves
1216 our guard selection algorithms, improves the amount of code that
1217 can be disabled when running without relay support, and includes numerous
1218 small bugfixes and enhancements. It also lays the ground for some IPv6
1219 features that we'll be developing more in the next (0.4.5) series.
1221 Here are the changes since 0.4.3.5.
1223 o Major features (Proposal 310, performance + security):
1224 - Implements Proposal 310, "Bandaid on guard selection". Proposal
1225 310 solves load-balancing issues with older versions of the guard
1226 selection algorithm, and improves its security. Under this new
1227 algorithm, a newly selected guard never becomes Primary unless all
1228 previously sampled guards are unreachable. Implements
1229 recommendation from 32088. (Proposal 310 is linked to the CLAPS
1230 project researching optimal client location-aware path selections.
1231 This project is a collaboration between the UCLouvain Crypto Group,
1232 the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and Princeton University.)
1234 o Major features (IPv6, relay):
1235 - Consider IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells valid on relays. Log a protocol
1236 warning if the IPv4 or IPv6 address is an internal address, and
1237 internal addresses are not allowed. But continue to use the other
1238 address, if it is valid. Closes ticket 33817.
1239 - If a relay can extend over IPv4 and IPv6, and both addresses are
1240 provided, it chooses between them uniformly at random. Closes
1242 - Re-use existing IPv6 connections for circuit extends. Closes
1244 - Relays may extend circuits over IPv6, if the relay has an IPv6
1245 ORPort, and the client supplies the other relay's IPv6 ORPort in
1246 the EXTEND2 cell. IPv6 extends will be used by the relay IPv6
1247 ORPort self-tests in 33222. Closes ticket 33817.
1249 o Major features (v3 onion services):
1250 - Allow v3 onion services to act as OnionBalance backend instances,
1251 by using the HiddenServiceOnionBalanceInstance torrc option.
1252 Closes ticket 32709.
1254 o Minor feature (developer tools):
1255 - Add a script to help check the alphabetical ordering of option
1256 names in the manual page. Closes ticket 33339.
1258 o Minor feature (onion service client, SOCKS5):
1259 - Add 3 new SocksPort ExtendedErrors (F2, F3, F7) that reports back
1260 new type of onion service connection failures. The semantics of
1261 these error codes are documented in proposal 309. Closes
1264 o Minor feature (onion service v3):
1265 - If a service cannot upload its descriptor(s), log why at INFO
1266 level. Closes ticket 33400; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1268 o Minor feature (python scripts):
1269 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python exists. Instead of using a
1270 hardcoded path in scripts that still use Python 2, use
1271 /usr/bin/env, similarly to the scripts that use Python 3. Fixes
1272 bug 33192; bugfix on 0.4.2.
1274 o Minor features (client-only compilation):
1275 - Disable more code related to the ext_orport protocol when
1276 compiling without support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33368.
1277 - Disable more of our self-testing code when support for relay mode
1278 is disabled. Closes ticket 33370.
1280 o Minor features (code safety):
1281 - Check for failures of tor_inet_ntop() and tor_inet_ntoa()
1282 functions in DNS and IP address processing code, and adjust
1283 codepaths to make them less likely to crash entire Tor instances.
1284 Resolves issue 33788.
1286 o Minor features (compilation size):
1287 - Most server-side DNS code is now disabled when building without
1288 support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33366.
1290 o Minor features (continuous integration):
1291 - Run unit-test and integration test (Stem, Chutney) jobs with
1292 ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL macro being enabled on Travis and Appveyor.
1293 Resolves ticket 32143.
1295 o Minor features (control port):
1296 - Return a descriptive error message from the 'GETINFO status/fresh-
1297 relay-descs' command on the control port. Previously, we returned
1298 a generic error of "Error generating descriptor". Closes ticket
1299 32873. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1301 o Minor features (developer tooling):
1302 - Refrain from listing all .a files that are generated by the Tor
1303 build in .gitignore. Add a single wildcard *.a entry that covers
1304 all of them for present and future. Closes ticket 33642.
1305 - Add a script ("git-install-tools.sh") to install git hooks and
1306 helper scripts. Closes ticket 33451.
1308 o Minor features (directory authority, shared random):
1309 - Refactor more authority-only parts of the shared-random scheduling
1310 code to reside in the dirauth module, and to be disabled when
1311 compiling with --disable-module-dirauth. Closes ticket 33436.
1313 o Minor features (directory):
1314 - Remember the number of bytes we have downloaded for each directory
1315 purpose while bootstrapping, and while fully bootstrapped. Log
1316 this information as part of the heartbeat message. Closes
1319 o Minor features (IPv6 support):
1320 - Adds IPv6 support to tor_addr_is_valid(). Adds tests for the above
1321 changes and tor_addr_is_null(). Closes ticket 33679. Patch
1323 - Allow clients and relays to send dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2
1324 cells. Parse dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells on relays.
1325 Closes ticket 33901.
1327 o Minor features (logging):
1328 - When trying to find our own address, add debug-level logging to
1329 report the sources of candidate addresses. Closes ticket 32888.
1331 o Minor features (testing, architecture):
1332 - Our test scripts now double-check that subsystem initialization
1333 order is consistent with the inter-module dependencies established
1334 by our .may_include files. Implements ticket 31634.
1335 - Initialize all subsystems at the beginning of our unit test
1336 harness, to avoid crashes due to uninitialized subsystems. Follow-
1337 up from ticket 33316.
1339 o Minor features (v3 onion services):
1340 - Add v3 onion service status to the dumpstats() call which is
1341 triggered by a SIGUSR1 signal. Previously, we only did v2 onion
1342 services. Closes ticket 24844. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1344 o Minor features (windows):
1345 - Add support for console control signals like Ctrl+C in Windows.
1346 Closes ticket 34211. Patch from Damon Harris (TheDcoder).
1348 o Minor bugfix (onion service v3):
1349 - Prevent an assert() that would occur when cleaning the client
1350 descriptor cache, and attempting to close circuits for a non-
1351 decrypted descriptor (lacking client authorization). Fixes bug
1352 33458; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
1354 o Minor bugfix (refactoring):
1355 - Lift circuit_build_times_disabled() out of the
1356 circuit_expire_building() loop, to save CPU time when there are
1357 many circuits open. Fixes bug 33977; bugfix on 0.3.5.9.
1359 o Minor bugfixes (client performance):
1360 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
1361 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
1362 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
1365 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
1366 - Directory authorities now reject votes that arrive too late. In
1367 particular, once an authority has started fetching missing votes,
1368 it no longer accepts new votes posted by other authorities. This
1369 change helps prevent a consensus split, where only some authorities
1370 have the late vote. Fixes bug 4631; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
1372 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
1373 - Stop executing the checked-out pre-commit hook from the pre-push
1374 hook. Instead, execute the copy in the user's git directory. Fixes
1375 bug 33284; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1377 o Minor bugfixes (initialization):
1378 - Initialize the subsystems in our code in an order more closely
1379 corresponding to their dependencies, so that every system is
1380 initialized before the ones that (theoretically) depend on it.
1381 Fixes bug 33316; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1383 o Minor bugfixes (IPv4, relay):
1384 - Check for invalid zero IPv4 addresses and ports when sending and
1385 receiving extend cells. Fixes bug 33900; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
1387 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, relay):
1388 - Consider IPv6 addresses when checking if a connection is
1389 canonical. In 17604, relays assumed that a remote relay could
1390 consider an IPv6 connection canonical, but did not set the
1391 canonical flag on their side of the connection. Fixes bug 33899;
1392 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1393 - Log IPv6 addresses on connections where this relay is the
1394 responder. Previously, responding relays would replace the remote
1395 IPv6 address with the IPv4 address from the consensus. Fixes bug
1396 33899; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1398 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox nss):
1399 - Fix a startup crash when tor is compiled with --enable-nss and
1400 sandbox support is enabled. Fixes bug 34130; bugfix on
1401 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1403 o Minor bugfixes (logging, testing):
1404 - Make all of tor's assertion macros support the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL
1405 and DISABLE_ASSERTS_IN_UNIT_TESTS debugging modes. (IF_BUG_ONCE()
1406 used to log a non-fatal warning, regardless of the debugging
1407 mode.) Fixes bug 33917; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
1409 o Minor bugfixes (logs):
1410 - Remove surprising empty line in the INFO-level log about circuit
1411 build timeout. Fixes bug 33531; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1413 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop):
1414 - Better guard against growing a buffer past its maximum 2GB in
1415 size. Fixes bug 33131; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
1417 o Minor bugfixes (manual page):
1418 - Update the man page to reflect that MinUptimeHidServDirectoryV2
1419 defaults to 96 hours. Fixes bug 34299; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1421 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
1422 - Remove a BUG() that was causing a stacktrace when a descriptor
1423 changed at an unexpected time. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
1426 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, logging):
1427 - Fix a typo in a log message PublishHidServDescriptors is set to 0.
1428 Fixes bug 33779; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1430 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
1431 - Fix a portability error in the configure script, where we were
1432 using "==" instead of "=". Fixes bug 34233; bugfix on 0.4.3.5.
1434 o Minor bugfixes (protocol versions):
1435 - Sort tor's supported protocol version lists, as recommended by the
1436 tor directory specification. Fixes bug 33285; bugfix
1439 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
1440 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
1441 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
1442 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1444 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1445 - Define and use a new constant TOR_ADDRPORT_BUF_LEN which is like
1446 TOR_ADDR_BUF_LEN but includes enough space for an IP address,
1447 brackets, separating colon, and port number. Closes ticket 33956.
1448 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1449 - Merge the orconn and ocirc events into the "core" subsystem, which
1450 manages or connections and origin circuits. Previously they were
1451 isolated in subsystems of their own.
1452 - Move LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN to app/config. Resolves a dependency
1453 inversion. Closes ticket 33633.
1454 - Move the circuit extend code to the relay module. Split the
1455 circuit extend function into smaller functions. Closes
1457 - Rewrite port_parse_config() to use the default port flags from
1458 port_cfg_new(). Closes ticket 32994. Patch by MrSquanchee.
1459 - Updated comments in 'scheduler.c' to reflect old code changes, and
1460 simplified the scheduler channel state change code. Closes
1464 - Document the limitations of using %include on config files with
1465 seccomp sandbox enabled. Fixes documentation bug 34133; bugfix on
1466 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1467 - Fix several doxygen warnings related to imbalanced groups. Closes
1471 - Remove the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option attempted to
1472 randomly choose between IPv4 and IPv6 for client connections, and
1473 wasn't a true implementation of Happy Eyeballs. Often, this option
1474 failed on IPv4-only or IPv6-only connections. Closes ticket 32905.
1475 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1476 - Stop shipping contrib/dist/rc.subr file, as it is not being used
1477 on FreeBSD anymore. Closes issue 31576.
1480 - Add a basic IPv6 test to "make test-network". This test only runs
1481 when the local machine has an IPv6 stack. Closes ticket 33300.
1482 - Add test-network-ipv4 and test-network-ipv6 jobs to the Makefile.
1483 These jobs run the IPv4-only and dual-stack chutney flavours from
1484 test-network-all. Closes ticket 33280.
1485 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
1486 - Run the test-network-ipv6 Makefile target in the Travis CI IPv6
1487 chutney job. This job runs on macOS, so it's a bit slow. Closes
1489 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed. Putting the slowest jobs
1490 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
1492 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
1493 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
1494 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
1495 - Test v3 onion services to tor's mixed IPv4 chutney network. And
1496 add a mixed IPv6 chutney network. These networks are used in the
1497 test-network-all, test-network-ipv4, and test-network-ipv6 make
1498 targets. Closes ticket 33334.
1499 - Use the "bridges+hs-v23" chutney network flavour in "make test-
1500 network". This test requires a recent version of chutney (mid-
1501 February 2020). Closes ticket 28208.
1502 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
1503 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
1505 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service):
1506 - Refactor configuration parsing to use the new config subsystem
1507 code. Closes ticket 33014.
1509 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay address):
1510 - Move a series of functions related to address resolving into their
1511 own files. Closes ticket 33789.
1513 o Documentation (manual page):
1514 - Add cross reference links and a table of contents to the HTML tor
1515 manual page. Closes ticket 33369. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
1516 Google Season of Docs.
1517 - Alphabetize the Denial of Service Mitigation Options, Directory
1518 Authority Server Options, Hidden Service Options, and Testing
1519 Network Options sections of the tor(1) manual page. Closes ticket
1520 33275. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
1521 - Refrain from mentioning nicknames in manpage section for MyFamily
1522 torrc option. Resolves issue 33417.
1523 - Updated the options set by TestingTorNetwork in the manual page.
1524 Closes ticket 33778.
1527 Changes in version 0.4.3.5 - 2020-05-15
1528 Tor 0.4.3.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.3.x series. This
1529 series adds support for building without relay code enabled, and
1530 implements functionality needed for OnionBalance with v3 onion
1531 services. It includes significant refactoring of our configuration and
1532 controller functionality, and fixes numerous smaller bugs and
1535 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
1536 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
1537 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
1538 that 0.4.3.x will be supported until around February 2021--later, if
1539 0.4.4.x is later than anticipated.
1541 Note also that support for 0.4.1.x is about to end on May 20 of this
1542 year; 0.4.2.x will be supported until September 15. We still plan to
1543 continue supporting 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until
1546 Below are the changes since 0.4.3.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
1547 since 0.4.2.6, see the ReleaseNotes file.
1549 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility):
1550 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
1551 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
1552 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
1553 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
1554 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
1557 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1558 - Stop truncating IPv6 addresses and ports in channel and connection
1559 logs. Fixes bug 33918; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1560 - Fix a logic error in a log message about whether an address was
1561 invalid. Previously, the code would never report that onion
1562 addresses were onion addresses. Fixes bug 34131; bugfix
1566 Changes in version 0.4.3.4-rc - 2020-04-13
1567 Tor 0.4.3.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes
1568 several bugs from earlier versions, including one affecting DoS
1569 defenses on bridges using pluggable transports.
1571 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport):
1572 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
1573 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
1574 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
1575 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
1576 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
1578 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control):
1579 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
1580 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
1581 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
1582 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
1584 o Minor features (testing):
1585 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
1586 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
1587 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
1588 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
1589 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
1591 o Minor bugfixes (--disable-module-relay):
1592 - Fix an assertion failure when Tor is built without the relay
1593 module, and then invoked with the "User" option. Fixes bug 33668;
1594 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
1596 o Minor bugfixes (--disable-module-relay,--disable-module-dirauth):
1597 - Set some output arguments in the relay and dirauth module stubs,
1598 to guard against future stub argument handling bugs like 33668.
1599 Fixes bug 33674; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
1601 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
1602 - Correctly output the enabled module in the configure summary.
1603 Before that, the list shown was just plain wrong. Fixes bug 33646;
1604 bugfix on 0.4.3.2-alpha.
1606 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
1607 - Stop forcing all non-SocksPorts to prefer IPv6 exit connections.
1608 Instead, prefer IPv6 connections by default, but allow users to
1609 change their configs using the "NoPreferIPv6" port flag. Fixes bug
1610 33608; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
1611 - Revert PreferIPv6 set by default on the SocksPort because it broke
1612 the torsocks use case. Tor doesn't have a way for an application
1613 to request the hostname to be resolved for a specific IP version,
1614 but torsocks requires that. Up until now, IPv4 was used by default
1615 so torsocks is expecting that, and can't handle a possible IPv6
1616 being returned. Fixes bug 33804; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
1618 o Minor bugfixes (key portability):
1619 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
1620 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
1621 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
1622 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
1623 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1625 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1626 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
1627 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
1628 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
1629 - Stop closing stderr and stdout during shutdown. Closing these file
1630 descriptors can hide sanitiser logs. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix
1633 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
1634 - Relax severity of a log message that can appear naturally when
1635 decoding onion service descriptors as a relay. Also add some
1636 diagnostics to debug any future bugs in that area. Fixes bug
1637 31669; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1638 - Block a client-side assertion by disallowing the registration of
1639 an x25519 client auth key that's all zeroes. Fixes bug 33545;
1640 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. Based on patch from "cypherpunks".
1642 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1643 - Disable our coding standards best practices tracker in our git
1644 hooks. (0.4.3 branches only.) Closes ticket 33678.
1647 - Avoid conflicts between the fake sockets in tor's unit tests, and
1648 real file descriptors. Resolves issues running unit tests with
1649 GitHub Actions, where the process that embeds or launches the
1650 tests has already opened a large number of file descriptors. Fixes
1651 bug 33782; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Found and fixed by
1655 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
1656 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
1657 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
1658 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
1659 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
1660 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
1661 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
1665 Changes in version 0.4.3.3-alpha - 2020-03-18
1666 Tor 0.4.3.3-alpha fixes several bugs in previous releases, including
1667 TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected
1668 all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this
1669 vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge
1670 amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or
1671 minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or
1672 by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The
1673 attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby
1674 disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic
1675 analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked
1678 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
1679 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
1680 as soon as packages are available.
1682 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service):
1683 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
1684 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
1685 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
1686 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
1687 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
1688 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
1689 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
1690 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
1692 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak):
1693 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
1694 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
1695 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
1696 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
1698 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
1699 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
1700 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
1701 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
1702 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
1704 o Minor features (diagnostic):
1705 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
1706 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
1707 code. Closes ticket 33290.
1709 o Minor features (directory authorities):
1710 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
1711 Tor versions from the 0.2.9 and 0.4.0 series. The 0.3.5 series is
1712 still allowed. Resolves ticket 32672. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1714 o Minor features (usability):
1715 - Include more information when failing to parse a configuration
1716 value. This should make it easier to tell what's going wrong when
1717 a configuration file doesn't parse. Closes ticket 33460.
1719 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration):
1720 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
1721 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
1722 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
1725 o Minor bugfixes (coding best practices checks):
1726 - Allow the "practracker" script to read unicode files when using
1727 Python 2. We made the script use unicode literals in 0.4.3.1-alpha,
1728 but didn't change the codec for opening files. Fixes bug 33374;
1729 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
1731 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
1732 - Remove the buggy and unused mirroring job. Fixes bug 33213; bugfix
1735 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
1736 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
1737 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
1738 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
1741 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
1742 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
1743 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
1744 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
1747 o Documentation (manpage):
1748 - Alphabetize the Server and Directory server sections of the tor
1749 manpage. Also split Statistics options into their own section of
1750 the manpage. Closes ticket 33188. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
1751 Google Season of Docs.
1752 - Document the __OwningControllerProcess torrc option and specify
1753 its polling interval. Resolves issue 32971.
1755 o Testing (Travis CI):
1756 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
1757 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
1758 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
1760 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
1761 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
1762 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
1763 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
1764 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
1767 Changes in version 0.4.2.7 - 2020-03-18
1768 This is the third stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
1769 numerous fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
1770 002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected all
1771 released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability,
1772 an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge amount of CPU,
1773 disrupting their operations for several seconds or minutes. This
1774 attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or by a directory
1775 cache against any client that had connected to it. The attacker could
1776 launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service
1777 or creating patterns that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue
1778 was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
1780 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
1781 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
1782 as soon as packages are available.
1784 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1785 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
1786 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
1787 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
1788 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
1789 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
1790 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
1791 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
1792 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
1794 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1795 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
1796 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
1797 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
1798 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
1800 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1801 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
1802 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
1803 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
1804 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
1806 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
1807 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
1808 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
1809 Closes ticket 33075.
1811 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1812 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
1813 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
1815 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
1816 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
1817 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
1818 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
1819 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
1822 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1823 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
1824 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
1825 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
1828 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
1829 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
1830 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
1831 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1833 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1834 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
1835 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
1836 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
1838 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
1839 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
1840 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
1841 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
1842 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
1845 Changes in version 0.4.1.9 - 2020-03-18
1846 Tor 0.4.1.9 backports important fixes from later Tor releases,
1847 including a fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service
1848 vulnerability that affected all released Tor instances since
1849 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor
1850 instances to consume a huge amount of CPU, disrupting their operations
1851 for several seconds or minutes. This attack could be launched by
1852 anybody against a relay, or by a directory cache against any client
1853 that had connected to it. The attacker could launch this attack as
1854 much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service or creating patterns
1855 that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz,
1856 and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
1858 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
1859 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
1860 as soon as packages are available.
1862 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1863 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
1864 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
1865 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
1866 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
1867 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
1868 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
1869 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
1870 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
1872 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1873 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
1874 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
1875 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
1876 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
1878 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1879 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
1880 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
1882 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
1883 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
1884 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
1885 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
1886 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
1889 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1890 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
1891 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
1892 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
1895 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
1896 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
1897 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
1898 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1900 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1901 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
1902 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
1903 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
1905 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
1906 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
1907 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
1908 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
1909 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
1912 Changes in version 0.3.5.10 - 2020-03-18
1913 Tor 0.3.5.10 backports many fixes from later Tor releases, including a
1914 fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that
1915 affected all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this
1916 vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge
1917 amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or
1918 minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or
1919 by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The
1920 attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby
1921 disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic
1922 analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked
1925 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
1926 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
1927 as soon as packages are available.
1929 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1930 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
1931 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
1932 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
1933 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
1934 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
1935 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
1936 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
1937 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
1939 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1940 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
1941 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
1942 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
1943 libseccomp <2.4.0 this lead to some rules having no effect.
1944 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
1945 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
1946 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
1949 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
1950 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
1951 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
1952 Closes ticket 33075.
1954 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1955 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
1956 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
1958 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
1959 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
1960 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
1961 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
1962 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1964 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
1965 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
1966 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
1967 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
1968 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
1971 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1972 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
1973 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
1974 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
1977 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
1978 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
1979 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
1980 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1982 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1983 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
1984 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
1985 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
1986 Closes ticket 32629.
1987 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
1988 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
1989 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
1991 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1992 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
1994 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1995 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
1996 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
1997 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
1999 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
2000 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
2001 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
2002 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
2005 Changes in version 0.4.3.2-alpha - 2020-02-10
2006 This is the second stable alpha release in the Tor 0.4.3.x series. It
2007 fixes several bugs present in the previous alpha release. Anybody
2008 running the previous alpha should upgrade, and look for bugs in this
2011 o Major bugfixes (onion service client, authorization):
2012 - On a NEWNYM signal, purge entries from the ephemeral client
2013 authorization cache. The permanent ones are kept. Fixes bug 33139;
2014 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2016 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
2017 - Practracker now supports a --regen-overbroad option to regenerate
2018 the exceptions file, but only to revise exceptions to be _less_
2019 tolerant of best-practices violations. Closes ticket 32372.
2021 o Minor features (continuous integration):
2022 - Run Doxygen Makefile target on Travis, so we can learn about
2023 regressions in our internal documentation. Closes ticket 32455.
2024 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
2025 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
2026 Closes ticket 33075.
2028 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
2029 - Revise configure options that were either missing or incorrect in
2030 the configure summary. Fixes bug 32230; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2032 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
2033 - Fix a memory leak introduced by refactoring of control reply
2034 formatting code. Fixes bug 33039; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2035 - Fix a memory leak in GETINFO responses. Fixes bug 33103; bugfix
2037 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
2038 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
2039 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2041 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2042 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
2043 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
2044 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
2045 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
2047 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
2048 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
2049 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
2050 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2052 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
2053 - Move a series of v2 onion service warnings to protocol-warning
2054 level because they can all be triggered remotely by a malformed
2055 request. Fixes bug 32706; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
2057 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client authorization):
2058 - When removing client authorization credentials using the control
2059 port, also remove the associated descriptor, so the onion service
2060 can no longer be contacted. Fixes bug 33148; bugfix
2063 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
2064 - When receiving a message on standard error from a pluggable
2065 transport, log it at info level, rather than as a warning. Fixes
2066 bug 33005; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2068 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build):
2069 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
2070 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
2071 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2073 o Minor bugfixes (TLS bug handling):
2074 - When encountering a bug in buf_read_from_tls(), return a "MISC"
2075 error code rather than "WANTWRITE". This change might help avoid
2076 some CPU-wasting loops if the bug is ever triggered. Bug reported
2077 by opara. Fixes bug 32673; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-alpha.
2079 o Code simplification and refactoring (mainloop):
2080 - Simplify the ip_address_changed() function by removing redundant
2081 checks. Closes ticket 33091.
2083 o Documentation (manpage):
2084 - Split "Circuit Timeout" options and "Node Selection" options into
2085 their own sections of the tor manpage. Closes tickets 32928 and
2086 32929. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
2089 Changes in version 0.4.2.6 - 2020-01-30
2090 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
2091 several bugfixes from 0.4.3.1-alpha, including some that had affected
2092 the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows services. If you're running with
2093 one of those configurations, you'll probably want to upgrade;
2094 otherwise, you should be fine with 0.4.2.5.
2096 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2097 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
2098 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
2099 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
2100 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
2101 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
2102 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
2103 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
2105 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
2106 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
2107 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
2109 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2110 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that
2111 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765;
2112 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2114 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2115 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion
2116 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects.
2117 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2119 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2120 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the
2121 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes
2122 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2123 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when
2124 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix
2127 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2128 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
2129 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2131 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2132 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
2133 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
2134 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
2135 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
2136 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
2137 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
2138 Closes ticket 32629.
2140 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2141 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
2144 Changes in version 0.4.1.8 - 2020-01-30
2145 This release backports several bugfixes from later release series,
2146 including some that had affected the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows
2147 services. If you're running with one of those configurations, you'll
2148 probably want to upgrade; otherwise, you should be fine with your
2149 current version of 0.4.1.x.
2151 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2152 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
2153 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
2154 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
2155 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
2156 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
2157 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
2158 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
2160 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
2161 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
2162 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
2164 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport form 0.4.2.4-rc):
2165 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
2166 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
2167 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
2168 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2170 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2171 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
2172 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2174 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2175 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
2176 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
2177 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
2178 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
2179 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
2180 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
2181 Closes ticket 32629.
2183 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2184 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
2187 Changes in version 0.4.3.1-alpha - 2020-01-22
2188 This is the first alpha release in the 0.4.3.x series. It includes
2189 improved support for application integration of onion services, support
2190 for building in a client-only mode, and newly improved internal
2191 documentation (online at https://src-ref.docs.torproject.org/tor/). It
2192 also has numerous other small bugfixes and features, as well as
2193 improvements to our code's internal organization that should help us
2194 write better code in the future.
2196 o New system requirements:
2197 - When building Tor, you now need to have Python 3 in order to run
2198 the integration tests. (Python 2 is officially unsupported
2199 upstream, as of 1 Jan 2020.) Closes ticket 32608.
2201 o Major features (build system):
2202 - The relay code can now be disabled using the --disable-module-relay
2203 configure option. When this option is set, we also disable the
2204 dirauth module. Closes ticket 32123.
2205 - When Tor is compiled --disable-module-relay, we also omit the code
2206 used to act as a directory cache. Closes ticket 32487.
2208 o Major features (directory authority, ed25519):
2209 - Add support for banning a relay's ed25519 keys in the approved-
2210 routers file. This will help us migrate away from RSA keys in the
2211 future. Previously, only RSA keys could be banned in approved-
2212 routers. Resolves ticket 22029. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2214 o Major features (onion service, controller):
2215 - New control port commands to manage client-side onion service
2216 authorization credentials. The ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD command adds
2217 a credential, ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_REMOVE deletes a credential, and
2218 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW lists the credentials. Closes ticket 30381.
2220 o Major features (onion service, SOCKS5):
2221 - Introduce a new SocksPort flag, ExtendedErrors, to support more
2222 detailed error codes in information for applications that support
2223 them. Closes ticket 30382; implements proposal 304.
2225 o Major features (proxy):
2226 - In addition to its current supported proxy types (HTTP CONNECT,
2227 SOCKS4, and SOCKS5), Tor can now make its OR connections through a
2228 HAProxy server. A new torrc option was added to specify the
2229 address/port of the server: TCPProxy <protocol> <host>:<port>.
2230 Currently the only supported protocol for the option is haproxy.
2231 Closes ticket 31518. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
2233 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox):
2234 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
2235 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
2236 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
2237 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
2238 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
2239 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
2240 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
2242 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
2243 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
2244 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
2246 o Major bugfixes (networking):
2247 - Correctly handle IPv6 addresses in SOCKS5 RESOLVE_PTR requests,
2248 and accept strings as well as binary addresses. Fixes bug 32315;
2249 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2251 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
2252 - Report HS circuit failure back into the HS subsystem so we take
2253 appropriate action with regards to the client introduction point
2254 failure cache. This improves reachability of onion services, since
2255 now clients notice failing introduction circuits properly. Fixes
2256 bug 32020; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2258 o Minor feature (configure, build system):
2259 - Output a list of enabled/disabled features at the end of the
2260 configure process in a pleasing way. Closes ticket 31373.
2262 o Minor feature (heartbeat, onion service):
2263 - Add the DoS INTRODUCE2 defenses counter to the heartbeat DoS
2264 message. Closes ticket 31371.
2266 o Minor features (configuration validation):
2267 - Configuration validation can now be done by per-module callbacks,
2268 rather than a global validation function. This will let us reduce
2269 the size of config.c and some of its more cumbersome functions.
2270 Closes ticket 31241.
2272 o Minor features (configuration):
2273 - If a configured hardware crypto accelerator in AccelName is
2274 prefixed with "!", Tor now exits when it cannot be found. Closes
2276 - We now use flag-driven logic to warn about obsolete configuration
2277 fields, so that we can include their names. In 0.4.2, we used a
2278 special type, which prevented us from generating good warnings.
2279 Implements ticket 32404.
2281 o Minor features (controller):
2282 - Add stream isolation data to STREAM event. Closes ticket 19859.
2283 - Implement a new GETINFO command to fetch microdescriptor
2284 consensus. Closes ticket 31684.
2286 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
2287 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
2288 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
2289 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
2291 o Minor features (defense in depth):
2292 - Add additional checks around tor_vasprintf() usage, in case the
2293 function returns an error. Patch by Tobias Stoeckmann. Fixes
2296 o Minor features (developer tooling):
2297 - Remove the 0.2.9.x series branches from git scripts (git-merge-
2298 forward.sh, git-pull-all.sh, git-push-all.sh, git-setup-dirs.sh).
2299 Closes ticket 32772.
2301 o Minor features (developer tools):
2302 - Add a check_cocci_parse.sh script that checks that new code is
2303 parseable by Coccinelle. Add an exceptions file for unparseable
2304 files, and run the script from travis CI. Closes ticket 31919.
2305 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from a 'check-cocci' Makefile
2306 target. Closes ticket 31919.
2307 - Add a rename_c_identifiers.py tool to rename a bunch of C
2308 identifiers at once, and generate a well-formed commit message
2309 describing the change. This should help with refactoring. Closes
2311 - Add some scripts in "scripts/coccinelle" to invoke the Coccinelle
2312 semantic patching tool with the correct flags. These flags are
2313 fairly easy to forget, and these scripts should help us use
2314 Coccinelle more effectively in the future. Closes ticket 31705.
2316 o Minor features (Doxygen):
2317 - Update Doxygen configuration file to a more recent template (from
2318 1.8.15). Closes ticket 32110.
2319 - "make doxygen" now works with out-of-tree builds. Closes
2321 - Make sure that doxygen outputs documentation for all of our C
2322 files. Previously, some were missing @file declarations, causing
2323 them to be ignored. Closes ticket 32307.
2324 - Our "make doxygen" target now respects --enable-fatal-warnings by
2325 default, and does not warn about items that are missing
2326 documentation. To warn about missing documentation, run configure
2327 with the "--enable-missing-doc-warnings" flag: doing so suspends
2328 fatal warnings for doxygen. Closes ticket 32385.
2330 o Minor features (git scripts):
2331 - Add TOR_EXTRA_CLONE_ARGS to git-setup-dirs.sh for git clone
2332 customisation. Closes ticket 32347.
2333 - Add git-setup-dirs.sh, which sets up an upstream git repository
2334 and worktrees for tor maintainers. Closes ticket 29603.
2335 - Add TOR_EXTRA_REMOTE_* to git-setup-dirs.sh for a custom extra
2336 remote. Closes ticket 32347.
2337 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from the git commit and push
2338 hooks. Closes ticket 31919.
2339 - Make git-push-all.sh skip unchanged branches when pushing to
2340 upstream. The script already skipped unchanged test branches.
2341 Closes ticket 32216.
2342 - Make git-setup-dirs.sh create a master symlink in the worktree
2343 directory. Closes ticket 32347.
2344 - Skip unmodified source files when doing some existing git hook
2345 checks. Related to ticket 31919.
2347 o Minor features (IPv6, client):
2348 - Make Tor clients tell dual-stack exits that they prefer IPv6
2349 connections. This change is equivalent to setting the PreferIPv6
2350 flag on SOCKSPorts (and most other listener ports). Tor Browser
2351 has been setting this flag for some time, and we want to remove a
2352 client distinguisher at exits. Closes ticket 32637.
2354 o Minor features (portability, android):
2355 - When building for Android, disable some tests that depend on $HOME
2356 and/or pwdb, which Android doesn't have. Closes ticket 32825.
2357 Patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
2359 o Minor features (relay modularity):
2360 - Split the relay and server pluggable transport config code into
2361 separate files in the relay module. Disable this code when the
2362 relay module is disabled. Closes part of ticket 32213.
2363 - When the relay module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
2364 ORPort, DirPort, DirCache, BridgeRelay, ExtORPort, or
2365 ServerTransport* options, rather than ignoring the values of these
2366 options. Closes part of ticket 32213.
2368 o Minor features (relay):
2369 - When the relay module is disabled, change the default config so
2370 that DirCache is 0, and ClientOnly is 1. Closes ticket 32410.
2372 o Minor features (release tools):
2373 - Port our ChangeLog formatting and sorting tools to Python 3.
2374 Closes ticket 32704.
2376 o Minor features (testing):
2377 - Detect some common failure cases for test_parseconf.sh in
2378 src/test/conf_failures. Closes ticket 32451.
2379 - Allow test_parseconf.sh to test expected log outputs for successful
2380 configs, as well as failed configs. Closes ticket 32451.
2381 - The test_parseconf.sh script now supports result variants for any
2382 combination of the optional libraries lzma, nss, and zstd. Closes
2385 o Minor features (tests, Android):
2386 - When running the unit tests on Android, create temporary files in
2387 a subdirectory of /data/local/tmp. Closes ticket 32172. Based on a
2388 patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
2390 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
2391 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
2392 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
2394 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
2395 - Fix "make autostyle" for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32370;
2396 bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
2398 o Minor bugfixes (configuration handling):
2399 - Make control_event_conf_changed() take in a config_line_t instead
2400 of a smartlist of alternating key/value entries. Fixes bug 31531;
2401 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2403 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
2404 - Check for multiplication overflow when parsing memory units inside
2405 configuration. Fixes bug 30920; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
2406 - When dumping the configuration, stop adding a trailing space after
2407 the option name when there is no option value. This issue only
2408 affects options that accept an empty value or list. (Most options
2409 reject empty values, or delete the entire line from the dumped
2410 options.) Fixes bug 32352; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6.
2411 - Avoid changing the user's value of HardwareAccel as stored by
2412 SAVECONF, when AccelName is set but HardwareAccel is not. Fixes
2413 bug 32382; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2414 - When creating a KeyDirectory with the same location as the
2415 DataDirectory (not recommended), respect the DataDirectory's
2416 group-readable setting if one has not been set for the
2417 KeyDirectory. Fixes bug 27992; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2419 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
2420 - In routerstatus_has_changed(), check all the fields that are
2421 output over the control port. Fixes bug 20218; bugfix
2424 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks):
2425 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that
2426 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765;
2427 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2429 o Minor bugfixes (developer tools):
2430 - Allow paths starting with ./ in scripts/add_c_file.py. Fixes bug
2431 31336; bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
2433 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth module):
2434 - Split the dirauth config code into a separate file in the dirauth
2435 module. Disable this code when the dirauth module is disabled.
2436 Closes ticket 32213.
2437 - When the dirauth module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
2438 AuthoritativeDir option, rather than ignoring the value of the
2439 option. Fixes bug 32213; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2441 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor):
2442 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
2443 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
2444 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
2445 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
2448 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
2449 - Avoid sleeping before the last push in git-push-all.sh. Closes
2451 - Forward all unrecognised arguments in git-push-all.sh to git push.
2452 Closes ticket 32216.
2454 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
2455 - Do not rely on a "circuit established" flag for intro circuits but
2456 instead always query the HS circuit map. This is to avoid sync
2457 issue with that flag and the map. Fixes bug 32094; bugfix
2460 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash):
2461 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion
2462 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects.
2463 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2465 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
2466 - When sending the INTRO cell for a v2 Onion Service, look at the
2467 failure cache alongside timeout values to check if the intro point
2468 is marked as failed. Previously, we only looked at the relay
2469 timeout values. Fixes bug 25568; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by
2472 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, client):
2473 - Properly handle the client rendezvous circuit timeout. Previously
2474 Tor would sometimes timeout a rendezvous circuit awaiting the
2475 introduction ACK, and find itself unable to re-establish all
2476 circuits because the rendezvous circuit timed out too early. Fixes
2477 bug 32021; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2479 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
2480 - In cancel_descriptor_fetches(), use
2481 connection_list_by_type_purpose() instead of
2482 connection_list_by_type_state(). Fixes bug 32639; bugfix on
2483 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2485 o Minor bugfixes (scripts):
2486 - Fix update_versions.py for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32371;
2487 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2489 o Minor bugfixes (test):
2490 - Use the same code to find the tor binary in all of our test
2491 scripts. This change makes sure we are always using the coverage
2492 binary when coverage is enabled. Fixes bug 32368; bugfix
2495 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
2496 - Stop ignoring "tor --dump-config" errors in test_parseconf.sh.
2497 Fixes bug 32468; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2498 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the
2499 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes
2500 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2501 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when
2502 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix
2505 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
2506 - Our option-validation tests no longer depend on specially
2507 configured non-default, non-passing sets of options. Previously,
2508 the tests had been written to assume that options would _not_ be
2509 set to their defaults, which led to needless complexity and
2510 verbosity. Fixes bug 32175; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2512 o Minor bugfixes (windows service):
2513 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
2514 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2516 o Deprecated features:
2517 - Deprecate the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option was not
2518 true "Happy Eyeballs", and often failed on connections that
2519 weren't reliably dual-stack. Closes ticket 32942. Patch by
2523 - Provide a quickstart guide for a Circuit Padding Framework, and
2524 documentation for researchers to implement and study circuit
2525 padding machines. Closes ticket 28804.
2526 - Add documentation in 'HelpfulTools.md' to describe how to build a
2527 tag file. Closes ticket 32779.
2528 - Create a high-level description of the long-term software
2529 architecture goals. Closes ticket 32206.
2530 - Describe the --dump-config command in the manual page. Closes
2532 - Unite coding advice from this_not_that.md in torguts repo into our
2533 coding standards document. Resolves ticket 31853.
2536 - Our Doxygen configuration no longer generates LaTeX output. The
2537 reference manual produced by doing this was over 4000 pages long,
2538 and generally unusable. Closes ticket 32099.
2539 - The option "TestingEstimatedDescriptorPropagationTime" is now
2540 marked as obsolete. It has had no effect since 0.3.0.7, when
2541 clients stopped rejecting consensuses "from the future". Closes
2543 - We no longer support consensus methods before method 28; these
2544 methods were only used by authorities running versions of Tor that
2545 are now at end-of-life. In effect, this means that clients,
2546 relays, and authorities now assume that authorities will be
2547 running version 0.3.5.x or later. Closes ticket 32695.
2550 - Add more test cases for tor's UTF-8 validation function. Also,
2551 check the arguments passed to the function for consistency. Closes
2553 - Improve test coverage for relay and dirauth config code, focusing
2554 on option validation and normalization. Closes ticket 32213.
2555 - Improve the consistency of test_parseconf.sh output, and run all
2556 the tests, even if one fails. Closes ticket 32213.
2557 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
2558 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
2559 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
2560 Closes ticket 32629.
2561 - Run the practracker unit tests in the pre-commit git hook. Closes
2563 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
2564 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
2565 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
2567 o Code simplification and refactoring (channel):
2568 - Channel layer had a variable length cell handler that was not used
2569 and thus removed. Closes ticket 32892.
2571 o Code simplification and refactoring (configuration):
2572 - Immutability is now implemented as a flag on individual
2573 configuration options rather than as part of the option-transition
2574 checking code. Closes ticket 32344.
2575 - Instead of keeping a list of configuration options to check for
2576 relative paths, check all the options whose type is "FILENAME".
2577 Solves part of ticket 32339.
2578 - Our default log (which ordinarily sends NOTICE-level messages to
2579 standard output) is now handled in a more logical manner.
2580 Previously, we replaced the configured log options if they were
2581 empty. Now, we interpret an empty set of log options as meaning
2582 "use the default log". Closes ticket 31999.
2583 - Remove some unused arguments from the options_validate() function,
2584 to simplify our code and tests. Closes ticket 32187.
2585 - Simplify the options_validate() code so that it looks at the
2586 default options directly, rather than taking default options as an
2587 argument. This change lets us simplify its interface. Closes
2589 - Use our new configuration architecture to move most authority-
2590 related options to the directory authority module. Closes
2592 - When parsing the command line, handle options that determine our
2593 "quiet level" and our mode of operation (e.g., --dump-config and
2594 so on) all in one table. Closes ticket 32003.
2596 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
2597 - Create a new abstraction for formatting control protocol reply
2598 lines based on key-value pairs. Refactor some existing control
2599 protocol code to take advantage of this. Closes ticket 30984.
2600 - Create a helper function that can fetch network status or
2601 microdesc consensuses. Closes ticket 31684.
2603 o Code simplification and refactoring (dirauth modularization):
2604 - Remove the last remaining HAVE_MODULE_DIRAUTH inside a function.
2605 Closes ticket 32163.
2606 - Replace some confusing identifiers in process_descs.c. Closes
2608 - Simplify some relay and dirauth config code. Closes ticket 32213.
2610 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
2611 - Make all the structs we declare follow the same naming convention
2612 of ending with "_t". Closes ticket 32415.
2613 - Move and rename some configuration-related code for clarity.
2614 Closes ticket 32304.
2615 - Our include.am files are now broken up by subdirectory.
2616 Previously, src/core/include.am covered all of the subdirectories
2617 in "core", "feature", and "app". Closes ticket 32137.
2618 - Remove underused NS*() macros from test code: they make our tests
2619 more confusing, especially for code-formatting tools. Closes
2622 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay modularization):
2623 - Disable relay_periodic when the relay module is disabled. Closes
2625 - Disable relay_sys when the relay module is disabled. Closes
2628 o Code simplification and refactoring (tool support):
2629 - Add numerous missing dependencies to our include files, so that
2630 they can be included in different reasonable orders and still
2631 compile. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
2632 - Fix some parts of our code that were difficult for Coccinelle to
2633 parse. Related to ticket 31705.
2634 - Fix some small issues in our code that prevented automatic
2635 formatting tools from working. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
2637 o Documentation (manpage):
2638 - Alphabetize the Client Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
2640 - Alphabetize the General Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
2642 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the
2643 COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS and DESCRIPTION sections. Closes ticket
2644 32277. Based on work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season
2646 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the FILES,
2647 SEE ALSO, and BUGS sections. Closes ticket 32176. Based on work by
2648 Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
2650 o Testing (circuit, EWMA):
2651 - Add unit tests for circuitmux and EWMA subsystems. Closes
2654 o Testing (continuous integration):
2655 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
2658 Changes in version 0.4.2.5 - 2019-12-09
2659 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. This series
2660 improves reliability and stability, and includes several stability and
2661 correctness improvements for onion services. It also fixes many smaller
2662 bugs present in previous series.
2664 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine
2665 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x:
2666 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
2667 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
2669 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine
2670 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x:
2671 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
2672 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
2674 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
2675 since 0.4.1.5, see the ReleaseNotes file.
2677 o Minor features (geoip):
2678 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
2679 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
2682 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU
2683 gcc extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition
2684 warnings. Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
2685 Closes ticket 32500.
2688 Changes in version 0.4.1.7 - 2019-12-09
2689 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
2690 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.6,
2691 including all relays relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
2693 o Major features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2694 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
2695 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
2696 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
2698 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2699 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
2700 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
2701 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2703 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2704 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
2705 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
2706 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
2707 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
2708 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
2709 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
2710 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2712 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2713 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
2714 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
2715 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
2716 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2718 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2719 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
2720 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
2721 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
2722 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
2725 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2726 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
2727 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
2728 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
2730 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
2731 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
2732 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
2734 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2735 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
2736 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
2738 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
2739 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
2740 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
2741 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
2742 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
2743 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2745 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
2746 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
2747 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
2748 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
2750 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2751 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
2752 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
2753 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2754 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
2755 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
2756 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2757 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
2758 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
2759 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
2762 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2763 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
2764 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
2765 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
2766 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
2767 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
2768 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
2769 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
2770 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2772 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2773 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
2774 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
2775 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2777 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2778 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
2779 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
2780 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
2781 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
2784 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2785 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
2786 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
2788 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2789 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
2790 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
2792 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
2793 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
2794 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2796 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2797 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
2798 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
2799 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2801 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2802 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
2803 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
2804 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
2805 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2807 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2808 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
2809 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2811 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2812 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
2813 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
2816 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2817 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
2818 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
2820 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2821 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
2822 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
2823 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
2825 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
2826 Closes ticket 31859.
2827 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
2828 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
2830 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
2831 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
2832 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
2833 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
2834 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
2835 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
2836 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
2837 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
2838 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
2839 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
2841 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
2842 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
2843 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
2844 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
2845 Closes ticket 32500.
2848 Changes in version 0.4.0.6 - 2019-12-09
2849 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. This release
2850 backports several bugfixes to improve stability and correctness. Anyone
2851 experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.0.5, including all relays
2852 relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
2854 Note that, per our support policy, support for the 0.4.0.x series will end
2855 on 2 Feb 2020. Anyone still running 0.4.0.x should plan to upgrade to the
2856 latest stable release, or downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will get long-term
2857 support until 1 Feb 2022.
2859 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
2860 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
2863 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
2864 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
2865 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
2866 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
2867 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
2868 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
2869 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
2870 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
2871 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
2872 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
2873 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2875 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
2876 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
2877 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
2878 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
2879 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
2880 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2882 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
2883 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
2884 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
2885 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
2886 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
2889 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
2890 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
2891 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
2892 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
2893 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
2895 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
2896 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
2897 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
2898 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
2901 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2902 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
2903 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
2904 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
2905 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
2906 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
2907 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
2908 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2910 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2911 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
2912 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
2913 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
2914 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2916 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2917 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
2918 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
2919 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
2920 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
2923 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
2924 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
2925 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
2927 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
2928 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
2929 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
2932 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
2933 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
2934 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
2936 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2937 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
2938 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
2939 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
2941 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
2942 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
2943 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
2944 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
2945 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
2947 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
2948 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
2949 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
2951 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2952 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
2953 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
2956 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2957 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
2958 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
2960 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2961 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
2962 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
2964 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
2965 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
2966 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
2968 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
2969 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
2970 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
2973 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
2974 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
2975 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
2976 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
2977 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
2978 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2980 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
2981 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
2982 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
2983 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
2984 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2986 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
2987 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
2988 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
2991 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
2992 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
2993 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2995 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2996 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
2997 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
2998 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
3000 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3001 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
3002 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
3003 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3005 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3006 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
3007 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
3008 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
3010 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
3011 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
3012 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
3013 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
3015 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
3016 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
3017 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3018 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
3019 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3020 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
3021 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3023 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3024 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
3025 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
3026 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
3028 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
3029 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
3030 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
3031 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
3033 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3034 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
3035 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
3038 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3039 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
3040 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
3041 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3042 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
3043 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
3044 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3046 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3047 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
3048 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
3049 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
3052 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3053 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
3054 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
3055 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
3056 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3058 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3059 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
3060 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
3061 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
3062 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
3064 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3065 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
3066 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
3069 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3070 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
3071 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
3072 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
3073 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
3075 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3076 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
3077 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
3078 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3080 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3081 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
3082 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
3083 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
3084 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
3087 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3088 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
3089 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
3092 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3093 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
3094 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
3095 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3097 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3098 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
3099 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
3100 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
3102 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3103 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
3104 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
3105 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3107 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3108 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
3109 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
3110 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
3113 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3114 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
3115 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
3116 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
3117 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
3118 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
3121 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3122 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
3123 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
3125 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
3126 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
3127 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3129 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3130 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
3131 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
3132 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3134 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3135 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
3136 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3138 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3139 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
3140 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
3141 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
3142 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3144 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3145 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
3146 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
3149 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3150 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
3151 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
3152 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
3153 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
3154 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3155 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
3156 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
3157 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
3158 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3160 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3161 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
3162 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
3163 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
3165 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3166 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
3167 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
3168 Resolves issue 29702.
3170 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3171 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
3173 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
3174 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
3175 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
3176 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
3179 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3180 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
3181 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
3182 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
3184 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
3185 Closes ticket 31859.
3186 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
3187 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
3189 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
3190 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
3191 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
3192 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
3193 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
3194 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
3195 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
3196 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
3197 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
3198 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
3200 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
3201 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
3202 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
3203 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
3204 Closes ticket 32500.
3206 Changes in version 0.3.5.9 - 2019-12-09
3207 Tor 0.3.5.9 backports serveral fixes from later releases, including
3208 several that affect bridge users, relay stability, onion services,
3211 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
3212 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
3215 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3216 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
3217 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
3218 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
3219 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
3220 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
3221 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
3222 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
3223 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
3224 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
3225 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3227 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3228 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
3229 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
3230 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
3231 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
3232 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3234 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
3235 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
3236 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
3237 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
3238 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
3239 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3241 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
3242 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
3243 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
3244 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
3245 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
3248 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3249 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
3250 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
3251 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
3252 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
3254 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
3255 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
3256 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
3257 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
3260 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3261 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
3262 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
3263 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
3264 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3266 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3267 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
3268 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
3269 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
3270 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
3273 o Minor features (address selection, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
3274 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
3275 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
3276 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
3277 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
3278 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
3279 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
3280 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3282 o Minor features (bandwidth authority, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
3283 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
3284 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
3285 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
3286 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
3289 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3290 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
3291 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
3293 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
3294 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
3295 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
3298 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.5):
3299 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
3300 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
3301 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
3303 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3304 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
3305 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
3308 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3309 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
3310 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
3312 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3313 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
3314 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
3315 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
3317 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3318 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
3319 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
3320 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
3321 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
3323 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
3324 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3325 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
3327 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
3328 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
3329 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
3330 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
3332 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3333 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
3334 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
3337 o Minor bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
3338 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
3339 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
3340 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
3341 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
3342 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
3343 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
3344 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
3345 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
3346 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
3347 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
3348 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
3349 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
3352 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
3353 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
3354 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
3355 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
3356 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
3358 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
3359 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
3360 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3362 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3363 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
3364 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
3366 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3367 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
3368 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
3370 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
3371 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
3372 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
3375 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
3376 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
3377 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
3379 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
3380 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
3381 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
3382 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
3383 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
3384 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3386 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
3387 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
3388 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
3389 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
3390 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3392 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
3393 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
3394 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
3397 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3398 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
3399 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
3401 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
3402 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
3403 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3405 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3406 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
3407 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
3408 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
3410 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3411 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
3412 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
3413 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3415 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3416 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
3417 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
3418 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
3420 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
3421 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
3422 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
3423 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
3425 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
3426 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
3427 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3428 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
3429 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3430 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
3431 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3433 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3434 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
3435 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
3436 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
3438 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
3439 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
3440 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
3441 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
3443 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3444 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
3445 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
3448 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3449 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
3450 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
3451 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3452 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
3453 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
3454 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3456 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3457 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
3458 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
3459 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
3462 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3463 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
3464 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
3465 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
3466 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3468 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3469 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
3470 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
3472 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
3473 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
3474 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
3475 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
3476 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
3477 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
3478 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
3479 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
3480 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
3481 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
3482 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3484 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3485 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
3486 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
3487 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
3488 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
3490 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3491 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
3492 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
3495 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3496 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
3497 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
3498 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
3499 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
3501 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3502 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
3503 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
3504 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3506 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3507 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
3508 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
3509 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
3510 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
3513 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3514 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
3515 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
3518 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3519 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
3520 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
3521 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3523 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
3524 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
3525 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
3526 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3528 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
3529 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
3530 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3532 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3533 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
3534 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
3535 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3537 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3538 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
3539 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
3540 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
3543 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3544 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
3545 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
3546 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
3547 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
3548 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
3551 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3552 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
3553 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
3554 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3556 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.0.5):
3557 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
3558 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3560 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3561 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
3562 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3564 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
3565 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
3566 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
3567 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
3568 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
3569 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
3570 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
3572 o Minor bugfixes (stats, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
3573 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
3574 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
3577 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
3578 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
3579 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
3580 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
3581 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
3582 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
3583 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
3584 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3586 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
3587 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
3588 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
3589 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3590 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
3591 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
3594 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3595 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
3596 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
3597 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
3598 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3600 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol, backport form 0.4.0.4-rc):
3601 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
3602 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
3603 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
3604 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
3605 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
3606 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
3607 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3609 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3610 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
3611 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
3614 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3615 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
3616 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
3617 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
3618 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
3619 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3620 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
3621 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
3622 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
3623 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3625 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
3626 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
3627 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
3628 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
3629 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
3630 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3632 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3633 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
3634 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
3635 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
3637 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3638 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
3639 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
3640 Resolves issue 29702.
3642 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3643 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
3645 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
3646 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
3647 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
3648 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
3651 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3652 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
3653 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
3654 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
3656 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
3657 Closes ticket 31859.
3658 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
3659 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
3661 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
3662 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
3663 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
3664 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
3665 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
3666 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
3667 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
3668 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
3669 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
3670 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
3672 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
3673 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
3674 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
3675 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
3676 Closes ticket 32500.
3678 Changes in version 0.4.2.4-rc - 2019-11-15
3679 Tor 0.4.2.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes
3680 several bugs from earlier versions, including a few that would result in
3681 stack traces or incorrect behavior.
3683 o Minor features (build system):
3684 - Make pkg-config use --prefix when cross-compiling, if
3685 PKG_CONFIG_PATH is not set. Closes ticket 32191.
3687 o Minor features (geoip):
3688 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3689 Country database. Closes ticket 32440.
3691 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3):
3692 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
3693 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
3694 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
3695 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
3696 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3698 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
3699 - Fix "make check-includes" so it runs correctly on out-of-tree
3700 builds. Fixes bug 31335; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3702 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
3703 - Log the option name when skipping an obsolete option. Fixes bug
3704 32295; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
3706 o Minor bugfixes (crash):
3707 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
3708 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
3709 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
3710 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3712 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
3713 - When checking if a directory connection is anonymous, test if the
3714 circuit was marked for close before looking at its channel. This
3715 avoids a BUG() stacktrace if the circuit was previously closed.
3716 Fixes bug 31958; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
3718 o Minor bugfixes (shellcheck):
3719 - Fix minor shellcheck errors in the git-*.sh scripts. Fixes bug
3720 32402; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
3721 - Start checking most scripts for shellcheck errors again. Fixes bug
3722 32402; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
3724 o Testing (continuous integration):
3725 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
3726 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
3727 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
3728 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
3729 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
3730 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
3731 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
3732 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
3733 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
3736 Changes in version 0.4.2.3-alpha - 2019-10-24
3737 This release fixes several bugs from the previous alpha release, and
3738 from earlier versions of Tor.
3740 o Major bugfixes (relay):
3741 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
3742 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
3743 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
3744 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
3745 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
3746 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
3747 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3749 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services):
3750 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
3751 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
3752 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
3753 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
3756 o Minor feature (onion services, control port):
3757 - The ADD_ONION command's keyword "BEST" now defaults to ED25519-V3
3758 (v3) onion services. Previously it defaulted to RSA1024 (v2).
3759 Closes ticket 29669.
3761 o Minor features (testing):
3762 - When running tests that attempt to look up hostnames, replace the
3763 libc name lookup functions with ones that do not actually touch
3764 the network. This way, the tests complete more quickly in the
3765 presence of a slow or missing DNS resolver. Closes ticket 31841.
3767 o Minor features (testing, continuous integration):
3768 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
3769 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
3770 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
3772 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
3773 Closes ticket 31859.
3774 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
3775 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
3777 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
3778 - Interpret "--disable-module-dirauth=no" correctly. Fixes bug
3779 32124; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3780 - Interpret "--with-tcmalloc=no" correctly. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix
3782 - Stop failing when jemalloc is requested, but tcmalloc is not
3783 found. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3784 - When pkg-config is not installed, or a library that depends on
3785 pkg-config is not found, tell the user what to do to fix the
3786 problem. Fixes bug 31922; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3788 o Minor bugfixes (connections):
3789 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
3790 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
3791 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
3793 o Minor bugfixes (error handling):
3794 - Always lock the backtrace buffer before it is used. Fixes bug
3795 31734; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
3797 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API):
3798 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
3799 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
3800 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
3801 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
3804 o Minor bugfixes (process management):
3805 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
3806 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
3808 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
3809 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
3810 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3812 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
3813 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
3814 inconsistent timing sources. Fixes bug 31995; bugfix
3816 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
3817 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
3818 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
3819 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3821 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging):
3822 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
3823 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
3826 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
3827 - Fix an implicit conversion from ssize_t to size_t discovered by
3828 Coverity. Fixes bug 31682; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
3829 - Fix a memory leak in an unlikely error code path when encoding HS
3830 DoS establish intro extension cell. Fixes bug 32063; bugfix
3832 - When cleaning up intro circuits for a v3 onion service, don't
3833 remove circuits that have an established or pending circuit, even
3834 if they ran out of retries. This way, we don't remove a circuit on
3835 its last retry. Fixes bug 31652; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3838 - Correct the description of "GuardLifetime". Fixes bug 31189;
3839 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3840 - Make clear in the man page, in both the bandwidth section and the
3841 AccountingMax section, that Tor counts in powers of two, not
3842 powers of ten: 1 GByte is 1024*1024*1024 bytes, not one billion
3843 bytes. Resolves ticket 32106.
3846 Changes in version 0.4.2.2-alpha - 2019-10-07
3847 This release fixes several bugs from the previous alpha release, and
3848 from earlier versions. It also includes a change in authorities, so
3849 that they begin to reject the currently unsupported release series.
3851 o Major features (directory authorities):
3852 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
3853 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
3854 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
3856 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor):
3857 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
3858 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
3859 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3861 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing):
3862 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
3863 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
3864 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
3865 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3867 o Minor features (auto-formatting scripts):
3868 - When annotating C macros, never generate a line that our check-
3869 spaces script would reject. Closes ticket 31759.
3870 - When annotating C macros, try to remove cases of double-negation.
3871 Closes ticket 31779.
3873 o Minor features (continuous integration):
3874 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
3875 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
3876 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
3878 o Minor features (geoip):
3879 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 1 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3880 Country database. Closes ticket 31931.
3882 o Minor features (maintenance scripts):
3883 - Add a Coccinelle script to detect bugs caused by incrementing or
3884 decrementing a variable inside a call to log_debug(). Since
3885 log_debug() is a macro whose arguments are conditionally
3886 evaluated, it is usually an error to do this. One such bug was
3887 30628, in which SENDME cells were miscounted by a decrement
3888 operator inside a log_debug() call. Closes ticket 30743.
3890 o Minor features (onion services v3):
3891 - Assist users who try to setup v2 client authorization in v3 onion
3892 services by pointing them to the right documentation. Closes
3895 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor continuous integration):
3896 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install
3897 step. Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
3899 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker):
3900 - When listing overbroad exceptions, do not also list problems, and
3901 do not list insufficiently broad exceptions. Fixes bug 31338;
3902 bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
3904 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
3905 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
3906 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and
3907 ignored the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3909 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3910 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
3911 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
3912 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
3913 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
3914 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
3915 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
3916 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
3917 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
3918 - When initialising log domain masks, only set known log domains.
3919 Fixes bug 31854; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
3921 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations):
3922 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
3923 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
3924 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3926 o Minor bugfixes (modules):
3927 - Explain what the optional Directory Authority module is, and what
3928 happens when it is disabled. Fixes bug 31825; bugfix
3931 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading):
3932 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
3933 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
3935 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
3936 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
3937 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
3938 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3940 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS):
3941 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
3942 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3944 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3945 - Refactor connection_control_process_inbuf() to reduce the size of
3946 a practracker exception. Closes ticket 31840.
3947 - Refactor the microdescs_parse_from_string() function into smaller
3948 pieces, for better comprehensibility. Closes ticket 31675.
3949 - Use SEVERITY_MASK_IDX() to find the LOG_* mask indexes in the unit
3950 tests and fuzzers, rather than using hard-coded values. Closes
3952 - Interface for function `decrypt_desc_layer` cleaned up. Closes
3956 - Document the signal-safe logging behaviour in the tor man page.
3957 Also add some comments to the relevant functions. Closes
3959 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
3960 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
3961 - The Tor source code repository now includes a (somewhat dated)
3962 description of Tor's modular architecture, in doc/HACKING/design.
3963 This is based on the old "tor-guts.git" repository, which we are
3964 adopting and superseding. Closes ticket 31849.
3967 Changes in version 0.4.1.6 - 2019-09-19
3968 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
3969 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.5,
3970 or experiencing reliability issues with single onion services, should
3973 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3974 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
3975 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
3976 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
3977 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3978 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
3979 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
3980 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
3981 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3983 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3984 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
3985 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
3988 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3989 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
3990 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
3992 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3993 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
3994 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
3995 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
3996 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
3998 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
3999 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
4000 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
4002 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
4003 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
4004 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and ignored
4005 the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4007 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4008 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
4009 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
4010 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
4013 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4014 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
4015 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
4016 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
4017 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4019 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4020 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
4021 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
4024 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4025 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
4026 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4028 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4029 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
4030 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
4031 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
4032 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
4033 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
4035 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4036 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
4037 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
4038 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
4039 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
4040 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4041 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
4042 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
4043 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
4044 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4046 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4047 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
4048 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
4049 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
4052 Changes in version 0.4.2.1-alpha - 2019-09-17
4053 This is the first alpha release in the 0.4.2.x series. It adds new
4054 defenses for denial-of-service attacks against onion services. It also
4055 includes numerous kinds of bugfixes and refactoring to help improve
4056 Tor's stability and ease of development.
4058 o Major features (onion service v3, denial of service):
4059 - Add onion service introduction denial of service defenses. Intro
4060 points can now rate-limit client introduction requests, using
4061 parameters that can be sent by the service within the
4062 ESTABLISH_INTRO cell. If the cell extension for this is not used,
4063 the intro point will honor the consensus parameters. Closes
4066 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
4067 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
4068 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close.
4069 Previously we could end up in the situation where a subsystem is
4070 notified of a circuit opening, but the circuit is still marked for
4071 close, leading to undesirable behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix
4074 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android):
4075 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
4076 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
4077 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
4078 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4079 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
4080 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
4081 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
4082 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4084 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
4085 - Our best-practices tracker now integrates with our include-checker
4086 tool to keep track of how many layering violations we have not yet
4087 fixed. We hope to reduce this number over time to improve Tor's
4088 modularity. Closes ticket 31176.
4089 - Add a TOR_PRACTRACKER_OPTIONS variable for passing arguments to
4090 practracker from the environment. We may want this for continuous
4091 integration. Closes ticket 31309.
4092 - Give a warning rather than an error when a practracker exception
4093 is violated by a small amount, add a --list-overbroad option to
4094 practracker that lists exceptions that are stricter than they need
4095 to be, and provide an environment variable for disabling
4096 practracker. Closes ticket 30752.
4097 - Our best-practices tracker now looks at headers as well as C
4098 files. Closes ticket 31175.
4100 o Minor features (build system):
4101 - Add --disable-manpage and --disable-html-manual options to
4102 configure script. This will enable shortening build times by not
4103 building documentation. Resolves issue 19381.
4105 o Minor features (compilation):
4106 - Log a more useful error message when we are compiling and one of
4107 the compile-time hardening options we have selected can be linked
4108 but not executed. Closes ticket 27530.
4110 o Minor features (configuration):
4111 - The configuration code has been extended to allow splitting
4112 configuration data across multiple objects. Previously, all
4113 configuration data needed to be kept in a single object, which
4114 tended to become bloated. Closes ticket 31240.
4116 o Minor features (continuous integration):
4117 - When running CI builds on Travis, put some random data in
4118 ~/.torrc, to make sure no tests are reading the Tor configuration
4119 file from its default location. Resolves issue 30102.
4121 o Minor features (debugging):
4122 - Log a nonfatal assertion failure if we encounter a configuration
4123 line whose command is "CLEAR" but which has a nonempty value. This
4124 should be impossible, according to the rules of our configuration
4125 line parsing. Closes ticket 31529.
4127 o Minor features (git hooks):
4128 - Our pre-commit git hook now checks for a special file before
4129 running practracker, so that practracker only runs on branches
4130 that are based on master. Since the pre-push hook calls the pre-
4131 commit hook, practracker will also only run before pushes of
4132 branches based on master. Closes ticket 30979.
4134 o Minor features (git scripts):
4135 - Add a "--" command-line argument, to separate git-push-all.sh
4136 script arguments from arguments that are passed through to git
4137 push. Closes ticket 31314.
4138 - Add a -r <remote-name> argument to git-push-all.sh, so the script
4139 can push test branches to a personal remote. Closes ticket 31314.
4140 - Add a -t <test-branch-prefix> argument to git-merge-forward.sh and
4141 git-push-all.sh, which makes these scripts create, merge forward,
4142 and push test branches. Closes ticket 31314.
4143 - Add a -u argument to git-merge-forward.sh, so that the script can
4144 re-use existing test branches after a merge failure and fix.
4145 Closes ticket 31314.
4146 - Add a TOR_GIT_PUSH env var, which sets the default git push
4147 command and arguments for git-push-all.sh. Closes ticket 31314.
4148 - Add a TOR_PUSH_DELAY variable to git-push-all.sh, which makes the
4149 script push master and maint branches with a delay between each
4150 branch. These delays trigger the CI jobs in a set order, which
4151 should show the most likely failures first. Also make pushes
4152 atomic by default, and make the script pass any command-line
4153 arguments to git push. Closes ticket 29879.
4154 - Call the shellcheck script from the pre-commit hook. Closes
4156 - Skip pushing test branches that are the same as a remote
4157 maint/release/master branch in git-push-all.sh by default. Add a
4158 -s argument, so git-push-all.sh can push all test branches. Closes
4161 o Minor features (IPv6, logging):
4162 - Log IPv6 addresses as well as IPv4 addresses when describing
4163 routerinfos, routerstatuses, and nodes. Closes ticket 21003.
4165 o Minor features (onion service v3):
4166 - Do not allow single hop clients to fetch or post an HS descriptor
4167 from an HSDir. Closes ticket 24964.
4169 o Minor features (onion service):
4170 - Disallow single-hop clients at the introduction point. We've
4171 removed Tor2web support a while back and single-hop rendezvous
4172 attempts are blocked at the relays. This change should remove load
4173 off the network from spammy clients. Close ticket 24963.
4175 o Minor features (stem tests):
4176 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
4177 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
4180 o Minor features (testing):
4181 - Add a script to invoke "tor --dump-config" and "tor
4182 --verify-config" with various configuration options, and see
4183 whether tor's resulting configuration or error messages are what
4184 we expect. Use it for integration testing of our +Option and
4185 /Option flags. Closes ticket 31637.
4186 - Improve test coverage for our existing configuration parsing and
4187 management API. Closes ticket 30893.
4188 - Add integration tests to make sure that practracker gives the
4189 outputs we expect. Closes ticket 31477.
4190 - The practracker self-tests are now run as part of the Tor test
4191 suite. Closes ticket 31304.
4193 o Minor features (token bucket):
4194 - Implement a generic token bucket that uses a single counter, for
4195 use in anti-DoS onion service work. Closes ticket 30687.
4197 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker):
4198 - Fix a few issues in the best-practices script, including tests,
4199 tab tolerance, error reporting, and directory-exclusion logic.
4200 Fixes bug 29746; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4201 - When running check-best-practices, only consider files in the src
4202 subdirectory. Previously we had recursively considered all
4203 subdirectories, which made us get confused by the temporary
4204 directories made by "make distcheck". Fixes bug 31578; bugfix
4207 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
4208 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
4209 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
4211 o Minor bugfixes (chutney, makefiles, documentation):
4212 - "make test-network-all" now shows the warnings from each test-
4213 network.sh run on the console, so developers see new warnings
4214 early. We've also improved the documentation for this feature, and
4215 renamed a Makefile variable so the code is self-documenting. Fixes
4216 bug 30455; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
4218 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4219 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
4220 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
4221 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
4222 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
4224 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
4225 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
4226 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
4228 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
4229 - Invalid floating-point values in the configuration file are now
4230 treated as errors in the configuration. Previously, they were
4231 ignored and treated as zero. Fixes bug 31475; bugfix on 0.0.1.
4233 o Minor bugfixes (coverity):
4234 - Add an assertion when parsing a BEGIN cell so that coverity can be
4235 sure that we are not about to dereference a NULL address. Fixes
4236 bug 31026; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. This is CID 1447296.
4237 - In our siphash implementation, when building for coverity, use
4238 memcpy in place of a switch statement, so that coverity can tell
4239 we are not accessing out-of-bounds memory. Fixes bug 31025; bugfix
4240 on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This is tracked as CID 1447293 and 1447295.
4241 - Fix several coverity warnings from our unit tests. Fixes bug
4242 31030; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha, 0.3.2.1-alpha, and 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4244 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
4245 - Only log git script changes in the post-merge script when the
4246 merge was to the master branch. Fixes bug 31040; bugfix
4249 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
4250 - Return a distinct status when formatting annotations fails. Fixes
4251 bug 30780; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
4253 o Minor bugfixes (error handling):
4254 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
4255 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
4256 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4257 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
4258 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
4259 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4260 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
4261 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
4262 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
4265 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6):
4266 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
4267 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
4268 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
4271 o Minor bugfixes (git hooks):
4272 - Remove a duplicate call to practracker from the pre-push hook. The
4273 pre-push hook already calls the pre-commit hook, which calls
4274 practracker. Fixes bug 31462; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4276 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
4277 - Stop hard-coding the bash path in the git scripts. Some OSes don't
4278 have bash in /usr/bin, others have an ancient bash at this path.
4279 Fixes bug 30840; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4280 - Stop hard-coding the tor master branch name and worktree path in
4281 the git scripts. Fixes bug 30841; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4282 - Allow git-push-all.sh to be run from any directory. Previously,
4283 the script only worked if run from an upstream worktree directory.
4284 Closes ticket 31678.
4286 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
4287 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
4288 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
4289 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
4290 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4292 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
4293 - Check for private IPv6 addresses alongside their IPv4 equivalents
4294 when authorities check descriptors. Previously, we only checked
4295 for private IPv4 addresses. Fixes bug 31088; bugfix on
4296 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4297 - When parsing microdescriptors, we should check the IPv6 exit
4298 policy alongside IPv4. Previously, we checked both exit policies
4299 for only router info structures, while microdescriptors were
4300 IPv4-only. Fixes bug 27284; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by
4303 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4304 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
4305 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
4307 - Fix a code issue that would have broken our parsing of log domains
4308 as soon as we had 33 of them. Fortunately, we still only have 29.
4309 Fixes bug 31451; bugfix on 0.4.1.4-rc.
4311 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
4312 - Stop leaking a small amount of memory in nt_service_install(), in
4313 unreachable code. Fixes bug 30799; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch
4316 o Minor bugfixes (networking, IP addresses):
4317 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal DNS lookup API, reject
4318 IPv4 addresses in square brackets, and accept IPv6 addresses in
4319 square brackets. This change completes the work started in 23082,
4320 making address parsing consistent between tor's internal DNS
4321 lookup and address parsing APIs. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
4323 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal address:port parsing and
4324 DNS lookup APIs, require IPv6 addresses with ports to have square
4325 brackets. But allow IPv6 addresses without ports, whether or not
4326 they have square brackets. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
4329 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
4330 - When purging the client descriptor cache, close any introduction
4331 point circuits associated with purged cache entries. This avoids
4332 picking those circuits later when connecting to the same
4333 introduction points. Fixes bug 30921; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4335 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
4336 - In the hs_ident_circuit_t data structure, remove the unused field
4337 circuit_type and the respective argument in hs_ident_circuit_new().
4338 This field was set by clients (for introduction) and services (for
4339 introduction and rendezvous) but was never used afterwards. Fixes
4340 bug 31490; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4342 o Minor bugfixes (operator tools):
4343 - Make tor-print-ed-signing-cert(1) print certificate expiration
4344 date in RFC 1123 and UNIX timestamp formats, to make output
4345 machine readable. Fixes bug 31012; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4347 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
4348 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
4349 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4350 - Raise the minimum rustc version to 1.31.0, as checked by configure
4351 and CI. Fixes bug 31442; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4353 o Minor bugfixes (sendme, code structure):
4354 - Rename the trunnel SENDME file definition from sendme.trunnel to
4355 sendme_cell.trunnel to avoid having twice sendme.{c|h} in the
4356 repository. Fixes bug 30769; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4358 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
4359 - Stop removing the ed25519 signature if the extra info file is too
4360 big. If the signature data was removed, but the keyword was kept,
4361 this could result in an unparseable extra info file. Fixes bug
4362 30958; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
4364 o Minor bugfixes (subsystems):
4365 - Make the subsystem init order match the subsystem module
4366 dependencies. Call windows process security APIs as early as
4367 possible. Initialize logging before network and time, so that
4368 network and time can use logging. Fixes bug 31615; bugfix
4371 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4372 - Teach the util/socketpair_ersatz test to work correctly when we
4373 have no network stack configured. Fixes bug 30804; bugfix
4376 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services):
4377 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
4378 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
4379 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
4380 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
4381 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
4383 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services):
4384 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
4385 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
4386 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
4387 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
4388 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4389 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
4390 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
4391 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
4392 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4395 - Improve documentation in circuit padding subsystem. Patch by
4396 Tobias Pulls. Closes ticket 31113.
4397 - Include an example usage for IPv6 ORPort in our sample torrc.
4398 Closes ticket 31320; patch from Ali Raheem.
4399 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
4400 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
4401 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
4404 - No longer include recommended package digests in votes as detailed
4405 in proposal 301. The RecommendedPackages torrc option is
4406 deprecated and will no longer have any effect. "package" lines
4407 will still be considered when computing consensuses for consensus
4408 methods that include them. (This change has no effect on the list
4409 of recommended Tor versions, which is still in use.) Closes
4411 - Remove torctl.in from contrib/dist directory. Resolves
4415 - Run shellcheck for all non-third-party shell scripts that are
4416 shipped with Tor. Closes ticket 29533.
4417 - When checking shell scripts, ignore any user-created directories.
4418 Closes ticket 30967.
4420 o Code simplification and refactoring (config handling):
4421 - Extract our variable manipulation code from confparse.c to a new
4422 lower-level typedvar.h module. Closes ticket 30864.
4423 - Lower another layer of object management from confparse.c to a
4424 more general tool. Now typed structure members are accessible via
4425 an abstract type. Implements ticket 30914.
4426 - Move our backend logic for working with configuration and state
4427 files into a lower-level library, since it no longer depends on
4428 any tor-specific functionality. Closes ticket 31626.
4429 - Numerous simplifications in configuration-handling logic: remove
4430 duplicated macro definitions, replace magical names with flags,
4431 and refactor "TestingTorNetwork" to use the same default-option
4432 logic as the rest of Tor. Closes ticket 30935.
4433 - Replace our ad-hoc set of flags for configuration variables and
4434 configuration variable types with fine-grained orthogonal flags
4435 corresponding to the actual behavior we want. Closes ticket 31625.
4437 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
4438 - Eliminate some uses of lower-level control reply abstractions,
4439 primarily in the onion_helper functions. Closes ticket 30889.
4440 - Rework bootstrap tracking to use the new publish-subscribe
4441 subsystem. Closes ticket 29976.
4442 - Rewrite format_node_description() and router_get_verbose_nickname()
4443 to use strlcpy() and strlcat(). The previous implementation used
4444 memcpy() and pointer arithmetic, which was error-prone. Closes
4445 ticket 31545. This is CID 1452819.
4446 - Split extrainfo_dump_to_string() into smaller functions. Closes
4448 - Use the ptrdiff_t type consistently for expressing variable
4449 offsets and pointer differences. Previously we incorrectly (but
4450 harmlessly) used int and sometimes off_t for these cases. Closes
4452 - Use the subsystems mechanism to manage the main event loop code.
4453 Closes ticket 30806.
4454 - Various simplifications and minor improvements to the circuit
4455 padding machines. Patch by Tobias Pulls. Closes tickets 31112
4458 o Documentation (hard-coded directories):
4459 - Improve the documentation for the DirAuthority and FallbackDir
4460 torrc options. Closes ticket 30955.
4462 o Documentation (tor.1 man page):
4463 - Fix typo in tor.1 man page: the option is "--help", not "-help".
4464 Fixes bug 31008; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
4467 Changes in version 0.4.1.5 - 2019-08-20
4468 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.1.x series. This series
4469 adds experimental circuit-level padding, authenticated SENDME cells to
4470 defend against certain attacks, and several performance improvements
4471 to save on CPU consumption. It fixes bugs in bootstrapping and v3
4472 onion services. It also includes numerous smaller features and
4473 bugfixes on earlier versions.
4475 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.1.x series for nine
4476 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.2.x:
4477 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
4478 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
4480 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
4481 since 0.4.0.5, see the ReleaseNotes file.
4483 o Directory authority changes:
4484 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
4487 o Minor features (circuit padding logging):
4488 - Demote noisy client-side warn logs about circuit padding to
4489 protocol warnings. Add additional log messages and circuit ID
4490 fields to help with bug 30992 and any other future issues.
4492 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding negotiation):
4493 - Bump the circuit padding protocol version to explicitly signify
4494 that the HS setup machine support is finalized in 0.4.1.x-stable.
4495 This also means that 0.4.1.x-alpha clients will not negotiate
4496 padding with 0.4.1.x-stable relays, and 0.4.1.x-stable clients
4497 will not negotiate padding with 0.4.1.x-alpha relays (or 0.4.0.x
4498 relays). Fixes bug 31356; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4500 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
4501 - Ignore non-padding cells on padding circuits. This addresses
4502 various warning messages from subsystems that were not expecting
4503 padding circuits. Fixes bug 30942; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4505 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection):
4506 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
4507 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
4508 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
4509 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4511 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, standards compliance):
4512 - Fix a bug that would invoke undefined behavior on certain
4513 operating systems when trying to asprintf() a string exactly
4514 INT_MAX bytes long. We don't believe this is exploitable, but it's
4515 better to fix it anyway. Fixes bug 31001; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
4516 Found and fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
4518 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning):
4519 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
4520 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
4523 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4524 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
4525 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4527 o Minor bugfixes (distribution):
4528 - Do not ship any temporary files found in the
4529 scripts/maint/practracker directory. Fixes bug 31311; bugfix
4532 o Testing (continuous integration):
4533 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
4534 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
4535 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
4539 Changes in version 0.4.1.4-rc - 2019-07-25
4540 Tor 0.4.1.4-rc fixes a few bugs from previous versions of Tor, and
4541 updates to a new list of fallback directories. If no new bugs are
4542 found, the next release in the 0.4.1.x serious should be stable.
4544 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
4545 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
4546 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
4547 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
4548 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
4549 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4551 o Minor features (continuous integration):
4552 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
4553 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
4555 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
4556 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
4557 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
4558 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
4559 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
4561 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
4562 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
4563 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
4565 - Add two NULL checks in unreachable places to silence Coverity (CID
4566 144729 and 1447291) and better future-proof ourselves. Fixes bug
4567 31024; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4569 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit):
4570 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
4571 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
4572 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
4574 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4575 - Fix a conflict between the flag used for messaging-domain log
4576 messages, and the LD_NO_MOCK testing flag. Fixes bug 31080; bugfix
4579 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
4580 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value from a
4581 download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug 30894; bugfix
4584 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4585 - Remove some dead code from circpad_machine_remove_token() to fix
4586 some Coverity warnings (CID 1447298). Fixes bug 31027; bugfix
4590 Changes in version 0.4.1.3-alpha - 2019-06-25
4591 Tor 0.4.1.3-alpha resolves numerous bugs left over from the previous
4592 alpha, most of them from earlier release series.
4594 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability):
4595 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
4596 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
4597 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
4598 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
4601 o Minor features (geoip):
4602 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 10 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4603 Country database. Closes ticket 30852.
4605 o Minor features (logging):
4606 - Give a more useful assertion failure message if we think we have
4607 minherit() but we fail to make a region non-inheritable. Give a
4608 compile-time warning if our support for minherit() is incomplete.
4609 Closes ticket 30686.
4611 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation):
4612 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
4613 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
4615 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
4616 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
4617 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4618 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
4619 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4620 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
4621 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4623 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
4624 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
4625 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
4626 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
4628 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
4629 - When running as a bridge with pluggable transports, always publish
4630 pluggable transport information in our extrainfo descriptor, even
4631 if ExtraInfoStatistics is 0. This information is needed by
4632 BridgeDB. Fixes bug 30956; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4635 - Mention URLs for Travis/Appveyor/Jenkins in ReleasingTor.md.
4636 Closes ticket 30630.
4639 Changes in version 0.4.1.2-alpha - 2019-06-06
4640 Tor 0.4.1.2-alpha resolves numerous bugs--some of them from the
4641 previous alpha, and some much older. It also contains minor testing
4642 improvements, and an improvement to the security of our authenticated
4643 SENDME implementation.
4645 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
4646 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
4647 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
4648 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
4649 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
4650 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
4651 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
4652 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
4653 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
4654 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
4655 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4657 o Major bugfixes (flow control, SENDME):
4658 - Decrement the stream-level package window after packaging a cell.
4659 Previously, it was done inside a log_debug() call, meaning that if
4660 debug logs were not enabled, the decrement would never happen, and
4661 thus the window would be out of sync with the other end point.
4662 Fixes bug 30628; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4664 o Major bugfixes (onion service reachability):
4665 - Properly clean up the introduction point map and associated state
4666 when circuits change purpose from onion service circuits to
4667 pathbias, measurement, or other circuit types. This may fix some
4668 instances of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
4671 o Minor features (authenticated SENDME):
4672 - Ensure that there is enough randomness on every circuit to prevent
4673 an attacker from successfully predicting the hashes they will need
4674 to include in authenticated SENDME cells. At a random interval, if
4675 we have not sent randomness already, we now leave some extra space
4676 at the end of a cell that we can fill with random bytes. Closes
4679 o Minor features (continuous integration):
4680 - When running coverage builds on Travis, we now set
4681 TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED, to avoid RNG-based coverage differences. Part
4684 o Minor features (maintenance):
4685 - Add a new "make autostyle" target that developers can use to apply
4686 all automatic Tor style and consistency conversions to the
4687 codebase. Closes ticket 30539.
4689 o Minor features (testing):
4690 - The circuitpadding tests now use a reproducible RNG implementation,
4691 so that if a test fails, we can learn why. Part of ticket 28878.
4692 - Tor's tests now support an environment variable, TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED,
4693 to set the RNG seed for tests that use a reproducible RNG. Part of
4695 - When running tests in coverage mode, take additional care to make
4696 our coverage deterministic, so that we can accurately track
4697 changes in code coverage. Closes ticket 30519.
4699 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies):
4700 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
4701 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
4702 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
4704 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
4705 - POSTDESCRIPTOR requests should work again. Previously, they were
4706 broken if a "purpose=" flag was specified. Fixes bug 30580; bugfix
4708 - Repair the HSFETCH command so that it works again. Previously, it
4709 expected a body when it shouldn't have. Fixes bug 30646; bugfix
4712 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
4713 - Fix pre-push hook to allow fixup and squash commits when pushing
4714 to non-upstream git remote. Fixes bug 30286; bugfix
4717 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
4718 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
4719 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
4722 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD):
4723 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
4724 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
4725 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
4727 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler):
4728 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
4729 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
4730 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
4733 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
4734 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
4735 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
4736 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
4737 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
4738 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
4741 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown, libevent, memory safety):
4742 - Avoid use-after-free bugs when shutting down, by making sure that
4743 we shut down libevent only after shutting down all of its users.
4744 We believe these are harmless in practice, since they only occur
4745 on the shutdown path, and do not involve any attacker-controlled
4746 data. Fixes bug 30629; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4748 o Minor bugfixes (static analysis):
4749 - Fix several spurious Coverity warnings about the unit tests, to
4750 lower our chances of missing real warnings in the future. Fixes
4751 bug 30150; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha and various other Tor versions.
4754 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
4755 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
4756 Resolves issue 29702.
4759 Changes in version 0.4.1.1-alpha - 2019-05-22
4760 This is the first alpha in the 0.4.1.x series. It introduces
4761 lightweight circuit padding to make some onion-service circuits harder
4762 to distinguish, includes a new "authenticated SENDME" feature to make
4763 certain denial-of-service attacks more difficult, and improves
4764 performance in several areas.
4766 o Major features (circuit padding):
4767 - Onion service clients now add padding cells at the start of their
4768 INTRODUCE and RENDEZVOUS circuits, to make those circuits' traffic
4769 look more like general purpose Exit traffic. The overhead for this
4770 is 2 extra cells in each direction for RENDEZVOUS circuits, and 1
4771 extra upstream cell and 10 downstream cells for INTRODUCE
4772 circuits. This feature is only enabled when also supported by the
4773 circuit's middle node. (Clients may specify fixed middle nodes
4774 with the MiddleNodes option, and may force-disable this feature
4775 with the CircuitPadding option.) Closes ticket 28634.
4777 o Major features (code organization):
4778 - Tor now includes a generic publish-subscribe message-passing
4779 subsystem that we can use to organize intermodule dependencies. We
4780 hope to use this to reduce dependencies between modules that don't
4781 need to be related, and to generally simplify our codebase. Closes
4784 o Major features (controller protocol):
4785 - Controller commands are now parsed using a generalized parsing
4786 subsystem. Previously, each controller command was responsible for
4787 parsing its own input, which led to strange inconsistencies.
4788 Closes ticket 30091.
4790 o Major features (flow control):
4791 - Implement authenticated SENDMEs as detailed in proposal 289. A
4792 SENDME cell now includes the digest of the traffic that it
4793 acknowledges, so that once an end point receives the SENDME, it
4794 can confirm the other side's knowledge of the previous cells that
4795 were sent, and prevent certain types of denial-of-service attacks.
4796 This behavior is controlled by two new consensus parameters: see
4797 the proposal for more details. Fixes ticket 26288.
4799 o Major features (performance):
4800 - Our node selection algorithm now excludes nodes in linear time.
4801 Previously, the algorithm was quadratic, which could slow down
4802 heavily used onion services. Closes ticket 30307.
4804 o Major features (performance, RNG):
4805 - Tor now constructs a fast secure pseudorandom number generator for
4806 each thread, to use when performance is critical. This PRNG is
4807 based on AES-CTR, using a buffering construction similar to
4808 libottery and the (newer) OpenBSD arc4random() code. It
4809 outperforms OpenSSL 1.1.1a's CSPRNG by roughly a factor of 100 for
4810 small outputs. Although we believe it to be cryptographically
4811 strong, we are only using it when necessary for performance.
4812 Implements tickets 29023 and 29536.
4814 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
4815 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
4816 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
4817 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
4818 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
4820 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
4821 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
4822 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
4823 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
4826 o Minor features (circuit padding):
4827 - We now use a fast PRNG when scheduling circuit padding. Part of
4829 - Allow the padding machine designer to pick the edges of their
4830 histogram instead of trying to compute them automatically using an
4831 exponential formula. Resolves some undefined behavior in the case
4832 of small histograms and allows greater flexibility on machine
4833 design. Closes ticket 29298; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4834 - Allow circuit padding machines to hold a circuit open until they
4835 are done padding it. Closes ticket 28780.
4837 o Minor features (compile-time modules):
4838 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
4839 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
4841 o Minor features (continuous integration):
4842 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
4843 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
4845 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
4847 o Minor features (controller):
4848 - Add onion service version 3 support to the HSFETCH command.
4849 Previously, only version 2 onion services were supported. Closes
4850 ticket 25417. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4852 o Minor features (debugging):
4853 - Introduce tor_assertf() and tor_assertf_nonfatal() to enable
4854 logging of additional information during assert failure. Now we
4855 can use format strings to include information for trouble
4856 shooting. Resolves ticket 29662.
4858 o Minor features (defense in depth):
4859 - In smartlist_remove_keeporder(), set unused pointers to NULL, in
4860 case a bug causes them to be used later. Closes ticket 30176.
4861 Patch from Tobias Stoeckmann.
4862 - Tor now uses a cryptographically strong PRNG even for decisions
4863 that we do not believe are security-sensitive. Previously, for
4864 performance reasons, we had used a trivially predictable linear
4865 congruential generator algorithm for certain load-balancing and
4866 statistical sampling decisions. Now we use our fast RNG in those
4867 cases. Closes ticket 29542.
4869 o Minor features (developer tools):
4870 - Tor's "practracker" test script now checks for files and functions
4871 that seem too long and complicated. Existing overlong functions
4872 and files are accepted for now, but should eventually be
4873 refactored. Closes ticket 29221.
4874 - Add some scripts used for git maintenance to scripts/git. Closes
4876 - Call practracker from pre-push and pre-commit git hooks to let
4877 developers know if they made any code style violations. Closes
4879 - Add a script to check that each header has a well-formed and
4880 unique guard macro. Closes ticket 29756.
4882 o Minor features (geoip):
4883 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 13 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4884 Country database. Closes ticket 30522.
4886 o Minor features (HTTP tunnel):
4887 - Return an informative web page when the HTTPTunnelPort is used as
4888 an HTTP proxy. Closes ticket 27821, patch by "eighthave".
4890 o Minor features (IPv6, v3 onion services):
4891 - Make v3 onion services put IPv6 addresses in service descriptors.
4892 Before this change, service descriptors only contained IPv4
4893 addresses. Implements 26992.
4895 o Minor features (modularity):
4896 - The "--disable-module-dirauth" compile-time option now disables
4897 even more dirauth-only code. Closes ticket 30345.
4899 o Minor features (performance):
4900 - Use OpenSSL's implementations of SHA3 when available (in OpenSSL
4901 1.1.1 and later), since they tend to be faster than tiny-keccak.
4902 Closes ticket 28837.
4904 o Minor features (testing):
4905 - Tor's unit test code now contains helper functions to replace the
4906 PRNG with a deterministic or reproducible version for testing.
4907 Previously, various tests implemented this in various ways.
4908 Implements ticket 29732.
4909 - We now have a script, cov-test-determinism.sh, to identify places
4910 where our unit test coverage has become nondeterministic. Closes
4912 - Check that representative subsets of values of `int` and `unsigned
4913 int` can be represented by `void *`. Resolves issue 29537.
4915 o Minor bugfixes (bridge authority):
4916 - Bridge authorities now set bridges as running or non-running when
4917 about to dump their status to a file. Previously, they set bridges
4918 as running in response to a GETINFO command, but those shouldn't
4919 modify data structures. Fixes bug 24490; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
4920 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4922 o Minor bugfixes (channel padding statistics):
4923 - Channel padding write totals and padding-enabled totals are now
4924 counted properly in relay extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 29231;
4925 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4927 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
4928 - Add a "CircuitPadding" torrc option to disable circuit padding.
4929 Fixes bug 28693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4930 - Allow circuit padding machines to specify that they do not
4931 contribute much overhead, and provide consensus flags and torrc
4932 options to force clients to only use these low overhead machines.
4933 Fixes bug 29203; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4934 - Provide a consensus parameter to fully disable circuit padding, to
4935 be used in emergency network overload situations. Fixes bug 30173;
4936 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4937 - The circuit padding subsystem will no longer schedule padding if
4938 dormant mode is enabled. Fixes bug 28636; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4939 - Inspect a circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
4940 avoid sending padding while too much data is already queued. Fixes
4941 bug 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4942 - Avoid calling monotime_absolute_usec() in circuit padding machines
4943 that do not use token removal or circuit RTT estimation. Fixes bug
4944 29085; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4946 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations):
4947 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
4948 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
4949 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4951 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
4952 - Teach the controller parser to distinguish an object preceded by
4953 an argument list from one without. Previously, it couldn't
4954 distinguish an argument list from the first line of a multiline
4955 object. Fixes bug 29984; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
4957 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, ipv6):
4958 - Directory authorities with IPv6 support now always mark themselves
4959 as reachable via IPv6. Fixes bug 24338; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
4960 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4962 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
4963 - Improve the documentation for using MapAddress with ".exit". Fixes
4964 bug 30109; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
4965 - Improve the monotonic time module and function documentation to
4966 explain what "monotonic" actually means, and document some results
4967 that have surprised people. Fixes bug 29640; bugfix
4969 - Use proper formatting when providing an example on quoting options
4970 that contain whitespace. Fixes bug 29635; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
4972 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4973 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
4974 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
4975 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
4976 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
4977 - Warn operators when the MyFamily option is set but ContactInfo is
4978 missing, as the latter should be set too. Fixes bug 25110; bugfix
4981 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
4982 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
4983 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
4986 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
4987 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
4988 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
4989 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4990 - When refusing to launch a controller's HSFETCH request because of
4991 rate-limiting, respond to the controller with a new response,
4992 "QUERY_RATE_LIMITED". Previously, we would log QUERY_NO_HSDIR for
4993 this case. Fixes bug 28269; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by
4995 - When relaunching a circuit to a rendezvous service, mark the
4996 circuit as needing high-uptime routers as appropriate. Fixes bug
4997 17357; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4998 - Stop ignoring IPv6 link specifiers sent to v3 onion services.
4999 (IPv6 support for v3 onion services is still incomplete: see
5000 ticket 23493 for details.) Fixes bug 23588; bugfix on
5001 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5003 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, performance):
5004 - When building circuits to onion services, call tor_addr_parse()
5005 less often. Previously, we called tor_addr_parse() in
5006 circuit_is_acceptable() even if its output wasn't used. This
5007 change should improve performance when building circuits. Fixes
5008 bug 22210; bugfix on 0.2.8.12. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5010 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
5011 - When checking whether a node is a bridge, use a fast check to make
5012 sure that its identity is set. Previously, we used a constant-time
5013 check, which is not necessary in this case. Fixes bug 30308;
5014 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5016 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
5017 - Tor now sets TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE=1 for client transports as
5018 well as servers. Fixes bug 25614; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
5020 o Minor bugfixes (probability distributions):
5021 - Refactor and improve parts of the probability distribution code
5022 that made Coverity complain. Fixes bug 29805; bugfix
5025 o Minor bugfixes (python):
5026 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python3 exists. For scripts that work
5027 with python2, use /usr/bin/python. Otherwise, use /usr/bin/env
5028 python3. Fixes bug 29913; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
5030 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
5031 - When running as a relay, if IPv6Exit is set to 1 while ExitRelay
5032 is auto, act as if ExitRelay is 1. Previously, we would ignore
5033 IPv6Exit if ExitRelay was 0 or auto. Fixes bug 29613; bugfix on
5034 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5036 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
5037 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including bandwidth usage
5038 statistics, GeoIPFile hashes, ServerTransportPlugin lines, and
5039 bridge statistics by country in extra-info documents. Fixes bug
5040 29018; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
5042 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5043 - Call setrlimit() to disable core dumps in test_bt_cl.c. Previously
5044 we used `ulimit -c` in test_bt.sh, which violates POSIX shell
5045 compatibility. Fixes bug 29061; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5046 - Fix some incorrect code in the v3 onion service unit tests. Fixes
5047 bug 29243; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5048 - In the "routerkeys/*" tests, check the return values of mkdir()
5049 for possible failures. Fixes bug 29939; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5050 Found by Coverity as CID 1444254.
5051 - Split test_utils_general() into several smaller test functions.
5052 This makes it easier to perform resource deallocation on assert
5053 failure, and fixes Coverity warnings CID 1444117 and CID 1444118.
5054 Fixes bug 29823; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5056 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
5057 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve that could happen if Tor gave it
5058 a malformed SOCKS response. (Memory leaks in tor-resolve don't
5059 actually matter, but it's good to fix them anyway.) Fixes bug
5060 30151; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5062 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5063 - Abstract out the low-level formatting of replies on the control
5064 port. Implements ticket 30007.
5065 - Add several assertions in an attempt to fix some Coverity
5066 warnings. Closes ticket 30149.
5067 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that checks
5068 for compress_state of dir_connection_t and automatically writes a
5069 string to directory connection with or without compression.
5070 Resolves issue 28816.
5071 - Make the base32_decode() API return the number of bytes written,
5072 for consistency with base64_decode(). Closes ticket 28913.
5073 - Move most relay-only periodic events out of mainloop.c into the
5074 relay subsystem. Closes ticket 30414.
5075 - Refactor and encapsulate parts of the codebase that manipulate
5076 crypt_path_t objects. Resolves issue 30236.
5077 - Refactor several places in our code that Coverity incorrectly
5078 believed might have memory leaks. Closes ticket 30147.
5079 - Remove redundant return values in crypto_format, and the
5080 associated return value checks elsewhere in the code. Make the
5081 implementations in crypto_format consistent, and remove redundant
5082 code. Resolves ticket 29660.
5083 - Rename tor_mem_is_zero() to fast_mem_is_zero(), to emphasize that
5084 it is not a constant-time function. Closes ticket 30309.
5085 - Replace hs_desc_link_specifier_t with link_specifier_t, and remove
5086 all hs_desc_link_specifier_t-specific code. Fixes bug 22781;
5087 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5088 - Simplify v3 onion service link specifier handling code. Fixes bug
5089 23576; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5090 - Split crypto_digest.c into NSS code, OpenSSL code, and shared
5091 code. Resolves ticket 29108.
5092 - Split control.c into several submodules, in preparation for
5093 distributing its current responsibilities throughout the codebase.
5094 Closes ticket 29894.
5095 - Start to move responsibility for knowing about periodic events to
5096 the appropriate subsystems, so that the mainloop doesn't need to
5097 know all the periodic events in the rest of the codebase.
5098 Implements tickets 30293 and 30294.
5101 - Document how to find git commits and tags for bug fixes in
5102 CodingStandards.md. Update some file documentation. Closes
5106 - Remove the linux-tor-prio.sh script from contrib/operator-tools
5107 directory. Resolves issue 29434.
5108 - Remove the obsolete OpenSUSE initscript. Resolves issue 30076.
5109 - Remove the obsolete script at contrib/dist/tor.sh.in. Resolves
5112 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
5113 - Clean up many of our shell scripts to fix shellcheck warnings.
5114 These include autogen.sh (ticket 26069), test_keygen.sh (ticket
5115 29062), test_switch_id.sh (ticket 29065), test_rebind.sh (ticket
5116 29063), src/test/fuzz/minimize.sh (ticket 30079), test_rust.sh
5117 (ticket 29064), torify (ticket 29070), asciidoc-helper.sh (29926),
5118 fuzz_multi.sh (30077), fuzz_static_testcases.sh (ticket 29059),
5119 nagios-check-tor-authority-cert (ticket 29071),
5120 src/test/fuzz/fixup_filenames.sh (ticket 30078), test-network.sh
5121 (ticket 29060), test_key_expiration.sh (ticket 30002),
5122 zero_length_keys.sh (ticket 29068), and test_workqueue_*.sh
5125 o Testing (chutney):
5126 - In "make test-network-all", test IPv6-only v3 single onion
5127 services, using the chutney network single-onion-v23-ipv6-md.
5128 Closes ticket 27251.
5131 Changes in version 0.4.0.5 - 2019-05-02
5132 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. It contains
5133 improvements for power management and bootstrap reporting, as well as
5134 preliminary backend support for circuit padding to prevent some kinds
5135 of traffic analysis. It also continues our work in refactoring Tor for
5136 long-term maintainability.
5138 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.0.x series for nine
5139 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.1.x:
5140 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
5141 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
5143 Below are the changes since 0.4.0.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
5144 since 0.3.5.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
5146 o Minor features (continuous integration):
5147 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
5148 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
5149 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
5151 o Minor features (diagnostic):
5152 - Add more diagnostic log messages in an attempt to solve the issue
5153 of NUL bytes appearing in a microdescriptor cache. Related to
5156 o Minor features (testing):
5157 - Use the approx_time() function when setting the "Expires" header
5158 in directory replies, to make them more testable. Needed for
5161 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
5162 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
5163 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5165 o Minor bugfixes (shellcheck):
5166 - Look for scripts in their correct locations during "make
5167 shellcheck". Previously we had looked in the wrong place during
5168 out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 30263; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5170 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5171 - Check the time in the "Expires" header using approx_time(). Fixes
5172 bug 30001; bugfix on 0.4.0.4-rc.
5174 o Minor bugfixes (UI):
5175 - Lower log level of unlink() errors during bootstrap. Fixes bug
5176 29930; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5179 Changes in version 0.4.0.4-rc - 2019-04-11
5180 Tor 0.4.0.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series; it fixes
5181 several bugs from earlier versions, including some that had affected
5182 stability, and one that prevented relays from working with NSS.
5184 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay):
5185 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
5186 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
5187 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
5188 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
5189 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5191 o Minor features (bandwidth authority):
5192 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
5193 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
5194 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
5195 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
5197 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain the
5198 bandwidth values that will be included in the next vote, serve
5199 this bandwidth file at /tor/status-vote/next/bandwidth. Closes
5202 o Minor features (circuit padding):
5203 - Stop warning about undefined behavior in the probability
5204 distribution tests. Float division by zero may technically be
5205 undefined behavior in C, but it's well defined in IEEE 754.
5206 Partial backport of 29298. Closes ticket 29527; bugfix
5209 o Minor features (continuous integration):
5210 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
5211 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
5214 o Minor features (dormant mode):
5215 - Add a DormantCanceledByStartup option to tell Tor that it should
5216 treat a startup event as cancelling any previous dormant state.
5217 Integrators should use this option with caution: it should only be
5218 used if Tor is being started because of something that the user
5219 did, and not if Tor is being automatically started in the
5220 background. Closes ticket 29357.
5222 o Minor features (geoip):
5223 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 2 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5224 Country database. Closes ticket 29992.
5226 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic):
5227 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
5228 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
5229 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
5231 o Minor bugfixes (security):
5232 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
5233 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
5234 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
5235 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
5236 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
5237 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
5238 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
5239 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
5241 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
5242 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
5243 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
5244 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
5246 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration):
5247 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
5248 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
5249 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
5250 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
5252 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
5253 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
5254 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5256 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap reporting):
5257 - During bootstrap reporting, correctly distinguish pluggable
5258 transports from plain proxies. Fixes bug 28925; bugfix
5261 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
5262 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
5263 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
5266 o Minor bugfixes (circuitpadding testing):
5267 - Minor tweaks to avoid rare test failures related to timers and
5268 monotonic time. Fixes bug 29500; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5270 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
5271 - Actually include the bandwidth-file-digest line in directory
5272 authority votes. Fixes bug 29959; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha.
5274 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5275 - On Windows, when errors cause us to reload a consensus from disk,
5276 tell the user that we are retrying at log level "notice".
5277 Previously we only logged this information at "info", which was
5278 confusing because the errors themselves were logged at "warning".
5279 Improves previous fix for 28614. Fixes bug 30004; bugfix
5282 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
5283 - Restore old behavior when it comes to discovering the path of a
5284 given Pluggable Transport executable file. A change in
5285 0.4.0.1-alpha had broken this behavior on paths containing a
5286 space. Fixes bug 29874; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5288 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5289 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
5290 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
5291 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5292 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
5293 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
5296 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol):
5297 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
5298 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
5299 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
5300 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
5301 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
5302 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
5303 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5305 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5306 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that detects
5307 whether compression is in use, and adds a string accordingly.
5308 Resolves issue 28816.
5309 - Refactor handle_get_next_bandwidth() to use
5310 connection_dir_buf_add(). Implements ticket 29897.
5313 - Clarify that Tor performs stream isolation among *Port listeners
5314 by default. Resolves issue 29121.
5317 Changes in version 0.4.0.3-alpha - 2019-03-22
5318 Tor 0.4.0.3-alpha is the third in its series; it fixes several small
5319 bugs from earlier versions.
5321 o Minor features (address selection):
5322 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
5323 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
5324 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
5325 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
5326 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
5327 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
5328 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5330 o Minor features (geoip):
5331 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 4 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5332 Country database. Closes ticket 29666.
5334 o Minor bugfixes (circuitpadding):
5335 - Inspect the circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
5336 avoid sending padding when too much data is queued. Fixes bug
5337 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5339 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5340 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
5341 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
5342 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
5343 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5344 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
5345 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
5346 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
5347 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5348 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
5349 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5351 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
5352 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
5353 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
5354 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5356 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing):
5357 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
5358 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5360 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
5361 - Fix an assertion failure crash bug when a pluggable transport is
5362 terminated during the bootstrap phase. Fixes bug 29562; bugfix
5365 o Minor bugfixes (Rust, protover):
5366 - Add a missing "Padding" value to the Rust implementation of
5367 protover. Fixes bug 29631; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5369 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
5370 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
5371 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
5372 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
5373 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
5374 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
5375 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
5377 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
5378 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
5379 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
5382 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5383 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
5384 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
5385 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
5386 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
5387 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
5388 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
5389 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5390 - Decrease the false positive rate of stochastic probability
5391 distribution tests. Fixes bug 29693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5393 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI):
5394 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
5395 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
5396 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
5397 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
5398 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5401 Changes in version 0.3.5.8 - 2019-02-21
5402 Tor 0.3.5.8 backports several fixes from later releases, including fixes
5403 for an annoying SOCKS-parsing bug that affected users in earlier 0.3.5.x
5406 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
5407 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
5408 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
5410 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
5411 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
5412 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
5413 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
5414 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
5415 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
5416 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
5417 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
5419 o Major bugfixes (networking, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5420 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
5421 username/password auth message and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
5422 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
5423 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5425 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5426 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
5427 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
5428 Patches from "Mangix".
5430 o Minor features (geoip):
5431 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5432 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
5434 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5435 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
5438 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
5439 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
5440 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
5441 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
5442 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
5443 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
5445 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
5446 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
5447 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
5448 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
5451 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5452 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
5453 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
5454 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
5456 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
5457 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
5458 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
5461 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
5462 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
5463 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
5464 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5466 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5467 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
5468 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
5469 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
5471 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
5472 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
5473 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
5474 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
5475 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
5476 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
5478 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5479 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
5480 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
5481 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
5482 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5484 o Minor bugfixes (misc, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5485 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
5486 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
5487 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
5488 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5490 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5491 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
5492 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
5494 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
5495 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
5496 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
5498 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
5499 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
5500 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
5501 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
5503 o Minor bugfixes (tests, directory clients, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
5504 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
5505 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
5507 o Minor bugfixes (tests, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5508 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
5509 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5510 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
5511 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
5514 o Minor bugfixes (usability, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
5515 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
5516 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
5517 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
5518 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5521 Changes in version 0.3.4.11 - 2019-02-21
5522 Tor 0.3.4.11 is the third stable release in its series. It includes
5523 a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha and
5524 later. All Tor instances running an affected release should upgrade to
5525 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
5527 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
5528 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
5529 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
5530 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
5531 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
5532 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
5533 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
5534 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
5536 o Minor features (geoip):
5537 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5538 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
5540 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5541 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
5542 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
5543 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
5545 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5546 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
5547 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
5548 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
5549 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
5552 Changes in version 0.3.3.12 - 2019-02-21
5553 Tor 0.3.3.12 fixes a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
5554 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
5555 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
5557 This release marks the end of support for the Tor 0.3.3.x series. We
5558 recommend that users switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported
5559 until at least 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will
5560 receive long-term support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
5562 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
5563 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
5564 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
5565 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
5566 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
5567 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
5568 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
5569 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
5571 o Minor features (geoip):
5572 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5573 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
5575 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5576 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
5577 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
5578 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
5580 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5581 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
5582 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
5583 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
5584 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
5587 Changes in version 0.4.0.2-alpha - 2019-02-21
5588 Tor 0.4.0.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series; it fixes several
5589 bugs from earlier versions, including several that had broken
5590 backward compatibility.
5592 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
5593 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
5594 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
5596 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
5597 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
5598 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
5599 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
5600 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
5601 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
5602 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
5603 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
5605 o Major bugfixes (networking):
5606 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
5607 username/password auth messsage and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
5608 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
5609 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5611 o Major bugfixes (windows, startup):
5612 - When reading a consensus file from disk, detect whether it was
5613 written in text mode, and re-read it in text mode if so. Always
5614 write consensus files in binary mode so that we can map them into
5615 memory later. Previously, we had written in text mode, which
5616 confused us when we tried to map the file on windows. Fixes bug
5617 28614; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5619 o Minor features (compilation):
5620 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
5621 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
5622 Patches from "Mangix".
5624 o Minor features (developer tooling):
5625 - Check that bugfix versions in changes files look like Tor versions
5626 from the versions spec. Warn when bugfixes claim to be on a future
5627 release. Closes ticket 27761.
5628 - Provide a git pre-commit hook that disallows committing if we have
5629 any failures in our code and changelog formatting checks. It is
5630 now available in scripts/maint/pre-commit.git-hook. Implements
5633 o Minor features (directory authority):
5634 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain
5635 bandwidth values, include the digest of that file in the vote.
5636 Closes ticket 26698.
5638 o Minor features (geoip):
5639 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5640 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
5642 o Minor features (testing):
5643 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
5646 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust):
5647 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
5648 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
5649 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
5651 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
5652 - Fix compilation warnings in test_circuitpadding.c. Fixes bug
5653 29169; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5654 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
5655 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5657 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
5658 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
5659 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
5660 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
5662 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox):
5663 - Fix startup crash when experimental sandbox support is enabled.
5664 Fixes bug 29150; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Gerber.
5666 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5667 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
5668 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
5669 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
5670 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
5671 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
5672 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5674 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
5675 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
5676 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
5677 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
5678 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5680 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
5681 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
5682 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
5684 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
5685 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
5686 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
5688 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
5689 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
5690 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
5691 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
5693 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
5694 - When re-adding channels to the pending list, check the correct
5695 channel's sched_heap_idx. This issue has had no effect in mainline
5696 Tor, but could have led to bugs down the road in improved versions
5697 of our circuit scheduling code. Fixes bug 29508; bugfix
5700 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
5701 - Fix intermittent failures on an adaptive padding test. Fixes one
5702 case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5703 - Disable an unstable circuit-padding test that was failing
5704 intermittently because of an ill-defined small histogram. Such
5705 histograms will be allowed again after 29298 is implemented. Fixes
5706 a second case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5707 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
5708 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5709 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
5710 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
5714 - In the manpage entry describing MapAddress torrc setting, use
5715 example IP addresses from ranges specified for use in documentation
5716 by RFC 5737. Resolves issue 28623.
5719 - Remove the old check-tor script. Resolves issue 29072.
5722 Changes in version 0.4.0.1-alpha - 2019-01-18
5723 Tor 0.4.0.1-alpha is the first release in the new 0.4.0.x series. It
5724 introduces improved features for power and bandwidth conservation,
5725 more accurate reporting of bootstrap progress for user interfaces, and
5726 an experimental backend for an exciting new adaptive padding feature.
5727 There is also the usual assortment of bugfixes and minor features, all
5730 o Major features (battery management, client, dormant mode):
5731 - When Tor is running as a client, and it is unused for a long time,
5732 it can now enter a "dormant" state. When Tor is dormant, it avoids
5733 network and CPU activity until it is reawoken either by a user
5734 request or by a controller command. For more information, see the
5735 configuration options starting with "Dormant". Implements tickets
5737 - The client's memory of whether it is "dormant", and how long it
5738 has spent idle, persists across invocations. Implements
5740 - There is a DormantOnFirstStartup option that integrators can use
5741 if they expect that in many cases, Tor will be installed but
5744 o Major features (bootstrap reporting):
5745 - When reporting bootstrap progress, report the first connection
5746 uniformly, regardless of whether it's a connection for building
5747 application circuits. This allows finer-grained reporting of early
5748 progress than previously possible, with the improvements of ticket
5749 27169. Closes tickets 27167 and 27103. Addresses ticket 27308.
5750 - When reporting bootstrap progress, treat connecting to a proxy or
5751 pluggable transport as separate from having successfully used that
5752 proxy or pluggable transport to connect to a relay. Closes tickets
5755 o Major features (circuit padding):
5756 - Implement preliminary support for the circuit padding portion of
5757 Proposal 254. The implementation supports Adaptive Padding (aka
5758 WTF-PAD) state machines for use between experimental clients and
5759 relays. Support is also provided for APE-style state machines that
5760 use probability distributions instead of histograms to specify
5761 inter-packet delay. At the moment, Tor does not provide any
5762 padding state machines that are used in normal operation: for now,
5763 this feature exists solely for experimentation. Closes
5766 o Major features (refactoring):
5767 - Tor now uses an explicit list of its own subsystems when
5768 initializing and shutting down. Previously, these systems were
5769 managed implicitly in various places throughout the codebase.
5770 (There may still be some subsystems using the old system.) Closes
5773 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
5774 - When reporting bootstrap progress, stop distinguishing between
5775 situations where only internal paths are available and situations
5776 where external paths are available. Previously, Tor would often
5777 erroneously report that it had only internal paths. Closes
5780 o Minor features (continuous integration):
5781 - Log Python version during each Travis CI job. Resolves
5784 o Minor features (controller):
5785 - Add a DROPOWNERSHIP command to undo the effects of TAKEOWNERSHIP.
5786 Implements ticket 28843.
5788 o Minor features (developer tooling):
5789 - Provide a git hook script to prevent "fixup!" and "squash!"
5790 commits from ending up in the master branch, as scripts/main/pre-
5791 push.git-hook. Closes ticket 27993.
5793 o Minor features (directory authority):
5794 - Directory authorities support a new consensus algorithm, under
5795 which the family lines in microdescriptors are encoded in a
5796 canonical form. This change makes family lines more compressible
5797 in transit, and on the client. Closes ticket 28266; implements
5800 o Minor features (directory authority, relay):
5801 - Authorities now vote on a "StaleDesc" flag to indicate that a
5802 relay's descriptor is so old that the relay should upload again
5803 soon. Relays treat this flag as a signal to upload a new
5804 descriptor. This flag will eventually let us remove the
5805 'published' date from routerstatus entries, and make our consensus
5806 diffs much smaller. Closes ticket 26770; implements proposal 293.
5808 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
5809 - Update the fallback whitelist based on operator opt-ins and opt-
5810 outs. Closes ticket 24805, patch by Phoul.
5812 o Minor features (FreeBSD):
5813 - On FreeBSD-based systems, warn relay operators if the
5814 "net.inet.ip.random_id" sysctl (IP ID randomization) is disabled.
5815 Closes ticket 28518.
5817 o Minor features (HTTP standards compliance):
5818 - Stop sending the header "Content-type: application/octet-stream"
5819 along with transparently compressed documents: this confused
5820 browsers. Closes ticket 28100.
5822 o Minor features (IPv6):
5823 - We add an option ClientAutoIPv6ORPort, to make clients randomly
5824 prefer a node's IPv4 or IPv6 ORPort. The random preference is set
5825 every time a node is loaded from a new consensus or bridge config.
5826 We expect that this option will enable clients to bootstrap more
5827 quickly without having to determine whether they support IPv4,
5828 IPv6, or both. Closes ticket 27490. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5829 - When using addrs_in_same_network_family(), avoid choosing circuit
5830 paths that pass through the same IPv6 subnet more than once.
5831 Previously, we only checked IPv4 subnets. Closes ticket 24393.
5832 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5834 o Minor features (log messages):
5835 - Improve log message in v3 onion services that could print out
5836 negative revision counters. Closes ticket 27707. Patch
5839 o Minor features (memory usage):
5840 - Save memory by storing microdescriptor family lists with a more
5841 compact representation. Closes ticket 27359.
5842 - Tor clients now use mmap() to read consensus files from disk, so
5843 that they no longer need keep the full text of a consensus in
5844 memory when parsing it or applying a diff. Closes ticket 27244.
5846 o Minor features (parsing):
5847 - Directory authorities now validate that router descriptors and
5848 ExtraInfo documents are in a valid subset of UTF-8, and reject
5849 them if they are not. Closes ticket 27367.
5851 o Minor features (performance):
5852 - Cache the results of summarize_protocol_flags(), so that we don't
5853 have to parse the same protocol-versions string over and over.
5854 This should save us a huge number of malloc calls on startup, and
5855 may reduce memory fragmentation with some allocators. Closes
5857 - Remove a needless memset() call from get_token_arguments, thereby
5858 speeding up the tokenization of directory objects by about 20%.
5859 Closes ticket 28852.
5860 - Replace parse_short_policy() with a faster implementation, to
5861 improve microdescriptor parsing time. Closes ticket 28853.
5862 - Speed up directory parsing a little by avoiding use of the non-
5863 inlined strcmp_len() function. Closes ticket 28856.
5864 - Speed up microdescriptor parsing by about 30%, to help improve
5865 startup time. Closes ticket 28839.
5867 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
5868 - Add support for emitting STATUS updates to Tor's control port from
5869 a pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28846.
5870 - Add support for logging to Tor's logging subsystem from a
5871 pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28180.
5873 o Minor features (process management):
5874 - Add a new process API for handling child processes. This new API
5875 allows Tor to have bi-directional communication with child
5876 processes on both Unix and Windows. Closes ticket 28179.
5877 - Use the subsystem manager to initialize and shut down the process
5878 module. Closes ticket 28847.
5880 o Minor features (relay):
5881 - When listing relay families, list them in canonical form including
5882 the relay's own identity, and try to give a more useful set of
5883 warnings. Part of ticket 28266 and proposal 298.
5885 o Minor features (required protocols):
5886 - Before exiting because of a missing required protocol, Tor will
5887 now check the publication time of the consensus, and not exit
5888 unless the consensus is newer than the Tor program's own release
5889 date. Previously, Tor would not check the consensus publication
5890 time, and so might exit because of a missing protocol that might
5891 no longer be required in a current consensus. Implements proposal
5892 297; closes ticket 27735.
5894 o Minor features (testing):
5895 - Allow a HeartbeatPeriod of less than 30 minutes in testing Tor
5896 networks. Closes ticket 28840. Patch by Rob Jansen.
5898 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew):
5899 - Bootstrap successfully even when Tor's clock is behind the clocks
5900 on the authorities. Fixes bug 28591; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
5901 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
5902 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
5905 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
5906 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
5907 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
5908 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5910 o Minor bugfixes (directory clients):
5911 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
5912 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
5914 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
5915 - Even when a directory mirror's clock is behind the clocks on the
5916 authorities, we now allow the mirror to serve "future"
5917 consensuses. Fixes bug 28654; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5919 o Minor bugfixes (DNS):
5920 - Gracefully handle an empty or absent resolve.conf file by falling
5921 back to using "localhost" as a DNS server (and hoping it works).
5922 Previously, we would just stop running as an exit. Fixes bug
5923 21900; bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
5925 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
5926 - In count_acceptable_nodes(), the minimum number is now one bridge
5927 or guard node, and two non-guard nodes for a circuit. Previously,
5928 we had added up the sum of all nodes with a descriptor, but that
5929 could cause us to build failing circuits when we had either too
5930 many bridges or not enough guard nodes. Fixes bug 25885; bugfix on
5931 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5933 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
5934 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
5935 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
5936 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
5939 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5940 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
5941 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
5942 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
5943 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
5944 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
5946 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
5947 - Introduce additional checks into tor_addr_parse() to reject
5948 certain incorrect inputs that previously were not detected. Fixes
5949 bug 23082; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5951 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
5952 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
5953 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
5954 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
5955 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
5956 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
5958 o Minor bugfixes (periodic events):
5959 - Refrain from calling routerlist_remove_old_routers() from
5960 check_descriptor_callback(). Instead, create a new hourly periodic
5961 event. Fixes bug 27929; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5963 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
5964 - Make sure that data is continously read from standard output and
5965 standard error pipes of a pluggable transport child-process, to
5966 avoid deadlocking when a pipe's buffer is full. Fixes bug 26360;
5967 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
5969 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
5970 - Instead of relying on hs_free_all() to clean up all onion service
5971 objects in test_build_descriptors(), we now deallocate them one by
5972 one. This lets Coverity know that we are not leaking memory there
5973 and fixes CID 1442277. Fixes bug 28989; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5975 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
5976 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
5977 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
5978 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
5979 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5981 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5982 - Reimplement NETINFO cell parsing and generation to rely on
5983 trunnel-generated wire format handling code. Closes ticket 27325.
5984 - Remove unnecessary unsafe code from the Rust macro "cstr!". Closes
5986 - Rework SOCKS wire format handling to rely on trunnel-generated
5987 parsing/generation code. Resolves ticket 27620.
5988 - Split out bootstrap progress reporting from control.c into a
5989 separate file. Part of ticket 27402.
5990 - The .may_include files that we use to describe our directory-by-
5991 directory dependency structure now describe a noncircular
5992 dependency graph over the directories that they cover. Our
5993 checkIncludes.py tool now enforces this noncircularity. Closes
5997 - Mention that you cannot add a new onion service if Tor is already
5998 running with Sandbox enabled. Closes ticket 28560.
5999 - Improve ControlPort documentation. Mention that it accepts
6000 address:port pairs, and can be used multiple times. Closes
6002 - Document the exact output of "tor --version". Closes ticket 28889.
6005 - Stop responding to the 'GETINFO status/version/num-concurring' and
6006 'GETINFO status/version/num-versioning' control port commands, as
6007 those were deprecated back in 0.2.0.30. Also stop listing them in
6008 output of 'GETINFO info/names'. Resolves ticket 28757.
6009 - The scripts used to generate and maintain the list of fallback
6010 directories have been extracted into a new "fallback-scripts"
6011 repository. Closes ticket 27914.
6014 - Run shellcheck for scripts in the in scripts/ directory. Closes
6016 - Add unit tests for tokenize_string() and get_next_token()
6017 functions. Resolves ticket 27625.
6019 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service v3):
6020 - Consolidate the authorized client descriptor cookie computation
6021 code from client and service into one function. Closes
6024 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
6025 - Cleanup scan-build.sh to silence shellcheck warnings. Closes
6027 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in chutney-git-bisect.sh.
6028 Resolves ticket 28006.
6029 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in updateRustDependencies.sh.
6030 Resolves ticket 28012.
6031 - Fix shellcheck warnings in cov-diff script. Resolves issue 28009.
6032 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_calltool.sh. Resolves ticket 28011.
6033 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_trunnel.sh. Resolves issue 28010.
6034 - Fix shellcheck warnings in scripts/test/coverage. Resolves
6038 Changes in version 0.3.3.11 - 2019-01-07
6039 Tor 0.3.3.11 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
6040 numerous fixes, including an important fix for anyone using OpenSSL
6041 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.3 should upgrade
6042 to this version, or to a later series.
6044 As a reminder, support the Tor 0.3.3 series will end on 22 Feb 2019.
6045 We anticipate that this will be the last release of Tor 0.3.3, unless
6046 some major bug is before then. Some time between now and then, users
6047 should switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported until at least
6048 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term
6049 support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
6051 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
6052 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
6053 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
6054 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
6055 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
6058 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6059 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
6060 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
6061 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6063 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6064 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
6065 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
6066 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
6067 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
6068 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
6069 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
6070 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
6072 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6073 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
6074 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
6075 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
6077 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
6078 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
6079 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
6080 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
6081 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
6083 o Minor features (geoip):
6084 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6085 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
6087 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
6088 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
6089 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
6090 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
6091 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
6092 Closes ticket 28973.
6094 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
6095 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
6096 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
6097 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
6099 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
6100 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
6101 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
6104 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6105 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
6106 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
6108 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
6109 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
6110 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
6111 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6113 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
6114 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
6115 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
6116 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6118 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6119 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
6120 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
6121 were the same, the default setting (0) for
6122 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
6123 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
6126 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6127 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
6128 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
6131 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
6132 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
6133 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
6134 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
6135 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6137 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6138 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
6139 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
6140 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
6141 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6143 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
6144 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
6145 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
6146 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
6147 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
6148 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6150 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
6151 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to
6152 an HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix on
6155 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
6156 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
6157 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
6159 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6160 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
6161 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6163 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6164 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
6165 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
6168 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6169 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
6170 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
6171 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
6172 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
6173 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
6174 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
6175 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6177 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
6178 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
6179 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
6180 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
6182 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
6183 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
6184 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6185 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
6186 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
6187 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6188 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
6189 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
6190 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
6191 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
6193 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6194 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
6195 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
6196 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
6197 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
6198 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
6200 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
6201 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
6202 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
6203 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
6204 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
6206 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
6207 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
6208 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6211 Changes in version 0.3.4.10 - 2019-01-07
6212 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
6213 numerous fixes, including an important fix for relays, and for anyone
6214 using OpenSSL 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.4
6217 As a reminder, the Tor 0.3.4 series will be supported until 10 June
6218 2019. Some time between now and then, users should switch to the Tor
6219 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term support until at least 1
6222 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
6223 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
6224 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
6225 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
6226 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
6229 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory, backport from 0.3.5.7):
6230 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
6231 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
6232 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
6233 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
6234 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
6235 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
6237 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
6238 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
6239 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
6242 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6243 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
6244 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
6245 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
6246 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
6249 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
6250 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
6251 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
6252 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
6253 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
6255 o Minor features (geoip):
6256 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6257 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
6259 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
6260 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
6261 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
6262 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
6263 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
6264 Closes ticket 28973.
6266 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
6267 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
6268 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
6269 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6271 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
6272 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
6273 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
6274 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
6275 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
6278 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
6279 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
6280 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
6281 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
6283 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
6284 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
6285 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6287 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
6288 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
6289 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
6290 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
6292 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6293 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
6294 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
6295 were the same, the default setting (0) for
6296 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
6297 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
6300 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
6301 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
6302 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
6304 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6305 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
6306 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
6307 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
6308 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6310 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
6311 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
6312 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
6313 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
6314 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
6315 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6317 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
6318 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
6319 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
6320 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
6322 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
6323 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
6324 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6327 Changes in version 0.3.5.7 - 2019-01-07
6328 Tor 0.3.5.7 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
6329 compilation and portability fixes, and a fix for a severe problem
6330 affecting directory caches.
6332 The Tor 0.3.5 series includes several new features and performance
6333 improvements, including client authorization for v3 onion services,
6334 cleanups to bootstrap reporting, support for improved bandwidth-
6335 measurement tools, experimental support for NSS in place of OpenSSL,
6336 and much more. It also begins a full reorganization of Tor's code
6337 layout, for improved modularity and maintainability in the future.
6338 Finally, there is the usual set of performance improvements and
6339 bugfixes that we try to do in every release series.
6341 There are a couple of changes in the 0.3.5 that may affect
6342 compatibility. First, the default version for newly created onion
6343 services is now v3. Use the HiddenServiceVersion option if you want to
6344 override this. Second, some log messages related to bootstrapping have
6345 changed; if you use stem, you may need to update to the latest version
6346 so it will recognize them.
6348 We have designated 0.3.5 as a "long-term support" (LTS) series: we
6349 will continue to patch major bugs in typical configurations of 0.3.5
6350 until at least 1 Feb 2022. (We do not plan to provide long-term
6351 support for embedding, Rust support, NSS support, running a directory
6352 authority, or unsupported platforms. For these, you will need to stick
6353 with the latest stable release.)
6355 Below are the changes since 0.3.5.6-rc. For a complete list of changes
6356 since 0.3.4.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
6358 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory):
6359 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
6360 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
6361 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
6362 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
6363 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
6364 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
6366 o Minor features (compilation):
6367 - When possible, place our warning flags in a separate file, to
6368 avoid flooding verbose build logs. Closes ticket 28924.
6370 o Minor features (geoip):
6371 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6372 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
6374 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround):
6375 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
6376 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
6377 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
6378 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
6379 Closes ticket 28973.
6381 o Minor features (performance):
6382 - Remove about 96% of the work from the function that we run at
6383 startup to test our curve25519_basepoint implementation. Since
6384 this function has yet to find an actual failure, we now only run
6385 it for 8 iterations instead of 200. Based on our profile
6386 information, this change should save around 8% of our startup time
6387 on typical desktops, and may have a similar effect on other
6388 platforms. Closes ticket 28838.
6389 - Stop re-validating our hardcoded Diffie-Hellman parameters on
6390 every startup. Doing this wasted time and cycles, especially on
6391 low-powered devices. Closes ticket 28851.
6393 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6394 - Fix compilation for Android by adding a missing header to
6395 freespace.c. Fixes bug 28974; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6397 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
6398 - Fix an unreached code path where we checked the value of
6399 "hostname" inside send_resolved_hostname_cell(). Previously, we
6400 used it before checking it; now we check it first. Fixes bug
6401 28879; bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
6403 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6404 - Make sure that test_rebind.py actually obeys its timeout, even
6405 when it receives a large number of log messages. Fixes bug 28883;
6406 bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6407 - Stop running stem's unit tests as part of "make test-stem", but
6408 continue to run stem's unit and online tests during "make test-
6409 stem-full". Fixes bug 28568; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
6411 o Minor bugfixes (windows services):
6412 - Make Tor start correctly as an NT service again: previously it was
6413 broken by refactoring. Fixes bug 28612; bugfix on 0.3.5.3-alpha.
6415 o Code simplification and refactoring:
6416 - When parsing a port configuration, make it more obvious to static
6417 analyzer tools that we always initialize the address. Closes
6421 Changes in version 0.3.5.6-rc - 2018-12-18
6422 Tor 0.3.5.6-rc fixes numerous small bugs in earlier versions of Tor.
6423 It is the first release candidate in the 0.3.5.x series; if no further
6424 huge bugs are found, our next release may be the stable 0.3.5.x.
6426 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows):
6427 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
6428 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
6431 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
6432 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
6433 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
6434 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
6435 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
6437 o Minor features (geoip):
6438 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6439 Country database. Closes ticket 28744.
6441 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6442 - Add missing dependency on libgdi32.dll for tor-print-ed-signing-
6443 cert.exe on Windows. Fixes bug 28485; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6445 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
6446 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
6447 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
6448 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
6450 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
6451 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
6452 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
6453 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
6454 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
6455 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6457 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, boostrap):
6458 - Add missing resets of bootstrap tracking state when shutting down
6459 (regression caused by ticket 27169). Fixes bug 28524; bugfix
6462 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6463 - Use a separate DataDirectory for the test_rebind script.
6464 Previously, this script would run using the default DataDirectory,
6465 and sometimes fail. Fixes bug 28562; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6466 Patch from Taylor R Campbell.
6467 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
6468 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6470 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
6471 - Correctly identify Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows Server
6472 2008 and later from their NT versions. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on
6473 0.2.2.34; reported by Keifer Bly.
6474 - On recent Windows versions, the GetVersionEx() function may report
6475 an earlier Windows version than the running OS. To avoid user
6476 confusion, add "[or later]" to Tor's version string on affected
6477 versions of Windows. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34; reported
6479 - Remove Windows versions that were never supported by the
6480 GetVersionEx() function. Stop duplicating the latest Windows
6481 version in get_uname(). Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34;
6482 reported by Keifer Bly.
6485 - Increase logging and tag all log entries with timestamps in
6486 test_rebind.py. Provides diagnostics for issue 28229.
6488 o Code simplification and refactoring (shared random, dirauth):
6489 - Change many tor_assert() to use BUG() instead. The idea is to not
6490 crash a dirauth but rather scream loudly with a stacktrace and let
6491 it continue run. The shared random subsystem is very resilient and
6492 if anything wrong happens with it, at worst a non coherent value
6493 will be put in the vote and discarded by the other authorities.
6494 Closes ticket 19566.
6496 o Documentation (onion services):
6497 - Document in the man page that changing ClientOnionAuthDir value or
6498 adding a new file in the directory will not work at runtime upon
6499 sending a HUP if Sandbox 1. Closes ticket 28128.
6500 - Note in the man page that the only real way to fully revoke an
6501 onion service v3 client authorization is by restarting the tor
6502 process. Closes ticket 28275.
6505 Changes in version 0.3.5.5-alpha - 2018-11-16
6506 Tor 0.3.5.5-alpha includes numerous bugfixes on earlier releases,
6507 including several that we hope to backport to older release series in
6510 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability):
6511 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
6512 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
6513 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
6514 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
6517 o Minor features (geoip):
6518 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6519 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
6521 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6522 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
6523 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
6524 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6526 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay):
6527 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
6528 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
6529 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
6530 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
6533 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
6534 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
6535 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
6536 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
6538 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
6539 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
6540 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6542 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
6543 - Make Doxygen work again after the code movement in the 0.3.5
6544 source tree. Fixes bug 28435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6546 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
6547 - Permit the "shutdown()" system call, which is apparently used by
6548 OpenSSL under some circumstances. Fixes bug 28183; bugfix
6551 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
6552 - Stop talking about the Named flag in log messages. Clients have
6553 ignored the Named flag since 0.3.2. Fixes bug 28441; bugfix
6556 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
6557 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
6558 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
6560 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
6561 - On an intro point for a version 3 onion service, stop closing
6562 introduction circuits on an NACK. This lets the client decide
6563 whether to reuse the circuit or discard it. Previously, we closed
6564 intro circuits when sending NACKs. Fixes bug 27841; bugfix on
6565 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chaunan.
6566 - When replacing a descriptor in the client cache, make sure to
6567 close all client introduction circuits for the old descriptor, so
6568 we don't end up with unusable leftover circuits. Fixes bug 27471;
6569 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6572 Changes in version 0.3.5.4-alpha - 2018-11-08
6573 Tor 0.3.5.4-alpha includes numerous bugfixes on earlier versions and
6574 improves our continuous integration support. It continues our attempts
6575 to stabilize this alpha branch and build it into a foundation for an
6576 acceptable long-term-support release.
6578 o Major bugfixes (compilation, rust):
6579 - Rust tests can now build and run successfully with the
6580 --enable-fragile-hardening option enabled. Doing this currently
6581 requires the rust beta channel; it will be possible with stable
6582 rust once Rust version 1.31 is released. Patch from Alex Crichton.
6583 Fixes bugs 27272, 27273, and 27274. Bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6585 o Major bugfixes (embedding, main loop):
6586 - When DisableNetwork becomes set, actually disable periodic events
6587 that are already enabled. (Previously, we would refrain from
6588 enabling new ones, but we would leave the old ones turned on.)
6589 Fixes bug 28348; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6591 o Minor features (continuous integration):
6592 - Add a Travis CI build for --enable-nss on Linux gcc. Closes
6594 - Add new CI job to Travis configuration to run stem-based
6595 integration tests. Closes ticket 27913.
6597 o Minor features (Windows, continuous integration):
6598 - Build tor on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016 using
6599 Appveyor's CI. Closes ticket 28318.
6601 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, also in 0.3.4.9):
6602 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
6603 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
6606 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6607 - Fix a pair of missing headers on OpenBSD. Fixes bug 28303; bugfix
6608 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6610 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, OpenSolaris):
6611 - Fix compilation on OpenSolaris and its descendants by adding a
6612 missing include to compat_pthreads.c. Fixes bug 27963; bugfix
6615 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
6616 - Refuse to start with relative file paths and RunAsDaemon set
6617 (regression from the fix for bug 22731). Fixes bug 28298; bugfix
6620 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, also in 0.3.4.9):
6621 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
6622 with a different relay, instead of a BUG() warning with a
6623 backtrace. Fixes bug 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6625 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
6626 - Build the service descriptor's signing key certificate before
6627 uploading, so we always have a fresh one: leaving no chances for
6628 it to expire service side. Fixes bug 27838; bugfix
6631 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client authorization):
6632 - Fix an assert() when adding a client authorization for the first
6633 time and then sending a HUP signal to the service. Before that,
6634 Tor would stop abruptly. Fixes bug 27995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6636 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
6637 - Unless we have explicitly set HiddenServiceVersion, detect the
6638 onion service version and then look for invalid options.
6639 Previously, we did the reverse, but that broke existing configs
6640 which were pointed to a v2 service and had options like
6641 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient set. Fixes bug 28127; bugfix on
6642 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6644 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
6645 - Make the OPE code (which is used for v3 onion services) run
6646 correctly on big-endian platforms. Fixes bug 28115; bugfix
6649 o Minor bugfixes (protover, rust):
6650 - Reject extra commas in version strings. Fixes bug 27197; bugfix
6653 o Minor bugfixes (relay shutdown, systemd):
6654 - Notify systemd of ShutdownWaitLength so it can be set to longer
6655 than systemd's TimeoutStopSec. In Tor's systemd service file, set
6656 TimeoutSec to 60 seconds to allow Tor some time to shut down.
6657 Fixes bug 28113; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
6659 o Minor bugfixes (rust, also in 0.3.4.9):
6660 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
6661 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6662 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
6663 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
6664 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6666 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, also in 0.3.4.9):
6667 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
6668 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
6669 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
6670 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
6672 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6673 - Avoid hangs and race conditions in test_rebind.py. Fixes bug
6674 27968; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6676 o Minor bugfixes (testing, also in 0.3.4.9):
6677 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
6678 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
6679 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
6680 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
6682 o Documentation (onion service manpage):
6683 - Improve HSv3 client authorization by making some options more
6684 explicit and detailed. Closes ticket 28026. Patch by Mike Tigas.
6687 Changes in version 0.3.4.9 - 2018-11-02
6688 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
6689 numerous fixes, including a fix for a bandwidth management bug that
6690 was causing memory exhaustion on relays. Anyone running an earlier
6691 version of Tor 0.3.4.9 should upgrade.
6693 o Major bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6694 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
6695 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6697 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6698 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
6699 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
6700 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
6701 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6703 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6704 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
6705 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
6706 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
6707 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
6710 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6711 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
6712 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
6713 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6715 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6716 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
6717 Implements ticket 27252.
6718 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
6719 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
6720 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
6721 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
6722 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
6723 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
6724 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
6726 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6727 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
6728 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
6729 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
6731 o Minor features (geoip):
6732 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6733 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
6735 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
6736 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
6737 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
6738 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
6739 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
6741 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
6742 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
6743 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6744 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
6745 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
6748 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
6749 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
6750 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
6753 o Minor bugfixes (CI, appveyor, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
6754 - Only install the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
6755 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
6756 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
6757 ships. Fixes bugs 27943 and 27765; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
6759 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6760 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
6761 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
6763 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6764 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
6765 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6767 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
6768 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
6769 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
6770 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6772 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6773 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
6774 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6776 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6777 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
6778 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
6781 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6782 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
6783 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6785 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6786 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
6787 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
6790 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
6791 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
6792 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
6793 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
6794 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6796 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6797 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
6798 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
6799 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
6800 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
6801 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6803 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6804 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
6805 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
6808 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6809 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
6810 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
6811 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
6812 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
6813 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
6814 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
6815 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6817 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
6818 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
6819 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
6820 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
6822 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
6823 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
6824 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
6825 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
6826 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
6828 o Minor bugfixes (rust, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
6829 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
6830 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6831 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
6832 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
6833 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6835 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6836 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
6837 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
6838 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
6839 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
6840 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
6842 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6843 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
6844 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
6845 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
6848 o Minor bugfixes (testing, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
6849 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
6850 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
6851 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
6852 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
6855 Changes in version 0.3.5.3-alpha - 2018-10-17
6856 Tor 0.3.5.3-alpha fixes several bugs, mostly from previous 0.3.5.x
6857 versions. One important fix for relays addresses a problem with rate-
6858 limiting code from back in 0.3.4.x: If the fix works out, we'll be
6859 backporting it soon. This release is still an alpha, but we hope it's
6860 getting closer and closer to stability.
6862 o Major features (onion services):
6863 - Version 3 onion services can now use the per-service
6864 HiddenServiceExportCircuitID option to differentiate client
6865 circuits. It communicates with the service by using the HAProxy
6866 protocol to assign virtual IP addresses to inbound client
6867 circuits. Closes ticket 4700. Patch by Mahrud Sayrafi.
6869 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
6870 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
6871 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6873 o Major bugfixes (initialization, crash):
6874 - Fix an assertion crash that would stop Tor from starting up if it
6875 tried to activate a periodic event too early. Fixes bug 27861;
6876 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6878 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap):
6879 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
6880 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
6881 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
6882 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6884 o Major bugfixes (relay):
6885 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
6886 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
6887 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
6888 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
6891 o Minor features (continuous integration):
6892 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
6893 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
6894 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
6895 - Report what program produced the mysterious core file that we
6896 occasionally see on Travis CI during make distcheck. Closes
6899 o Minor features (geoip):
6900 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6901 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
6903 o Minor bugfixes (code safety):
6904 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
6905 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
6908 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6909 - Compile the ed25519-donna code with a correct declaration of
6910 crypto_strongest_rand(). Previously, we built it with one type,
6911 but linked it against another in the unit tests, which caused
6912 compilation failures with LTO enabled. This could have caused
6913 other undefined behavior in the tests. Fixes bug 27728; bugfix
6916 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, netbsd):
6917 - Add a missing include back into procmon.c. Fixes bug 27990; bugfix
6920 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, appveyor):
6921 - Install only the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
6922 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
6923 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
6924 ships. Fixes bugs 27765 and 27943; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
6926 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions):
6927 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
6928 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
6929 were the same, the default setting (0) for
6930 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
6931 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
6934 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
6935 - Fix a small memory leak when calling Tor with --dump-config. Fixes
6936 bug 27893; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6938 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
6939 - In retry_listeners_ports(), make sure that we're removing a member
6940 of old_conns smartlist at most once. Fixes bug 27808; bugfix
6942 - Refrain from attempting socket rebinding when old and new
6943 listeners are in different address families. Fixes bug 27928;
6944 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6946 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
6947 - Stop dumping a stack trace when trying to connect to an intro
6948 point without having a descriptor for it. Fixes bug 27774; bugfix
6950 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
6951 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
6952 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
6953 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6954 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
6955 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
6956 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
6957 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
6958 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6960 o Minor bugfixes (protover):
6961 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
6962 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
6965 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6966 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
6967 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
6968 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
6970 - In test_rebind.py, check if the Python version is in the supported
6971 range. Fixes bug 27675; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6973 o Code simplification and refactoring:
6974 - Divide more large Tor source files -- especially ones that span
6975 multiple areas of functionality -- into smaller parts, including
6976 onion.c and main.c. Closes ticket 26747.
6977 - Divide the "routerparse.c" module into separate modules for each
6978 group of parsed objects. Closes ticket 27924.
6979 - Move protover_rust.c to the same place protover.c was moved to.
6980 Closes ticket 27814.
6981 - Split directory.c into separate pieces for client, server, and
6982 common functionality. Closes ticket 26744.
6983 - Split the non-statistics-related parts from the rephist.c and
6984 geoip.c modules. Closes ticket 27892.
6985 - Split the router.c file into relay-only and shared components, to
6986 help with future modularization. Closes ticket 27864.
6989 - In the tor-resolve(1) manpage, fix the reference to socks-
6990 extensions.txt by adding a web URL. Resolves ticket 27853.
6991 - Mention that we require Python to be 2.7 or newer for some
6992 integration tests that we ship with Tor. Resolves ticket 27677.
6995 Changes in version 0.3.5.2-alpha - 2018-09-21
6996 Tor 0.3.5.2-alpha fixes several bugs in 0.3.5.1-alpha, including one
6997 that made Tor think it had run out of sockets. Anybody running a relay
6998 or an onion service on 0.3.5.1-alpha should upgrade.
7000 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth statistics):
7001 - When we close relayed circuits, report the data in the circuit
7002 queues as being written in our relay bandwidth stats. This
7003 mitigates guard discovery and other attacks that close circuits
7004 for the explicit purpose of noticing this discrepancy in
7005 statistics. Fixes bug 23512; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
7007 o Major bugfixes (socket accounting):
7008 - In our socket accounting code, count a socket as closed even when
7009 it is closed indirectly by the TLS layer. Previously, we would
7010 count these sockets as still in use, and incorrectly believe that
7011 we had run out of sockets. Fixes bug 27795; bugfix
7014 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing):
7015 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
7016 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
7017 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
7018 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
7020 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
7021 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
7022 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7023 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
7024 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
7027 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
7028 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
7029 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
7030 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
7031 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7033 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
7034 - Fix an unlikely memory leak when trying to read a private key from
7035 a ridiculously large file. Fixes bug 27764; bugfix on
7036 0.3.5.1-alpha. This is CID 1439488.
7038 o Minor bugfixes (NSS):
7039 - Correctly detect failure to open a dummy TCP socket when stealing
7040 ownership of an fd from the NSS layer. Fixes bug 27782; bugfix
7043 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
7044 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
7045 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
7046 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
7048 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7049 - Revise the "conditionvar_timeout" test so that it succeeds even on
7050 heavily loaded systems where the test threads are not scheduled
7051 within 200 msec. Fixes bug 27073; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
7053 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7054 - Divide the routerlist.c and dirserv.c modules into smaller parts.
7055 Closes ticket 27799.
7058 Changes in version 0.3.5.1-alpha - 2018-09-18
7059 Tor 0.3.5.1-alpha is the first release of the 0.3.5.x series. It adds
7060 client authorization for modern (v3) onion services, improves
7061 bootstrap reporting, begins reorganizing Tor's codebase, adds optional
7062 support for NSS in place of OpenSSL, and much more.
7064 o Major features (onion services, UI change):
7065 - For a newly created onion service, the default version is now 3.
7066 Tor still supports existing version 2 services, but the operator
7067 now needs to set "HiddenServiceVersion 2" in order to create a new
7068 version 2 service. For existing services, Tor now learns the
7069 version by reading the key file. Closes ticket 27215.
7071 o Major features (relay, UI change):
7072 - Relays no longer run as exits by default. If the "ExitRelay"
7073 option is auto (or unset), and no exit policy is specified with
7074 ExitPolicy or ReducedExitPolicy, we now treat ExitRelay as 0.
7075 Previously in this case, we allowed exit traffic and logged a
7076 warning message. Closes ticket 21530. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7077 - Tor now validates that the ContactInfo config option is valid UTF-
7078 8 when parsing torrc. Closes ticket 27428.
7080 o Major features (bootstrap):
7081 - Don't report directory progress until after a connection to a
7082 relay or bridge has succeeded. Previously, we'd report 80%
7083 progress based on cached directory information when we couldn't
7084 even connect to the network. Closes ticket 27169.
7086 o Major features (new code layout):
7087 - Nearly all of Tor's source code has been moved around into more
7088 logical places. The "common" directory is now divided into a set
7089 of libraries in "lib", and files in the "or" directory have been
7090 split into "core" (logic absolutely needed for onion routing),
7091 "feature" (independent modules in Tor), and "app" (to configure
7092 and invoke the rest of Tor). See doc/HACKING/CodeStructure.md for
7093 more information. Closes ticket 26481.
7095 This refactoring is not complete: although the libraries have been
7096 refactored to be acyclic, the main body of Tor is still too
7097 interconnected. We will attempt to improve this in the future.
7099 o Major features (onion services v3):
7100 - Implement onion service client authorization at the descriptor
7101 level: only authorized clients can decrypt a service's descriptor
7102 to find out how to contact it. A new torrc option was added to
7103 control this client side: ClientOnionAuthDir <path>. On the
7104 service side, if the "authorized_clients/" directory exists in the
7105 onion service directory path, client configurations are read from
7106 the files within. See the manpage for more details. Closes ticket
7107 27547. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
7108 - Improve revision counter generation in next-gen onion services.
7109 Onion services can now scale by hosting multiple instances on
7110 different hosts without synchronization between them, which was
7111 previously impossible because descriptors would get rejected by
7112 HSDirs. Addresses ticket 25552.
7114 o Major features (portability, cryptography, experimental, TLS):
7115 - Tor now has the option to compile with the NSS library instead of
7116 OpenSSL. This feature is experimental, and we expect that bugs may
7117 remain. It is mainly intended for environments where Tor's
7118 performance is not CPU-bound, and where NSS is already known to be
7119 installed. To try it out, configure Tor with the --enable-nss
7120 flag. Closes tickets 26631, 26815, and 26816.
7122 If you are experimenting with this option and using an old cached
7123 consensus, Tor may fail to start. To solve this, delete your
7124 "cached-consensus" and "cached-microdesc-consensus" files,
7125 (if present), and restart Tor.
7127 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
7128 - Actually check that the address we get from DirAuthority
7129 configuration line is valid IPv4. Explicitly disallow DirAuthority
7130 address to be a DNS hostname. Fixes bug 26488; bugfix
7133 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process):
7134 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
7135 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
7136 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7138 o Minor features (admin tools):
7139 - Add a new --key-expiration option to print the expiration date of
7140 the signing cert in an ed25519_signing_cert file. Resolves
7143 o Minor features (build):
7144 - If you pass the "--enable-pic" option to configure, Tor will try
7145 to tell the compiler to build position-independent code suitable
7146 to link into a dynamic library. (The default remains -fPIE, for
7147 code suitable for a relocatable executable.) Closes ticket 23846.
7149 o Minor features (code correctness, testing):
7150 - Tor's build process now includes a "check-includes" make target to
7151 verify that no module of Tor relies on any headers from a higher-
7152 level module. We hope to use this feature over time to help
7153 refactor our codebase. Closes ticket 26447.
7155 o Minor features (code layout):
7156 - We have a new "lowest-level" error-handling API for use by code
7157 invoked from within the logging module. With this interface, the
7158 logging code is no longer at risk of calling into itself if a
7159 failure occurs while it is trying to log something. Closes
7162 o Minor features (compilation):
7163 - Tor's configure script now supports a --with-malloc= option to
7164 select your malloc implementation. Supported options are
7165 "tcmalloc", "jemalloc", "openbsd" (deprecated), and "system" (the
7166 default). Addresses part of ticket 20424. Based on a patch from
7169 o Minor features (config):
7170 - The "auto" keyword in torrc is now case-insensitive. Closes
7173 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7174 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
7175 Implements ticket 27252.
7176 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
7177 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
7178 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
7179 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
7180 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
7181 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
7182 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
7183 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
7184 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
7186 o Minor features (controller):
7187 - Emit CIRC_BW events as soon as we detect that we processed an
7188 invalid or otherwise dropped cell on a circuit. This allows
7189 vanguards and other controllers to react more quickly to dropped
7190 cells. Closes ticket 27678.
7191 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
7192 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
7193 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
7194 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
7196 - Implement a 'GETINFO md/all' controller command to enable getting
7197 all known microdescriptors. Closes ticket 8323.
7198 - The GETINFO command now support an "uptime" argument, to return
7199 Tor's uptime in seconds. Closes ticket 25132.
7201 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
7202 - Make our OOM handler aware of the DNS cache so that it doesn't
7203 fill up the memory. This check is important for our DoS mitigation
7204 subsystem. Closes ticket 18642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7206 o Minor features (development):
7207 - Tor's makefile now supports running the "clippy" Rust style tool
7208 on our Rust code. Closes ticket 22156.
7210 o Minor features (directory authority):
7211 - There is no longer an artificial upper limit on the length of
7212 bandwidth lines. Closes ticket 26223.
7213 - When a bandwidth file is used to obtain the bandwidth measurements,
7214 include this bandwidth file headers in the votes. Closes
7216 - Improved support for networks with only a single authority or a
7217 single fallback directory. Patch from Gabriel Somlo. Closes
7220 o Minor features (embedding API):
7221 - The Tor controller API now supports a function to launch Tor with
7222 a preconstructed owning controller FD, so that embedding
7223 applications don't need to manage controller ports and
7224 authentication. Closes ticket 24204.
7225 - The Tor controller API now has a function that returns the name
7226 and version of the backend implementing the API. Closes
7229 o Minor features (geoip):
7230 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7231 Country database. Closes ticket 27631.
7233 o Minor features (memory management):
7234 - Get Libevent to use the same memory allocator as Tor, by calling
7235 event_set_mem_functions() during initialization. Resolves
7238 o Minor features (memory usage):
7239 - When not using them, store legacy TAP public onion keys in DER-
7240 encoded format, rather than as expanded public keys. This should
7241 save several megabytes on typical clients. Closes ticket 27246.
7243 o Minor features (OpenSSL):
7244 - When possible, use RFC5869 HKDF implementation from OpenSSL rather
7245 than our own. Resolves ticket 19979.
7247 o Minor features (Rust, code quality):
7248 - Improve rust code quality in the rust protover implementation by
7249 making it more idiomatic. Includes changing an internal API to
7250 take &str instead of &String. Closes ticket 26492.
7252 o Minor features (testing):
7253 - Add scripts/test/chutney-git-bisect.sh, for bisecting using
7254 chutney. Implements ticket 27211.
7256 o Minor features (tor-resolve):
7257 - The tor-resolve utility can now be used with IPv6 SOCKS proxies.
7258 Side-effect of the refactoring for ticket 26526.
7260 o Minor features (UI):
7261 - Log each included configuration file or directory as we read it,
7262 to provide more visibility about where Tor is reading from. Patch
7263 from Unto Sten; closes ticket 27186.
7264 - Lower log level of "Scheduler type KIST has been enabled" to INFO.
7265 Closes ticket 26703.
7267 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
7268 - Try harder to get descriptors in non-exit test networks, by using
7269 the mid weight for the third hop when there are no exits. Fixes
7270 bug 27237; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
7272 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
7273 - Avoid casting smartlist index to int implicitly, as it may trigger
7274 a warning (-Wshorten-64-to-32). Fixes bug 26282; bugfix on
7275 0.2.3.13-alpha, 0.2.7.1-alpha and 0.2.1.1-alpha.
7276 - Use time_t for all values in
7277 predicted_ports_prediction_time_remaining(). Rework the code that
7278 computes difference between durations/timestamps. Fixes bug 27165;
7279 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7281 o Minor bugfixes (client, memory usage):
7282 - When not running as a directory cache, there is no need to store
7283 the text of the current consensus networkstatus in RAM.
7284 Previously, however, clients would store it anyway, at a cost of
7285 over 5 MB. Now, they do not. Fixes bug 27247; bugfix
7288 o Minor bugfixes (client, reachableaddresses):
7289 - Instead of adding a "reject *:*" line to ReachableAddresses when
7290 loading the configuration, add one to the policy after parsing it
7291 in parse_reachable_addresses(). This prevents extra "reject *.*"
7292 lines from accumulating on reloads. Fixes bug 20874; bugfix on
7293 0.1.1.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7295 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
7296 - Rename sandbox_getaddrinfo() and other functions to no longer
7297 misleadingly suggest that they are sandbox-only. Fixes bug 26525;
7298 bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
7300 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, Onion Services):
7301 - In rend_service_parse_port_config(), disallow any input to remain
7302 after address-port pair was parsed. This will catch address and
7303 port being whitespace-separated by mistake of the user. Fixes bug
7304 27044; bugfix on 0.2.9.10.
7306 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
7307 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
7308 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7310 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
7311 - Consider all routerinfo errors other than "not a server" to be
7312 transient for the purpose of "GETINFO exit-policy/*" controller
7313 request. Print stacktrace in the unlikely case of failing to
7314 recompute routerinfo digest. Fixes bug 27034; bugfix
7317 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown):
7318 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
7319 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7321 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
7322 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
7323 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
7326 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
7327 - In addrs_in_same_network_family(), we choose the subnet size based
7328 on the IP version (IPv4 or IPv6). Previously, we chose a fixed
7329 subnet size of /16 for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug
7330 15518; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7332 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7333 - As a precaution, do an early return from log_addr_has_changed() if
7334 Tor is running as client. Also, log a stack trace for debugging as
7335 this function should only be called when Tor runs as server. Fixes
7336 bug 26892; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
7337 - Refrain from mentioning bug 21018 in the logs, as it is already
7338 fixed. Fixes bug 25477; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
7340 o Minor bugfixes (logging, documentation):
7341 - When SafeLogging is enabled, scrub IP address in
7342 channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(). Also, add a note to manpage
7343 that scrubbing is not guaranteed on loglevels below Notice. Fixes
7344 bug 26882; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
7346 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding):
7347 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
7348 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7350 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
7351 - Log at level "info", not "warning", in the case that we do not
7352 have a consensus when a .onion request comes in. This can happen
7353 normally while bootstrapping. Fixes bug 27040; bugfix
7356 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
7357 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
7358 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
7361 o Minor bugfixes (OS compatibility):
7362 - Properly handle configuration changes that move a listener to/from
7363 wildcard IP address. If the first attempt to bind a socket fails,
7364 close the old listener and try binding the socket again. Fixes bug
7365 17873; bugfix on 0.0.8pre-1.
7367 o Minor bugfixes (performance)::
7368 - Rework node_is_a_configured_bridge() to no longer call
7369 node_get_all_orports(), which was performing too many memory
7370 allocations. Fixes bug 27224; bugfix on 0.2.3.9.
7372 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
7373 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
7374 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
7375 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
7377 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
7378 - Consider the fact that we'll be making direct connections to our
7379 entry and guard nodes when computing the fraction of nodes that
7380 have their descriptors. Also, if we are using bridges and there is
7381 at least one bridge with a full descriptor, treat the fraction of
7382 guards available as 100%. Fixes bug 25886; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
7383 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7384 - Update the message logged on relays when DirCache is disabled.
7385 Since 0.3.3.5-rc, authorities require DirCache (V2Dir) for the
7386 Guard flag. Fixes bug 24312; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
7388 o Minor bugfixes (rust, protover):
7389 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
7390 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
7391 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
7392 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
7393 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
7394 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
7395 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7397 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7398 - Fix two unit tests to work when HOME environment variable is not
7399 set. Fixes bug 27096; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7400 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
7401 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
7402 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
7403 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
7404 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
7405 - When logging a version mismatch in our openssl_version tests,
7406 report the actual offending version strings. Fixes bug 26152;
7407 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7408 - Fix forking tests on Windows when there is a space somewhere in
7409 the path. Fixes bug 26437; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
7411 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7412 - 'updateFallbackDirs.py' now ignores the blacklist file, as it's not
7413 longer needed. Closes ticket 26502.
7414 - Include paths to header files within Tor are now qualified by
7415 directory within the top-level src directory.
7416 - Many structures have been removed from the centralized "or.h"
7417 header, and moved into their own headers. This will allow us to
7418 reduce the number of places in the code that rely on each
7419 structure's contents and layout. Closes ticket 26383.
7420 - Remove ATTR_NONNULL macro from codebase. Resolves ticket 26527.
7421 - Remove GetAdaptersAddresses_fn_t. The code that used it was
7422 removed as part of the 26481 refactor. Closes ticket 27467.
7423 - Rework Tor SOCKS server code to use Trunnel and benefit from
7424 autogenerated functions for parsing and generating SOCKS wire
7425 format. New implementation is cleaner, more maintainable and
7426 should be less prone to heartbleed-style vulnerabilities.
7427 Implements a significant fraction of ticket 3569.
7428 - Split sampled_guards_update_from_consensus() and
7429 select_entry_guard_for_circuit() into subfunctions. In
7430 entry_guards_update_primary() unite three smartlist enumerations
7431 into one and move smartlist comparison code out of the function.
7432 Closes ticket 21349.
7433 - Tor now assumes that you have standards-conformant stdint.h and
7434 inttypes.h headers when compiling. Closes ticket 26626.
7435 - Unify our bloom filter logic. Previously we had two copies of this
7436 code: one for routerlist filtering, and one for address set
7437 calculations. Closes ticket 26510.
7438 - Use the simpler strcmpstart() helper in
7439 rend_parse_v2_service_descriptor instead of strncmp(). Closes
7441 - Utility functions that can perform a DNS lookup are now wholly
7442 separated from those that can't, in separate headers and C
7443 modules. Closes ticket 26526.
7446 - Copy paragraph and URL to Tor's code of conduct document from
7447 CONTRIBUTING to new CODE_OF_CONDUCT file. Resolves ticket 26638.
7448 - Remove old instructions from INSTALL document. Closes ticket 26588.
7449 - Warn users that they should not include MyFamily line(s) in their
7450 torrc when running Tor bridge. Closes ticket 26908.
7453 - Tor no longer supports building with the dmalloc library. For
7454 debugging memory issues, we suggest using gperftools or msan
7455 instead. Closes ticket 26426.
7456 - Tor no longer attempts to run on Windows environments without the
7457 GetAdaptersAddresses() function. This function has existed since
7458 Windows XP, which is itself already older than we support.
7459 - Remove Tor2web functionality for version 2 onion services. The
7460 Tor2webMode and Tor2webRendezvousPoints options are now obsolete.
7461 (This feature was never shipped in vanilla Tor and it was only
7462 possible to use this feature by building the support at compile
7463 time. Tor2webMode is not implemented for version 3 onion services.)
7464 Closes ticket 26367.
7467 Changes in version 0.2.9.17 - 2018-09-10
7468 Tor 0.2.9.17 backports numerous bugfixes from later versions of Tor.
7470 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
7471 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
7472 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
7473 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
7475 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7476 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
7478 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
7479 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
7480 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
7481 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
7483 o Minor features (geoip):
7484 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7485 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
7487 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7488 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
7489 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
7490 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
7492 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7493 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
7494 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
7495 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
7496 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
7497 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
7498 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
7499 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
7502 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7503 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
7504 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
7505 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7507 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7508 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
7509 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
7510 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
7512 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7513 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
7514 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
7515 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7517 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
7518 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
7519 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
7520 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
7521 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
7523 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7524 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
7525 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
7528 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7529 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
7530 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
7531 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
7532 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
7534 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
7535 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
7536 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
7539 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7540 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
7541 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
7542 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7544 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7545 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
7546 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7548 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
7549 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
7550 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
7553 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7554 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
7555 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
7556 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
7557 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7559 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7560 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
7561 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
7564 Changes in version 0.3.2.12 - 2018-09-10
7565 Tor 0.3.2.12 backport numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
7567 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
7568 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
7569 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
7570 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
7572 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7573 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
7575 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
7576 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
7577 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
7578 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
7580 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7581 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
7584 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7585 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
7586 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
7587 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
7589 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7590 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
7591 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
7592 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
7594 o Minor features (geoip):
7595 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7596 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
7598 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7599 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
7600 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
7601 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
7602 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
7603 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
7604 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
7606 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7607 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
7608 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
7609 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
7610 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
7611 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
7612 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
7613 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
7616 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7617 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
7618 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
7619 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7621 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7622 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
7623 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
7624 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
7626 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7627 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
7628 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
7629 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
7630 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7632 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
7633 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
7634 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
7635 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
7636 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
7638 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7639 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
7640 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
7643 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7644 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
7645 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
7646 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
7647 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
7649 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7650 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
7651 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
7654 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7655 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
7656 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
7659 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
7660 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
7661 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
7664 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7665 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
7667 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
7668 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
7669 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
7670 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
7672 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7673 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
7674 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
7675 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7677 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7678 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
7679 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7681 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
7682 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
7683 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
7684 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
7685 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7686 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
7687 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
7690 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
7691 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on OpenSSL
7692 internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL behavior in
7693 a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p. Fixes bug 27226;
7694 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7696 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7697 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
7698 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
7699 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
7700 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7702 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7703 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
7704 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
7707 Changes in version 0.3.3.10 - 2018-09-10
7708 Tor 0.3.3.10 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
7710 o Minor features (bug workaround, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7711 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
7712 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
7713 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
7715 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
7716 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
7717 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
7718 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
7720 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7721 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
7722 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
7724 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
7725 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
7726 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
7727 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
7729 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7730 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
7733 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7734 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
7735 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
7736 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
7738 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7739 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
7740 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
7741 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
7743 o Minor features (geoip):
7744 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7745 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
7747 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7748 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
7749 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
7750 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
7751 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
7752 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
7753 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
7755 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7756 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
7757 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
7758 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
7759 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
7760 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
7761 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
7762 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
7765 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7766 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
7767 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
7768 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7770 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7771 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
7772 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
7773 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
7775 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7776 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
7777 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
7778 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
7779 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7781 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
7782 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
7783 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
7784 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
7785 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
7787 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7788 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
7789 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
7792 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7793 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
7794 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
7795 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7797 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7798 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
7799 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
7800 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
7801 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
7803 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7804 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
7805 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
7808 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7809 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
7810 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
7813 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
7814 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
7815 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
7818 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7819 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
7820 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
7821 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7823 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7824 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
7825 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
7828 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7829 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
7831 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
7832 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
7833 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
7834 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
7835 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
7836 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
7837 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
7839 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
7840 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
7841 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
7842 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
7843 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
7845 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7846 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
7847 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
7848 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7850 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7851 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
7852 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7854 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
7855 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
7856 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
7857 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
7858 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7859 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
7860 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
7863 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7864 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
7865 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
7866 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
7867 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7869 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7870 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
7871 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
7872 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
7873 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
7875 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7876 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
7877 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
7880 Changes in version 0.3.4.8 - 2018-09-10
7881 Tor 0.3.4.8 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
7882 compilation and portability fixes.
7884 The Tor 0.3.4 series includes improvements for running Tor in
7885 low-power and embedded environments, which should help performance in
7886 general. We've begun work on better modularity, and included preliminary
7887 changes on the directory authority side to accommodate a new bandwidth
7888 measurement system. We've also integrated more continuous-integration
7889 systems into our development process, and made corresponding changes to
7890 Tor's testing infrastructure. Finally, we've continued to refine
7891 our anti-denial-of-service code.
7893 Below are the changes since 0.3.4.7-rc. For a complete list of changes
7894 since 0.3.3.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
7896 o Minor features (compatibility):
7897 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
7898 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
7899 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
7901 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7902 - Log the compiler path and version during Appveyor builds.
7903 Implements ticket 27449.
7904 - Show config.log and test-suite.log after failed Appveyor builds.
7905 Also upload the zipped full logs as a build artifact. Implements
7908 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7909 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
7910 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
7911 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
7912 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
7913 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
7914 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
7915 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
7918 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
7919 - Disable gcc hardening in Appveyor Windows 64-bit builds. As of
7920 August 29 2018, Appveyor images come with gcc 8.2.0 by default.
7921 Executables compiled for 64-bit Windows with this version of gcc
7922 crash when Tor's --enable-gcc-hardening flag is set. Fixes bug
7923 27460; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7924 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
7925 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
7926 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
7927 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
7929 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
7930 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
7931 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
7934 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney):
7935 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
7936 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
7937 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
7938 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7939 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
7940 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
7943 Changes in version 0.3.4.7-rc - 2018-08-24
7944 Tor 0.3.4.7-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
7945 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
7946 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
7947 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
7949 o Minor features (bug workaround):
7950 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
7951 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
7952 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
7954 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7955 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
7956 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
7958 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
7959 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
7960 - Only post Appveyor IRC notifications when the build fails.
7961 Implements ticket 27275.
7962 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
7963 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
7965 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust):
7966 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
7969 o Minor features (directory authorities):
7970 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
7971 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
7972 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
7974 o Minor features (geoip):
7975 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7976 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
7978 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows):
7979 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
7980 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
7981 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7983 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
7984 - Improve Appveyor CI IRC logging. Generate correct branches and
7985 URLs for pull requests and tags. Use unambiguous short commits.
7986 Fixes bug 26979; bugfix on master.
7987 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
7988 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
7989 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
7990 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7992 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart):
7993 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
7994 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
7995 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7997 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
7998 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
7999 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
8000 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
8001 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
8003 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
8004 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
8005 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
8008 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
8009 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
8010 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
8013 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
8014 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
8016 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
8017 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
8018 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
8019 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
8020 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8021 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
8022 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
8024 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
8025 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
8026 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
8027 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
8028 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
8030 o Minor bugfixes (testing, bootstrap):
8031 - When calculating bootstrap progress, check exit policies and the
8032 exit flag. Previously, Tor would only check the exit flag, which
8033 caused race conditions in small and fast networks like chutney.
8034 Fixes bug 27236; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8036 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
8037 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
8038 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
8039 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
8040 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8042 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation):
8043 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
8044 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
8047 Changes in version 0.3.4.6-rc - 2018-08-06
8048 Tor 0.3.4.6-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
8049 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
8050 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
8051 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
8053 o Major bugfixes (event scheduler):
8054 - When we enable a periodic event, schedule it in the event loop
8055 rather than running it immediately. Previously, we would re-run
8056 periodic events immediately in the middle of (for example)
8057 changing our options, with unpredictable effects. Fixes bug 27003;
8058 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8060 o Minor features (compilation):
8061 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
8062 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
8064 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
8065 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
8066 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
8067 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
8068 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
8069 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
8071 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
8072 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
8073 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
8074 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
8076 o Minor features (controller):
8077 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
8078 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
8079 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
8081 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
8082 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
8083 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
8086 o Minor features (geoip):
8087 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8088 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
8090 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
8091 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
8093 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8094 - Update build system so that tor builds again with --disable-unittests
8095 after recent refactoring. Fixes bug 26789; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
8096 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
8097 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
8098 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
8099 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
8101 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
8102 - Report the port correctly when a port is configured to bind to
8103 "auto". Fixes bug 26568; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8104 - Parse the "HSADDRESS=" parameter in HSPOST commands properly.
8105 Previously, it was misparsed and ignored. Fixes bug 26523; bugfix
8106 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
8108 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
8109 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
8110 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
8113 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness):
8114 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
8115 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
8117 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8118 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
8119 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
8122 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
8123 - Avoid a compilation error in test_bwmgt.c on Solaris 10. Fixes bug
8124 26994; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8125 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
8126 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
8127 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8129 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
8130 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web
8131 clients fail to authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes
8132 bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8134 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8135 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
8136 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8138 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility):
8139 - When running the ntor_ref.py and hs_ntor_ref.py tests, make sure
8140 only to pass strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python
8141 subprocess module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this.
8142 Fixes bug 26535; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha (for ntor_ref.py) and
8143 0.3.1.1-alpha (for hs_ntor_ref.py).
8145 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
8146 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
8147 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
8148 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
8149 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
8152 Changes in version 0.3.4.5-rc - 2018-07-13
8153 Tor 0.3.4.5-rc moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
8154 bridge relays should upgrade.
8156 o Directory authority changes:
8157 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
8158 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
8159 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
8162 Changes in version 0.3.3.9 - 2018-07-13
8163 Tor 0.3.3.9 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
8164 bridge relays should upgrade.
8166 o Directory authority changes:
8167 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
8168 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
8169 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
8172 Changes in version 0.3.2.11 - 2018-07-13
8173 Tor 0.3.2.11 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
8174 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
8177 o Directory authority changes:
8178 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
8179 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
8180 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
8182 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
8183 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
8184 Closes ticket 26343.
8186 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8187 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
8188 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
8189 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
8190 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
8192 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8193 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
8194 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
8196 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
8197 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
8198 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
8199 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
8201 o Minor feature (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
8202 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
8203 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
8205 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8206 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
8207 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
8208 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
8209 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
8210 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
8212 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
8213 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
8214 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
8215 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
8217 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8218 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
8219 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
8222 o Minor features (geoip):
8223 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8224 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
8226 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8227 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
8228 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
8229 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
8230 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
8232 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8233 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
8234 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8236 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8237 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
8238 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
8239 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
8240 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8241 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
8242 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
8243 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
8246 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
8247 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
8248 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
8249 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
8250 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
8251 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
8253 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
8254 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
8255 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
8256 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
8257 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
8259 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8260 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
8261 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
8262 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
8263 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
8265 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8266 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
8267 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
8270 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
8271 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
8272 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
8274 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
8275 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
8276 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
8277 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
8279 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8280 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
8281 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8282 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
8283 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
8284 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
8285 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8287 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
8288 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
8289 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
8290 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
8293 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8294 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
8295 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8297 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
8298 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
8299 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8301 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
8302 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
8303 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
8304 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
8307 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
8308 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
8309 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
8310 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
8312 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8313 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
8314 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
8316 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
8317 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
8318 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
8321 Changes in version 0.2.9.16 - 2018-07-13
8322 Tor 0.2.9.16 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
8323 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
8326 o Directory authority changes:
8327 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
8328 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
8329 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
8331 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
8332 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
8333 Closes ticket 26343.
8335 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8336 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
8337 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
8338 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
8339 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
8341 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
8342 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
8343 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
8344 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
8346 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8347 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
8348 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
8349 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
8350 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
8351 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
8353 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8354 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
8355 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
8358 o Minor features (geoip):
8359 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8360 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
8362 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8363 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
8364 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
8365 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
8366 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
8368 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8369 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
8370 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8372 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8373 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
8374 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
8375 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
8378 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
8379 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
8380 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
8381 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
8382 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
8383 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
8385 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8386 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
8387 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
8388 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
8389 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
8391 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8392 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
8393 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
8396 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
8397 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
8398 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
8400 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
8401 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
8402 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
8403 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
8405 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8406 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
8407 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
8409 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
8410 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
8411 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
8414 Changes in version 0.3.4.4-rc - 2018-07-09
8415 Tor 0.3.4.4-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
8416 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
8417 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
8418 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
8420 o Minor features (compilation):
8421 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
8422 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
8425 o Minor features (geoip):
8426 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8427 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
8429 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
8430 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
8432 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8433 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
8434 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
8435 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
8436 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
8438 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
8439 - Report the port correctly when a port is configured to bind to
8440 "auto". Fixes bug 26568; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8441 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
8442 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
8443 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
8445 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
8446 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
8447 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
8450 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness):
8451 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
8452 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
8454 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility):
8455 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
8456 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
8457 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
8458 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8459 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
8460 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
8461 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
8465 Changes in version 0.3.3.8 - 2018-07-09
8466 Tor 0.3.3.8 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
8467 fixes for a memory leak affecting directory authorities.
8469 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
8470 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
8471 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
8472 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
8474 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
8475 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
8476 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
8479 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8480 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
8481 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
8484 o Minor features (geoip):
8485 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8486 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
8488 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
8489 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
8490 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
8491 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
8493 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8494 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
8495 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
8496 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
8497 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
8500 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8501 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
8502 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
8503 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
8504 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
8506 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8507 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
8508 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
8509 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
8511 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8512 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
8513 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
8515 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
8516 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
8517 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
8518 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
8521 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8522 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
8523 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
8524 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8526 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8527 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
8528 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
8529 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
8530 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8531 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
8532 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
8533 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
8537 Changes in version 0.3.4.3-alpha - 2018-06-26
8538 Tor 0.3.4.3-alpha fixes several bugs in earlier versions, including
8539 one that was causing stability issues on directory authorities.
8541 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
8542 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
8543 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
8544 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
8546 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing):
8547 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
8548 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
8551 o Minor feature (directory authorities):
8552 - Stop warning about incomplete bw lines before the first complete
8553 bw line has been found, so that additional header lines can be
8554 ignored. Fixes bug 25960; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha
8556 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic):
8557 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
8558 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
8559 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
8561 o Minor features (unit tests):
8562 - Test complete bandwidth measurements files, and test that
8563 incomplete bandwidth lines only give warnings when the end of the
8564 header has not been detected. Fixes bug 25947; bugfix
8567 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8568 - Refrain from compiling unit testing related object files when
8569 --disable-unittests is set to configure script. Fixes bug 24891;
8570 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8571 - When linking the libtor_testing.a library, only include the
8572 dirauth object files once. Previously, they were getting added
8573 twice. Fixes bug 26402; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8574 - The --enable-fatal-warnings flag now affects Rust code as well.
8575 Closes ticket 26245.
8577 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
8578 - Recompute some consensus information after detecting a clock jump,
8579 or after transitioning from a non-live consensus to a live
8580 consensus. We do this to avoid having an outdated state, and
8581 miscalculating the index for next-generation onion services. Fixes
8582 bug 24977; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8584 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
8585 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
8586 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
8587 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
8590 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8591 - Fix compilation of the doctests in the Rust crypto crate. Fixes
8592 bug 26415; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8593 - Instead of trying to read the geoip configuration files from
8594 within the unit tests, instead create our own ersatz files with
8595 just enough geoip data in the format we expect. Trying to read
8596 from the source directory created problems on Windows with mingw,
8597 where the build system's paths are not the same as the platform's
8598 paths. Fixes bug 25787; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8599 - Refrain from trying to get an item from an empty smartlist in
8600 test_bridges_clear_bridge_list. Set DEBUG_SMARTLIST in unit tests
8601 to catch improper smartlist usage. Furthermore, enable
8602 DEBUG_SMARTLIST globally when build is configured with fragile
8603 hardening. Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8606 Changes in version 0.3.3.7 - 2018-06-12
8607 Tor 0.3.3.7 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
8608 fixes for bugs affecting compatibility and stability.
8610 o Directory authority changes:
8611 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
8612 Closes ticket 26343.
8614 o Minor features (geoip):
8615 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8616 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
8618 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
8619 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
8620 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
8621 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
8622 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
8623 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
8625 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
8626 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
8627 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8629 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
8630 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
8631 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
8632 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
8633 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8635 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
8636 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
8637 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
8639 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8640 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
8641 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
8642 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
8643 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
8644 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
8647 Changes in version 0.3.4.2-alpha - 2018-06-12
8648 Tor 0.3.4.2-alpha fixes several minor bugs in the previous alpha
8649 release, and forward-ports an authority-only security fix from 0.3.3.6.
8651 o Directory authority changes:
8652 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
8653 Closes ticket 26343.
8655 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service, also in 0.3.3.6):
8656 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
8657 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
8658 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
8659 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
8661 o Minor features (continuous integration):
8662 - Add the necessary configuration files for continuous integration
8663 testing on Windows, via the Appveyor platform. Closes ticket
8664 25549. Patches from Marcin Cieślak and Isis Lovecruft.
8666 o Minor features (geoip):
8667 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8668 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
8670 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl):
8671 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
8672 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
8673 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
8674 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
8675 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
8677 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8678 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
8679 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8680 - Fix compilation when using OpenSSL 1.1.0 with the "no-deprecated"
8681 flag enabled. Fixes bug 26156; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8682 - Avoid a compiler warning when casting the return value of
8683 smartlist_len() to double with DEBUG_SMARTLIST enabled. Fixes bug
8684 26283; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
8686 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
8687 - Do not count 0-length RELAY_COMMAND_DATA cells as valid data in
8688 CIRC_BW events. Previously, such cells were counted entirely in
8689 the OVERHEAD field. Now they are not. Fixes bug 26259; bugfix
8692 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
8693 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
8694 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
8695 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
8696 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8698 o Minor bugfixes (hardening):
8699 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
8700 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
8702 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
8703 - Fix a bug that blocked the creation of ephemeral v3 onion
8704 services. Fixes bug 25939; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8706 o Minor bugfixes (test coverage tools):
8707 - Update our "cov-diff" script to handle output from the latest
8708 version of gcov, and to remove extraneous timestamp information
8709 from its output. Fixes bugs 26101 and 26102; bugfix
8713 Changes in version 0.3.3.6 - 2018-05-22
8714 Tor 0.3.3.6 is the first stable release in the 0.3.3 series. It
8715 backports several important fixes from the 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8717 The Tor 0.3.3 series includes controller support and other
8718 improvements for v3 onion services, official support for embedding Tor
8719 within other applications, and our first non-trivial module written in
8720 the Rust programming language. (Rust is still not enabled by default
8721 when building Tor.) And as usual, there are numerous other smaller
8722 bugfixes, features, and improvements.
8724 Below are the changes since 0.3.3.5-rc. For a list of all changes
8725 since 0.3.2.10, see the ReleaseNotes file.
8727 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8728 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
8729 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
8730 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
8731 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
8733 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service):
8734 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
8735 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
8736 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
8737 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
8739 o Major bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8740 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
8741 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
8742 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
8744 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8745 - Avoid a crash when testing router reachability on a router that
8746 could have an ed25519 ID, but which does not. Fixes bug 25415;
8747 bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
8749 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8750 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
8751 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
8753 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8754 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
8755 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
8758 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8759 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
8760 Closes ticket 26006.
8762 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8763 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
8764 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
8765 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
8766 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
8767 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
8769 o Minor features (geoip):
8770 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
8771 database. Closes ticket 26104.
8773 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8774 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
8775 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
8778 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8779 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
8780 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
8781 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
8782 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
8784 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8785 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
8786 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
8787 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
8788 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
8791 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8792 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
8793 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8795 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8796 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
8797 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8798 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
8799 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
8800 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
8801 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8803 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8804 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
8805 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8807 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8808 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
8809 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
8812 Changes in version 0.3.4.1-alpha - 2018-05-17
8813 Tor 0.3.4.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.4.x series. It
8814 includes refactoring to begin reducing Tor's binary size and idle CPU
8815 usage on mobile, along with prep work for new bandwidth scanners,
8816 improvements to the experimental "vanguards" feature, and numerous
8817 other small features and bugfixes.
8819 o New system requirements:
8820 - Tor no longer tries to support old operating systems without
8821 mmap() or some local equivalent. Apparently, compilation on such
8822 systems has been broken for some time, without anybody noticing or
8823 complaining. Closes ticket 25398.
8825 o Major feature (directory authority, modularization):
8826 - The directory authority subsystem has been modularized. The code
8827 is now located in src/or/dirauth/, and is compiled in by default.
8828 To disable the module, the configure option
8829 --disable-module-dirauth has been added. This module may be
8830 disabled by default in some future release. Closes ticket 25610.
8832 o Major features (main loop, CPU usage):
8833 - When Tor is disabled (via DisableNetwork or via hibernation), it
8834 no longer needs to run any per-second events. This change should
8835 make it easier for mobile applications to disable Tor while the
8836 device is sleeping, or Tor is not running. Closes ticket 26063.
8837 - Tor no longer enables all of its periodic events by default.
8838 Previously, Tor would enable all possible main loop events,
8839 regardless of whether it needed them. Furthermore, many of these
8840 events are now disabled with Tor is hibernating or DisableNetwork
8841 is set. This is a big step towards reducing client CPU usage by
8842 reducing the amount of wake-ups the daemon does. Closes ticket
8844 - The bandwidth-limitation logic has been refactored so that
8845 bandwidth calculations are performed on-demand, rather than every
8846 TokenBucketRefillInterval milliseconds. This change should improve
8847 the granularity of our bandwidth calculations, and limit the
8848 number of times that the Tor process needs to wake up when it is
8849 idle. Closes ticket 25373.
8850 - Move responsibility for many operations from a once-per-second
8851 callback to a callback that is only scheduled as needed. Moving
8852 this functionality has allowed us to disable the callback when
8853 Tor's network is disabled. Once enough items are removed from our
8854 once-per-second callback, we can eliminate it entirely to conserve
8855 CPU when idle. The functionality removed includes: closing
8856 connections, circuits, and channels (ticket 25932); consensus
8857 voting (25937); flushing log callbacks (25951); honoring delayed
8858 SIGNEWNYM requests (25949); rescanning the consensus cache
8859 (25931); saving the state file to disk (25948); warning relay
8860 operators about unreachable ports (25952); and keeping track of
8861 Tor's uptime (26009).
8863 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security):
8864 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
8865 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
8866 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
8867 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
8869 o Major bugfixes (crash):
8870 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
8871 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
8872 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
8874 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
8875 - Avoid a crash when testing router reachability on a router that
8876 could have an ed25519 ID, but which does not. Fixes bug 25415;
8877 bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
8879 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
8880 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
8881 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
8883 o Major bugfixes (protover, voting):
8884 - Revise Rust implementation of protover to use a more memory-
8885 efficient voting algorithm and corresponding data structures, thus
8886 avoiding a potential (but small impact) DoS attack where specially
8887 crafted protocol strings would expand to several potential
8888 megabytes in memory. In the process, several portions of code were
8889 revised to be methods on new, custom types, rather than functions
8890 taking interchangeable types, thus increasing type safety of the
8891 module. Custom error types and handling were added as well, in
8892 order to facilitate better error dismissal/handling in outside
8893 crates and avoid mistakenly passing an internal error string to C
8894 over the FFI boundary. Many tests were added, and some previous
8895 differences between the C and Rust implementations have been
8896 remedied. Fixes bug 24031; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8898 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service):
8899 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
8900 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
8903 o Minor features (accounting):
8904 - When Tor becomes dormant, it now uses a scheduled event to wake up
8905 at the right time. Previously, we would use the per-second timer
8906 to check whether to wake up, but we no longer have any per-second
8907 timers enabled when the network is disabled. Closes ticket 26064.
8909 o Minor features (code quality):
8910 - Add optional spell-checking for the Tor codebase, using the
8911 "misspell" program. To use this feature, run "make check-typos".
8912 Closes ticket 25024.
8914 o Minor features (compatibility):
8915 - Tor now detects versions of OpenSSL 1.1.0 and later compiled with
8916 the no-deprecated option, and builds correctly with them. Closes
8917 tickets 19429, 19981, and 25353.
8918 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
8919 Closes ticket 26006.
8921 o Minor features (compression, zstd):
8922 - When running with zstd, Tor now considers using advanced functions
8923 that the zstd maintainers have labeled as potentially unstable. To
8924 prevent breakage, Tor will only use this functionality when the
8925 runtime version of the zstd library matches the version with which
8926 Tor was compiled. Closes ticket 25162.
8928 o Minor features (configuration):
8929 - The "DownloadSchedule" options have been renamed to end with
8930 "DownloadInitialDelay". The old names are still allowed, but will
8931 produce a warning. Comma-separated lists are still permitted for
8932 these options, but all values after the first are ignored (as they
8933 have been since 0.2.9). Closes ticket 23354.
8935 o Minor features (continuous integration):
8936 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
8937 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
8938 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
8939 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
8940 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
8942 o Minor features (control port):
8943 - Introduce GETINFO "current-time/{local,utc}" to return the local
8944 and UTC times respectively in ISO format. This helps a controller
8945 like Tor Browser detect a time-related error. Closes ticket 25511.
8946 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8947 - Introduce new fields to the CIRC_BW event. There are two new
8948 fields in each of the read and written directions. The DELIVERED
8949 fields report the total valid data on the circuit, as measured by
8950 the payload sizes of verified and error-checked relay command
8951 cells. The OVERHEAD fields report the total unused bytes in each
8952 of these cells. Closes ticket 25903.
8954 o Minor features (directory authority):
8955 - Directory authorities now open their key-pinning files as O_SYNC,
8956 to limit their chances of accidentally writing partial lines.
8957 Closes ticket 23909.
8959 o Minor features (directory authority, forward compatibility):
8960 - Make the lines of the measured bandwidth file able to contain
8961 their entries in any order. Previously, the node_id entry needed
8962 to come first. Closes ticket 26004.
8964 o Minor features (entry guards):
8965 - Introduce a new torrc option NumPrimaryGuards for controlling the
8966 number of primary guards. Closes ticket 25843.
8968 o Minor features (geoip):
8969 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
8970 database. Closes ticket 26104.
8972 o Minor features (performance):
8973 - Avoid a needless call to malloc() when processing an incoming
8974 relay cell. Closes ticket 24914.
8975 - Make our timing-wheel code run a tiny bit faster on 32-bit
8976 platforms, by preferring 32-bit math to 64-bit. Closes
8978 - Avoid a needless malloc()/free() pair every time we handle an ntor
8979 handshake. Closes ticket 25150.
8981 o Minor features (testing):
8982 - Add a unit test for voting_schedule_get_start_of_next_interval().
8983 Closes ticket 26014, and helps make unit test coverage
8985 - A new unittests module specifically for testing the functions in
8986 the (new-ish) bridges.c module has been created with new
8987 unittests, raising the code coverage percentages. Closes 25425.
8988 - We now have improved testing for addressmap_get_virtual_address()
8989 function. This should improve our test coverage, and make our test
8990 coverage more deterministic. Closes ticket 25993.
8992 o Minor features (timekeeping, circuit scheduling):
8993 - When keeping track of how busy each circuit have been recently on
8994 a given connection, use coarse-grained monotonic timers rather
8995 than gettimeofday(). This change should marginally increase
8996 accuracy and performance. Implements part of ticket 25927.
8998 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth management):
8999 - Consider ourselves "low on write bandwidth" if we have exhausted
9000 our write bandwidth some time in the last second. This was the
9001 documented behavior before, but the actual behavior was to change
9002 this value every TokenBucketRefillInterval. Fixes bug 25828;
9003 bugfix on 0.2.3.5-alpha.
9005 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
9006 - Add a missing lock acquisition in the shutdown code of the control
9007 subsystem. Fixes bug 25675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Found by
9008 Coverity; this is CID 1433643.
9010 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection):
9011 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
9012 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
9013 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
9014 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
9017 o Minor bugfixes (client):
9018 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
9019 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
9022 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
9023 - Fixed multiple includes of transports.h in src/or/connection.c
9024 Fixes bug 25261; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9025 - Remove the unused variable n_possible from the function
9026 channel_get_for_extend(). Fixes bug 25645; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha
9028 o Minor bugfixes (control interface):
9029 - Respond with more human-readable error messages to GETINFO exit-
9030 policy/* requests. Also, let controller know if an error is
9031 transient (response code 551) or not (response code 552). Fixes
9032 bug 25852; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9034 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
9035 - Make CIRC_BW event reflect the total of all data sent on a
9036 circuit, including padding and dropped cells. Also fix a mis-
9037 counting bug when STREAM_BW events were enabled. Fixes bug 25400;
9038 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9040 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client):
9041 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the cell
9042 immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for close, but
9043 continue processing the cell as if the connection were open. Fixes bug
9044 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
9046 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
9047 - When unverified-consensus is verified, rename it to cached-
9048 consenus. Fixes bug 4187; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9049 - Fixed launching a certificate fetch always during the scheduled
9050 periodic consensus fetch by fetching only in those cases when
9051 consensus are waiting for certs. Fixes bug 24740; bugfix
9054 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
9055 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
9056 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
9057 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
9058 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
9061 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting):
9062 - Improve tolerance for directory authorities with skewed clocks.
9063 Previously, an authority with a clock more than 60 seconds ahead
9064 could cause a client with a correct clock to warn that the
9065 client's clock was behind. Now the clocks of a majority of
9066 directory authorities have to be ahead of the client before this
9067 warning will occur. Fixes bug 25756; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
9069 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9070 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
9071 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9073 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
9074 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
9075 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9076 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
9077 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
9078 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
9079 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9081 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
9082 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
9083 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
9084 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
9085 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
9086 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
9088 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
9089 - Do not align mmap length, as it is not required by POSIX, and the
9090 getpagesize function is deprecated. Fixes bug 25399; bugfix
9093 o Minor bugfixes (portability, FreeBSD):
9094 - In have_enough_mem_for_dircache(), the variable DIRCACHE_MIN_MEM_MB
9095 does not stringify on FreeBSD, so we switch to tor_asprintf().
9096 Fixes bug 20887; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9098 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
9099 - When a relay is collecting internal statistics about how many
9100 create cell requests it has seen of each type, accurately count
9101 the requests from relays that temporarily fall out of the
9102 consensus. (To be extra conservative, we were already ignoring
9103 requests from clients in our counts, and we continue ignoring them
9104 here.) Fixes bug 24910; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
9106 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash):
9107 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
9108 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9110 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process):
9111 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
9112 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
9113 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9115 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9116 - When testing workqueue event-cancellation, make sure that we
9117 actually cancel an event, and that cancel each event with equal
9118 probability. (It was previously possible, though extremely
9119 unlikely, for our event-canceling test not to cancel any events.)
9120 Fixes bug 26008; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9121 - Repeat part of the test in test_client_pick_intro() a number of
9122 times, to give it consistent coverage. Fixes bug 25996; bugfix
9124 - Remove randomness from the hs_common/responsible_hsdirs test, so
9125 that it always takes the same path through the function it tests.
9126 Fixes bug 25997; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9127 - Change the behavior of the "channel/outbound" test so that it
9128 never causes a 10-second rollover for the EWMA circuitmux code.
9129 Previously, this behavior would happen randomly, and result in
9130 fluctuating test coverage. Fixes bug 25994; bugfix
9132 - Use X509_new() to allocate certificates that will be freed later
9133 with X509_free(). Previously, some parts of the unit tests had
9134 used tor_malloc_zero(), which is incorrect, and which caused test
9135 failures on Windows when they were built with extra hardening.
9136 Fixes bugs 25943 and 25944; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by
9138 - While running the circuit_timeout test, fix the PRNG to a
9139 deterministic AES stream, so that the test coverage from this test
9140 will itself be deterministic. Fixes bug 25995; bugfix
9143 o Minor bugfixes (vanguards):
9144 - Allow the last hop in a vanguard circuit to be the same as our
9145 first, to prevent the adversary from influencing guard node choice
9146 by choice of last hop. Also prevent the creation of A - B - A
9147 paths, or A - A paths, which are forbidden by relays. Fixes bug
9148 25870; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9150 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9151 - Remove duplicate code in parse_{c,s}method_line and bootstrap
9152 their functionalities into a single function. Fixes bug 6236;
9153 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
9154 - We remove the PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper options,
9155 related functions, and the port_forwarding tests. These options
9156 were used by the now-deprecated Vidalia to help ordinary users
9157 become Tor relays or bridges. Closes ticket 25409. Patch by
9159 - In order to make the OR and dir checking function in router.c less
9160 confusing we renamed some functions and
9161 consider_testing_reachability() has been split into
9162 router_should_check_reachability() and
9163 router_do_reachability_checks(). Also we improved the documentation
9164 in some functions. Closes ticket 18918.
9165 - Initial work to isolate Libevent usage to a handful of modules in
9166 our codebase, to simplify our call structure, and so that we can
9167 more easily change event loops in the future if needed. Closes
9169 - Introduce a function to call getsockname() and return tor_addr_t,
9170 to save a little complexity throughout the codebase. Closes
9172 - Make hsdir_index in node_t a hsdir_index_t rather than a pointer
9173 as hsdir_index is always present. Also, we move hsdir_index_t into
9174 or.h. Closes ticket 23094. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9175 - Merge functions used for describing nodes and suppress the
9176 functions that do not allocate memory for the output buffer
9177 string. NODE_DESC_BUF_LEN constant and format_node_description()
9178 function cannot be used externally from router.c module anymore.
9179 Closes ticket 25432. Patch by valentecaio.
9180 - Our main loop has been simplified so that all important operations
9181 happen inside events. Previously, some operations had to happen
9182 outside the event loop, to prevent infinite sequences of event
9183 activations. Closes ticket 25374.
9184 - Put a SHA1 public key digest in hs_service_intro_point_t, and use
9185 it in register_intro_circ() and service_intro_point_new(). This
9186 prevents the digest from being re-calculated each time. Closes
9187 ticket 23107. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9188 - Refactor token-bucket implementations to use a common backend.
9189 Closes ticket 25766.
9190 - Remove extern declaration of stats_n_seconds_working variable from
9191 main, protecting its accesses with get_uptime() and reset_uptime()
9192 functions. Closes ticket 25081, patch by “valentecaio”.
9193 - Remove our previous logic for "cached gettimeofday()" -- our
9194 coarse monotonic timers are fast enough for this purpose, and far
9195 less error-prone. Implements part of ticket 25927.
9196 - Remove the return value for fascist_firewall_choose_address_base(),
9197 and sister functions such as fascist_firewall_choose_address_node()
9198 and fascist_firewall_choose_address_rs(). Also, while we're here,
9199 initialize the ap argument as leaving it uninitialized can pose a
9200 security hazard. Closes ticket 24734. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9201 - Rename two fields of connection_t struct. timestamp_lastwritten is
9202 renamed to timestamp_last_write_allowed and timestamp_lastread is
9203 renamed to timestamp_last_read_allowed. Closes ticket 24714, patch
9205 - Since Tor requires C99, remove our old workaround code for libc
9206 implementations where free(NULL) doesn't work. Closes ticket 24484.
9207 - Use our standard rate-limiting code to deal with excessive
9208 libevent failures, rather than the hand-rolled logic we had
9209 before. Closes ticket 26016.
9210 - We remove the return value of node_get_prim_orport() and
9211 node_get_prim_dirport(), and introduce node_get_prim_orport() in
9212 node_ipv6_or_preferred() and node_ipv6_dir_preferred() in order to
9213 check for a null address. Closes ticket 23873. Patch by
9215 - We switch to should_record_bridge_info() in
9216 geoip_note_client_seen() and options_need_geoip_info() instead of
9217 accessing the configuration values directly. Fixes bug 25290;
9218 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9220 o Deprecated features:
9221 - As we are not recommending 0.2.5 anymore, we require relays that
9222 once had an ed25519 key associated with their RSA key to always
9223 have that key, instead of allowing them to drop back to a version
9224 that didn't support ed25519. This means they need to use a new RSA
9225 key if they want to downgrade to an older version of tor without
9226 ed25519. Closes ticket 20522.
9229 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
9230 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
9233 - Directory authorities will no longer support voting according to
9234 any consensus method before consensus method 25. This keeps
9235 authorities compatible with all authorities running 0.2.9.8 and
9236 later, and does not break any clients or relays. Implements ticket
9237 24378 and proposal 290.
9238 - The PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper features have been
9239 removed. The reasoning is, given that implementations of NAT
9240 traversal protocols within common consumer grade routers are
9241 frequently buggy, and that the target audience for a NAT punching
9242 feature is a perhaps less-technically-inclined relay operator,
9243 when the helper fails to setup traversal the problems are usually
9244 deep, ugly, and very router specific, making them horrendously
9245 impossible for technical support to reliable assist with, and thus
9246 resulting in frustration all around. Unfortunately, relay
9247 operators who would like to run relays behind NATs will need to
9248 become more familiar with the port forwarding configurations on
9249 their local router. Closes 25409.
9250 - The TestingEnableTbEmptyEvent option has been removed. It was used
9251 in testing simulations to measure how often connection buckets
9252 were emptied, in order to improve our scheduling, but it has not
9253 been actively used in years. Closes ticket 25760.
9254 - The old "round-robin" circuit multiplexer (circuitmux)
9255 implementation has been removed, along with a fairly large set of
9256 code that existed to support it. It has not been the default
9257 circuitmux since we introduced the "EWMA" circuitmux in 0.2.4.x,
9258 but it still required an unreasonable amount of memory and CPU.
9259 Closes ticket 25268.
9262 Changes in version 0.3.3.5-rc - 2018-04-15
9263 Tor 0.3.3.5-rc fixes various bugs in earlier versions of Tor,
9264 including some that could affect reliability or correctness.
9266 This is the first release candidate in the 0.3.3 series. If we find no
9267 new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.3 release will
9268 be nearly identical to this one.
9270 o Major bugfixes (security, protover, voting):
9271 - Revise Rust implementation of protover to use a more memory-
9272 efficient voting algorithm and corresponding data structures, thus
9273 avoiding a potential memory-based DoS attack where specially
9274 crafted protocol strings would expand to fill available memory.
9275 Fixes bug 24031; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9277 o Major bugfixes (performance, load balancing):
9278 - Directory authorities no longer vote in favor of the Guard flag
9279 for relays without directory support. Starting in Tor
9280 0.3.0.1-alpha, clients have been avoiding using such relays in the
9281 Guard position, leading to increasingly broken load balancing for
9282 the 5%-or-so of Guards that don't advertise directory support.
9283 Fixes bug 22310; bugfix on 0.3.0.6.
9285 o Minor feature (continuous integration):
9286 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
9287 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
9289 o Minor features (config options):
9290 - Change the way the default value for MaxMemInQueues is calculated.
9291 We now use 40% of the hardware RAM if the system has 8 GB RAM or
9292 more. Otherwise we use the former value of 75%. Closes
9295 o Minor features (geoip):
9296 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9297 Country database. Closes ticket 25718.
9299 o Minor bugfixes (client):
9300 - When using a listed relay as a bridge, and also using
9301 microdescriptors, and considering that relay as a non-bridge in a
9302 circuit, treat its microdescriptor as a valid source of
9303 information about that relay. This change should prevent a non-
9304 fatal assertion error. Fixes bug 25691; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
9306 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
9307 - Restore the correct operation of the RESOLVE command, which had
9308 been broken since we added the ability to enable/disable DNS on
9309 specific listener ports. Fixes bug 25617; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
9311 o Minor bugfixes (distribution, compilation, rust):
9312 - Build correctly when the rust dependencies submodule is loaded,
9313 but the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES environment variable is not set.
9314 Fixes bug 25679; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9315 - Actually include all of our Rust source in our source
9316 distributions. (Previously, a few of the files were accidentally
9317 omitted.) Fixes bug 25732; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
9319 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
9320 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
9321 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
9322 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
9323 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
9324 - Revert a misformatting issue in the ExitPolicy documentation.
9325 Fixes bug 25582; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9327 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay DNS retries):
9328 - Re-attempt timed-out DNS queries 3 times before failure, since our
9329 timeout is 5 seconds for them, but clients wait 10-15. Also allow
9330 slightly more timeouts per resolver when an exit has multiple
9331 resolvers configured. Fixes bug 21394; bugfix on 0.3.1.9.
9333 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
9334 - Re-instate counting the client HSDir fetch circuits against the
9335 MaxClientCircuitsPending rate limit. Fixes bug 24989; bugfix
9337 - Remove underscores from the _HSLayer{2,3}Nodes options. This
9338 expert-user configuration can now be enabled as HSLayer{2,3}Nodes.
9339 Fixes bug 25581; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha
9341 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9342 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
9343 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
9345 o Documentation (manpage, denial of service):
9346 - Provide more detail about the denial-of-service options, by
9347 listing each mitigation and explaining how they relate. Closes
9351 Changes in version 0.3.3.4-alpha - 2018-03-29
9352 Tor 0.3.3.4-alpha includes various bugfixes for issues found during
9353 the alpha testing of earlier releases in its series. We are
9354 approaching a stable 0.3.3.4-alpha release: more testing is welcome!
9356 o New system requirements:
9357 - When built with Rust, Tor now depends on version 0.2.39 of the
9358 libc crate. Closes tickets 25310 and 25664.
9360 o Major bugfixes (relay, connection):
9361 - If we have failed to connect to a relay and received a connection
9362 refused, timeout, or similar error (at the TCP level), do not try
9363 that same address/port again for 60 seconds after the failure has
9364 occurred. Fixes bug 24767; bugfix on 0.0.6.
9366 o Minor features (geoip):
9367 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 8 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9368 Country database. Closes ticket 25469.
9370 o Minor features (log messages):
9371 - Improve log message in the out-of-memory handler to include
9372 information about memory usage from the different compression
9373 backends. Closes ticket 25372.
9375 o Minor features (sandbox):
9376 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
9377 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
9378 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
9380 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
9381 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
9382 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
9383 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
9385 o Minor bugfixes (channel, client):
9386 - Better identify client connection when reporting to the geoip
9387 client cache. Fixes bug 24904; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
9389 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9390 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
9391 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
9392 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
9394 o Minor bugfixes (controller, reliability):
9395 - Avoid a (nonfatal) assertion failure when extending a one-hop
9396 circuit from the controller to become a multihop circuit. Fixes
9397 bug 24903; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9399 o Major bugfixes (networking):
9400 - Tor will no longer reject IPv6 address strings from Tor Browser
9401 when they are passed as hostnames in SOCKS5 requests. Fixes bug
9402 25036, bugfix on Tor 0.3.1.2.
9404 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
9405 - string_is_valid_hostname() will not consider IP strings to be
9406 valid hostnames. Fixes bug 25055; bugfix on Tor 0.2.5.5.
9408 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
9409 - Avoid an assertion failure when the next onion service
9410 descriptor rotation type is out of sync with the consensus's
9411 valid-after time. Instead, log a warning message with extra
9412 information, so we can better hunt down the cause of this
9413 assertion. Fixes bug 25306; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9415 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9416 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
9417 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
9418 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
9420 - Rust crates are now automatically detected and tested. Previously,
9421 some crates were not tested by `make test-rust` due to a static
9422 string in the `src/test/test_rust.sh` script specifying which
9423 crates to test. Fixes bug 25560; bugfix on 0.3.3.3-alpha.
9425 o Minor bugfixes (testing, benchmarks):
9426 - Fix a crash when running benchmark tests on win32 systems. The
9427 crash was due to a mutex that wasn't initialized before logging
9428 and options were initialized. Fixes bug 25479; bugfix
9431 o Minor bugfixes (warnings, ipv6):
9432 - Avoid a bug warning that could occur when trying to connect to a
9433 relay over IPv6. This warning would occur on a Tor instance that
9434 downloads router descriptors, but prefers to use microdescriptors.
9435 Fixes bug 25213; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9437 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9438 - Remove the old (deterministic) directory retry logic entirely:
9439 We've used exponential backoff exclusively for some time. Closes
9443 - Improved the documentation of AccountingStart parameter. Closes
9445 - Update the documentation for "Log" to include the current list of
9446 logging domains. Closes ticket 25378.
9449 Changes in version 0.3.1.10 - 2018-03-03
9450 Tor 0.3.1.10 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for
9453 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
9454 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
9456 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
9457 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
9459 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
9462 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
9463 released today. Relays running 0.3.1.x may wish to update to one of
9464 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
9466 Please note: according to our release calendar, Tor 0.3.1 will no
9467 longer be supported after 1 July 2018. If you will be running Tor
9468 after that date, you should make sure to plan to upgrade to the latest
9469 stable version, or downgrade to 0.2.9 (which will receive long-term
9472 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
9473 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
9474 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
9475 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
9478 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9479 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
9480 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
9481 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
9482 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
9483 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
9484 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
9485 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
9486 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
9487 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
9488 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
9489 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
9490 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
9492 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
9493 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
9494 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
9496 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
9497 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
9498 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
9499 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
9500 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
9501 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
9502 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
9504 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9505 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
9506 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9508 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
9509 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
9510 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
9511 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
9512 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
9513 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
9514 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9516 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9517 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
9518 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
9519 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
9521 o Minor feature (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9522 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
9523 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
9524 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
9526 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
9527 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
9528 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
9529 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
9530 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
9531 Closes ticket 24978.
9533 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors, backport from 0.3.2.9):
9534 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
9535 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
9536 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
9537 information. Closes ticket 24801.
9538 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
9539 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
9540 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
9541 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
9543 o Minor features (geoip):
9544 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9547 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9548 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
9549 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
9550 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
9551 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
9553 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9554 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
9555 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
9556 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
9557 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
9559 o Minor bugfixes (address selection, backport from 0.3.2.9):
9560 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
9561 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
9562 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
9563 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
9566 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
9567 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
9568 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
9569 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
9570 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
9571 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
9572 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
9573 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
9574 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
9575 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
9576 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
9579 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.7-rc):
9580 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
9581 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
9583 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
9584 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
9585 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
9588 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
9589 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
9590 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
9591 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
9592 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
9593 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
9594 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
9596 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
9597 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
9598 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9599 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
9600 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
9601 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
9602 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
9603 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
9604 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
9607 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
9608 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
9609 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
9610 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
9611 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
9612 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9614 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9615 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
9616 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
9617 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9619 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage, backport from 0.3.2.8-rc):
9620 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
9621 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
9622 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
9623 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
9626 o Minor bugfixes (network layer, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
9627 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
9628 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
9629 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
9630 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
9631 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9633 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
9634 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
9635 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
9636 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
9637 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
9638 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
9639 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
9640 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
9641 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
9642 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
9643 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
9644 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
9646 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
9647 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
9648 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
9649 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9651 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
9652 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
9653 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
9654 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
9656 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc, backport from 0.3.2.9):
9657 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
9658 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
9659 to cyptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
9662 o Minor bugfixes (relay, partial backport):
9663 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
9664 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
9665 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
9666 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
9668 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
9669 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
9671 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
9672 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
9674 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
9675 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
9676 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
9679 Changes in version 0.2.9.15 - 2018-03-03
9680 Tor 0.2.9.15 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
9683 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
9684 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
9686 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
9687 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
9689 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
9692 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
9693 released today. Relays running 0.2.9.x may wish to update to one of
9694 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
9696 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
9697 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
9698 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
9699 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
9702 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
9703 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
9704 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
9705 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
9706 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
9707 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
9708 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
9709 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
9710 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
9711 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
9712 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
9713 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
9714 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
9716 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
9717 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
9718 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
9719 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
9720 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
9721 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
9722 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
9723 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
9724 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
9726 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
9727 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
9728 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
9729 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
9730 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
9731 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
9732 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
9734 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
9735 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
9736 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
9737 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
9739 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
9740 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
9741 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
9742 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
9743 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
9744 Closes ticket 24978.
9746 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
9747 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
9748 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
9749 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
9751 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
9752 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
9753 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
9754 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
9755 information. Closes ticket 24801.
9756 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
9757 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
9758 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
9759 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
9761 o Minor features (geoip):
9762 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9765 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9766 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
9767 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
9769 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
9770 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
9771 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
9772 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
9773 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
9775 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
9776 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
9777 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
9778 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
9779 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
9781 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
9782 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
9783 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
9784 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
9785 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
9788 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9789 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
9790 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
9792 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9793 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
9794 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
9797 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
9798 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
9799 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
9800 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
9801 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
9802 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
9803 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
9805 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
9806 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
9807 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
9808 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
9809 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
9812 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
9813 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
9814 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
9815 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
9816 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
9817 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9819 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
9820 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
9821 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
9822 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
9824 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
9825 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
9826 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
9827 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
9828 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
9829 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
9830 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
9831 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
9832 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
9833 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
9834 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
9835 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
9837 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
9838 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
9839 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
9840 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
9843 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
9844 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
9845 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
9846 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
9847 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
9849 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
9850 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
9852 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
9853 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
9856 Changes in version 0.3.2.10 - 2018-03-03
9857 Tor 0.3.2.10 is the second stable release in the 0.3.2 series. It
9858 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for security
9861 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
9862 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
9864 Additionally, it backports a fix for a bug whose severity we have
9865 upgraded: Bug 24700, which was fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely
9866 triggered in order to crash relays with a use-after-free pattern. As
9867 such, we are now tracking that bug as TROVE-2018-002 and
9868 CVE-2018-0491, and backporting it to earlier releases. This bug
9869 affected versions 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as version
9872 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
9873 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
9875 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
9878 Relays running 0.3.2.x SHOULD upgrade to one of the versions released
9879 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
9880 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
9881 the DoS mitigations.)
9883 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
9884 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
9885 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
9886 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
9889 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, KIST, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9890 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
9891 list, which could lead to remote denial-of-service use-after-free
9892 attacks against relays. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9894 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9895 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
9896 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
9897 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
9898 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
9899 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
9900 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
9901 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
9902 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
9903 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
9904 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
9905 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
9906 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
9908 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
9909 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
9910 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
9911 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
9912 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
9913 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
9914 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
9915 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
9916 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
9917 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
9918 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9920 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9921 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
9922 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9924 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
9925 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
9926 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
9927 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
9928 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
9929 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
9930 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9932 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9933 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
9934 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
9935 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9937 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9938 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
9939 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
9940 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
9942 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
9943 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
9944 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
9945 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
9946 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
9947 Closes ticket 24978.
9949 o Minor features (geoip):
9950 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9953 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9954 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
9955 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic
9958 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9959 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
9960 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
9961 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
9962 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
9964 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
9965 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
9966 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
9967 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
9968 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
9969 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
9970 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
9972 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9973 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
9974 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
9975 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
9976 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
9978 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
9979 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
9980 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
9981 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9983 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9984 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
9985 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
9986 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
9987 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9989 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9990 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
9991 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
9992 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9994 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
9995 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
9996 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
9997 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9999 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10000 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
10001 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
10002 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
10004 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10005 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
10007 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
10008 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10010 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10011 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
10012 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
10014 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10015 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
10016 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
10017 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
10018 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10020 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10021 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
10022 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
10024 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha)
10025 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
10026 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
10030 Changes in version 0.3.3.3-alpha - 2018-03-03
10031 Tor 0.3.3.3-alpha is the third alpha release for the 0.3.3.x series.
10032 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
10033 against directory authorities tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
10035 Additionally, with this release, we are upgrading the severity of a
10036 bug fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha. Bug 24700, which was fixed in
10037 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely triggered in order to crash relays with
10038 a use-after-free pattern. As such, we are now tracking that bug as
10039 TROVE-2018-002 and CVE-2018-0491. This bug affected versions
10040 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10042 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
10045 Relays running 0.3.2.x should upgrade to one of the versions released
10046 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
10047 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
10048 the DoS mitigations.)
10050 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority):
10051 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
10052 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
10053 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
10056 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
10057 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
10058 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
10059 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
10060 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
10061 Closes ticket 24978.
10063 o Minor features (logging):
10064 - Clarify the log messages produced when getrandom() or a related
10065 entropy-generation mechanism gives an error. Closes ticket 25120.
10067 o Minor features (testing):
10068 - Add a "make test-rust" target to run the rust tests only. Closes
10071 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service):
10072 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
10073 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
10074 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
10075 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
10076 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
10077 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
10079 o Minor bugfixes (DoS mitigation):
10080 - Add extra safety checks when refilling the circuit creation bucket
10081 to ensure we never set a value above the allowed maximum burst.
10082 Fixes bug 25202; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
10083 - When a new consensus arrives, don't update our DoS-mitigation
10084 parameters if we aren't a public relay. Fixes bug 25223; bugfix
10087 o Minor bugfixes (man page, SocksPort):
10088 - Remove dead code from the old "SocksSocket" option, and rename
10089 SocksSocketsGroupWritable to UnixSocksGroupWritable. The old option
10090 still works, but is deprecated. Fixes bug 24343; bugfix on 0.2.6.3.
10092 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
10093 - Reduce the number of circuits that will be opened at once during
10094 the circuit build timeout phase. This is done by increasing the
10095 idle timeout to 3 minutes, and lowering the maximum number of
10096 concurrent learning circuits to 10. Fixes bug 24769; bugfix
10099 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
10100 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
10102 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
10103 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10105 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, rust):
10106 - Resolve a denial-of-service issue caused by an infinite loop in
10107 the rust protover code. Fixes bug 25250, bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10108 Also tracked as TROVE-2018-003.
10110 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10111 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
10112 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
10115 Changes in version 0.3.3.2-alpha - 2018-02-10
10116 Tor 0.3.3.2-alpha is the second alpha in the 0.3.3.x series. It
10117 introduces a mechanism to handle the high loads that many relay
10118 operators have been reporting recently. It also fixes several bugs in
10119 older releases. If this new code proves reliable, we plan to backport
10120 it to older supported release series.
10122 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
10123 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
10124 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
10125 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
10126 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
10127 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
10128 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
10129 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
10130 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
10131 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
10132 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
10133 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
10134 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
10136 o Major bugfixes (netflow padding):
10137 - Stop adding unneeded channel padding right after we finish
10138 flushing to a connection that has been trying to flush for many
10139 seconds. Instead, treat all partial or complete flushes as
10140 activity on the channel, which will defer the time until we need
10141 to add padding. This fix should resolve confusing and scary log
10142 messages like "Channel padding timeout scheduled 221453ms in the
10143 past." Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10145 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions):
10146 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
10147 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10149 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus):
10150 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
10151 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
10152 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10154 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
10155 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
10156 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
10157 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
10159 o Minor features (directory authority):
10160 - When directory authorities are unable to add signatures to a
10161 pending consensus, log the reason why. Closes ticket 24849.
10163 o Minor features (geoip):
10164 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10167 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic):
10168 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
10169 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic for
10172 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
10173 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
10174 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
10175 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
10176 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
10178 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
10179 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
10180 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
10181 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
10182 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
10184 o Minor bugfixes (all versions of Tor):
10185 - Use the "misspell" tool to detect and fix typos throughout the
10186 source code. Fixes bug 23650; bugfix on various versions of Tor.
10187 Patch from Deepesh Pathak.
10189 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, cannibalization):
10190 - Don't cannibalize preemptively-built circuits if we no longer
10191 recognize their first hop. This situation can happen if our Guard
10192 relay went off the consensus after the circuit was created. Fixes
10193 bug 24469; bugfix on 0.0.6.
10195 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
10196 - Remove a nonworking, unnecessary check to see whether a circuit
10197 hop's identity digest was set when the circuit failed. Fixes bug
10198 24927; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
10200 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
10201 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
10202 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
10203 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10204 - Fix a (mostly harmless) race condition when invoking
10205 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN message from a subthread while the torrc options
10206 are changing. Fixes bug 23954; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
10208 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
10209 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
10210 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
10211 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
10212 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10213 - If we are configured to offer a single onion service, don't log
10214 long-term established one hop rendezvous points in the heartbeat.
10215 Fixes bug 25116; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
10217 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
10218 - Avoid calling protocol_list_supports_protocol() from inside tight
10219 loops when running with cached routerinfo_t objects. Instead,
10220 summarize the relevant protocols as flags in the routerinfo_t, as
10221 we do for routerstatus_t objects. This change simplifies our code
10222 a little, and saves a large amount of short-term memory allocation
10223 operations. Fixes bug 25008; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10225 o Minor bugfixes (Rust FFI):
10226 - Fix a minor memory leak which would happen whenever the C code
10227 would call the Rust implementation of
10228 protover_get_supported_protocols(). This was due to the C version
10229 returning a static string, whereas the Rust version newly allocated
10230 a CString to pass across the FFI boundary. Consequently, the C
10231 code was not expecting to need to free() what it was given. Fixes
10232 bug 25127; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10234 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
10235 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
10236 list, which would waste CPU cycles. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix
10239 o Minor bugfixes (unit test, monotonic time):
10240 - Increase a constant (1msec to 10msec) in the monotonic time test
10241 that makes sure the nsec/usec/msec times read are synchronized.
10242 This change was needed to accommodate slow systems like armel or
10243 when the clock_gettime() is not a VDSO on the running kernel.
10244 Fixes bug 25113; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
10246 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
10247 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
10248 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
10249 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
10250 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10252 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10253 - Remove the unused nodelist_recompute_all_hsdir_indices(). Closes
10255 - Remove a series of counters used to track circuit extend attempts
10256 and connection status but that in reality we aren't using for
10257 anything other than stats logged by a SIGUSR1 signal. Closes
10260 o Documentation (man page):
10261 - The HiddenServiceVersion torrc option accepts only one number:
10262 either version 2 or 3. Closes ticket 25026; bugfix
10266 Changes in version 0.3.3.1-alpha - 2018-01-25
10267 Tor 0.3.3.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.3.x series. It adds
10268 several new features to Tor, including several improvements to
10269 bootstrapping, and support for an experimental "vanguards" feature to
10270 resist guard discovery attacks. This series also includes better
10271 support for applications that need to embed Tor or manage v3
10274 o Major features (embedding):
10275 - There is now a documented stable API for programs that need to
10276 embed Tor. See tor_api.h for full documentation and known bugs.
10277 Closes ticket 23684.
10278 - Tor now has support for restarting in the same process.
10279 Controllers that run Tor using the "tor_api.h" interface can now
10280 restart Tor after Tor has exited. This support is incomplete,
10281 however: we fixed crash bugs that prevented it from working at
10282 all, but many bugs probably remain, including a possibility of
10283 security issues. Implements ticket 24581.
10285 o Major features (IPv6, directory documents):
10286 - Add consensus method 27, which adds IPv6 ORPorts to the microdesc
10287 consensus. This information makes it easier for IPv6 clients to
10288 bootstrap and choose reachable entry guards. Implements ticket 23826.
10289 - Add consensus method 28, which removes IPv6 ORPorts from
10290 microdescriptors. Now that the consensus contains IPv6 ORPorts, they
10291 are redundant in microdescs. This change will be used by Tor clients
10292 on 0.2.8.x and later. (That is to say, with all Tor clients that
10293 have IPv6 bootstrap and guard support.) Implements ticket 23828.
10294 - Expand the documentation for AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity when it is
10295 set by different numbers of authorities. Fixes 23870
10298 o Major features (onion service v3, control port):
10299 - The control port now supports commands and events for v3 onion
10300 services. It is now possible to create ephemeral v3 services using
10301 ADD_ONION. Additionally, several events (HS_DESC, HS_DESC_CONTENT,
10302 CIRC and CIRC_MINOR) and commands (GETINFO, HSPOST, ADD_ONION and
10303 DEL_ONION) have been extended to support v3 onion services. Closes
10304 ticket 20699; implements proposal 284.
10306 o Major features (onion services):
10307 - Provide torrc options to pin the second and third hops of onion
10308 service circuits to a list of nodes. The option HSLayer2Guards
10309 pins the second hop, and the option HSLayer3Guards pins the third
10310 hop. These options are for use in conjunction with experiments
10311 with "vanguards" for preventing guard enumeration attacks. Closes
10314 o Major features (rust, portability, experimental):
10315 - Tor now ships with an optional implementation of one of its
10316 smaller modules (protover.c) in the Rust programming language. To
10317 try it out, install a Rust build environment, and configure Tor
10318 with "--enable-rust --enable-cargo-online-mode". This should not
10319 cause any user-visible changes, but should help us gain more
10320 experience with Rust, and plan future Rust integration work.
10321 Implementation by Chelsea Komlo. Closes ticket 22840.
10323 o Minor features (storage, configuration):
10324 - Users can store cached directory documents somewhere other than
10325 the DataDirectory by using the CacheDirectory option. Similarly,
10326 the storage location for relay's keys can be overridden with the
10327 KeyDirectory option. Closes ticket 22703.
10329 o Major features (v3 onion services, ipv6):
10330 - When v3 onion service clients send introduce cells, they now
10331 include the IPv6 address of the rendezvous point, if it has one.
10332 Current v3 onion services running 0.3.2 ignore IPv6 addresses, but
10333 in future Tor versions, IPv6-only v3 single onion services will be
10334 able to use IPv6 addresses to connect directly to the rendezvous
10335 point. Closes ticket 23577. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10337 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
10338 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
10339 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
10340 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
10341 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
10342 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
10343 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
10344 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
10345 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
10346 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
10347 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10349 o Major bugfixes (relays):
10350 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
10351 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
10352 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
10353 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
10354 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
10355 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10357 o Minor feature (IPv6):
10358 - Make IPv6-only clients wait for microdescs for relays, even if we
10359 were previously using descriptors (or were using them as a bridge)
10360 and have a cached descriptor for them. Implements ticket 23827.
10361 - When a consensus has IPv6 ORPorts, make IPv6-only clients use
10362 them, rather than waiting to download microdescriptors.
10363 Implements ticket 23827.
10365 o Minor features (cleanup):
10366 - Tor now deletes the CookieAuthFile and ExtORPortCookieAuthFile
10367 when it stops. Closes ticket 23271.
10369 o Minor features (defensive programming):
10370 - Most of the functions in Tor that free objects have been replaced
10371 with macros that free the objects and set the corresponding
10372 pointers to NULL. This change should help prevent a large class of
10373 dangling pointer bugs. Closes ticket 24337.
10374 - Where possible, the tor_free() macro now only evaluates its input
10375 once. Part of ticket 24337.
10376 - Check that microdesc ed25519 ids are non-zero in
10377 node_get_ed25519_id() before returning them. Implements ticket
10378 24001, patch by "aruna1234".
10380 o Minor features (embedding):
10381 - Tor can now start with a preauthenticated control connection
10382 created by the process that launched it. This feature is meant for
10383 use by programs that want to launch and manage a Tor process
10384 without allowing other programs to manage it as well. For more
10385 information, see the __OwningControllerFD option documented in
10386 control-spec.txt. Closes ticket 23900.
10387 - On most errors that would cause Tor to exit, it now tries to
10388 return from the tor_main() function, rather than calling the
10389 system exit() function. Most users won't notice a difference here,
10390 but it should be significant for programs that run Tor inside
10391 a separate thread: they should now be able to survive Tor's exit
10392 conditions rather than having Tor shut down the entire process.
10393 Closes ticket 23848.
10394 - Applications that want to embed Tor can now tell Tor not to
10395 register any of its own POSIX signal handlers, using the
10396 __DisableSignalHandlers option. Closes ticket 24588.
10398 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
10399 - Avoid selecting fallbacks that change their IP addresses too
10400 often. Select more fallbacks by ignoring the Guard flag, and
10401 allowing lower cutoffs for the Running and V2Dir flags. Also allow
10402 a lower bandwidth, and a higher number of fallbacks per operator
10403 (5% of the list). Implements ticket 24785.
10404 - Update the fallback whitelist and blacklist based on opt-ins and
10405 relay changes. Closes tickets 22321, 24678, 22527, 24135,
10408 o Minor features (fallback directory mirror configuration):
10409 - Add a nickname to each fallback in a C comment. This makes it
10410 easier for operators to find their relays, and allows stem to use
10411 nicknames to identify fallbacks. Implements ticket 24600.
10412 - Add a type and version header to the fallback directory mirror
10413 file. Also add a delimiter to the end of each fallback entry. This
10414 helps external parsers like stem and Relay Search. Implements
10416 - Add an extrainfo cache flag for each fallback in a C comment. This
10417 allows stem to use fallbacks to fetch extra-info documents, rather
10418 than using authorities. Implements ticket 22759.
10419 - Add the generateFallbackDirLine.py script for automatically
10420 generating fallback directory mirror lines from relay fingerprints.
10421 No more typos! Add the lookupFallbackDirContact.py script for
10422 automatically looking up operator contact info from relay
10423 fingerprints. Implements ticket 24706, patch by teor and atagar.
10424 - Reject any fallback directory mirror that serves an expired
10425 consensus. Implements ticket 20942, patch by "minik".
10426 - Remove commas and equals signs from external string inputs to the
10427 fallback list. This avoids format confusion attacks. Implements
10429 - Remove the "weight=10" line from fallback directory mirror
10430 entries. Ticket 24681 will maintain the current fallback weights
10431 by changing Tor's default fallback weight to 10. Implements
10433 - Stop logging excessive information about fallback netblocks.
10434 Implements ticket 24791.
10436 o Minor features (forward-compatibility):
10437 - If a relay supports some link authentication protocol that we do
10438 not recognize, then include that relay's ed25519 key when telling
10439 other relays to extend to it. Previously, we treated future
10440 versions as if they were too old to support ed25519 link
10441 authentication. Closes ticket 20895.
10443 o Minor features (heartbeat):
10444 - Add onion service information to our heartbeat logs, displaying
10445 stats about the activity of configured onion services. Closes
10448 o Minor features (instrumentation, development):
10449 - Add the MainloopStats option to allow developers to get
10450 instrumentation information from the main event loop via the
10451 heartbeat messages. We hope to use this to improve Tor's behavior
10452 when it's trying to sleep. Closes ticket 24605.
10454 o Minor features (log messages):
10455 - Improve a warning message that happens when we fail to re-parse an
10456 old router because of an expired certificate. Closes ticket 20020.
10457 - Make the log more quantitative when we hit MaxMemInQueues
10458 threshold exposing some values. Closes ticket 24501.
10460 o Minor features (logging, android):
10461 - Added support for the Android logging subsystem. Closes
10464 o Minor features (performance):
10465 - Support predictive circuit building for onion service circuits
10466 with multiple layers of guards. Closes ticket 23101.
10467 - Use stdatomic.h where available, rather than mutexes, to implement
10468 atomic_counter_t. Closes ticket 23953.
10470 o Minor features (performance, 32-bit):
10471 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
10472 when calculating the timestamp in milliseconds for channel padding
10473 computations. Implements ticket 24613.
10474 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
10475 when timestamping cells and buffer chunks for OOM calculations.
10476 Implements ticket 24374.
10478 o Minor features (performance, OSX, iOS):
10479 - Use the mach_approximate_time() function (when available) to
10480 implement coarse monotonic time. Having a coarse time function
10481 should avoid a large number of system calls, and improve
10482 performance slightly, especially under load. Closes ticket 24427.
10484 o Minor features (performance, windows):
10485 - Improve performance on Windows Vista and Windows 7 by adjusting
10486 TCP send window size according to the recommendation from
10487 SIO_IDEAL_SEND_BACKLOG_QUERY. Closes ticket 22798. Patch
10490 o Major features (relay):
10491 - Implement an option, ReducedExitPolicy, to allow an Tor exit relay
10492 operator to use a more reasonable ("reduced") exit policy, rather
10493 than the default one. If you want to run an exit node without
10494 thinking too hard about which ports to allow, this one is for you.
10495 Closes ticket 13605. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
10497 o Minor features (testing, debugging, embedding):
10498 - For development purposes, Tor now has a mode in which it runs for
10499 a few seconds, then stops, and starts again without exiting the
10500 process. This mode is meant to help us debug various issues with
10501 ticket 23847. To use this feature, compile with
10502 --enable-restart-debugging, and set the TOR_DEBUG_RESTART
10503 environment variable. This is expected to crash a lot, and is
10504 really meant for developers only. It will likely be removed in a
10505 future release. Implements ticket 24583.
10507 o Minor bugfix (network IPv6 test):
10508 - Tor's test scripts now check if "ping -6 ::1" works when the user
10509 runs "make test-network-all". Fixes bug 24677; bugfix on
10510 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
10512 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust):
10513 - Fix output of autoconf checks to display success messages for Rust
10514 dependencies and a suitable rustc compiler version. Fixes bug
10515 24612; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
10516 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
10517 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
10518 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10519 - Don't pass the --quiet option to cargo: it seems to suppress some
10520 errors, which is not what we want to do when building. Fixes bug
10521 24518; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
10522 - Build correctly when building from outside Tor's source tree with
10523 the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES option set. Fixes bug 22768; bugfix
10526 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, IPv6):
10527 - When creating a routerstatus (vote) from a routerinfo (descriptor),
10528 set the IPv6 address to the unspecified IPv6 address, and
10529 explicitly initialize the port to zero. Fixes bug 24488; bugfix
10532 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
10533 - Make updateFallbackDirs.py search harder for python. (Some OSs
10534 don't put it in /usr/bin.) Fixes bug 24708; bugfix
10537 o Minor bugfixes (hibernation, bandwidth accounting, shutdown):
10538 - When hibernating, close connections normally and allow them to
10539 flush. Fixes bug 23571; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Also fixes
10541 - Do not attempt to launch self-reachability tests when entering
10542 hibernation. Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
10543 - Resolve several bugs related to descriptor fetching on bridge
10544 clients with bandwidth accounting enabled. (This combination is
10545 not recommended!) Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix
10547 - When hibernating, do not attempt to launch DNS checks. Fixes a
10548 case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
10549 - When hibernating, do not try to upload or download descriptors.
10550 Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
10552 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, bridges):
10553 - Tor now always sets IPv6 preferences for bridges. Fixes bug 24573;
10554 bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10555 - Tor now sets IPv6 address in the routerstatus as well as in the
10556 router descriptors when updating addresses for a bridge. Closes
10557 ticket 24572; bugfix on 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
10559 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10560 - When running with the sandbox enabled, reload configuration files
10561 correctly even when %include was used. Previously we would crash.
10562 Fixes bug 22605; bugfix on 0.3.1. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
10564 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
10565 - Avoid possible at-exit memory leaks related to use of Libevent's
10566 event_base_once() function. (This function tends to leak memory if
10567 the event_base is closed before the event fires.) Fixes bug 24584;
10568 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10569 - Fix a harmless memory leak in tor-resolve. Fixes bug 24582; bugfix
10572 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
10573 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
10574 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
10575 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
10577 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening):
10578 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
10579 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
10580 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10582 o Minor bugfixes (performance, timeouts):
10583 - Consider circuits for timeout as soon as they complete a hop. This
10584 is more accurate than applying the timeout in
10585 circuit_expire_building() because that function is only called
10586 once per second, which is now too slow for typical timeouts on the
10587 current network. Fixes bug 23114; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10588 - Use onion service circuits (and other circuits longer than 3 hops)
10589 to calculate a circuit build timeout. Previously, Tor only
10590 calculated its build timeout based on circuits that planned to be
10591 exactly 3 hops long. With this change, we include measurements
10592 from all circuits at the point where they complete their third
10593 hop. Fixes bug 23100; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10595 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10596 - Give out Exit flags in bootstrapping networks. Fixes bug 24137;
10597 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
10598 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
10599 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
10601 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10602 - Remove /usr/athena from search path in configure.ac. Closes
10604 - Remove duplicate code in node_has_curve25519_onion_key() and
10605 node_get_curve25519_onion_key(), and add a check for a zero
10606 microdesc curve25519 onion key. Closes ticket 23966, patch by
10607 "aruna1234" and teor.
10608 - Rewrite channel_rsa_id_group_set_badness to reduce temporary
10609 memory allocations with large numbers of OR connections (e.g.
10610 relays). Closes ticket 24119.
10611 - Separate the function that deletes ephemeral files when Tor
10613 - Small changes to Tor's buf_t API to make it suitable for use as a
10614 general-purpose safe string constructor. Closes ticket 22342.
10615 - Switch -Wnormalized=id to -Wnormalized=nfkc in configure.ac to
10616 avoid source code identifier confusion. Closes ticket 24467.
10617 - The tor_git_revision[] constant no longer needs to be redeclared
10618 by everything that links against the rest of Tor. Done as part of
10619 ticket 23845, to simplify our external API.
10620 - We make extend_info_from_node() use node_get_curve25519_onion_key()
10621 introduced in ticket 23577 to access the curve25519 public keys
10622 rather than accessing it directly. Closes ticket 23760. Patch by
10624 - Add a function to log channels' scheduler state changes to aid
10625 debugging efforts. Closes ticket 24531.
10628 - Add documentation on how to build tor with Rust dependencies
10629 without having to be online. Closes ticket 22907; bugfix
10631 - Clarify the behavior of RelayBandwidth{Rate,Burst} with client
10632 traffic. Closes ticket 24318.
10633 - Document that OutboundBindAddress doesn't apply to DNS requests.
10634 Closes ticket 22145. Patch from Aruna Maurya.
10635 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
10636 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
10639 o Code simplification and refactoring (channels):
10640 - Remove the incoming and outgoing channel queues. These were never
10641 used, but still took up a step in our fast path.
10642 - The majority of the channel unit tests have been rewritten and the
10643 code coverage has now been raised to 83.6% for channel.c. Closes
10645 - Remove other dead code from the channel subsystem: All together,
10646 this cleanup has removed more than 1500 lines of code overall and
10647 adding very little except for unit test.
10649 o Code simplification and refactoring (circuit rendezvous):
10650 - Split the client-side rendezvous circuit lookup into two
10651 functions: one that returns only established circuits and another
10652 that returns all kinds of circuits. Closes ticket 23459.
10654 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
10655 - Make most of the variables in networkstatus_getinfo_by_purpose()
10656 const. Implements ticket 24489.
10659 Changes in version 0.3.2.9 - 2018-01-09
10660 Tor 0.3.2.9 is the first stable release in the 0.3.2 series.
10662 The 0.3.2 series includes our long-anticipated new onion service
10663 design, with numerous security features. (For more information, see
10664 our blog post at https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest.) We also
10665 have a new circuit scheduler algorithm for improved performance on
10666 relays everywhere (see https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell),
10667 along with many smaller features and bugfixes.
10669 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
10670 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
10671 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
10672 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
10673 with the 0.2.9 series.
10675 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.2.8-rc. For a list of all
10676 changes since 0.3.1, see the ReleaseNotes file.
10678 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
10679 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
10680 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
10681 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
10682 information. Closes ticket 24801.
10683 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
10684 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
10685 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
10686 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
10688 o Minor features (geoip):
10689 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10692 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
10693 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
10694 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
10695 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
10696 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
10699 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10700 - Resolve a few shadowed-variable warnings in the onion service
10701 code. Fixes bug 24634; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10703 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
10704 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
10705 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
10706 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
10710 Changes in version 0.3.2.8-rc - 2017-12-21
10711 Tor 0.3.2.8-rc fixes a pair of bugs in the KIST and KISTLite
10712 schedulers that had led servers under heavy load to overload their
10713 outgoing connections. All relay operators running earlier 0.3.2.x
10714 versions should upgrade. This version also includes a mitigation for
10715 over-full DESTROY queues leading to out-of-memory conditions: if it
10716 works, we will soon backport it to earlier release series.
10718 This is the second release candidate in the 0.3.2 series. If we find
10719 no new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.2 release
10720 will be nearly identical to this.
10722 o Major bugfixes (KIST, scheduler):
10723 - The KIST scheduler did not correctly account for data already
10724 enqueued in each connection's send socket buffer, particularly in
10725 cases when the TCP/IP congestion window was reduced between
10726 scheduler calls. This situation lead to excessive per-connection
10727 buffering in the kernel, and a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug
10728 24665; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10730 o Minor features (geoip):
10731 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10734 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
10735 - Bump hsdir_spread_store parameter from 3 to 4 in order to increase
10736 the probability of reaching a service for a client missing
10737 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 24425; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10739 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
10740 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
10741 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
10742 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
10743 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
10746 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
10747 - Use a sane write limit for KISTLite when writing onto a connection
10748 buffer instead of using INT_MAX and shoving as much as it can.
10749 Because the OOM handler cleans up circuit queues, we are better
10750 off at keeping them in that queue instead of the connection's
10751 buffer. Fixes bug 24671; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10754 Changes in version 0.3.2.7-rc - 2017-12-14
10755 Tor 0.3.2.7-rc fixes various bugs in earlier versions of Tor,
10756 including some that could affect reliability or correctness.
10758 This is the first release candidate in the 0.3.2 series. If we find no
10759 new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.2. release will
10760 be nearly identical to this.
10762 o Major bugfixes (circuit prediction):
10763 - Fix circuit prediction logic so that a client doesn't treat a port
10764 as being "handled" by a circuit if that circuit already has
10765 isolation settings on it. This change should make Tor clients more
10766 responsive by improving their chances of having a pre-created
10767 circuit ready for use when a request arrives. Fixes bug 18859;
10768 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
10770 o Minor features (logging):
10771 - Provide better warnings when the getrandom() syscall fails. Closes
10774 o Minor features (portability):
10775 - Tor now compiles correctly on arm64 with libseccomp-dev installed.
10776 (It doesn't yet work with the sandbox enabled.) Closes
10779 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients, bootstrap):
10780 - Retry directory downloads when we get our first bridge descriptor
10781 during bootstrap or while reconnecting to the network. Keep
10782 retrying every time we get a bridge descriptor, until we have a
10783 reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10784 - Stop delaying bridge descriptor fetches when we have cached bridge
10785 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when we
10786 have at least one reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367;
10787 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10788 - Stop delaying directory fetches when we have cached bridge
10789 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when
10790 all our bridges are definitely unreachable. Fixes part of bug
10791 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10793 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10794 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
10795 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
10797 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
10798 - Fix several places in our codebase where a C compiler would be
10799 likely to eliminate a check, based on assuming that undefined
10800 behavior had not happened elsewhere in the code. These cases are
10801 usually a sign of redundant checking or dubious arithmetic. Found
10802 by Georg Koppen using the "STACK" tool from Wang, Zeldovich,
10803 Kaashoek, and Solar-Lezama. Fixes bug 24423; bugfix on various
10806 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
10807 - Fix a race where an onion service would launch a new intro circuit
10808 after closing an old one, but fail to register it before freeing
10809 the previously closed circuit. This bug was making the service
10810 unable to find the established intro circuit and thus not upload
10811 its descriptor, thus making a service unavailable for up to 24
10812 hours. Fixes bug 23603; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10814 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
10815 - Properly set the scheduler state of an unopened channel in the
10816 KIST scheduler main loop. This prevents a harmless but annoying
10817 log warning. Fixes bug 24502; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
10818 - Avoid a possible integer overflow when computing the available
10819 space on the TCP buffer of a channel. This had no security
10820 implications; but could make KIST allow too many cells on a
10821 saturated connection. Fixes bug 24590; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10822 - Downgrade to "info" a harmless warning about the monotonic time
10823 moving backwards: This can happen on platform not supporting
10824 monotonic time. Fixes bug 23696; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10827 Changes in version 0.3.2.6-alpha - 2017-12-01
10828 This version of Tor is the latest in the 0.3.2 alpha series. It
10829 includes fixes for several important security issues. All Tor users
10830 should upgrade to this release, or to one of the other releases coming
10833 o Major bugfixes (security):
10834 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
10835 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
10836 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
10837 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
10838 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
10839 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
10840 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
10841 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
10842 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
10843 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
10845 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
10846 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
10847 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
10848 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
10849 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
10850 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
10851 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
10854 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2):
10855 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
10856 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
10857 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
10858 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
10860 o Major bugfixes (security, relay):
10861 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
10862 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
10863 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
10864 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
10865 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
10866 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
10867 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
10868 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
10870 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
10871 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
10872 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
10873 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
10875 o Minor features (directory authority):
10876 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
10879 o Minor bugfixes (client):
10880 - By default, do not enable storage of client-side DNS values. These
10881 values were unused by default previously, but they should not have
10882 been cached at all. Fixes bug 24050; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10885 Changes in version 0.3.1.9 - 2017-12-01:
10886 Tor 0.3.1.9 backports important security and stability fixes from the
10887 0.3.2 development series. All Tor users should upgrade to this
10888 release, or to another of the releases coming out today.
10890 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10891 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
10892 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
10893 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
10894 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
10895 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
10896 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
10897 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
10898 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
10899 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
10900 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
10902 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
10903 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
10904 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
10905 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
10906 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
10907 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
10908 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
10911 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10912 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
10913 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
10914 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
10915 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
10917 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10918 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
10919 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
10920 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
10921 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
10922 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
10923 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
10924 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
10925 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
10927 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
10928 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
10929 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
10930 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
10931 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
10932 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
10935 o Minor features (bridge):
10936 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
10937 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
10938 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
10939 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
10942 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10943 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
10946 o Minor features (geoip):
10947 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10950 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
10951 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
10952 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
10953 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
10954 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10956 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
10957 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
10958 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10960 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10961 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
10962 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
10963 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
10964 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
10965 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
10967 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
10968 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
10969 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
10972 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
10973 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
10974 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
10975 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
10976 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10979 Changes in version 0.3.0.13 - 2017-12-01
10980 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
10981 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
10982 to another of the releases coming out today.
10984 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
10985 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
10986 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
10988 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10989 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
10990 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
10991 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
10992 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
10993 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
10994 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
10995 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
10996 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
10997 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
10998 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
11000 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
11001 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
11002 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
11003 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
11004 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
11005 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
11006 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
11009 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11010 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
11011 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
11012 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
11013 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
11015 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11016 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
11017 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
11018 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
11019 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
11020 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11021 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
11022 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
11023 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11025 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
11026 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
11027 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
11028 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
11029 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
11030 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
11033 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11034 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
11035 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
11036 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
11037 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
11038 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
11040 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
11041 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
11042 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
11043 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
11044 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
11047 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11048 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
11051 o Minor features (geoip):
11052 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11055 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
11056 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
11057 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
11058 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
11059 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11061 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
11062 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
11063 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11065 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11066 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
11067 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
11068 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
11069 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
11070 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11072 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
11073 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
11074 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
11075 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
11076 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11078 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
11079 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
11080 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
11083 Changes in version 0.2.9.14 - 2017-12-01
11084 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
11085 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
11086 to another of the releases coming out today.
11088 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
11089 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
11090 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
11091 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
11092 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
11093 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
11096 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11097 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
11098 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
11099 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
11100 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
11101 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
11102 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
11103 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
11104 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
11105 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
11106 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
11108 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
11109 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
11110 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
11111 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
11112 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
11113 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
11114 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
11117 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11118 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
11119 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
11120 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
11121 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
11123 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11124 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
11125 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
11126 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
11127 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
11128 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11130 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
11131 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
11132 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
11133 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
11134 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
11137 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11138 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
11141 o Minor features (geoip):
11142 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11145 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11146 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
11147 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
11148 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
11149 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
11150 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
11152 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
11153 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
11154 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
11155 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
11156 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11158 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
11159 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
11160 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11162 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11163 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
11164 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
11165 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
11166 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
11167 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11169 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
11170 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
11171 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
11172 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
11173 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11175 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
11176 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
11177 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
11180 Changes in version 0.2.8.17 - 2017-12-01
11181 Tor 0.2.8.17 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
11182 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
11183 to another of the releases coming out today.
11185 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
11186 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade with
11187 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
11189 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11190 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
11191 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
11192 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
11193 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
11194 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
11195 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
11196 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
11197 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
11198 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
11199 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
11200 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
11201 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
11202 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
11203 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
11206 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11207 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
11208 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
11209 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
11210 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
11212 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11213 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path through
11214 ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the version of
11215 our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part of bug 21534;
11216 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012
11219 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
11220 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
11221 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
11222 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
11223 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
11226 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11227 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
11230 o Minor features (geoip):
11231 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11234 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
11235 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
11236 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
11239 Changes in version 0.2.5.16 - 2017-12-01
11240 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
11241 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
11242 to another of the releases coming out today.
11244 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
11245 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
11246 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
11248 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11249 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
11250 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
11251 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
11252 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
11253 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
11254 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
11255 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
11256 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
11257 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
11258 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
11259 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
11260 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
11261 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
11262 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
11265 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11266 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
11267 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
11268 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
11269 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
11270 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11272 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
11273 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
11274 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
11275 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
11276 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
11279 o Minor features (geoip):
11280 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11284 Changes in version 0.3.2.5-alpha - 2017-11-22
11285 Tor 0.3.2.5-alpha is the fifth alpha release in the 0.3.2.x series. It
11286 fixes several stability and reliability bugs, including a fix for
11287 intermittent bootstrapping failures that some people have been seeing
11288 since the 0.3.0.x series.
11290 Please test this alpha out -- many of these fixes will soon be
11291 backported to stable Tor versions if no additional bugs are found
11294 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
11295 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
11296 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
11297 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
11298 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
11299 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
11300 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
11301 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
11302 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
11303 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
11304 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
11307 o Minor features (directory authority):
11308 - Make the "Exit" flag assignment only depend on whether the exit
11309 policy allows connections to ports 80 and 443. Previously relays
11310 would get the Exit flag if they allowed connections to one of
11311 these ports and also port 6667. Resolves ticket 23637.
11313 o Minor features (geoip):
11314 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11317 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11318 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
11319 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
11321 o Minor features (logging):
11322 - Downgrade a pair of log messages that could occur when an exit's
11323 resolver gave us an unusual (but not forbidden) response. Closes
11325 - Improve the message we log when re-enabling circuit build timeouts
11326 after having received a consensus. Closes ticket 20963.
11328 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11329 - Fix a memory leak warning in one of the libevent-related
11330 configuration tests that could occur when manually specifying
11331 -fsanitize=address. Fixes bug 24279; bugfix on 0.3.0.2-alpha.
11332 Found and patched by Alex Xu.
11333 - When detecting OpenSSL on Windows from our configure script, make
11334 sure to try linking with the ws2_32 library. Fixes bug 23783;
11335 bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
11337 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11338 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
11339 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
11342 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion services):
11343 - Report "FAILED" instead of "UPLOAD_FAILED" "FAILED" for the
11344 HS_DESC event when a service is not able to upload a descriptor.
11345 Fixes bug 24230; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
11347 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
11348 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
11349 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11350 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
11351 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
11352 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
11353 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
11354 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
11355 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
11358 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11359 - Only log once if we notice that KIST support is gone. Fixes bug
11360 24158; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11361 - Suppress a log notice when relay descriptors arrive. We already
11362 have a bootstrap progress for this so no need to log notice
11363 everytime tor receives relay descriptors. Microdescriptors behave
11364 the same. Fixes bug 23861; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11366 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
11367 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
11368 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
11369 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
11370 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
11371 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
11373 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
11374 - The introduction circuit was being timed out too quickly while
11375 waiting for the rendezvous circuit to complete. Keep the intro
11376 circuit around longer instead of timing out and reopening new ones
11377 constantly. Fixes bug 23681; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
11378 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
11379 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
11381 - Silence a warning about failed v3 onion descriptor uploads that
11382 can happen naturally under certain edge cases. Fixes part of bug
11383 23662; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11385 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
11386 - Fix a memory leak in one of the bridge-distribution test cases.
11387 Fixes bug 24345; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
11388 - Fix a bug in our fuzzing mock replacement for crypto_pk_checksig(),
11389 to correctly handle cases where a caller gives it an RSA key of
11390 under 160 bits. (This is not actually a bug in Tor itself, but
11391 rather in our fuzzing code.) Fixes bug 24247; bugfix on
11392 0.3.0.3-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz as issue 4177.
11395 - Add notes in man page regarding OS support for the various
11396 scheduler types. Attempt to use less jargon in the scheduler
11397 section. Closes ticket 24254.
11400 Changes in version 0.3.2.4-alpha - 2017-11-08
11401 Tor 0.3.2.4-alpha is the fourth alpha release in the 0.3.2.x series.
11402 It fixes several stability and reliability bugs, especially including
11403 a major reliability issue that has been plaguing fast exit relays in
11406 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS):
11407 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
11408 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
11409 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
11410 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
11411 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
11414 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, channel):
11415 - Stop processing scheduled channels if they closed while flushing
11416 cells. This can happen if the write on the connection fails
11417 leading to the channel being closed while in the scheduler loop.
11418 Fixes bug 23751; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11420 o Minor features (logging, scheduler):
11421 - Introduce a SCHED_BUG() function to log extra information about
11422 the scheduler state if we ever catch a bug in the scheduler.
11423 Closes ticket 23753.
11425 o Minor features (removed deprecations):
11426 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can once again be set in
11427 non-testing Tor networks, so long as they do not use the default
11428 directory authorities. This change also removes the deprecation of
11429 this flag from 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 21031.
11431 o Minor features (testing):
11432 - Our fuzzing tests now test the encrypted portions of v3 onion
11433 service descriptors. Implements more of 21509.
11435 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
11436 - On failure to download directory information, delay retry attempts
11437 by a random amount based on the "decorrelated jitter" algorithm.
11438 Our previous delay algorithm tended to produce extra-long delays
11439 too easily. Fixes bug 23816; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11441 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, v3 single onion services):
11442 - Remove buggy code for IPv6-only v3 single onion services, and
11443 reject attempts to configure them. This release supports IPv4,
11444 dual-stack, and IPv6-only v3 onion services; and IPv4 and dual-
11445 stack v3 single onion services. Fixes bug 23820; bugfix
11448 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
11449 - Give only a protocol warning when the ed25519 key is not
11450 consistent between the descriptor and microdescriptor of a relay.
11451 This can happen, for instance, if the relay has been flagged
11452 NoEdConsensus. Fixes bug 24025; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11454 o Minor bugfixes (manpage, onion service):
11455 - Document that the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option is
11456 0-10 for v2 services and 0-20 for v3 services. Fixes bug 24115;
11457 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11459 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
11460 - Fix a minor memory leak at exit in the KIST scheduler. This bug
11461 should have no user-visible impact. Fixes bug 23774; bugfix
11463 - Fix a memory leak when decrypting a badly formatted v3 onion
11464 service descriptor. Fixes bug 24150; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11465 Found by OSS-Fuzz; this is OSS-Fuzz issue 3994.
11467 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
11468 - Cache some needed onion service client information instead of
11469 constantly computing it over and over again. Fixes bug 23623;
11470 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11471 - Properly retry HSv3 descriptor fetches when missing required
11472 directory information. Fixes bug 23762; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11474 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
11475 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
11476 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
11477 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
11478 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
11479 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
11480 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11481 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
11482 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
11483 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
11484 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
11485 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11487 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash):
11488 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
11489 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
11490 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
11491 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11493 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11494 - Fix a spurious fuzzing-only use of an uninitialized value. Found
11495 by Brian Carpenter. Fixes bug 24082; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
11496 - Test that IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors when running
11497 "make test-network-all". Requires chutney master 61c28b9 or later.
11498 Closes ticket 24109.
11501 Changes in version 0.3.2.3-alpha - 2017-10-27
11502 Tor 0.3.2.3-alpha is the third release in the 0.3.2 series. It fixes
11503 numerous small bugs in earlier versions of 0.3.2.x, and adds a new
11504 directory authority, Bastet.
11506 o Directory authority changes:
11507 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
11508 Closes ticket 23910.
11509 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
11510 Closes ticket 23592.
11512 o Minor features (bridge):
11513 - Bridge relays can now set the BridgeDistribution config option to
11514 add a "bridge-distribution-request" line to their bridge
11515 descriptor, which tells BridgeDB how they'd like their bridge
11516 address to be given out. (Note that as of Oct 2017, BridgeDB does
11517 not yet implement this feature.) As a side benefit, this feature
11518 provides a way to distinguish bridge descriptors from non-bridge
11519 descriptors. Implements tickets 18329.
11521 o Minor features (client, entry guards):
11522 - Improve log messages when missing descriptors for primary guards.
11523 Resolves ticket 23670.
11525 o Minor features (geoip):
11526 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11529 o Minor bugfixes (bridge):
11530 - Overwrite the bridge address earlier in the process of retrieving
11531 its descriptor, to make sure we reach it on the configured
11532 address. Fixes bug 20532; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
11534 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
11535 - Document better how to read gcov, and what our gcov postprocessing
11536 scripts do. Fixes bug 23739; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11538 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards):
11539 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
11540 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
11541 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
11542 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
11543 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11545 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service client):
11546 - When handling multiple SOCKS request for the same .onion address,
11547 only fetch the service descriptor once.
11548 - When a descriptor fetch fails with a non-recoverable error, close
11549 all pending SOCKS requests for that .onion. Fixes bug 23653;
11550 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11552 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
11553 - Always regenerate missing hidden service public key files. Prior
11554 to this, if the public key was deleted from disk, it wouldn't get
11555 recreated. Fixes bug 23748; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha. Patch
11557 - Make sure that we have a usable ed25519 key when the intro point
11558 relay supports ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 24002;
11559 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11561 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, v2):
11562 - When reloading configured hidden services, copy all information
11563 from the old service object. Previously, some data was omitted,
11564 causing delays in descriptor upload, and other bugs. Fixes bug
11565 23790; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
11567 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, defensive programming):
11568 - Clear the target address when node_get_prim_orport() returns
11569 early. Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11571 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
11572 - Avoid a BUG warning when receiving a dubious CREATE cell while an
11573 option transition is in progress. Fixes bug 23952; bugfix
11576 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11577 - Adjust the GitLab CI configuration to more closely match that of
11578 Travis CI. Fixes bug 23757; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
11579 - Prevent scripts/test/coverage from attempting to move gcov output
11580 to the root directory. Fixes bug 23741; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11581 - When running unit tests as root, skip a test that would fail
11582 because it expects a permissions error. This affects some
11583 continuous integration setups. Fixes bug 23758; bugfix
11585 - Stop unconditionally mirroring the tor repository in GitLab CI.
11586 This prevented developers from enabling GitLab CI on master. Fixes
11587 bug 23755; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
11588 - Fix the hidden service v3 descriptor decoding fuzzing to use the
11589 latest decoding API correctly. Fixes bug 21509; bugfix
11592 o Minor bugfixes (warnings):
11593 - When we get an HTTP request on a SOCKS port, tell the user about
11594 the new HTTPTunnelPort option. Previously, we would give a "Tor is
11595 not an HTTP Proxy" message, which stopped being true when
11596 HTTPTunnelPort was introduced. Fixes bug 23678; bugfix
11600 Changes in version 0.2.5.15 - 2017-10-25
11601 Tor 0.2.5.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
11602 series. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
11604 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
11605 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
11606 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
11608 o Directory authority changes:
11609 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
11610 Closes ticket 23910.
11611 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
11612 Closes ticket 23592.
11614 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11615 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
11616 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
11617 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
11618 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
11620 o Minor features (geoip):
11621 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11624 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
11625 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
11626 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
11627 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
11628 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
11629 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
11630 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
11631 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
11632 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
11634 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11635 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
11636 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
11637 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
11638 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
11639 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
11640 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
11641 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
11642 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
11645 Changes in version 0.2.8.16 - 2017-10-25
11646 Tor 0.2.8.16 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
11647 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
11648 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
11650 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
11651 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
11652 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
11654 o Directory authority changes:
11655 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
11656 Closes ticket 23910.
11657 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
11658 Closes ticket 23592.
11660 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11661 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
11662 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
11663 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
11665 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11666 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
11667 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
11668 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
11669 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
11671 o Minor features (geoip):
11672 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11676 Changes in version 0.2.9.13 - 2017-10-25
11677 Tor 0.2.9.13 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
11678 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
11679 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
11681 o Directory authority changes:
11682 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
11683 Closes ticket 23910.
11684 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
11685 Closes ticket 23592.
11687 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11688 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
11689 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
11690 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
11692 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11693 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
11694 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
11695 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
11696 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
11698 o Minor features (geoip):
11699 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11702 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11703 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
11704 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
11705 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
11706 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
11707 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
11708 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
11709 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
11712 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
11713 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
11714 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11716 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
11717 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
11718 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
11719 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
11720 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
11721 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
11722 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
11725 Changes in version 0.3.0.12 - 2017-10-25
11726 Tor 0.3.0.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
11727 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
11728 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
11730 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
11731 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
11732 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
11734 o Directory authority changes:
11735 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
11736 Closes ticket 23910.
11737 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
11738 Closes ticket 23592.
11740 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11741 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
11742 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
11743 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
11745 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11746 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
11747 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
11748 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
11749 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
11751 o Minor features (geoip):
11752 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11755 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11756 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
11757 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
11758 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
11759 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
11760 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
11761 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
11762 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
11765 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11766 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
11767 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
11768 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11770 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
11771 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
11772 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11774 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
11775 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
11776 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
11777 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
11778 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
11779 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
11780 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
11783 Changes in version 0.3.1.8 - 2017-10-25
11784 Tor 0.3.1.8 is the second stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
11785 It includes several bugfixes, including a bugfix for a crash issue
11786 that had affected relays under memory pressure. It also adds
11787 a new directory authority, Bastet.
11789 o Directory authority changes:
11790 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
11791 Closes ticket 23910.
11792 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
11793 Closes ticket 23592.
11795 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11796 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
11797 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
11798 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
11800 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11801 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
11802 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
11803 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
11804 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
11806 o Minor features (geoip):
11807 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11810 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11811 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
11812 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
11813 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
11815 o Minor bugfixes (compression, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11816 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
11817 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
11820 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
11821 - Remove the length limit on HTTP status lines that authorities can
11822 send in their replies. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix on 0.3.1.6-rc.
11824 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11825 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
11826 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
11827 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11829 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
11830 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
11831 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11833 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11834 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
11835 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
11839 Changes in version 0.3.2.2-alpha - 2017-09-29
11840 Tor 0.3.2.2-alpha is the second release in the 0.3.2 series. This
11841 release fixes several minor bugs in the new scheduler and next-
11842 generation onion services; both features were newly added in the 0.3.2
11843 series. Other fixes in this alpha include several fixes for non-fatal
11844 tracebacks which would appear in logs.
11846 With the aim to stabilise the 0.3.2 series by 15 December 2017, this
11847 alpha does not contain any substantial new features. Minor features
11848 include better testing and logging.
11850 The following comprises the complete list of changes included
11853 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure):
11854 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
11855 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
11856 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
11858 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
11859 - If a channel is put into the scheduler's pending list, then it
11860 starts closing, and then if the scheduler runs before it finishes
11861 closing, the scheduler will get stuck trying to flush its cells
11862 while the lower layers refuse to cooperate. Fix that race
11863 condition by giving the scheduler an escape method. Fixes bug
11864 23676; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11866 o Minor features (build, compilation):
11867 - The "check-changes" feature is now part of the "make check" tests;
11868 we'll use it to try to prevent misformed changes files from
11869 accumulating. Closes ticket 23564.
11870 - Tor builds should now fail if there are any mismatches between the
11871 C type representing a configuration variable and the C type the
11872 data-driven parser uses to store a value there. Previously, we
11873 needed to check these by hand, which sometimes led to mistakes.
11874 Closes ticket 23643.
11876 o Minor features (directory authorities):
11877 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
11878 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
11879 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
11880 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
11882 o Minor features (hidden service, circuit, logging):
11883 - Improve logging of many callsite in the circuit subsystem to print
11884 the circuit identifier(s).
11885 - Log when we cleanup an intro point from a service so we know when
11886 and for what reason it happened. Closes ticket 23604.
11888 o Minor features (logging):
11889 - Log more circuit information whenever we are about to try to
11890 package a relay cell on a circuit with a nonexistent n_chan.
11891 Attempt to diagnose ticket 8185.
11892 - Improve info-level log identification of particular circuits, to
11893 help with debugging. Closes ticket 23645.
11895 o Minor features (relay):
11896 - When choosing which circuits can be expired as unused, consider
11897 circuits from clients even if those clients used regular CREATE
11898 cells to make them; and do not consider circuits from relays even
11899 if they were made with CREATE_FAST. Part of ticket 22805.
11901 o Minor features (robustness):
11902 - Change several fatal assertions when flushing buffers into non-
11903 fatal assertions, to prevent any recurrence of 23690.
11905 o Minor features (spec conformance, bridge, diagnostic):
11906 - When handling the USERADDR command on an ExtOrPort, warn when the
11907 transports provides a USERADDR with no port. In a future version,
11908 USERADDR commands of this format may be rejected. Detects problems
11909 related to ticket 23080.
11911 o Minor features (testing):
11912 - Add a unit test to make sure that our own generated platform
11913 string will be accepted by directory authorities. Closes
11916 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrapping):
11917 - When warning about state file clock skew, report the correct
11918 direction for the detected skew. Fixes bug 23606; bugfix
11920 - Avoid an assertion failure when logging a state file clock skew
11921 very early in bootstrapping. Fixes bug 23607; bugfix
11924 o Minor bugfixes (build, compilation):
11925 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
11926 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
11927 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
11928 - When searching for OpenSSL, don't accept any OpenSSL library that
11929 lacks TLSv1_1_method(): Tor doesn't build with those versions.
11930 Additionally, look in /usr/local/opt/openssl, if it's present.
11931 These changes together repair the default build on OSX systems
11932 with Homebrew installed. Fixes bug 23602; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11934 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
11935 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
11936 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
11939 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
11940 - Fix manpage to not refer to the obsolete (and misspelled)
11941 UseEntryGuardsAsDirectoryGuards parameter in the description of
11942 NumDirectoryGuards. Fixes bug 23611; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
11944 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
11945 - Don't log an assertion failure when we can't find the right
11946 information to extend to an introduction point. In rare cases,
11947 this could happen, causing a warning, even though tor would
11948 recover gracefully. Fixes bug 23159; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11949 - Pad RENDEZVOUS cell up to the size of the legacy cell which is
11950 much bigger so the rendezvous point can't distinguish which hidden
11951 service protocol is being used. Fixes bug 23420; bugfix
11954 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay):
11955 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
11956 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
11957 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11959 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance):
11960 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
11961 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
11962 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
11963 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
11964 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11966 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
11967 - When switching schedulers due to a consensus change, we didn't
11968 give the new scheduler a chance to react to the consensus. Fix
11969 that. Fixes bug 23537; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11970 - Make the KISTSchedRunInterval option a non negative value. With
11971 this, the way to disable KIST through the consensus is to set it
11972 to 0. Fixes bug 23539; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11973 - Only notice log the selected scheduler when we switch scheduler
11974 types. Fixes bug 23552; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11975 - Avoid a compilation warning on macOS in scheduler_ev_add() caused
11976 by a different tv_usec data type. Fixes bug 23575; bugfix
11978 - Make a hard exit if tor is unable to pick a scheduler which can
11979 happen if the user specifies a scheduler type that is not
11980 supported and not other types in Schedulers. Fixes bug 23581;
11981 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11982 - Properly initialize the scheduler last run time counter so it is
11983 not 0 at the first tick. Fixes bug 23696; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11985 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11986 - Capture and detect several "Result does not fit" warnings in unit
11987 tests on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 21800; bugfix
11989 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
11990 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
11992 - The removal of some old scheduler options caused some tests to
11993 fail on BSD systems. Assume current behavior is correct and make
11994 the tests pass again. Fixes bug 23566; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11996 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11997 - Remove various ways of testing circuits and connections for
11998 "clientness"; instead, favor channel_is_client(). Part of
12001 o Deprecated features:
12002 - The ReachableDirAddresses and ClientPreferIPv6DirPort options are
12003 now deprecated; they do not apply to relays, and they have had no
12004 effect on clients since 0.2.8.x. Closes ticket 19704.
12007 - HiddenServiceVersion man page entry wasn't mentioning the now
12008 supported version 3. Fixes ticket 23580; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12009 - Clarify that the Address option is entirely about setting an
12010 advertised IPv4 address. Closes ticket 18891.
12011 - Clarify the manpage's use of the term "address" to clarify what
12012 kind of address is intended. Closes ticket 21405.
12013 - Document that onion service subdomains are allowed, and ignored.
12014 Closes ticket 18736.
12017 Changes in version 0.3.2.1-alpha - 2017-09-18
12018 Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.2.x series. It
12019 includes support for our next-generation ("v3") onion service
12020 protocol, and adds a new circuit scheduler for more responsive
12021 forwarding decisions from relays. There are also numerous other small
12022 features and bugfixes here.
12024 Below are the changes since Tor 0.3.1.7.
12026 o Major feature (scheduler, channel):
12027 - Tor now uses new schedulers to decide which circuits should
12028 deliver cells first, in order to improve congestion at relays. The
12029 first type is called "KIST" ("Kernel Informed Socket Transport"),
12030 and is only available on Linux-like systems: it uses feedback from
12031 the kernel to prevent the kernel's TCP buffers from growing too
12032 full. The second new scheduler type is called "KISTLite": it
12033 behaves the same as KIST, but runs on systems without kernel
12034 support for inspecting TCP implementation details. The old
12035 scheduler is still available, under the name "Vanilla". To change
12036 the default scheduler preference order, use the new "Schedulers"
12037 option. (The default preference order is "KIST,KISTLite,Vanilla".)
12039 Matt Traudt implemented KIST, based on research by Rob Jansen,
12040 John Geddes, Christ Wacek, Micah Sherr, and Paul Syverson. For
12041 more information, see the design paper at
12042 http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf and the
12043 followup implementation paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01044.
12044 Closes ticket 12541.
12046 o Major features (next-generation onion services):
12047 - Tor now supports the next-generation onion services protocol for
12048 clients and services! As part of this release, the core of
12049 proposal 224 has been implemented and is available for
12050 experimentation and testing by our users. This newer version of
12051 onion services ("v3") features many improvements over the legacy
12054 a) Better crypto (replaced SHA1/DH/RSA1024
12055 with SHA3/ed25519/curve25519)
12057 b) Improved directory protocol, leaking much less information to
12060 c) Improved directory protocol, with smaller surface for
12063 d) Better onion address security against impersonation.
12065 e) More extensible introduction/rendezvous protocol.
12067 f) A cleaner and more modular codebase.
12069 You can identify a next-generation onion address by its length:
12070 they are 56 characters long, as in
12071 "4acth47i6kxnvkewtm6q7ib2s3ufpo5sqbsnzjpbi7utijcltosqemad.onion".
12073 In the future, we will release more options and features for v3
12074 onion services, but we first need a testing period, so that the
12075 current codebase matures and becomes more robust. Planned features
12076 include: offline keys, advanced client authorization, improved
12077 guard algorithms, and statistics. For full details, see
12080 Legacy ("v2") onion services will still work for the foreseeable
12081 future, and will remain the default until this new codebase gets
12082 tested and hardened. Service operators who want to experiment with
12083 the new system can use the 'HiddenServiceVersion 3' torrc
12084 directive along with the regular onion service configuration
12085 options. We will publish a blog post about this new feature
12088 o Major bugfixes (usability, control port):
12089 - Report trusted clock skew indications as bootstrap errors, so
12090 controllers can more easily alert users when their clocks are
12091 wrong. Fixes bug 23506; bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha.
12093 o Minor features (bug detection):
12094 - Log a warning message with a stack trace for any attempt to call
12095 get_options() during option validation. This pattern has caused
12096 subtle bugs in the past. Closes ticket 22281.
12098 o Minor features (client):
12099 - You can now use Tor as a tunneled HTTP proxy: use the new
12100 HTTPTunnelPort option to open a port that accepts HTTP CONNECT
12101 requests. Closes ticket 22407.
12102 - Add an extra check to make sure that we always use the newer guard
12103 selection code for picking our guards. Closes ticket 22779.
12104 - When downloading (micro)descriptors, don't split the list into
12105 multiple requests unless we want at least 32 descriptors.
12106 Previously, we split at 4, not 32, which led to significant
12107 overhead in HTTP request size and degradation in compression
12108 performance. Closes ticket 23220.
12110 o Minor features (command line):
12111 - Add a new commandline option, --key-expiration, which prints when
12112 the current signing key is going to expire. Implements ticket
12113 17639; patch by Isis Lovecruft.
12115 o Minor features (control port):
12116 - If an application tries to use the control port as an HTTP proxy,
12117 respond with a meaningful "This is the Tor control port" message,
12118 and log the event. Closes ticket 1667. Patch from Ravi
12120 - Provide better error message for GETINFO desc/(id|name) when not
12121 fetching router descriptors. Closes ticket 5847. Patch by
12123 - Add GETINFO "{desc,md}/download-enabled", to inform the controller
12124 whether Tor will try to download router descriptors and
12125 microdescriptors respectively. Closes ticket 22684.
12126 - Added new GETINFO targets "ip-to-country/{ipv4,ipv6}-available",
12127 so controllers can tell whether the geoip databases are loaded.
12128 Closes ticket 23237.
12129 - Adds a timestamp field to the CIRC_BW and STREAM_BW bandwidth
12130 events. Closes ticket 19254. Patch by "DonnchaC".
12132 o Minor features (development support):
12133 - Developers can now generate a call-graph for Tor using the
12134 "calltool" python program, which post-processes object dumps. It
12135 should work okay on many Linux and OSX platforms, and might work
12136 elsewhere too. To run it, install calltool from
12137 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/nickm/calltool.git and run
12138 "make callgraph". Closes ticket 19307.
12140 o Minor features (ed25519):
12141 - Add validation function to checks for torsion components in
12142 ed25519 public keys, used by prop224 client-side code. Closes
12143 ticket 22006. Math help by Ian Goldberg.
12145 o Minor features (exit relay, DNS):
12146 - Improve the clarity and safety of the log message from evdns when
12147 receiving an apparently spoofed DNS reply. Closes ticket 3056.
12149 o Minor features (integration, hardening):
12150 - Add a new NoExec option to prevent Tor from running other
12151 programs. When this option is set to 1, Tor will never try to run
12152 another program, regardless of the settings of
12153 PortForwardingHelper, ClientTransportPlugin, or
12154 ServerTransportPlugin. Once NoExec is set, it cannot be disabled
12155 without restarting Tor. Closes ticket 22976.
12157 o Minor features (logging):
12158 - Improve the warning message for specifying a relay by nickname.
12159 The previous message implied that nickname registration was still
12160 part of the Tor network design, which it isn't. Closes
12162 - If the sandbox filter fails to load, suggest to the user that
12163 their kernel might not support seccomp2. Closes ticket 23090.
12165 o Minor features (portability):
12166 - Check at configure time whether uint8_t is the same type as
12167 unsigned char. Lots of existing code already makes this
12168 assumption, and there could be strict aliasing issues if the
12169 assumption is violated. Closes ticket 22410.
12171 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
12172 - Reject attempts to use relative file paths when RunAsDaemon is
12173 set. Previously, Tor would accept these, but the directory-
12174 changing step of RunAsDaemon would give strange and/or confusing
12175 results. Closes ticket 22731.
12177 o Minor features (startup, safety):
12178 - When configured to write a PID file, Tor now exits if it is unable
12179 to do so. Previously, it would warn and continue. Closes
12182 o Minor features (static analysis):
12183 - The BUG() macro has been changed slightly so that Coverity no
12184 longer complains about dead code if the bug is impossible. Closes
12187 o Minor features (testing):
12188 - The default chutney network tests now include tests for the v3
12189 hidden service design. Make sure you have the latest version of
12190 chutney if you want to run these. Closes ticket 22437.
12191 - Add a unit test to verify that we can parse a hardcoded v2 hidden
12192 service descriptor. Closes ticket 15554.
12194 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
12195 - Fix a time handling bug in Tor certificates set to expire after
12196 the year 2106. Fixes bug 23055; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Found by
12197 Coverity as CID 1415728.
12199 o Minor bugfixes (client, usability):
12200 - Refrain from needlessly rejecting SOCKS5-with-hostnames and
12201 SOCKS4a requests that contain IP address strings, even when
12202 SafeSocks in enabled, as this prevents user from connecting to
12203 known IP addresses without relying on DNS for resolving. SafeSocks
12204 still rejects SOCKS connections that connect to IP addresses when
12205 those addresses are _not_ encoded as hostnames. Fixes bug 22461;
12206 bugfix on Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha.
12208 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
12209 - Call htons() in extend_cell_format() for encoding a 16-bit value.
12210 Previously we used ntohs(), which happens to behave the same on
12211 all the platforms we support, but which isn't really correct.
12212 Fixes bug 23106; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
12213 - For defense-in-depth, make the controller's write_escaped_data()
12214 function robust to extremely long inputs. Fixes bug 19281; bugfix
12215 on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Reported by Guido Vranken.
12217 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
12218 - Fix unused-variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
12219 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12221 o Minor bugfixes (consensus expiry):
12222 - Check for adequate directory information correctly. Previously, Tor
12223 would reconsider whether it had sufficient directory information
12224 every 2 minutes. Fixes bug 23091; bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
12226 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
12227 - Directory servers now include a "Date:" http header for response
12228 codes other than 200. Clients starting with a skewed clock and a
12229 recent consensus were getting "304 Not modified" responses from
12230 directory authorities, so without the Date header, the client
12231 would never hear about a wrong clock. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix
12233 - Make clients wait for 6 seconds before trying to download a
12234 consensus from an authority. Fixes bug 17750; bugfix
12237 o Minor bugfixes (DoS-resistance):
12238 - If future code asks if there are any running bridges, without
12239 checking if bridges are enabled, log a BUG warning rather than
12240 crashing. Fixes bug 23524; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12242 o Minor bugfixes (format strictness):
12243 - Restrict several data formats to decimal. Previously, the
12244 BuildTimeHistogram entries in the state file, the "bw=" entries in
12245 the bandwidth authority file, and the process IDs passed to the
12246 __OwningControllerProcess option could all be specified in hex or
12247 octal as well as in decimal. This was not an intentional feature.
12248 Fixes bug 22802; bugfixes on 0.2.2.1-alpha, 0.2.2.2-alpha,
12251 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
12252 - If we fail to write a heartbeat message, schedule a retry for the
12253 minimum heartbeat interval number of seconds in the future. Fixes
12254 bug 19476; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
12256 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, logging):
12257 - Fix some messages on unexpected errors from the seccomp2 library.
12258 Fixes bug 22750; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
12260 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
12261 - Remove duplicate log messages regarding opening non-local
12262 SocksPorts upon parsing config and opening listeners at startup.
12263 Fixes bug 4019; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
12264 - Use a more comprehensible log message when telling the user
12265 they've excluded every running exit node. Fixes bug 7890; bugfix
12267 - When logging the number of descriptors we intend to download per
12268 directory request, do not log a number higher than then the number
12269 of descriptors we're fetching in total. Fixes bug 19648; bugfix
12271 - When warning about a directory owned by the wrong user, log the
12272 actual name of the user owning the directory. Previously, we'd log
12273 the name of the process owner twice. Fixes bug 23487; bugfix
12275 - The tor specification says hop counts are 1-based, so fix two log
12276 messages that mistakenly logged 0-based hop counts. Fixes bug
12277 18982; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha and 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by teor.
12278 Credit to Xiaofan Li for reporting this issue.
12280 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
12281 - Stop using the PATH_MAX variable, which is not defined on GNU
12282 Hurd. Fixes bug 23098; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12284 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
12285 - When uploading our descriptor for the first time after startup,
12286 report the reason for uploading as "Tor just started" rather than
12287 leaving it blank. Fixes bug 22885; bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
12288 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
12289 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
12290 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
12291 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12293 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
12294 - Fix a broken unit test for the OutboundAddress option: the parsing
12295 function was never returning an error on failure. Fixes bug 23366;
12296 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
12297 - Fix a signed-integer overflow in the unit tests for
12298 dir/download_status_random_backoff, which was untriggered until we
12299 fixed bug 17750. Fixes bug 22924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12301 o Minor bugfixes (usability, control port):
12302 - Stop making an unnecessary routerlist check in NETINFO clock skew
12303 detection; this was preventing clients from reporting NETINFO clock
12304 skew to controllers. Fixes bug 23532; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
12306 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12307 - Extract the code for handling newly-open channels into a separate
12308 function from the general code to handle channel state
12309 transitions. This change simplifies our callgraph, reducing the
12310 size of the largest strongly connected component by roughly a
12311 factor of two. Closes ticket 22608.
12312 - Remove dead code for largely unused statistics on the number of
12313 times we've attempted various public key operations. Fixes bug
12314 19871; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. Fix by Isis Lovecruft.
12315 - Remove several now-obsolete functions for asking about old
12316 variants directory authority status. Closes ticket 22311; patch
12318 - Remove some of the code that once supported "Named" and "Unnamed"
12319 routers. Authorities no longer vote for these flags. Closes
12321 - Rename the obsolete malleable hybrid_encrypt functions used in TAP
12322 and old hidden services, to indicate that they aren't suitable for
12323 new protocols or formats. Closes ticket 23026.
12324 - Replace our STRUCT_OFFSET() macro with offsetof(). Closes ticket
12325 22521. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
12326 - Split the enormous circuit_send_next_onion_skin() function into
12327 multiple subfunctions. Closes ticket 22804.
12328 - Split the portions of the buffer.c module that handle particular
12329 protocols into separate modules. Part of ticket 23149.
12330 - Use our test macros more consistently, to produce more useful
12331 error messages when our unit tests fail. Add coccinelle patches to
12332 allow us to re-check for test macro uses. Closes ticket 22497.
12334 o Deprecated features:
12335 - Deprecate HTTPProxy/HTTPProxyAuthenticator config options. They
12336 only applies to direct unencrypted HTTP connections to your
12337 directory server, which your Tor probably isn't using. Closes
12341 - Clarify in the manual that "Sandbox 1" is only supported on Linux
12342 kernels. Closes ticket 22677.
12343 - Document all values of PublishServerDescriptor in the manpage.
12344 Closes ticket 15645.
12345 - Improve the documentation for the directory port part of the
12346 DirAuthority line. Closes ticket 20152.
12347 - Restore documentation for the authorities' "approved-routers"
12348 file. Closes ticket 21148.
12350 o Removed features:
12351 - The AllowDotExit option has been removed as unsafe. It has been
12352 deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 23426.
12353 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can no longer be set on
12354 non-testing networks. It has been deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha.
12355 Closes ticket 21031.
12356 - The controller API no longer includes an AUTHDIR_NEWDESCS event:
12357 nobody was using it any longer. Closes ticket 22377.
12360 Changes in version 0.2.8.15 - 2017-09-18
12361 Tor 0.2.8.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
12364 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
12365 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
12366 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
12367 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
12369 Note that Tor 0.2.8.x will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
12370 2018. We suggest that you upgrade to the latest stable release if
12371 possible. If you can't, we recommend that you upgrade at least to
12372 0.2.9, which will be supported until 2020.
12374 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12375 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
12376 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
12377 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
12378 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
12381 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12384 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12385 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
12386 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
12389 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
12390 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
12391 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
12392 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
12393 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
12394 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
12395 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
12396 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
12397 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
12399 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12400 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
12401 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
12402 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
12403 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
12404 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
12405 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
12406 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
12407 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
12410 Changes in version 0.2.9.12 - 2017-09-18
12411 Tor 0.2.9.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
12414 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
12415 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
12416 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
12417 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
12419 o Major features (security, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
12420 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
12421 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
12422 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
12423 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
12424 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
12425 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
12427 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
12428 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
12429 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
12430 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
12432 o Major bugfixes (DNS, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
12433 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
12434 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
12436 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12437 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
12438 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12439 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
12441 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12442 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
12443 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
12444 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
12445 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
12447 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
12448 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
12449 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
12450 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
12452 o Minor features (geoip):
12453 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12456 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12457 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
12458 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
12459 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
12461 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12462 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
12463 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12464 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt support
12465 on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12466 - When building with certain versions the mingw C header files, avoid
12467 float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions isfinite(),
12468 isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12470 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
12471 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for running tor_sscanf()
12472 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
12474 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12475 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
12476 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
12479 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
12480 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
12481 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
12482 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an
12483 empty body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12485 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12486 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
12487 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
12488 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
12489 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
12490 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12492 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
12493 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
12494 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
12495 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
12496 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
12497 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
12498 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
12499 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
12500 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
12502 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12503 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
12504 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
12505 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
12507 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12508 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
12509 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12511 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
12512 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
12513 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
12514 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
12515 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12517 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
12518 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
12519 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
12522 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12523 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
12524 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
12525 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
12526 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
12528 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12529 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
12530 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
12531 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
12532 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
12533 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
12534 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
12535 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
12536 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
12539 Changes in version 0.3.0.11 - 2017-09-18
12540 Tor 0.3.0.11 backports a collection of bugfixes from Tor the 0.3.1
12543 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
12544 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
12545 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
12546 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
12548 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.7):
12549 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
12550 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
12551 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
12554 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12557 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
12558 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
12559 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
12561 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
12562 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
12563 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
12564 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
12565 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12567 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12568 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
12569 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
12570 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
12572 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
12573 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
12574 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
12576 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
12577 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
12578 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
12579 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
12582 Changes in version 0.3.1.7 - 2017-09-18
12583 Tor 0.3.1.7 is the first stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
12585 With the 0.3.1 series, Tor now serves and downloads directory
12586 information in more compact formats, to save on bandwidth overhead. It
12587 also contains a new padding system to resist netflow-based traffic
12588 analysis, and experimental support for building parts of Tor in Rust
12589 (though no parts of Tor are in Rust yet). There are also numerous
12590 small features, bugfixes on earlier release series, and groundwork for
12591 the hidden services revamp of 0.3.2.
12593 This release also includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a security bug
12594 that affects hidden services running with the SafeLogging option
12595 disabled. For more information, see
12596 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
12598 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
12599 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
12600 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
12601 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
12602 with the 0.2.9 series.
12604 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.1.6-rc. For a list of all
12605 changes since 0.3.0, see the ReleaseNotes file.
12607 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden services, loggging):
12608 - Fix a bug where we could log uninitialized stack when a certain
12609 hidden service error occurred while SafeLogging was disabled.
12610 Fixes bug #23490; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This is also tracked as
12611 TROVE-2017-008 and CVE-2017-0380.
12613 o Minor features (defensive programming):
12614 - Create a pair of consensus parameters, nf_pad_tor2web and
12615 nf_pad_single_onion, to disable netflow padding in the consensus
12616 for non-anonymous connections in case the overhead is high. Closes
12619 o Minor features (diagnostic):
12620 - Add a stack trace to the bug warnings that can be logged when
12621 trying to send an outgoing relay cell with n_chan == 0. Diagnostic
12622 attempt for bug 23105.
12624 o Minor features (geoip):
12625 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12628 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
12629 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
12630 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
12632 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
12633 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
12634 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
12635 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
12636 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12638 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
12639 - Inform the geoip and rephist modules about all requests, even on
12640 relays that are only fetching microdescriptors. Fixes a bug
12641 related to 21585; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12643 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
12644 - Fix a channelpadding unit test failure on slow systems by using
12645 mocked time instead of actual time. Fixes bug 23077; bugfix
12649 Changes in version 0.3.1.6-rc - 2017-09-05
12650 Tor 0.3.1.6-rc fixes a few small bugs and annoyances in the 0.3.1
12651 release series, including a bug that produced weird behavior on
12652 Windows directory caches.
12654 This is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.3.1 series. If we
12655 find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.3.1 release
12656 will be nearly identical to it.
12658 o Major bugfixes (windows, directory cache):
12659 - On Windows, do not try to delete cached consensus documents and
12660 diffs before they are unmapped from memory--Windows won't allow
12661 that. Instead, allow the consensus cache directory to grow larger,
12662 to hold files that might need to stay around longer. Fixes bug
12663 22752; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12665 o Minor features (directory authority):
12666 - Improve the message that authorities report to relays that present
12667 RSA/Ed25519 keypairs that conflict with previously pinned keys.
12668 Closes ticket 22348.
12670 o Minor features (geoip):
12671 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 3 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12674 o Minor features (testing):
12675 - Add more tests for compression backend initialization. Closes
12678 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
12679 - Fix a memory leak when recovering space in the consensus cache.
12680 Fixes bug 23139; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12682 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
12683 - Increase the number of circuits that a service is allowed to
12684 open over a specific period of time. The value was lower than it
12685 should be (8 vs 12) in the normal case of 3 introduction points.
12686 Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc.
12687 - Fix a BUG warning during HSv3 descriptor decoding that could be
12688 cause by a specially crafted descriptor. Fixes bug 23233; bugfix
12689 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Bug found by "haxxpop".
12690 - Rate-limit the log messages if we exceed the maximum number of
12691 allowed intro circuits. Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12693 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
12694 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
12695 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
12697 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
12698 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
12699 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
12700 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
12702 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
12703 - When a relay is not running as a directory cache, it will no
12704 longer generate compressed consensuses and consensus diff
12705 information. Previously, this was a waste of disk and CPU. Fixes
12706 bug 23275; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12708 o Minor bugfixes (robustness, error handling):
12709 - Improve our handling of the cases where OpenSSL encounters a
12710 memory error while encoding keys and certificates. We haven't
12711 observed these errors in the wild, but if they do happen, we now
12712 detect and respond better. Fixes bug 19418; bugfix on all versions
12713 of Tor. Reported by Guido Vranken.
12715 o Minor bugfixes (stability):
12716 - Avoid crashing on a double-free when unable to load or process an
12717 included file. Fixes bug 23155; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
12718 with the clang static analyzer.
12720 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12721 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
12722 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
12723 - Port the hs_ntor handshake test to work correctly with recent
12724 versions of the pysha3 module. Fixes bug 23071; bugfix
12727 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service):
12728 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
12729 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
12730 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
12731 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
12732 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
12733 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
12736 Changes in version 0.3.0.10 - 2017-08-02
12737 Tor 0.3.0.10 backports a collection of small-to-medium bugfixes
12738 from the current Tor alpha series. OpenBSD users and TPROXY users
12739 should upgrade; others are probably okay sticking with 0.3.0.9.
12741 o Major features (build system, continuous integration, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12742 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
12743 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
12744 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
12745 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
12746 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
12747 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
12748 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
12749 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
12751 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12752 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
12753 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12754 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
12756 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12757 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
12758 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
12759 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
12760 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
12762 o Minor features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12763 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12766 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
12767 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
12768 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
12769 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
12771 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12772 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
12773 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12774 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
12775 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12776 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
12777 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
12778 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
12781 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12782 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
12783 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
12786 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12787 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
12788 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
12789 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
12790 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
12791 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12793 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12794 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
12795 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
12796 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
12798 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12799 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
12800 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12802 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha)
12803 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
12804 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12807 Changes in version 0.3.1.5-alpha - 2017-08-01
12808 Tor 0.3.1.5-alpha improves the performance of consensus diff
12809 calculation, fixes a crash bug on older versions of OpenBSD, and fixes
12810 several other bugs. If no serious bugs are found in this version, the
12811 next version will be a release candidate.
12813 This release also marks the end of support for the Tor 0.2.4.x,
12814 0.2.6.x, and 0.2.7.x release series. Those releases will receive no
12815 further bug or security fixes. Anyone still running or distributing
12816 one of those versions should upgrade.
12818 o Major features (build system, continuous integration):
12819 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
12820 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
12821 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
12822 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
12823 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
12824 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
12825 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
12826 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
12828 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service):
12829 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
12830 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
12831 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
12832 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
12834 o Major bugfixes (relay, performance):
12835 - Perform circuit handshake operations at a higher priority than we
12836 use for consensus diff creation and compression. This should
12837 prevent circuits from starving when a relay or bridge receives a
12838 new consensus, especially on lower-powered machines. Fixes bug
12839 22883; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12841 o Minor features (bridge authority):
12842 - Add "fingerprint" lines to the networkstatus-bridges file produced
12843 by bridge authorities. Closes ticket 22207.
12845 o Minor features (directory cache, consensus diff):
12846 - Add a new MaxConsensusAgeForDiffs option to allow directory cache
12847 operators with low-resource environments to adjust the number of
12848 consensuses they'll store and generate diffs from. Most cache
12849 operators should leave it unchanged. Helps to work around
12852 o Minor features (geoip):
12853 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12856 o Minor features (relay, performance):
12857 - Always start relays with at least two worker threads, to prevent
12858 priority inversion on slow tasks. Part of the fix for bug 22883.
12859 - Allow background work to be queued with different priorities, so
12860 that a big pile of slow low-priority jobs will not starve out
12861 higher priority jobs. This lays the groundwork for a fix for
12864 o Minor bugfixes (build system, rust):
12865 - Fix a problem where Rust toolchains were not being found when
12866 building without --enable-cargo-online-mode, due to setting the
12867 $HOME environment variable instead of $CARGO_HOME. Fixes bug
12868 22830; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fix by Chelsea Komlo.
12870 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, zstd):
12871 - Write zstd epilogues correctly when the epilogue requires
12872 reallocation of the output buffer, even with zstd 1.3.0.
12873 (Previously, we worked on 1.2.0 and failed with 1.3.0). Fixes bug
12874 22927; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12876 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings):
12877 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug
12878 22915; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12879 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
12880 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12881 - Compile correctly when both openssl 1.1.0 and libscrypt are
12882 detected. Previously this would cause an error. Fixes bug 22892;
12883 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12884 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
12885 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
12886 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
12889 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support):
12890 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
12891 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
12892 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
12893 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
12894 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12896 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
12897 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
12898 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
12899 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
12900 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
12901 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
12902 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
12903 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
12906 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting, windows):
12907 - When formatting Windows error messages, use the English format to
12908 avoid codepage issues. Fixes bug 22520; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-alpha.
12911 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx):
12912 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
12913 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
12914 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
12916 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12917 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
12918 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12920 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
12921 - Fix a small memory leak when validating a configuration that uses
12922 two or more AF_UNIX sockets for the same port type. Fixes bug
12923 23053; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. This is CID 1415725.
12925 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
12926 - test_consdiff_base64cmp would fail on OS X because while OS X
12927 follows the standard of (less than zero/zero/greater than zero),
12928 it doesn't follow the convention of (-1/0/+1). Make the test
12929 comply with the standard. Fixes bug 22870; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12930 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
12931 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12934 Changes in version 0.3.1.4-alpha - 2017-06-29
12935 Tor 0.3.1.4-alpha fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
12936 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
12937 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
12938 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9
12941 This release also fixes several other bugs introduced in 0.3.0.x
12942 and 0.3.1.x, including others that can affect bandwidth usage
12945 o New dependencies:
12946 - To build with zstd and lzma support, Tor now requires the
12947 pkg-config tool at build time. (This requirement was new in
12948 0.3.1.1-alpha, but was not noted at the time. Noting it here to
12949 close ticket 22623.)
12951 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security):
12952 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
12953 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
12954 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
12955 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
12956 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
12958 o Major bugfixes (compression, zstd):
12959 - Correctly detect a full buffer when decompressing a large zstd-
12960 compressed input. Previously, we would sometimes treat a full
12961 buffer as an error. Fixes bug 22628; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12963 o Major bugfixes (directory protocol):
12964 - Ensure that we send "304 Not modified" as HTTP status code when a
12965 client is attempting to fetch a consensus or consensus diff, and
12966 the best one we can send them is one they already have. Fixes bug
12967 22702; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12969 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
12970 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
12971 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
12972 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12974 o Minor features (bug mitigation, diagnostics, logging):
12975 - Avoid an assertion failure, and log a better error message, when
12976 unable to remove a file from the consensus cache on Windows.
12977 Attempts to mitigate and diagnose bug 22752.
12979 o Minor features (geoip):
12980 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12983 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
12984 - When compressing or decompressing a buffer, check for a failure to
12985 create a compression object. Fixes bug 22626; bugfix
12987 - When decompressing a buffer, check for extra data after the end of
12988 the compressed data. Fixes bug 22629; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12989 - When decompressing an object received over an anonymous directory
12990 connection, if we have already decompressed it using an acceptable
12991 compression method, do not reject it for looking like an
12992 unacceptable compression method. Fixes part of bug 22670; bugfix
12994 - When serving directory votes compressed with zlib, do not claim to
12995 have compressed them with zstd. Fixes bug 22669; bugfix
12997 - When spooling compressed data to an output buffer, don't try to
12998 spool more data when there is no more data to spool and we are not
12999 trying to flush the input. Previously, we would sometimes launch
13000 compression requests with nothing to do, which interferes with our
13001 22672 checks. Fixes bug 22719; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
13003 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming):
13004 - Detect and break out of infinite loops in our compression code. We
13005 don't think that any such loops exist now, but it's best to be
13006 safe. Closes ticket 22672.
13007 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
13008 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
13009 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
13010 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
13011 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
13012 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
13013 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
13014 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
13016 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13017 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
13018 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
13019 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
13020 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13021 - Fix a crash in the LZMA module, when the sandbox was enabled, and
13022 liblzma would allocate more than 16 MB of memory. We solve this by
13023 bumping the mprotect() limit in the sandbox module from 16 MB to
13024 20 MB. Fixes bug 22751; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13026 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
13027 - When decompressing, do not warn if we fail to decompress using a
13028 compression method that we merely guessed. Fixes part of bug
13029 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
13030 - When decompressing, treat mismatch between content-encoding and
13031 actual compression type as a protocol warning. Fixes part of bug
13032 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
13033 - Downgrade "assigned_to_cpuworker failed" message to info-level
13034 severity. In every case that can reach it, either a better warning
13035 has already been logged, or no warning is warranted. Fixes bug
13036 22356; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13037 - Demote a warn that was caused by libevent delays to info if
13038 netflow padding is less than 4.5 seconds late, or to notice
13039 if it is more (4.5 seconds is the amount of time that a netflow
13040 record might be emitted after, if we chose the maximum timeout).
13041 Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13043 o Minor bugfixes (process behavior):
13044 - When exiting because of an error, always exit with a nonzero exit
13045 status. Previously, we would fail to report an error in our exit
13046 status in cases related to __OwningControllerProcess failure,
13047 lockfile contention, and Ed25519 key initialization. Fixes bug
13048 22720; bugfix on versions 0.2.1.6-alpha, 0.2.2.28-beta, and
13049 0.2.7.2-alpha respectively. Reported by "f55jwk4f"; patch
13053 - Add a manpage description for the key-pinning-journal file. Closes
13055 - Correctly note that bandwidth accounting values are stored in the
13056 state file, and the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. Closes
13058 - Document more of the files in the Tor data directory, including
13059 cached-extrainfo, secret_onion_key{,_ntor}.old, hidserv-stats,
13060 approved-routers, sr-random, and diff-cache. Found while fixing
13064 Changes in version 0.3.0.9 - 2017-06-29
13065 Tor 0.3.0.9 fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
13066 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
13067 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
13068 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9 or
13071 This release also backports several other bugfixes from the 0.3.1.x
13074 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13075 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
13076 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
13077 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
13078 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
13079 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
13081 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13082 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
13083 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
13084 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
13086 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13087 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
13088 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
13089 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13091 o Minor features (geoip):
13092 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13095 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13096 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
13097 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
13098 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
13099 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
13101 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13102 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
13103 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
13104 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
13105 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13107 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13108 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
13109 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
13110 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
13111 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
13112 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
13113 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
13114 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
13115 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
13118 Changes in version 0.3.1.3-alpha - 2017-06-08
13119 Tor 0.3.1.3-alpha fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
13120 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13121 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13122 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
13124 Tor 0.3.1.3-alpha also includes fixes for several key management bugs
13125 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
13126 bugfixes described below.
13128 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
13129 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
13130 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
13131 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13132 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13133 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13134 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13137 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake):
13138 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
13139 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
13140 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
13141 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
13142 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
13143 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
13146 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management):
13147 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
13148 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
13149 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
13150 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
13151 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
13152 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
13153 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13154 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
13155 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
13156 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
13157 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
13158 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
13161 o Major bugfixes (torrc, crash):
13162 - Fix a crash bug when using %include in torrc. Fixes bug 22417;
13163 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
13165 o Minor features (code style):
13166 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
13167 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
13168 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
13170 o Minor features (diagnostic):
13171 - Add logging messages to try to diagnose a rare bug that seems to
13172 generate RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificates dated in the 1970s. We
13173 think this is happening because of incorrect system clocks, but
13174 we'd like to know for certain. Diagnostic for bug 22466.
13176 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13177 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13178 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13180 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
13181 - Check for libzstd >= 1.1, because older versions lack the
13182 necessary streaming API. Fixes bug 22413; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13184 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake):
13185 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
13186 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
13187 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
13188 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
13189 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
13190 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13192 o Minor bugfixes (storage directories):
13193 - Always check for underflows in the cached storage directory usage.
13194 If the usage does underflow, re-calculate it. Also, avoid a
13195 separate underflow when the usage is not known. Fixes bug 22424;
13196 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13198 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
13199 - The unit tests now pass on systems where localhost is misconfigured
13200 to some IPv4 address other than 127.0.0.1. Fixes bug 6298; bugfix
13204 - Clarify the manpage for the (deprecated) torify script. Closes
13207 Changes in version 0.3.0.8 - 2017-06-08
13208 Tor 0.3.0.8 fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
13209 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13210 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13211 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
13213 Tor 0.3.0.8 also includes fixes for several key management bugs
13214 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
13215 bugfixes described below.
13217 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
13218 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13219 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
13220 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
13221 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13222 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13223 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13224 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13227 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13228 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
13229 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
13230 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
13231 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
13232 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
13233 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
13236 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13237 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
13238 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
13239 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
13240 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
13241 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
13242 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
13243 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13244 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
13245 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
13246 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
13247 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
13248 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
13251 o Major bugfixes (hidden service v3, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13252 - Stop rejecting v3 hidden service descriptors because their size
13253 did not match an old padding rule. Fixes bug 22447; bugfix on
13256 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13257 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
13258 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
13259 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
13260 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
13262 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13263 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
13264 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
13266 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13267 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13268 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13270 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13271 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
13272 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
13273 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
13274 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
13275 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
13276 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13278 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport from
13280 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
13281 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
13282 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13285 Changes in version 0.2.9.11 - 2017-06-08
13286 Tor 0.2.9.11 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
13287 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13288 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13289 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
13290 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
13292 Tor 0.2.9.11 also backports fixes for several key management bugs
13293 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
13294 bugfixes described below.
13296 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
13297 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13298 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13299 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13300 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13303 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13304 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
13305 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
13306 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
13307 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
13308 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
13309 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
13312 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13313 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
13314 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
13315 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
13316 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
13318 o Minor features (future-proofing, backport from 0.3.0.7):
13319 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors if
13320 they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
13321 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
13322 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
13323 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
13324 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
13326 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.0.4-rc)
13327 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
13328 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
13329 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
13330 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
13332 o Minor features (geoip):
13333 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13336 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.0.6):
13337 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
13338 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
13339 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13341 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13342 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13343 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13345 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.0.7):
13346 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
13347 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
13348 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
13349 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
13352 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport
13353 from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
13354 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
13355 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
13356 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13358 Changes in version 0.2.8.14 - 2017-06-08
13359 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
13360 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13361 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13362 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
13363 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
13365 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
13366 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13367 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13368 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13371 o Minor features (geoip):
13372 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13375 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13376 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
13377 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
13378 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
13379 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
13381 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13382 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13383 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13385 Changes in version 0.2.7.8 - 2017-06-08
13386 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
13387 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13388 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13389 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
13390 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
13392 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
13393 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13394 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13395 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13398 o Minor features (geoip):
13399 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13402 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13403 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13404 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13407 Changes in version 0.2.6.12 - 2017-06-08
13408 Tor 0.2.6.12 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
13409 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13410 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13411 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
13412 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
13414 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
13415 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13416 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13417 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13420 o Minor features (geoip):
13421 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13424 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13425 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13426 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13428 Changes in version 0.2.5.14 - 2017-06-08
13429 Tor 0.2.5.14 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
13430 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13431 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13432 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
13433 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
13435 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
13436 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13437 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13438 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13441 o Minor features (geoip):
13442 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13445 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13446 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13447 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13449 Changes in version 0.2.4.29 - 2017-06-08
13450 Tor 0.2.4.29 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
13451 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13452 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13453 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
13454 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
13456 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
13457 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13458 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13459 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13462 o Minor features (geoip):
13463 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13466 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13467 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13468 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13471 Changes in version 0.3.1.2-alpha - 2017-05-26
13472 Tor 0.3.1.2-alpha is the second release in the 0.3.1.x series. It
13473 fixes a few bugs found while testing 0.3.1.1-alpha, including a
13474 memory corruption bug that affected relay stability.
13476 o Major bugfixes (crash, relay):
13477 - Fix a memory-corruption bug in relays that set MyFamily.
13478 Previously, they would double-free MyFamily elements when making
13479 the next descriptor or when changing their configuration. Fixes
13480 bug 22368; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13482 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
13483 - Log a better message when a directory authority replies to an
13484 upload with an unexpected status code. Fixes bug 11121; bugfix
13487 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority):
13488 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
13489 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
13490 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13493 Changes in version 0.3.1.1-alpha - 2017-05-22
13494 Tor 0.3.1.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.1.x series. It
13495 reduces the bandwidth usage for Tor's directory protocol, adds some
13496 basic padding to resist netflow-based traffic analysis and to serve as
13497 the basis of other padding in the future, and adds rust support to the
13500 It also contains numerous other small features and improvements to
13501 security, correctness, and performance.
13503 Below are the changes since 0.3.0.7.
13505 o Major features (directory protocol):
13506 - Tor relays and authorities can now serve clients an abbreviated
13507 version of the consensus document, containing only the changes
13508 since an older consensus document that the client holds. Clients
13509 now request these documents when available. When both client and
13510 server use this new protocol, they will use far less bandwidth (up
13511 to 94% less) to keep the client's consensus up-to-date. Implements
13512 proposal 140; closes ticket 13339. Based on work by Daniel Martí.
13513 - Tor can now compress directory traffic with lzma or with zstd
13514 compression algorithms, which can deliver better bandwidth
13515 performance. Because lzma is computationally expensive, it's only
13516 used for documents that can be compressed once and served many
13517 times. Support for these algorithms requires that tor is built
13518 with the libzstd and/or liblzma libraries available. Implements
13519 proposal 278; closes ticket 21662.
13520 - Relays now perform the more expensive compression operations, and
13521 consensus diff generation, in worker threads. This separation
13522 avoids delaying the main thread when a new consensus arrives.
13524 o Major features (experimental):
13525 - Tor can now build modules written in Rust. To turn this on, pass
13526 the "--enable-rust" flag to the configure script. It's not time to
13527 get excited yet: currently, there is no actual Rust functionality
13528 beyond some simple glue code, and a notice at startup to tell you
13529 that Rust is running. Still, we hope that programmers and
13530 packagers will try building Tor with Rust support, so that we can
13531 find issues and solve portability problems. Closes ticket 22106.
13533 o Major features (traffic analysis resistance):
13534 - Connections between clients and relays now send a padding cell in
13535 each direction every 1.5 to 9.5 seconds (tunable via consensus
13536 parameters). This padding will not resist specialized
13537 eavesdroppers, but it should be enough to make many ISPs' routine
13538 network flow logging less useful in traffic analysis against
13541 Padding is negotiated using Tor's link protocol, so both relays
13542 and clients must upgrade for this to take effect. Clients may
13543 still send padding despite the relay's version by setting
13544 ConnectionPadding 1 in torrc, and may disable padding by setting
13545 ConnectionPadding 0 in torrc. Padding may be minimized for mobile
13546 users with the torrc option ReducedConnectionPadding. Implements
13547 Proposal 251 and Section 2 of Proposal 254; closes ticket 16861.
13548 - Relays will publish 24 hour totals of padding and non-padding cell
13549 counts to their extra-info descriptors, unless PaddingStatistics 0
13550 is set in torrc. These 24 hour totals are also rounded to
13551 multiples of 10000.
13553 o Major bugfixes (connection usage):
13554 - We use NETINFO cells to try to determine if both relays involved
13555 in a connection will agree on the canonical status of that
13556 connection. We prefer the connections where this is the case for
13557 extend cells, and try to close connections where relays disagree
13558 on their canonical status early. Also, we now prefer the oldest
13559 valid connection for extend cells. These two changes should reduce
13560 the number of long-term connections that are kept open between
13561 relays. Fixes bug 17604; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
13562 - Relays now log hourly statistics (look for
13563 "channel_check_for_duplicates" lines) on the total number of
13564 connections to other relays. If the number of connections per
13565 relay is unexpectedly large, this log message is at notice level.
13566 Otherwise it is at info.
13568 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
13569 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
13570 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
13571 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
13573 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support):
13574 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
13575 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13576 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
13578 o Minor features (security, windows):
13579 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
13580 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
13581 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
13582 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
13583 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
13585 o Minor features (config options):
13586 - Allow "%include" directives in torrc configuration files. These
13587 directives import the settings from other files, or from all the
13588 files in a directory. Closes ticket 1922. Code by Daniel Pinto.
13589 - Make SAVECONF return an error when overwriting a torrc that has
13590 includes. Using SAVECONF with the FORCE option will allow it to
13591 overwrite torrc even if includes are used. Related to ticket 1922.
13592 - Add "GETINFO config-can-saveconf" to tell controllers if SAVECONF
13593 will work without the FORCE option. Related to ticket 1922.
13595 o Minor features (controller):
13596 - Warn the first time that a controller requests data in the long-
13597 deprecated 'GETINFO network-status' format. Closes ticket 21703.
13599 o Minor features (defaults):
13600 - The default value for UseCreateFast is now 0: clients which
13601 haven't yet received a consensus document will now use a proper
13602 ntor handshake to talk to their directory servers whenever they
13603 can. Closes ticket 21407.
13604 - Onion key rotation and expiry intervals are now defined as a
13605 network consensus parameter, per proposal 274. The default
13606 lifetime of an onion key is increased from 7 to 28 days. Old onion
13607 keys will expire after 7 days by default. This change will make
13608 consensus diffs much smaller, and save significant bandwidth.
13609 Closes ticket 21641.
13611 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
13612 - Update the fallback directory mirror whitelist and blacklist based
13613 on operator emails. Closes task 21121.
13614 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
13615 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
13616 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
13617 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
13619 o Minor features (hidden services, logging):
13620 - Log a message when a hidden service descriptor has fewer
13621 introduction points than specified in
13622 HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints. Closes tickets 21598.
13623 - Log a message when a hidden service reaches its introduction point
13624 circuit limit, and when that limit is reset. Follow up to ticket
13625 21594; closes ticket 21622.
13626 - Warn user if multiple entries in EntryNodes and at least one
13627 HiddenService are used together. Pinning EntryNodes along with a
13628 hidden service can be possibly harmful; for instance see ticket
13629 14917 or 21155. Closes ticket 21155.
13631 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13632 - We now have a document storage backend compatible with the Linux
13633 seccomp2 sandbox. This backend is used for consensus documents and
13634 diffs between them; in the long term, we'd like to use it for
13635 unparseable directory material too. Closes ticket 21645
13636 - Increase the maximum allowed size passed to mprotect(PROT_WRITE)
13637 from 1MB to 16MB. This was necessary with the glibc allocator in
13638 order to allow worker threads to allocate more memory -- which in
13639 turn is necessary because of our new use of worker threads for
13640 compression. Closes ticket 22096.
13642 o Minor features (logging):
13643 - Log files are no longer created world-readable by default.
13644 (Previously, most distributors would store the logs in a non-
13645 world-readable location to prevent inappropriate access. This
13646 change is an extra precaution.) Closes ticket 21729; patch
13649 o Minor features (performance):
13650 - Our Keccak (SHA-3) implementation now accesses memory more
13651 efficiently, especially on little-endian systems. Closes
13653 - Add an O(1) implementation of channel_find_by_global_id(), to
13654 speed some controller functions.
13656 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
13657 - The MyFamily option may now be repeated as many times as desired,
13658 for relays that want to configure large families. Closes ticket
13659 4998; patch by Daniel Pinto.
13661 o Minor features (safety):
13662 - Add an explicit check to extrainfo_parse_entry_from_string() for
13663 NULL inputs. We don't believe this can actually happen, but it may
13664 help silence a warning from the Clang analyzer. Closes
13667 o Minor features (testing):
13668 - Add a "--disable-memory-sentinels" feature to help with fuzzing.
13669 When Tor is compiled with this option, we disable a number of
13670 redundant memory-safety failsafes that are intended to stop bugs
13671 from becoming security issues. This makes it easier to hunt for
13672 bugs that would be security issues without the failsafes turned
13673 on. Closes ticket 21439.
13674 - Add a general event-tracing instrumentation support to Tor. This
13675 subsystem will enable developers and researchers to add fine-
13676 grained instrumentation to their Tor instances, for use when
13677 examining Tor network performance issues. There are no trace
13678 events yet, and event-tracing is off by default unless enabled at
13679 compile time. Implements ticket 13802.
13680 - Improve our version parsing tests: add tests for typical version
13681 components, add tests for invalid versions, including numeric
13682 range and non-numeric prefixes. Unit tests 21278, 21450, and
13683 21507. Partially implements 21470.
13685 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting):
13686 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
13687 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
13688 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
13690 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
13691 - Accurately identify client connections by their lack of peer
13692 authentication. This means that we bail out earlier if asked to
13693 extend to a client. Follow-up to 21407. Fixes bug 21406; bugfix
13696 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
13697 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
13698 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
13700 o Minor bugfixes (connection lifespan):
13701 - Allow more control over how long TLS connections are kept open:
13702 unify CircuitIdleTimeout and PredictedPortsRelevanceTime into a
13703 single option called CircuitsAvailableTimeout. Also, allow the
13704 consensus to control the default values for both this preference
13705 and the lifespan of relay-to-relay connections. Fixes bug 17592;
13706 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
13707 - Increase the initial circuit build timeout testing frequency, to
13708 help ensure that ReducedConnectionPadding clients finish learning
13709 a timeout before their orconn would expire. The initial testing
13710 rate was set back in the days of TAP and before the Tor Browser
13711 updater, when we had to be much more careful about new clients
13712 making lots of circuits. With this change, a circuit build timeout
13713 is learned in about 15-20 minutes, instead of 100-120 minutes.
13715 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
13716 - GETINFO onions/current and onions/detached no longer respond with
13717 551 on empty lists. Fixes bug 21329; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13718 - Trigger HS descriptor events on the control port when the client
13719 fails to pick a hidden service directory for a hidden service.
13720 This can happen if all the hidden service directories are in
13721 ExcludeNodes, or they have all been queried within the last 15
13722 minutes. Fixes bug 22042; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
13724 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
13725 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
13726 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
13727 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
13728 - Prevent the shared randomness subsystem from asserting when
13729 initialized by a bridge authority with an incomplete configuration
13730 file. Fixes bug 21586; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
13732 o Minor bugfixes (exit-side DNS):
13733 - Fix an untriggerable assertion that checked the output of a
13734 libevent DNS error, so that the assertion actually behaves as
13735 expected. Fixes bug 22244; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by Andrey
13736 Karpov using PVS-Studio.
13738 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
13739 - Make the usage example in updateFallbackDirs.py actually work, and
13740 explain what it does. Fixes bug 22270; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
13741 - Decrease the guard flag average required to be a fallback. This
13742 allows us to keep relays that have their guard flag removed when
13743 they restart. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13744 - Decrease the minimum number of fallbacks to 100. Fixes bug 20913;
13745 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13746 - Make sure fallback directory mirrors have the same address, port,
13747 and relay identity key for at least 30 days before they are
13748 selected. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13750 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
13751 - Stop printing a cryptic warning when a hidden service gets a
13752 request to connect to a virtual port that it hasn't configured.
13753 Fixes bug 16706; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13754 - Simplify hidden service descriptor creation by using an existing
13755 flag to check if an introduction point is established. Fixes bug
13756 21599; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13758 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
13759 - Fix a small memory leak at exit from the backtrace handler code.
13760 Fixes bug 21788; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
13762 o Minor bugfixes (protocol, logging):
13763 - Downgrade a log statement about unexpected relay cells from "bug"
13764 to "protocol warning", because there is at least one use case
13765 where it can be triggered by a buggy tor implementation. Fixes bug
13766 21293; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
13768 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
13769 - Use unbuffered I/O for utility functions around the
13770 process_handle_t type. This fixes unit test failures reported on
13771 OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Fixes bug 21654; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13772 - Make display of captured unit test log messages consistent. Fixes
13773 bug 21510; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
13774 - Make test-network.sh always call chutney's test-network.sh.
13775 Previously, this only worked on systems which had bash installed,
13776 due to some bash-specific code in the script. Fixes bug 19699;
13777 bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc. Follow-up to ticket 21581.
13779 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency):
13780 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
13781 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
13782 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
13783 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
13785 o Minor bugfixes (windows, relay):
13786 - Resolve "Failure from drain_fd: No error" warnings on Windows
13787 relays. Fixes bug 21540; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13789 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13790 - Break up the 630-line function connection_dir_client_reached_eof()
13791 into a dozen smaller functions. This change should help
13792 maintainability and readability of the client directory code.
13793 - Isolate our use of the openssl headers so that they are only
13794 included from our crypto wrapper modules, and from tests that
13795 examine those modules' internals. Closes ticket 21841.
13796 - Simplify our API to launch directory requests, making it more
13797 extensible and less error-prone. Now it's easier to add extra
13798 headers to directory requests. Closes ticket 21646.
13799 - Our base64 decoding functions no longer overestimate the output
13800 space that they need when parsing unpadded inputs. Closes
13802 - Remove unused "ROUTER_ADDED_NOTIFY_GENERATOR" internal value.
13803 Resolves ticket 22213.
13804 - The logic that directory caches use to spool request to clients,
13805 serving them one part at a time so as not to allocate too much
13806 memory, has been refactored for consistency. Previously there was
13807 a separate spooling implementation per type of spoolable data. Now
13808 there is one common spooling implementation, with extensible data
13809 types. Closes ticket 21651.
13810 - Tor's compression module now supports multiple backends. Part of
13811 the implementation for proposal 278; closes ticket 21663.
13814 - Clarify the behavior of the KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth sub-option.
13815 Closes ticket 21873.
13816 - Correct documentation about the default DataDirectory value.
13817 Closes ticket 21151.
13818 - Document the default behavior of NumEntryGuards and
13819 NumDirectoryGuards correctly. Fixes bug 21715; bugfix
13821 - Document key=value pluggable transport arguments for Bridge lines
13822 in torrc. Fixes bug 20341; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13823 - Note that bandwidth-limiting options don't affect TCP headers or
13824 DNS. Closes ticket 17170.
13826 o Removed features (configuration options, all in ticket 22060):
13827 - These configuration options are now marked Obsolete, and no longer
13828 have any effect: AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
13829 AllowSingleHopExits, ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK,
13830 TLSECGroup, WarnUnsafeSocks. They were first marked as deprecated
13831 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and have now been removed. The previous default
13832 behavior is now always chosen; the previous (less secure) non-
13833 default behavior is now unavailable.
13834 - CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout and
13835 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout were deprecated in
13836 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. HS circuits never close
13837 on circuit build timeout; they have a longer timeout period.
13838 - {Control,DNS,Dir,Socks,Trans,NATD,OR}ListenAddress were deprecated
13839 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. Use the ORPort option
13840 (and others) to configure listen-only and advertise-only addresses.
13842 o Removed features (tools):
13843 - We've removed the tor-checkkey tool from src/tools. Long ago, we
13844 used it to help people detect RSA keys that were generated by
13845 versions of Debian affected by CVE-2008-0166. But those keys have
13846 been out of circulation for ages, and this tool is no longer
13847 required. Closes ticket 21842.
13850 Changes in version 0.3.0.7 - 2017-05-15
13851 Tor 0.3.0.7 fixes a medium-severity security bug in earlier versions
13852 of Tor 0.3.0.x, where an attacker could cause a Tor relay process
13853 to exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade;
13854 clients are not affected.
13856 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory, security):
13857 - Fix an assertion failure in the hidden service directory code, which
13858 could be used by an attacker to remotely cause a Tor relay process to
13859 exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade.
13860 should upgrade. This security issue is tracked as TROVE-2017-002.
13861 Fixes bug 22246; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13864 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13867 o Minor features (future-proofing):
13868 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors
13869 if they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
13870 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
13871 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
13872 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
13873 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
13875 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13876 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
13877 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
13878 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
13879 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
13883 Changes in version 0.3.0.6 - 2017-04-26
13884 Tor 0.3.0.6 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.3.0 series.
13886 With the 0.3.0 series, clients and relays now use Ed25519 keys to
13887 authenticate their link connections to relays, rather than the old
13888 RSA1024 keys that they used before. (Circuit crypto has been
13889 Curve25519-authenticated since 0.2.4.8-alpha.) We have also replaced
13890 the guard selection and replacement algorithm to behave more robustly
13891 in the presence of unreliable networks, and to resist guard-
13894 This series also includes numerous other small features and bugfixes,
13895 along with more groundwork for the upcoming hidden-services revamp.
13897 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support the Tor 0.3.0
13898 release series for at least the next nine months, or for three months
13899 after the first stable release of the 0.3.1 series: whichever is
13900 longer. If you need a release with long-term support, we recommend
13901 that you stay with the 0.2.9 series.
13903 Below are the changes since 0.3.0.5-rc. For a list of all changes
13904 since 0.2.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
13906 o Minor features (geoip):
13907 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13910 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
13911 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
13912 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
13913 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13915 o Minor bugfixes (crash prevention):
13916 - Fix a (currently untriggerable, but potentially dangerous) crash
13917 bug when base32-encoding inputs whose sizes are not a multiple of
13918 5. Fixes bug 21894; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13921 Changes in version 0.3.0.5-rc - 2017-04-05
13922 Tor 0.3.0.5-rc fixes a few remaining bugs, large and small, in the
13923 0.3.0 release series.
13925 This is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.3.0 series, and has
13926 much fewer changes than the first. If we find no new bugs or
13927 regressions here, the first stable 0.3.0 release will be nearly
13930 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections):
13931 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
13932 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
13933 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
13935 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
13936 - Fix a guard selection bug where Tor would refuse to bootstrap in
13937 some cases if the user swapped a bridge for another bridge in
13938 their configuration file. Fixes bug 21771; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13939 Reported by "torvlnt33r".
13941 o Minor features (geoip):
13942 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 7 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13945 o Minor bugfix (compilation):
13946 - Fix a warning when compiling hs_service.c. Previously, it had no
13947 exported symbols when compiled for libor.a, resulting in a
13948 compilation warning from clang. Fixes bug 21825; bugfix
13951 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
13952 - Make hidden services check for failed intro point connections,
13953 even when they have exceeded their intro point creation limit.
13954 Fixes bug 21596; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
13955 - Make hidden services with 8 to 10 introduction points check for
13956 failed circuits immediately after startup. Previously, they would
13957 wait for 5 minutes before performing their first checks. Fixes bug
13958 21594; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
13960 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
13961 - Fix a memory leak when using GETCONF on a port option. Fixes bug
13962 21682; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
13964 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
13965 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
13966 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
13969 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
13970 - Run the entry_guard_parse_from_state_full() test with the time set
13971 to a specific date. (The guard state that this test was parsing
13972 contained guards that had expired since the test was first
13973 written.) Fixes bug 21799; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13976 - Update the description of the directory server options in the
13977 manual page, to clarify that a relay no longer needs to set
13978 DirPort in order to be a directory cache. Closes ticket 21720.
13982 Changes in version 0.2.8.13 - 2017-03-03
13983 Tor 0.2.8.13 backports a security fix from later Tor
13984 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.8.12 or earlier should upgrade to this
13985 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
13986 release series, and if they build Tor with the --enable-expensive-hardening
13989 Note that support for Tor 0.2.8.x is ending next year: we will not issue
13990 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.8.x series after 1 Jan 2018. If you need
13991 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
13993 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
13994 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
13995 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
13996 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
13997 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
13998 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
13999 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
14001 o Minor features (geoip):
14002 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14006 Changes in version 0.2.7.7 - 2017-03-03
14007 Tor 0.2.7.7 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
14008 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.7.6 or earlier should upgrade to
14009 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
14012 Note that support for Tor 0.2.7.x is ending this year: we will not issue
14013 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.7.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
14014 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
14016 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
14017 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
14019 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
14020 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
14021 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
14023 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14024 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
14025 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
14028 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
14029 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
14030 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
14031 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
14032 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
14033 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
14034 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
14035 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
14036 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
14038 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
14039 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
14040 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
14041 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
14042 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14043 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
14044 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
14045 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
14046 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
14047 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
14048 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
14049 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
14050 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
14052 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14053 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
14054 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
14055 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
14056 Reported by Guido Vranken.
14058 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14059 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
14060 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14062 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
14063 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
14064 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
14065 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
14066 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
14067 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
14068 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
14071 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
14072 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
14073 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
14074 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
14075 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
14076 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
14077 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
14079 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14080 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
14081 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
14082 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
14085 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14086 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
14087 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
14088 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
14090 o Minor features (geoip):
14091 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14095 Changes in version 0.2.6.11 - 2017-03-03
14096 Tor 0.2.6.11 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
14097 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.6.10 or earlier should upgrade to
14098 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
14101 Note that support for Tor 0.2.6.x is ending this year: we will not issue
14102 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.6.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
14103 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
14105 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
14106 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
14108 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
14109 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
14110 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
14112 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14113 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
14114 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
14117 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
14118 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
14119 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
14120 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
14121 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
14122 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
14123 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
14124 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
14125 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
14127 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
14128 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
14129 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
14130 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
14131 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
14132 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
14133 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
14134 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
14135 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
14137 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
14138 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
14139 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
14140 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
14141 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14143 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
14144 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
14145 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
14146 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
14147 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
14150 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14151 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
14152 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
14153 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
14154 Reported by Guido Vranken.
14156 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14157 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
14158 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14160 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
14161 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
14162 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
14163 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
14164 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
14165 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
14168 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
14169 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
14170 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
14171 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
14172 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
14173 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
14174 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
14177 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
14178 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
14179 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
14180 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
14181 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
14182 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
14183 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
14185 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14186 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
14187 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
14188 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
14191 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14192 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
14193 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
14194 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
14196 o Minor features (geoip):
14197 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14200 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
14201 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
14202 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
14205 Changes in version 0.2.5.13 - 2017-03-03
14206 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
14207 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.5.13 or earlier should upgrade to
14208 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
14211 Note that support for Tor 0.2.5.x is ending next year: we will not issue
14212 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.5.x series after 1 May 2018. If you need
14213 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
14215 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
14216 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
14218 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
14219 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
14220 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
14222 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14223 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
14224 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
14227 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
14228 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
14229 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
14230 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
14231 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
14232 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
14233 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
14234 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
14235 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
14237 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
14238 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
14239 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
14240 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
14241 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
14242 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
14243 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
14244 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
14245 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
14247 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
14248 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
14249 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
14250 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
14251 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14253 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
14254 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
14255 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
14256 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
14257 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
14260 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14261 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
14262 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
14263 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
14264 Reported by Guido Vranken.
14266 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14267 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
14268 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14270 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
14271 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
14272 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
14273 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
14274 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
14275 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
14278 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
14279 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
14280 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
14281 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
14282 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
14283 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
14284 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
14287 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
14288 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
14289 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
14290 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
14291 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
14292 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
14293 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
14295 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14296 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
14297 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
14298 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
14301 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14302 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
14303 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
14304 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
14306 o Minor features (geoip):
14307 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14310 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
14311 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
14312 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
14314 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, backport from 0.2.7.2-alpha):
14315 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
14316 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
14317 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
14318 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
14319 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
14321 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
14322 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
14323 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
14327 Changes in version 0.2.4.28 - 2017-03-03
14328 Tor 0.2.4.28 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
14329 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.4.27 or earlier should upgrade to
14330 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
14333 Note that support for Tor 0.2.4.x is ending soon: we will not issue
14334 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.4.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
14335 a Tor release series with long-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
14337 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
14338 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
14340 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
14341 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
14342 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
14344 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14345 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
14346 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
14349 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
14350 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
14351 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
14352 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
14353 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
14354 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
14355 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
14356 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
14357 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
14359 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
14360 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
14361 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
14362 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
14363 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
14364 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
14365 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
14366 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
14367 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
14369 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
14370 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
14371 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
14372 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
14373 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
14376 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14377 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
14378 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
14379 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
14380 Reported by Guido Vranken.
14382 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14383 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
14384 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14386 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
14387 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
14388 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
14389 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
14390 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
14391 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
14394 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
14395 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
14396 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
14397 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
14398 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
14399 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
14400 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
14403 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
14404 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
14405 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
14406 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
14407 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
14408 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
14409 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
14411 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14412 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
14413 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
14414 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
14417 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14418 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
14419 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
14420 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
14422 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
14423 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
14424 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
14425 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
14427 o Minor features (geoip):
14428 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14431 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
14432 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
14433 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
14435 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
14436 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
14437 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
14441 Changes in version 0.3.0.4-rc - 2017-03-01
14442 Tor 0.3.0.4-rc fixes some remaining bugs, large and small, in the
14443 0.3.0 release series, and introduces a few reliability features to
14444 keep them from coming back.
14446 This is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.3.0 series. If we
14447 find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.3.0 release
14448 will be nearly identical to it.
14450 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
14451 - When the same bridge is configured multiple times with the same
14452 identity, but at different address:port combinations, treat those
14453 bridge instances as separate guards. This fix restores the ability
14454 of clients to configure the same bridge with multiple pluggable
14455 transports. Fixes bug 21027; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14457 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory v3):
14458 - Stop crashing on a failed v3 hidden service descriptor lookup
14459 failure. Fixes bug 21471; bugfixes on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14461 o Major bugfixes (parsing):
14462 - When parsing a malformed content-length field from an HTTP
14463 message, do not read off the end of the buffer. This bug was a
14464 potential remote denial-of-service attack against Tor clients and
14465 relays. A workaround was released in October 2016, to prevent this
14466 bug from crashing Tor. This is a fix for the underlying issue,
14467 which should no longer matter (if you applied the earlier patch).
14468 Fixes bug 20894; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Bug found by fuzzing
14469 using AFL (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).
14470 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
14471 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
14472 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
14473 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
14474 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
14475 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
14477 o Minor feature (protocol versioning):
14478 - Add new protocol version for proposal 224. HSIntro now advertises
14479 version "3-4" and HSDir version "1-2". Fixes ticket 20656.
14481 o Minor features (directory authorities):
14482 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
14483 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
14485 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
14486 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
14487 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
14488 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
14489 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
14490 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
14491 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
14493 o Minor features (geoip):
14494 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14497 o Minor features (reliability, crash):
14498 - Try better to detect problems in buffers where they might grow (or
14499 think they have grown) over 2 GB in size. Diagnostic for
14502 o Minor features (testing):
14503 - During 'make test-network-all', if tor logs any warnings, ask
14504 chutney to output them. Requires a recent version of chutney with
14505 the 21572 patch. Implements 21570.
14507 o Minor bugfixes (certificate expiration time):
14508 - Avoid using link certificates that don't become valid till some
14509 time in the future. Fixes bug 21420; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha
14511 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
14512 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
14513 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
14514 - Remove a redundant check for the UseEntryGuards option from the
14515 options_transition_affects_guards() function. Fixes bug 21492;
14516 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14518 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
14519 - Allow relays to use directory mirrors without a DirPort: these
14520 relays need to be contacted over their ORPorts using a begindir
14521 connection. Fixes one case of bug 20711; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14522 - Clarify the message logged when a remote relay is unexpectedly
14523 missing an ORPort or DirPort: users were confusing this with a
14524 local port. Fixes another case of bug 20711; bugfix
14527 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
14528 - Don't warn about a missing guard state on timeout-measurement
14529 circuits: they aren't supposed to be using guards. Fixes an
14530 instance of bug 21007; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14531 - Silence a BUG() warning when attempting to use a guard whose
14532 descriptor we don't know, and make this scenario less likely to
14533 happen. Fixes bug 21415; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14535 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
14536 - Pass correct buffer length when encoding legacy ESTABLISH_INTRO
14537 cells. Previously, we were using sizeof() on a pointer, instead of
14538 the real destination buffer. Fortunately, that value was only used
14539 to double-check that there was enough room--which was already
14540 enforced elsewhere. Fixes bug 21553; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14542 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
14543 - Fix Raspbian build issues related to missing socket errno in
14544 test_util.c. Fixes bug 21116; bugfix on 0.2.8.2. Patch
14546 - Rename "make fuzz" to "make test-fuzz-corpora", since it doesn't
14547 actually fuzz anything. Fixes bug 21447; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
14548 - Use bash in src/test/test-network.sh. This ensures we reliably
14549 call chutney's newer tools/test-network.sh when available. Fixes
14550 bug 21562; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14553 - Small fixes to the fuzzing documentation. Closes ticket 21472.
14556 Changes in version 0.2.9.10 - 2017-03-01
14557 Tor 0.2.9.10 backports a security fix from later Tor release. It also
14558 includes fixes for some major issues affecting directory authorities,
14559 LibreSSL compatibility, and IPv6 correctness.
14561 The Tor 0.2.9.x release series is now marked as a long-term-support
14562 series. We intend to backport security fixes to 0.2.9.x until at
14563 least January of 2020.
14565 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, 0.3.0.3-alpha):
14566 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
14567 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
14568 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
14571 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
14572 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
14573 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
14574 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
14575 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
14576 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
14577 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
14579 o Major bugfixes (parsing, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
14580 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
14581 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
14582 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
14583 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
14584 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
14585 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
14587 o Minor features (directory authorities, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
14588 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
14589 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
14591 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
14592 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
14593 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
14595 o Minor features (geoip):
14596 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14599 o Minor features (portability, compilation, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
14600 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
14601 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
14603 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
14604 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
14606 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
14607 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
14608 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
14610 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
14611 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
14612 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
14613 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
14614 Patch by "junglefowl".
14617 Changes in version 0.3.0.3-alpha - 2017-02-03
14618 Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha fixes a few significant bugs introduced over the
14619 0.3.0.x development series, including some that could cause
14620 authorities to behave badly. There is also a fix for a longstanding
14621 bug that could prevent IPv6 exits from working. Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha also
14622 includes some smaller features and bugfixes.
14624 The Tor 0.3.0.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no additional
14625 features will be considered for inclusion in 0.3.0.x. We suspect that
14626 some bugs will probably remain, however, and we encourage people to
14629 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
14630 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
14631 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
14632 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
14634 - When deciding whether we have just found a router to be reachable,
14635 do not penalize it for not having performed an Ed25519 link
14636 handshake if it does not claim to support an Ed25519 handshake.
14637 Previously, we would treat such relays as non-running. Fixes bug
14638 21107; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14640 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
14641 - Stop trying to build circuits through entry guards for which we
14642 have no descriptor. Also, stop crashing in the case that we *do*
14643 accidentally try to build a circuit in such a state. Fixes bug
14644 21242; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14646 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits):
14647 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
14648 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
14649 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
14650 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
14651 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
14652 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
14654 o Minor feature (client):
14655 - Enable IPv6 traffic on the SocksPort by default. To disable this,
14656 a user will have to specify "NoIPv6Traffic". Closes ticket 21269.
14658 o Minor feature (fallback scripts):
14659 - Add a check_existing mode to updateFallbackDirs.py, which checks
14660 if fallbacks in the hard-coded list are working. Closes ticket
14661 20174. Patch by haxxpop.
14663 o Minor features (ciphersuite selection):
14664 - Clients now advertise a list of ciphersuites closer to the ones
14665 preferred by Firefox. Closes part of ticket 15426.
14666 - Allow relays to accept a wider range of ciphersuites, including
14667 chacha20-poly1305 and AES-CCM. Closes the other part of 15426.
14669 o Minor features (controller, configuration):
14670 - Each of the *Port options, such as SocksPort, ORPort, ControlPort,
14671 and so on, now comes with a __*Port variant that will not be saved
14672 to the torrc file by the controller's SAVECONF command. This
14673 change allows TorBrowser to set up a single-use domain socket for
14674 each time it launches Tor. Closes ticket 20956.
14675 - The GETCONF command can now query options that may only be
14676 meaningful in context-sensitive lists. This allows the controller
14677 to query the mixed SocksPort/__SocksPort style options introduced
14678 in feature 20956. Implements ticket 21300.
14680 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
14681 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
14682 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
14684 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
14685 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
14687 o Minor features (relay):
14688 - We now allow separation of exit and relay traffic to different
14689 source IP addresses, using the OutboundBindAddressExit and
14690 OutboundBindAddressOR options respectively. Closes ticket 17975.
14691 Written by Michael Sonntag.
14693 o Minor bugfix (logging):
14694 - Don't recommend the use of Tor2web in non-anonymous mode.
14695 Recommending Tor2web is a bad idea because the client loses all
14696 anonymity. Tor2web should only be used in specific cases by users
14697 who *know* and understand the issues. Fixes bug 21294; bugfix
14700 o Minor bugfixes (client):
14701 - Always recover from failures in extend_info_from_node(), in an
14702 attempt to prevent any recurrence of bug 21242. Fixes bug 21372;
14703 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14705 o Minor bugfixes (client, entry guards):
14706 - Fix a bug warning (with backtrace) when we fail a channel that
14707 circuits to fallback directories on it. Fixes bug 21128; bugfix
14709 - Fix a spurious bug warning (with backtrace) when removing an
14710 expired entry guard. Fixes bug 21129; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14711 - Fix a bug of the new guard algorithm where tor could stall for up
14712 to 10 minutes before retrying a guard after a long period of no
14713 network. Fixes bug 21052; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14714 - Do not try to build circuits until we have descriptors for our
14715 primary entry guards. Related to fix for bug 21242.
14717 o Minor bugfixes (configure, autoconf):
14718 - Rename the configure option --enable-expensive-hardening to
14719 --enable-fragile-hardening. Expensive hardening makes the tor
14720 daemon abort when some kinds of issues are detected. Thus, it
14721 makes tor more at risk of remote crashes but safer against RCE or
14722 heartbleed bug category. We now try to explain this issue in a
14723 message from the configure script. Fixes bug 21290; bugfix
14726 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
14727 - Restore the (deprecated) DROPGUARDS controller command. Fixes bug
14728 20824; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14730 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
14731 - Clean up the code for expiring intro points with no associated
14732 circuits. It was causing, rarely, a service with some expiring
14733 introduction points to not open enough additional introduction
14734 points. Fixes part of bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14735 - Stop setting the torrc option HiddenServiceStatistics to "0" just
14736 because we're not a bridge or relay. Instead, we preserve whatever
14737 value the user set (or didn't set). Fixes bug 21150; bugfix
14739 - Resolve two possible underflows which could lead to creating and
14740 closing a lot of introduction point circuits in a non-stop loop.
14741 Fixes bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14743 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
14744 - Use "OpenBSD" compiler macro instead of "OPENBSD" or "__OpenBSD__".
14745 It is supported by OpenBSD itself, and also by most OpenBSD
14746 variants (such as Bitrig). Fixes bug 20980; bugfix
14748 - When mapping a file of length greater than SIZE_MAX, do not
14749 silently truncate its contents. This issue could occur on 32 bit
14750 systems with large file support and files which are larger than 4
14751 GB. Fixes bug 21134; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14753 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
14754 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
14755 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
14756 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
14757 Patch by "junglefowl".
14759 o Minor bugfixes (Windows services):
14760 - Be sure to initialize the monotonic time subsystem before using
14761 it, even when running as an NT service. Fixes bug 21356; bugfix
14765 Changes in version 0.3.0.2-alpha - 2017-01-23
14766 Tor 0.3.0.2-alpha fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
14767 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
14768 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
14769 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
14770 version should upgrade.
14772 Tor 0.3.0.2-alpha also improves how exit relays and clients handle DNS
14773 time-to-live values, makes directory authorities enforce the 1-to-1
14774 mapping of relay RSA identity keys to ED25519 identity keys, fixes a
14775 client-side onion service reachability bug, does better at selecting
14776 the set of fallback directories, and more.
14778 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.9.9):
14779 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
14780 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option, like
14781 others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes--and having it on by
14782 default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug into a
14783 denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001); bugfix on
14786 o Major features (security):
14787 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
14788 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
14789 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
14790 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
14791 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
14792 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
14794 o Major features (directory authority, security):
14795 - The default for AuthDirPinKeys is now 1: directory authorities
14796 will reject relays where the RSA identity key matches a previously
14797 seen value, but the Ed25519 key has changed. Closes ticket 18319.
14799 o Major bugfixes (client, guard, crash):
14800 - In circuit_get_global_origin_list(), return the actual list of
14801 origin circuits. The previous version of this code returned the
14802 list of all the circuits, and could have caused strange bugs,
14803 including possible crashes. Fixes bug 21118; bugfix
14806 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service, also in 0.2.9.9):
14807 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
14808 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
14809 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
14810 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
14811 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
14812 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
14813 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
14814 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
14815 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
14816 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14818 o Major bugfixes (DNS):
14819 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
14820 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
14822 o Minor features (controller):
14823 - Add "GETINFO sr/current" and "GETINFO sr/previous" keys, to expose
14824 shared-random values to the controller. Closes ticket 19925.
14826 o Minor features (entry guards):
14827 - Add UseEntryGuards to TEST_OPTIONS_DEFAULT_VALUES in order to not
14828 break regression tests.
14829 - Require UseEntryGuards when UseBridges is set, in order to make
14830 sure bridges aren't bypassed. Resolves ticket 20502.
14832 o Minor features (fallback directories):
14833 - Select 200 fallback directories for each release. Closes
14835 - Allow 3 fallback relays per operator, which is safe now that we
14836 are choosing 200 fallback relays. Closes ticket 20912.
14837 - Exclude relays affected by bug 20499 from the fallback list.
14838 Exclude relays from the fallback list if they are running versions
14839 known to be affected by bug 20499, or if in our tests they deliver
14840 a stale consensus (i.e. one that expired more than 24 hours ago).
14841 Closes ticket 20539.
14842 - Reduce the minimum fallback bandwidth to 1 MByte/s. Part of
14844 - Require fallback directories to have the same address and port for
14845 7 days (now that we have enough relays with this stability).
14846 Relays whose OnionOO stability timer is reset on restart by bug
14847 18050 should upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.7 or later, which has a fix for
14848 this issue. Closes ticket 20880; maintains short-term fix
14850 - Require fallbacks to have flags for 90% of the time (weighted
14851 decaying average), rather than 95%. This allows at least 73% of
14852 clients to bootstrap in the first 5 seconds without contacting an
14853 authority. Part of ticket 18828.
14854 - Annotate updateFallbackDirs.py with the bandwidth and consensus
14855 weight for each candidate fallback. Closes ticket 20878.
14856 - Make it easier to change the output sort order of fallbacks.
14857 Closes ticket 20822.
14858 - Display the relay fingerprint when downloading consensuses from
14859 fallbacks. Closes ticket 20908.
14861 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.9.9):
14862 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14865 o Minor features (next-gen onion service directories):
14866 - Remove the "EnableOnionServicesV3" consensus parameter that we
14867 introduced in 0.3.0.1-alpha: relays are now always willing to act
14868 as v3 onion service directories. Resolves ticket 19899.
14870 o Minor features (linting):
14871 - Enhance the changes file linter to warn on Tor versions that are
14872 prefixed with "tor-". Closes ticket 21096.
14874 o Minor features (logging):
14875 - In several places, describe unset ed25519 keys as "<unset>",
14876 rather than the scary "AAAAAAAA...AAA". Closes ticket 21037.
14878 o Minor bugfix (control protocol):
14879 - The reply to a "GETINFO config/names" request via the control
14880 protocol now spells the type "Dependent" correctly. This is a
14881 breaking change in the control protocol. (The field seems to be
14882 ignored by the most common known controllers.) Fixes bug 18146;
14883 bugfix on 0.1.1.4-alpha.
14885 o Minor bugfixes (bug resilience):
14886 - Fix an unreachable size_t overflow in base64_decode(). Fixes bug
14887 19222; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Found by Guido Vranken; fixed by
14888 Hans Jerry Illikainen.
14890 o Minor bugfixes (build):
14891 - Replace obsolete Autoconf macros with their modern equivalent and
14892 prevent similar issues in the future. Fixes bug 20990; bugfix
14895 o Minor bugfixes (client, guards):
14896 - Fix bug where Tor would think that there are circuits waiting for
14897 better guards even though those circuits have been freed. Fixes
14898 bug 21142; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14900 o Minor bugfixes (config):
14901 - Don't assert on startup when trying to get the options list and
14902 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is set to 0: we are currently parsing the
14903 options so of course they aren't ready yet. Fixes bug 21062;
14904 bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
14906 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
14907 - Make the GETINFO interface for inquiring about entry guards
14908 support the new guards backend. Fixes bug 20823; bugfix
14911 o Minor bugfixes (dead code):
14912 - Remove a redundant check for PidFile changes at runtime in
14913 options_transition_allowed(): this check is already performed
14914 regardless of whether the sandbox is active. Fixes bug 21123;
14915 bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14917 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
14918 - Update the tor manual page to document every option that can not
14919 be changed while tor is running. Fixes bug 21122.
14921 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
14922 - Stop failing when a relay has no uptime data in
14923 updateFallbackDirs.py. Fixes bug 20945; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14924 - Avoid checking fallback candidates' DirPorts if they are down in
14925 OnionOO. When a relay operator has multiple relays, this
14926 prioritizes relays that are up over relays that are down. Fixes
14927 bug 20926; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
14928 - Stop failing when OUTPUT_COMMENTS is True in updateFallbackDirs.py.
14929 Fixes bug 20877; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
14931 o Minor bugfixes (guards, bootstrapping):
14932 - When connecting to a directory guard during bootstrap, do not mark
14933 the guard as successful until we receive a good-looking directory
14934 response from it. Fixes bug 20974; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14936 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
14937 - Fix the config reload pruning of old vs new services so it
14938 actually works when both ephemeral and non-ephemeral services are
14939 configured. Fixes bug 21054; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14940 - Allow the number of introduction points to be as low as 0, rather
14941 than as low as 3. Fixes bug 21033; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14943 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
14944 - Make IPv6-using clients try harder to find an IPv6 directory
14945 server. Fixes bug 20999; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14946 - When IPv6 addresses have not been downloaded yet (microdesc
14947 consensus documents don't list relay IPv6 addresses), use hard-
14948 coded addresses for authorities, fallbacks, and configured
14949 bridges. Now IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors. Fixes bug
14950 20996; bugfix on b167e82 from 19608 in 0.2.8.5-alpha.
14952 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
14953 - Fix a memory leak when configuring hidden services. Fixes bug
14954 20987; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14956 o Minor bugfixes (portability, also in 0.2.9.9):
14957 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
14958 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
14959 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
14961 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
14962 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14964 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
14965 - Honor DataDirectoryGroupReadable when tor is a relay. Previously,
14966 initializing the keys would reset the DataDirectory to 0700
14967 instead of 0750 even if DataDirectoryGroupReadable was set to 1.
14968 Fixes bug 19953; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16. Patch by "redfish".
14970 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
14971 - Remove undefined behavior from the backtrace generator by removing
14972 its signal handler. Fixes bug 21026; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
14974 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
14975 - Allow the unit tests to pass even when DNS lookups of bogus
14976 addresses do not fail as expected. Fixes bug 20862 and 20863;
14977 bugfix on unit tests introduced in 0.2.8.1-alpha
14978 through 0.2.9.4-alpha.
14980 o Code simplification and refactoring:
14981 - Refactor code to manipulate global_origin_circuit_list into
14982 separate functions. Closes ticket 20921.
14984 o Documentation (formatting):
14985 - Clean up formatting of tor.1 man page and HTML doc, where <pre>
14986 blocks were incorrectly appearing. Closes ticket 20885.
14988 o Documentation (man page):
14989 - Clarify many options in tor.1 and add some min/max values for
14990 HiddenService options. Closes ticket 21058.
14993 Changes in version 0.2.9.9 - 2017-01-23
14994 Tor 0.2.9.9 fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
14995 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
14996 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
14997 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
14998 version should upgrade.
15000 This release also resolves a client-side onion service reachability
15001 bug, and resolves a pair of small portability issues.
15003 o Major bugfixes (security):
15004 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
15005 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
15006 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes -- and having
15007 it on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
15008 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
15009 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15011 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service):
15012 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
15013 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
15014 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
15015 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
15016 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
15017 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
15018 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
15019 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
15020 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
15021 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15023 o Minor features (geoip):
15024 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15027 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
15028 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
15029 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
15030 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
15032 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
15033 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15036 Changes in version 0.3.0.1-alpha - 2016-12-19
15037 Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.3.0 development
15038 series. It strengthens Tor's link and circuit handshakes by
15039 identifying relays by their Ed25519 keys, improves the algorithm that
15040 clients use to choose and maintain their list of guards, and includes
15041 additional backend support for the next-generation hidden service
15042 design. It also contains numerous other small features and
15043 improvements to security, correctness, and performance.
15045 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.8.
15047 o Major features (guard selection algorithm):
15048 - Tor's guard selection algorithm has been redesigned from the
15049 ground up, to better support unreliable networks and restrictive
15050 sets of entry nodes, and to better resist guard-capture attacks by
15051 hostile local networks. Implements proposal 271; closes
15054 o Major features (next-generation hidden services):
15055 - Relays can now handle v3 ESTABLISH_INTRO cells as specified by
15056 prop224 aka "Next Generation Hidden Services". Service and clients
15057 don't use this functionality yet. Closes ticket 19043. Based on
15058 initial code by Alec Heifetz.
15059 - Relays now support the HSDir version 3 protocol, so that they can
15060 can store and serve v3 descriptors. This is part of the next-
15061 generation onion service work detailed in proposal 224. Closes
15064 o Major features (protocol, ed25519 identity keys):
15065 - Relays now use Ed25519 to prove their Ed25519 identities and to
15066 one another, and to clients. This algorithm is faster and more
15067 secure than the RSA-based handshake we've been doing until now.
15068 Implements the second big part of proposal 220; Closes
15070 - Clients now support including Ed25519 identity keys in the EXTEND2
15071 cells they generate. By default, this is controlled by a consensus
15072 parameter, currently disabled. You can turn this feature on for
15073 testing by setting ExtendByEd25519ID in your configuration. This
15074 might make your traffic appear different than the traffic
15075 generated by other users, however. Implements part of ticket
15076 15056; part of proposal 220.
15077 - Relays now understand requests to extend to other relays by their
15078 Ed25519 identity keys. When an Ed25519 identity key is included in
15079 an EXTEND2 cell, the relay will only extend the circuit if the
15080 other relay can prove ownership of that identity. Implements part
15081 of ticket 15056; part of proposal 220.
15083 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
15084 - Actually compare circuit policies in ewma_cmp_cmux(). This bug
15085 caused the channel scheduler to behave more or less randomly,
15086 rather than preferring channels with higher-priority circuits.
15087 Fixes bug 20459; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
15089 o Minor features (controller):
15090 - When HSFETCH arguments cannot be parsed, say "Invalid argument"
15091 rather than "unrecognized." Closes ticket 20389; patch from
15094 o Minor features (diagnostic, directory client):
15095 - Warn when we find an unexpected inconsistency in directory
15096 download status objects. Prevents some negative consequences of
15099 o Minor features (directory authority):
15100 - Add a new authority-only AuthDirTestEd25519LinkKeys option (on by
15101 default) to control whether authorities should try to probe relays
15102 by their Ed25519 link keys. This option will go away in a few
15103 releases--unless we encounter major trouble in our ed25519 link
15104 protocol rollout, in which case it will serve as a safety option.
15106 o Minor features (directory cache):
15107 - Relays and bridges will now refuse to serve the consensus they
15108 have if they know it is too old for a client to use. Closes
15111 o Minor features (ed25519 link handshake):
15112 - Advertise support for the ed25519 link handshake using the
15113 subprotocol-versions mechanism, so that clients can tell which
15114 relays can identity themselves by Ed25519 ID. Closes ticket 20552.
15116 o Minor features (fingerprinting resistance, authentication):
15117 - Extend the length of RSA keys used for TLS link authentication to
15118 2048 bits. (These weren't used for forward secrecy; for forward
15119 secrecy, we used P256.) Closes ticket 13752.
15121 o Minor features (infrastructure):
15122 - Implement smartlist_add_strdup() function. Replaces the use of
15123 smartlist_add(sl, tor_strdup(str)). Closes ticket 20048.
15125 o Minor bugfixes (client):
15126 - When clients that use bridges start up with a cached consensus on
15127 disk, they were ignoring it and downloading a new one. Now they
15128 use the cached one. Fixes bug 20269; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
15130 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
15131 - Accept non-space whitespace characters after the severity level in
15132 the `Log` option. Fixes bug 19965; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
15133 - Support "TByte" and "TBytes" units in options given in bytes.
15134 "TB", "terabyte(s)", "TBit(s)" and "terabit(s)" were already
15135 supported. Fixes bug 20622; bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
15137 o Minor bugfixes (consensus weight):
15138 - Add new consensus method that initializes bw weights to 1 instead
15139 of 0. This prevents a zero weight from making it all the way to
15140 the end (happens in small testing networks) and causing an error.
15141 Fixes bug 14881; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
15143 o Minor bugfixes (descriptors):
15144 - Correctly recognise downloaded full descriptors as valid, even
15145 when using microdescriptors as circuits. This affects clients with
15146 FetchUselessDescriptors set, and may affect directory authorities.
15147 Fixes bug 20839; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
15149 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
15150 - Download all consensus flavors, descriptors, and authority
15151 certificates when FetchUselessDescriptors is set, regardless of
15152 whether tor is a directory cache or not. Fixes bug 20667; bugfix
15153 on all recent tor versions.
15154 - Bridges and relays now use microdescriptors (like clients do)
15155 rather than old-style router descriptors. Now bridges will blend
15156 in with clients in terms of the circuits they build. Fixes bug
15157 6769; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
15159 o Minor bugfixes (ed25519 certificates):
15160 - Correctly interpret ed25519 certificates that would expire some
15161 time after 19 Jan 2038. Fixes bug 20027; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15163 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
15164 - Stop ignoring misconfigured hidden services. Instead, refuse to
15165 start tor until the misconfigurations have been corrected. Fixes
15166 bug 20559; bugfix on multiple commits in 0.2.7.1-alpha
15169 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak at exit):
15170 - Fix a small harmless memory leak at exit of the previously unused
15171 RSA->Ed identity cross-certificate. Fixes bug 17779; bugfix
15174 o Minor bugfixes (util):
15175 - When finishing writing a file to disk, if we were about to replace
15176 the file with the temporary file created before and we fail to
15177 replace it, remove the temporary file so it doesn't stay on disk.
15178 Fixes bug 20646; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch by fk.
15180 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
15181 - Check for getpagesize before using it to mmap files. This fixes
15182 compilation in some MinGW environments. Fixes bug 20530; bugfix on
15183 0.1.2.1-alpha. Reported by "ice".
15185 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15186 - Abolish all global guard context in entrynodes.c; replace with new
15187 guard_selection_t structure as preparation for proposal 271.
15188 Closes ticket 19858.
15189 - Introduce rend_service_is_ephemeral() that tells if given onion
15190 service is ephemeral. Replace unclear NULL-checkings for service
15191 directory with this function. Closes ticket 20526.
15192 - Extract magic numbers in circuituse.c into defined variables.
15193 - Refactor circuit_is_available_for_use to remove unnecessary check.
15194 - Refactor circuit_predict_and_launch_new for readability and
15195 testability. Closes ticket 18873.
15196 - Refactor large if statement in purpose_needs_anonymity to use
15197 switch statement instead. Closes part of ticket 20077.
15198 - Refactor the hashing API to return negative values for errors, as
15199 is done as throughout the codebase. Closes ticket 20717.
15200 - Remove data structures that were used to index or_connection
15201 objects by their RSA identity digests. These structures are fully
15202 redundant with the similar structures used in the
15203 channel abstraction.
15204 - Remove duplicate code in the channel_write_*cell() functions.
15205 Closes ticket 13827; patch from Pingl.
15206 - Remove redundant behavior of is_sensitive_dir_purpose, refactor to
15207 use only purpose_needs_anonymity. Closes part of ticket 20077.
15208 - The code to generate and parse EXTEND and EXTEND2 cells has been
15209 replaced with code automatically generated by the
15213 - Include the "TBits" unit in Tor's man page. Fixes part of bug
15214 20622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15215 - Change '1' to 'weight_scale' in consensus bw weights calculation
15216 comments, as that is reality. Closes ticket 20273. Patch
15218 - Correct the value for AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee in the manpage, from
15219 250 KBytes to 2 MBytes. Fixes bug 20435; bugfix
15221 - Stop the man page from incorrectly stating that HiddenServiceDir
15222 must already exist. Fixes 20486.
15223 - Clarify that when ClientRejectInternalAddresses is enabled (which
15224 is the default), multicast DNS hostnames for machines on the local
15225 network (of the form *.local) are also rejected. Closes
15228 o Removed features:
15229 - The AuthDirMaxServersPerAuthAddr option no longer exists: The same
15230 limit for relays running on a single IP applies to authority IP
15231 addresses as well as to non-authority IP addresses. Closes
15233 - The UseDirectoryGuards torrc option no longer exists: all users
15234 that use entry guards will also use directory guards. Related to
15235 proposal 271; implements part of ticket 20831.
15238 - New unit tests for tor_htonll(). Closes ticket 19563. Patch
15239 from "overcaffeinated".
15240 - Perform the coding style checks when running the tests and fail
15241 when coding style violations are found. Closes ticket 5500.
15242 - Add tests for networkstatus_compute_bw_weights_v10.
15243 - Add unit tests circuit_predict_and_launch_new.
15244 - Extract dummy_origin_circuit_new so it can be used by other
15248 Changes in version 0.2.8.12 - 2016-12-19
15249 Tor 0.2.8.12 backports a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug 21018
15250 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
15251 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
15252 become available for their systems.
15254 It also includes an updated list of fallback directories, backported
15257 Now that the Tor 0.2.9 series is stable, only major bugfixes will be
15258 backported to 0.2.8 in the future.
15260 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backported from 0.2.9.8):
15261 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15262 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15263 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15264 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15265 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15266 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15267 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15268 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15270 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backported from 0.2.9.8):
15271 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
15272 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
15273 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
15274 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
15276 o Minor features (geoip, backported from 0.2.9.7-rc):
15277 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15281 Changes in version 0.2.9.8 - 2016-12-19
15282 Tor 0.2.9.8 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.2.9 series.
15284 The Tor 0.2.9 series makes mandatory a number of security features
15285 that were formerly optional. It includes support for a new shared-
15286 randomness protocol that will form the basis for next generation
15287 hidden services, includes a single-hop hidden service mode for
15288 optimizing .onion services that don't actually want to be hidden,
15289 tries harder not to overload the directory authorities with excessive
15290 downloads, and supports a better protocol versioning scheme for
15291 improved compatibility with other implementations of the Tor protocol.
15293 And of course, there are numerous other bugfixes and improvements.
15295 This release also includes a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug
15296 21018 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
15297 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
15298 become available for their systems.
15300 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.7-rc. For a list of all changes
15301 since 0.2.8, see the ReleaseNotes file.
15303 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security):
15304 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15305 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15306 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15307 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15308 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15309 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15310 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15311 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15313 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
15314 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
15315 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
15316 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
15317 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
15320 Changes in version 0.2.9.7-rc - 2016-12-12
15321 Tor 0.2.9.7-rc fixes a few small bugs remaining in Tor 0.2.9.6-rc,
15322 including a few that had prevented tests from passing on
15325 o Minor features (geoip):
15326 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15329 o Minor bugfix (build):
15330 - The current Git revision when building from a local repository is
15331 now detected correctly when using git worktrees. Fixes bug 20492;
15332 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
15334 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
15335 - When computing old Tor protocol line version in protover, we were
15336 looking at 0.2.7.5 twice instead of a specific case for
15337 0.2.9.1-alpha. Fixes bug 20810; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
15339 o Minor bugfixes (download scheduling):
15340 - Resolve a "bug" warning when considering a download schedule whose
15341 delay had approached INT_MAX. Fixes 20875; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha.
15343 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
15344 - Downgrade a harmless log message about the
15345 pending_entry_connections list from "warn" to "info". Mitigates
15348 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
15349 - Fix a small memory leak when receiving AF_UNIX connections on a
15350 SocksPort. Fixes bug 20716; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
15351 - When moving a signed descriptor object from a source to an
15352 existing destination, free the allocated memory inside that
15353 destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
15355 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, use-after-free, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
15356 - Fix a memory leak and use-after-free error when removing entries
15357 from the sandbox's getaddrinfo() cache. Fixes bug 20710; bugfix on
15358 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15360 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
15361 - Use the correct spelling of MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_12 on configure.ac
15362 Fixes bug 20935; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
15364 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
15365 - Stop expecting NetBSD unit tests to report success for ipfw. Part
15366 of a fix for bug 19960; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha.
15367 - Fix tolerances in unit tests for monotonic time comparisons
15368 between nanoseconds and microseconds. Previously, we accepted a 10
15369 us difference only, which is not realistic on every platform's
15370 clock_gettime(). Fixes bug 19974; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15371 - Remove a double-free in the single onion service unit test. Stop
15372 ignoring a return value. Make future changes less error-prone.
15373 Fixes bug 20864; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
15376 Changes in version 0.2.8.11 - 2016-12-08
15377 Tor 0.2.8.11 backports fixes for additional portability issues that
15378 could prevent Tor from building correctly on OSX Sierra, or with
15379 OpenSSL 1.1. Affected users should upgrade; others can safely stay
15382 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
15383 - Avoid compilation errors when building on OSX Sierra. Sierra began
15384 to support the getentropy() and clock_gettime() APIs, but created
15385 a few problems in doing so. Tor 0.2.9 has a more thorough set of
15386 workarounds; in 0.2.8, we are just using the /dev/urandom and mach
15387 monotonic time interfaces. Fixes bug 20865. Bugfix
15390 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
15391 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
15392 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
15395 Changes in version 0.2.8.10 - 2016-12-02
15396 Tor 0.2.8.10 backports a fix for a bug that would sometimes make clients
15397 unusable after they left standby mode. It also backports fixes for
15398 a few portability issues and a small but problematic memory leak.
15400 o Major bugfixes (client reliability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
15401 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
15402 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
15403 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
15406 o Major bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
15407 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
15408 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
15409 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
15412 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.6-rc):
15413 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
15414 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
15417 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
15418 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
15419 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
15421 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
15422 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
15423 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
15425 o Minor features (geoip):
15426 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15429 Changes in version 0.2.9.6-rc - 2016-12-02
15430 Tor 0.2.9.6-rc fixes a few remaining bugs found in the previous alpha
15431 version. We hope that it will be ready to become stable soon, and we
15432 encourage everyone to test this release. If no showstopper bugs are
15433 found here, the next 0.2.9 release will be stable.
15435 o Major bugfixes (relay, resolver, logging):
15436 - For relays that don't know their own address, avoid attempting a
15437 local hostname resolve for each descriptor we download. This
15438 will cut down on the number of "Success: chose address 'x.x.x.x'"
15439 log lines, and also avoid confusing clock jumps if the resolver
15440 is slow. Fixes bugs 20423 and 20610; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15442 o Minor bugfixes (client, fascistfirewall):
15443 - Avoid spurious warnings when ReachableAddresses or FascistFirewall
15444 is set. Fixes bug 20306; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
15446 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
15447 - Stop ignoring the anonymity status of saved keys for hidden
15448 services and single onion services when first starting tor.
15449 Instead, refuse to start tor if any hidden service key has been
15450 used in a different hidden service anonymity mode. Fixes bug
15451 20638; bugfix on 17178 in 0.2.9.3-alpha; reported by ahf.
15453 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
15454 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
15455 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
15457 - Run correctly when built on Windows build environments that
15458 require _vcsprintf(). Fixes bug 20560; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
15460 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
15461 - Stop complaining about long-term one-hop circuits deliberately
15462 created by single onion services and Tor2web. These log messages
15463 are intended to diagnose issue 8387, which relates to circuits
15464 hanging around forever for no reason. Fixes bug 20613; bugfix on
15465 0.2.9.1-alpha. Reported by "pastly".
15467 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
15468 - Stop spurious failures in the local interface address discovery
15469 unit tests. Fixes bug 20634; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by
15473 - Correct the minimum bandwidth value in torrc.sample, and queue a
15474 corresponding change for torrc.minimal. Closes ticket 20085.
15477 Changes in version 0.2.9.5-alpha - 2016-11-08
15478 Tor 0.2.9.5-alpha fixes numerous bugs discovered in the previous alpha
15479 version. We believe one or two probably remain, and we encourage
15480 everyone to test this release.
15482 o Major bugfixes (client performance):
15483 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
15484 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
15485 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
15488 o Major bugfixes (client reliability):
15489 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
15490 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
15491 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
15494 o Major bugfixes (download scheduling):
15495 - When using an exponential backoff schedule, do not give up on
15496 downloading just because we have failed a bunch of times. Since
15497 each delay is longer than the last, retrying indefinitely won't
15498 hurt. Fixes bug 20536; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15499 - If a consensus expires while we are waiting for certificates to
15500 download, stop waiting for certificates.
15501 - If we stop waiting for certificates less than a minute after we
15502 started downloading them, do not consider the certificate download
15503 failure a separate failure. Fixes bug 20533; bugfix
15505 - Remove the maximum delay on exponential-backoff scheduling. Since
15506 we now allow an infinite number of failures (see ticket 20536), we
15507 must now allow the time to grow longer on each failure. Fixes part
15508 of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15509 - Make our initial download delays closer to those from 0.2.8. Fixes
15510 another part of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15511 - When determining when to download a directory object, handle times
15512 after 2038 if the operating system supports them. (Someday this
15513 will be important!) Fixes bug 20587; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15514 - When using exponential backoff in test networks, use a lower
15515 exponent, so the delays do not vary as much. This helps test
15516 networks bootstrap consistently. Fixes bug 20597; bugfix on 20499.
15518 o Minor features (geoip):
15519 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15522 o Minor bugfixes (client directory scheduling):
15523 - Treat "relay too busy to answer request" as a failed request and a
15524 reason to back off on our retry frequency. This is safe now that
15525 exponential backoffs retry indefinitely, and avoids a bug where we
15526 would reset our download schedule erroneously. Fixes bug 20593;
15527 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15529 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging):
15530 - Remove a BUG warning in circuit_pick_extend_handshake(). Instead,
15531 assume all nodes support EXTEND2. Use ntor whenever a key is
15532 available. Fixes bug 20472; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
15533 - On DNSPort, stop logging a BUG warning on a failed hostname
15534 lookup. Fixes bug 19869; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15536 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
15537 - When configuring hidden services, check every hidden service
15538 directory's permissions. Previously, we only checked the last
15539 hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix the work to fix 13942
15542 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
15543 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
15544 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
15545 - Use ECDHE ciphers instead of ECDH in tortls tests. LibreSSL has
15546 removed the ECDH ciphers which caused the tests to fail on
15547 platforms which use it. Fixes bug 20460; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15548 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
15549 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
15551 o Minor bugfixes (relay bootstrap):
15552 - Ensure relays don't make multiple connections during bootstrap.
15553 Fixes bug 20591; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15555 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
15556 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
15557 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
15558 - Avoid a small memory leak when informing worker threads about
15559 rotated onion keys. Fixes bug 20401; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
15560 - Do not try to parallelize workers more than 16x without the user
15561 explicitly configuring us to do so, even if we do detect more than
15562 16 CPU cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15564 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
15565 - Start correctly when creating a single onion service in a
15566 directory that did not previously exist. Fixes bug 20484; bugfix
15569 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
15570 - Avoid a unit test failure on systems with over 16 detectable CPU
15571 cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15574 - Clarify that setting HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode requires you to
15575 also set "SOCKSPort 0". Fixes bug 20487; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
15576 - Module-level documentation for several more modules. Closes
15577 tickets 19287 and 19290.
15580 Changes in version 0.2.8.9 - 2016-10-17
15581 Tor 0.2.8.9 backports a fix for a security hole in previous versions
15582 of Tor that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client,
15583 hidden service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to
15584 this version, or to 0.2.9.4-alpha. Patches will be released for older
15587 o Major features (security fixes, also in 0.2.9.4-alpha):
15588 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
15589 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
15590 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
15591 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
15592 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
15593 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
15594 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
15595 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
15597 o Minor features (geoip):
15598 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15602 Changes in version 0.2.9.4-alpha - 2016-10-17
15603 Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha fixes a security hole in previous versions of Tor
15604 that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client, hidden
15605 service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to this
15606 version, or to 0.2.8.9. Patches will be released for older versions
15609 Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha also adds numerous small features and fix-ups to
15610 previous versions of Tor, including the implementation of a feature to
15611 future- proof the Tor ecosystem against protocol changes, some bug
15612 fixes necessary for Tor Browser to use unix domain sockets correctly,
15613 and several portability improvements. We anticipate that this will be
15614 the last alpha in the Tor 0.2.9 series, and that the next release will
15615 be a release candidate.
15617 o Major features (security fixes):
15618 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
15619 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
15620 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
15621 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
15622 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
15623 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
15624 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
15625 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
15627 o Major features (subprotocol versions):
15628 - Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended
15629 subprotocol versions, and on a set of required subprotocol
15630 versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_
15631 subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a
15632 _recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade.
15633 Closes ticket 19958; implements part of proposal 264.
15634 - Tor now uses "subprotocol versions" to indicate compatibility.
15635 Previously, versions of Tor looked at the declared Tor version of
15636 a relay to tell whether they could use a given feature. Now, they
15637 should be able to rely on its declared subprotocol versions. This
15638 change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s) to
15639 exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with particular
15640 releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements part of
15643 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
15644 - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory
15645 list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
15647 o Minor features (client, directory):
15648 - Since authorities now omit all routers that lack the Running and
15649 Valid flags, we assume that any relay listed in the consensus must
15650 have those flags. Closes ticket 20001; implements part of
15653 o Minor features (compilation, portability):
15654 - Compile correctly on MacOS 10.12 (aka "Sierra"). Closes
15657 o Minor features (development tools, etags):
15658 - Teach the "make tags" Makefile target how to correctly find
15659 "MOCK_IMPL" function definitions. Patch from nherring; closes
15662 o Minor features (geoip):
15663 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15666 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
15667 - When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort,
15668 ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in
15669 quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix
15670 domain socket paths to contain spaces.
15672 o Minor features (virtual addresses):
15673 - Increase the maximum number of bits for the IPv6 virtual network
15674 prefix from 16 to 104. In this way, the condition for address
15675 allocation is less restrictive. Closes ticket 20151; feature
15678 o Minor bugfixes (address discovery):
15679 - Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it
15680 more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every
15681 time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027.
15682 Reported by René Mayrhofer, patch by "cypherpunks".
15684 o Minor bugfixes (client, unix domain sockets):
15685 - Disable IsolateClientAddr when using AF_UNIX backed SocksPorts as
15686 the client address is meaningless. Fixes bug 20261; bugfix
15689 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
15690 - Detect Libevent2 functions correctly on systems that provide
15691 libevent2, but where libevent1 is linked with -levent. Fixes bug
15692 19904; bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. Patch from Rubiate.
15694 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
15695 - When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file,
15696 handle windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on
15697 0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl".
15699 o Minor bugfixes (getpass):
15700 - Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass()
15701 to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug
15702 19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch
15705 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
15706 - Allow hidden services to run on IPv6 addresses even when the
15707 IPv6Exit option is not set. Fixes bug 18357; bugfix
15711 - Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that
15712 previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket #20385.
15714 o Required libraries:
15715 - When building with OpenSSL, Tor now requires version 1.0.1 or
15716 later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 and earlier are no longer supported by the
15717 OpenSSL team, and should not be used. Closes ticket 20303.
15720 Changes in version 0.2.9.3-alpha - 2016-09-23
15721 Tor 0.2.9.3-alpha adds improved support for entities that want to make
15722 high-performance services available through the Tor .onion mechanism
15723 without themselves receiving anonymity as they host those services. It
15724 also tries harder to ensure that all steps on a circuit are using the
15725 strongest crypto possible, strengthens some TLS properties, and
15726 resolves several bugs -- including a pair of crash bugs from the 0.2.8
15727 series. Anybody running an earlier version of 0.2.9.x should upgrade.
15729 o Major bugfixes (crash, also in 0.2.8.8):
15730 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
15731 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
15732 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
15733 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
15734 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
15736 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler, also in 0.2.8.8):
15737 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
15738 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
15739 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
15740 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
15743 o Major features (circuit building, security):
15744 - Authorities, relays and clients now require ntor keys in all
15745 descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol
15746 cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of
15748 - Tor authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for
15749 rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163.
15751 o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services):
15752 - Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and
15753 HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1,
15754 every hidden service on a Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous
15755 Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct)
15756 connections to their introduction and rendezvous points. One-hop
15757 circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients
15758 remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing
15759 hidden service implementation, and works on the current tor
15760 network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements
15761 proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn.
15763 o Major features (resource management):
15764 - Tor can now notice it is about to run out of sockets, and
15765 preemptively close connections of lower priority. (This feature is
15766 off by default for now, since the current prioritizing method is
15767 yet not mature enough. You can enable it by setting
15768 "DisableOOSCheck 0", but watch out: it might close some sockets
15769 you would rather have it keep.) Closes ticket 18640.
15771 o Major bugfixes (circuit building):
15772 - Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous-
15773 point circuits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid
15774 epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc.
15776 o Major bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
15777 - Fix a Libevent-detection bug in our autoconf script that would
15778 prevent Tor from linking successfully on OpenBSD. Patch from
15779 rubiate. Fixes bug 19902; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15781 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
15782 - Clients now require hidden services to include the TAP keys for
15783 their intro points in the hidden service descriptor. This prevents
15784 an inadvertent upgrade to ntor, which a malicious hidden service
15785 could use to distinguish clients by consensus version. Fixes bug
15786 20012; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
15788 o Minor features (security, TLS):
15789 - Servers no longer support clients that without AES ciphersuites.
15790 (3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe
15791 that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required
15792 OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998.
15794 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
15795 - Remove 8 fallbacks that are no longer suitable, leaving 81 of the
15796 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March
15797 2016. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
15799 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.8.8):
15800 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15803 o Minor feature (port flags):
15804 - Add new flags to the *Port options to finer control over which
15805 requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic,
15806 and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to
15807 NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement
15808 18693; patch by "teor".
15810 o Minor features (directory authority):
15811 - After voting, if the authorities decide that a relay is not
15812 "Valid", they no longer include it in the consensus at all. Closes
15813 ticket 20002; implements part of proposal 272.
15815 o Minor features (testing):
15816 - Disable memory protections on OpenBSD when performing our unit
15817 tests for memwipe(). The test deliberately invokes undefined
15818 behavior, and the OpenBSD protections interfere with this. Patch
15819 from "rubiate". Closes ticket 20066.
15821 o Minor features (testing, ipv6):
15822 - Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to
15823 "make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version
15824 with the single onion network flavours (git c72a652 or later).
15825 Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor.
15826 - Add the hs-ipv6 chutney target to make test-network-all's IPv6
15827 tests. Remove bridges+hs, as it's somewhat redundant. This
15828 requires a recent chutney version that supports IPv6 clients,
15829 relays, and authorities. Closes ticket 20069; patch by teor.
15831 o Minor features (Tor2web):
15832 - Make Tor2web clients respect ReachableAddresses. This feature was
15833 inadvertently enabled in 0.2.8.6, then removed by bugfix 19973 on
15834 0.2.8.7. Implements feature 20034. Patch by teor.
15836 o Minor features (unit tests):
15837 - We've done significant work to make the unit tests run faster.
15838 - Our link-handshake unit tests now check that when invalid
15839 handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected.
15840 - Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer
15841 prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them
15842 (by passing --debug or --info or or --notice --warn to the "test"
15843 binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log
15844 messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to
15846 - The unit tests now log all warning messages with the "BUG" flag.
15847 Previously, they only logged errors by default. This change will
15848 help us make our testing code more correct, and make sure that we
15849 only hit this code when we mean to. In the meantime, however,
15850 there will be more warnings in the unit test logs than before.
15851 This is preparatory work for ticket 19999.
15852 - The unit tests now treat any failure of a "tor_assert_nonfatal()"
15853 assertion as a test failure.
15855 o Minor bug fixes (circuits):
15856 - Use the CircuitBuildTimeout option whenever
15857 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled. Previously, we would respect
15858 the option when a user disabled it, but not when it was disabled
15859 because some other option was set. Fixes bug 20073; bugfix on
15860 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch by teor.
15862 o Minor bugfixes (allocation):
15863 - Change how we allocate memory for large chunks on buffers, to
15864 avoid a (currently impossible) integer overflow, and to waste less
15865 space when allocating unusually large chunks. Fixes bug 20081;
15866 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Issue identified by Guido Vranken.
15867 - Always include orconfig.h before including any other C headers.
15868 Sometimes, it includes macros that affect the behavior of the
15869 standard headers. Fixes bug 19767; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha (the
15870 first version to use AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS).
15871 - Fix a syntax error in the IF_BUG_ONCE__() macro in non-GCC-
15872 compatible compilers. Fixes bug 20141; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15873 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
15874 - Stop trying to build with Clang 4.0's -Wthread-safety warnings.
15875 They apparently require a set of annotations that we aren't
15876 currently using, and they create false positives in our pthreads
15877 wrappers. Fixes bug 20110; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15879 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
15880 - Die with a more useful error when the operator forgets to place
15881 the authority_signing_key file into the keys directory. This
15882 avoids an uninformative assert & traceback about having an invalid
15883 key. Fixes bug 20065; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15884 - When allowing private addresses, mark Exits that only exit to
15885 private locations as such. Fixes bug 20064; bugfix
15888 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
15889 - Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used
15890 by clients when the directory authorities don't set
15891 min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 02c320916e02
15892 in 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V.
15893 - Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID.
15894 Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have
15897 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
15898 - Stop logging intro point details to the client log on certain
15899 error conditions. Fixed as part of bug 20012; bugfix on
15900 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
15902 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, testing):
15903 - Check for IPv6 correctly on Linux when running test networks.
15904 Fixes bug 19905; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc; patch by teor.
15906 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
15907 - Add permission to run the sched_yield() and sigaltstack() system
15908 calls, in order to support versions of Tor compiled with asan or
15909 ubsan code that use these calls. Now "sandbox 1" and
15910 "--enable-expensive-hardening" should be compatible on more
15911 systems. Fixes bug 20063; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15913 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
15914 - When logging a message from the BUG() macro, be explicit about
15915 what we were asserting. Previously we were confusing what we were
15916 asserting with what the bug was. Fixes bug 20093; bugfix
15918 - When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn
15919 if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist.
15920 Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from 'pastly'.
15922 o Minor bugfixes (option parsing):
15923 - Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans,
15924 NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behaviour changes: these
15925 options are set once, and never read. Required for correct
15926 behaviour in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on
15927 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
15929 o Minor bugfixes (options):
15930 - Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more
15931 reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch
15933 - Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on
15934 authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on
15935 commits 51fc6799 in 0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in 0.2.4.3-alpha.
15938 o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web):
15939 - Prevent Tor2web clients running hidden services, these services
15940 are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug
15941 19678. Patch by teor.
15943 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
15944 - Fix a shared-random unit test that was failing on big endian
15945 architectures due to internal representation of a integer copied
15946 to a buffer. The test is changed to take a full 32 bytes of data
15947 and use the output of a python script that make the COMMIT and
15948 REVEAL calculation according to the spec. Fixes bug 19977; bugfix
15950 - The tor_tls_server_info_callback unit test no longer crashes when
15951 debug-level logging is turned on. Fixes bug 20041; bugfix
15955 Changes in version 0.2.8.8 - 2016-09-23
15956 Tor 0.2.8.8 fixes two crash bugs present in previous versions of the
15957 0.2.8.x series. Relays running 0.2.8.x should upgrade, as should users
15958 who select public relays as their bridges.
15960 o Major bugfixes (crash):
15961 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
15962 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
15963 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
15964 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
15965 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
15967 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler):
15968 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
15969 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
15970 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
15971 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
15974 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
15975 - Remove 8 fallbacks that are no longer suitable, leaving 81 of the
15976 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March
15977 2016. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
15979 o Minor features (geoip):
15980 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15984 Changes in version 0.2.9.2-alpha - 2016-08-24
15985 Tor 0.2.9.2-alpha continues development of the 0.2.9 series with
15986 several new features and bugfixes. It also includes an important
15987 authority update and an important bugfix from 0.2.8.7. Everyone who
15988 sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
15989 encouraged to upgrade to 0.2.8.7, or to 0.2.9.2-alpha.
15991 o Directory authority changes (also in 0.2.8.7):
15992 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
15993 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
15995 o Major bugfixes (client, security, also in 0.2.8.7):
15996 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
15997 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
15998 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
15999 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
16000 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
16002 o Major features (user interface):
16003 - Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so
16004 that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously,
16005 this was done in an ad-hoc way. Closes ticket 19820.
16007 o Major bugfixes (directory downloads):
16008 - Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we
16009 already have another, smarter retry mechanism. Fixes bug 8625;
16010 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
16012 o Minor features (config):
16013 - Warn users when descriptor and port addresses are inconsistent.
16014 Mitigates bug 13953; patch by teor.
16016 o Minor features (geoip):
16017 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16020 o Minor features (user interface):
16021 - There is a new --list-deprecated-options command-line option to
16022 list all of the deprecated options. Implemented as part of
16025 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
16026 - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion
16027 tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha.
16029 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16030 - Build correctly on versions of libevent2 without support for
16031 evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes(). Fixes bug 19904; bugfix
16033 - Fix a compilation warning on GCC versions before 4.6. Our
16034 ENABLE_GCC_WARNING macro used the word "warning" as an argument,
16035 when it is also required as an argument to the compiler pragma.
16036 Fixes bug 19901; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
16038 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.8.7):
16039 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
16040 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
16043 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories, also in 0.2.8.7):
16044 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
16045 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
16046 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
16048 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
16049 - Log a more accurate message when we fail to dump a microdescriptor.
16050 Fixes bug 17758; bugfix on 0.2.2.8-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
16052 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
16053 - Fix a series of slow memory leaks related to parsing torrc files
16054 and options. Fixes bug 19466; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
16056 o Deprecated features:
16057 - A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now
16058 deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future
16059 version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS caching is a bad
16060 idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options
16061 are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache,
16062 UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache.
16063 - A number of options are deprecated for security reasons, and may
16064 be removed in a future version of Tor. The options are:
16065 AllowDotExit, AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
16066 AllowSingleHopExits, ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses,
16067 CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
16068 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
16069 ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK, TLSECGroup,
16070 UseNTorHandshake, and WarnUnsafeSocks.
16071 - The *ListenAddress options are now deprecated as unnecessary: the
16072 corresponding *Port options should be used instead. These options
16073 may someday be removed. The affected options are:
16074 ControlListenAddress, DNSListenAddress, DirListenAddress,
16075 NATDListenAddress, ORListenAddress, SocksListenAddress,
16076 and TransListenAddress.
16079 - Correct the IPv6 syntax in our documentation for the
16080 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6 torrc option. Closes ticket 19743.
16083 - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in
16084 Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from U+039b.
16087 Changes in version 0.2.8.7 - 2016-08-24
16088 Tor 0.2.8.7 fixes an important bug related to the ReachableAddresses
16089 option in 0.2.8.6, and replaces a retiring bridge authority. Everyone
16090 who sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
16091 encouraged to upgrade.
16093 o Directory authority changes:
16094 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
16095 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
16097 o Major bugfixes (client, security):
16098 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
16099 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
16100 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
16101 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
16102 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
16104 o Minor features (geoip):
16105 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16108 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16109 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
16110 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
16113 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
16114 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
16115 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
16116 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
16119 Changes in version 0.2.9.1-alpha - 2016-08-08
16120 Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.2.9 development
16121 series. It improves our support for hardened builds and compiler
16122 warnings, deploys some critical infrastructure for improvements to
16123 hidden services, includes a new timing backend that we hope to use for
16124 better support for traffic padding, makes it easier for programmers to
16125 log unexpected events, and contains other small improvements to
16126 security, correctness, and performance.
16128 Below are the changes since 0.2.8.6.
16130 o New system requirements:
16131 - Tor now requires Libevent version 2.0.10-stable or later. Older
16132 versions of Libevent have less efficient backends for several
16133 platforms, and lack the DNS code that we use for our server-side
16134 DNS support. This implements ticket 19554.
16135 - Tor now requires zlib version 1.2 or later, for security,
16136 efficiency, and (eventually) gzip support. (Back when we started,
16137 zlib 1.1 and zlib 1.0 were still found in the wild. 1.2 was
16138 released in 2003. We recommend the latest version.)
16140 o Major features (build, hardening):
16141 - Tor now builds with -ftrapv by default on compilers that support
16142 it. This option detects signed integer overflow (which C forbids),
16143 and turns it into a hard-failure. We do not apply this option to
16144 code that needs to run in constant time to avoid side-channels;
16145 instead, we use -fwrapv in that code. Closes ticket 17983.
16146 - When --enable-expensive-hardening is selected, stop applying the
16147 clang/gcc sanitizers to code that needs to run in constant time.
16148 Although we are aware of no introduced side-channels, we are not
16149 able to prove that there are none. Related to ticket 17983.
16151 o Major features (compilation):
16152 - Our big list of extra GCC warnings is now enabled by default when
16153 building with GCC (or with anything like Clang that claims to be
16154 GCC-compatible). To make all warnings into fatal compilation
16155 errors, pass --enable-fatal-warnings to configure. Closes
16157 - Use the Autoconf macro AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to automatically
16158 turn on C and POSIX extensions. (Previously, we attempted to do
16159 this on an ad hoc basis.) Closes ticket 19139.
16161 o Major features (directory authorities, hidden services):
16162 - Directory authorities can now perform the shared randomness
16163 protocol specified by proposal 250. Using this protocol, directory
16164 authorities generate a global fresh random value every day. In the
16165 future, this value will be used by hidden services to select
16166 HSDirs. This release implements the directory authority feature;
16167 the hidden service side will be implemented in the future as part
16168 of proposal 224. Resolves ticket 16943; implements proposal 250.
16170 o Major features (downloading, random exponential backoff):
16171 - When we fail to download an object from a directory service, wait
16172 for an (exponentially increasing) randomized amount of time before
16173 retrying, rather than a fixed interval as we did before. This
16174 prevents a group of Tor instances from becoming too synchronized,
16175 or a single Tor instance from becoming too predictable, in its
16176 download schedule. Closes ticket 15942.
16178 o Major bugfixes (exit policies):
16179 - Avoid disclosing exit outbound bind addresses, configured port
16180 bind addresses, and local interface addresses in relay descriptors
16181 by default under ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. Instead, only reject
16182 these (otherwise unlisted) addresses if
16183 ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces is set. Fixes bug 18456; bugfix on
16184 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
16186 o Major bugfixes (hidden service client):
16187 - Allow Tor clients with appropriate controllers to work with
16188 FetchHidServDescriptors set to 0. Previously, this option also
16189 disabled descriptor cache lookup, thus breaking hidden services
16190 entirely. Fixes bug 18704; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Patch by "twim".
16192 o Minor features (build, hardening):
16193 - Detect and work around a libclang_rt problem that would prevent
16194 clang from finding __mulodi4() on some 32-bit platforms, and thus
16195 keep -ftrapv from linking on those systems. Closes ticket 19079.
16196 - When building on a system without runtime support for the runtime
16197 hardening options, try to log a useful warning at configuration
16198 time, rather than an incomprehensible warning at link time. If
16199 expensive hardening was requested, this warning becomes an error.
16200 Closes ticket 18895.
16202 o Minor features (code safety):
16203 - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that maxiumum value we
16204 give is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063;
16207 o Minor features (controller):
16208 - Implement new GETINFO queries for all downloads that use
16209 download_status_t to schedule retries. This allows controllers to
16210 examine the schedule for pending downloads. Closes ticket 19323.
16211 - Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on
16212 hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION control
16213 command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special".
16214 - Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation
16215 status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685.
16217 o Minor features (directory authority):
16218 - Directory authorities now only give the Guard flag to a relay if
16219 they are also giving it the Stable flag. This change allows us to
16220 simplify path selection for clients. It should have minimal effect
16221 in practice, since >99% of Guards already have the Stable flag.
16222 Implements ticket 18624.
16223 - Directory authorities now write their v3-status-votes file out to
16224 disk earlier in the consensus process, so we have a record of the
16225 votes even if we abort the consensus process. Resolves
16228 o Minor features (hidden service):
16229 - Stop being so strict about the payload length of "rendezvous1"
16230 cells. We used to be locked in to the "TAP" handshake length, and
16231 now we can handle better handshakes like "ntor". Resolves
16234 o Minor features (infrastructure, time):
16235 - Tor now uses the operating system's monotonic timers (where
16236 available) for internal fine-grained timing. Previously we would
16237 look at the system clock, and then attempt to compensate for the
16238 clock running backwards. Closes ticket 18908.
16239 - Tor now includes an improved timer backend, so that we can
16240 efficiently support tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent
16241 timers, as will be needed for some of our planned anti-traffic-
16242 analysis work. This code is based on William Ahern's "timeout.c"
16243 project, which implements a "tickless hierarchical timing wheel".
16244 Closes ticket 18365.
16246 o Minor features (logging):
16247 - Provide a more useful warning message when configured with an
16248 invalid Nickname. Closes ticket 18300; patch from "icanhasaccount".
16249 - When dumping unparseable router descriptors, optionally store them
16250 in separate files, named by digest, up to a configurable size
16251 limit. You can change the size limit by setting the
16252 MaxUnparseableDescSizeToLog option, and disable this feature by
16253 setting that option to 0. Closes ticket 18322.
16254 - Add a set of macros to check nonfatal assertions, for internal
16255 use. Migrating more of our checks to these should help us avoid
16256 needless crash bugs. Closes ticket 18613.
16258 o Minor features (performance):
16259 - Change the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to
16260 "on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a
16261 consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the
16262 first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option
16263 from. Changing this default saves a round-trip during startup.
16264 Closes ticket 18815.
16266 o Minor features (relay, usability):
16267 - When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor,
16268 encourage the relay operator to contact us. Many relay operators
16269 won't notice this line in their logs, but it's a win if even a few
16270 learn why we don't like what their relay was doing. Resolves
16273 o Minor features (testing):
16274 - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer. Fixes
16275 part of bug 18934; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
16276 - Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test-
16277 network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available.
16278 Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor.
16279 - Use the lcov convention for marking lines as unreachable, so that
16280 we don't count them when we're generating test coverage data.
16281 Update our coverage tools to understand this convention. Closes
16284 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
16285 - Remember the directory we fetched the consensus or previous
16286 certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority
16287 certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance.
16288 Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16290 o Minor bugfixes (build):
16291 - The test-stem and test-network makefile targets now depend only on
16292 the tor binary that they are testing. Previously, they depended on
16293 "make all". Fixes bug 18240; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Based on a
16294 patch from "cypherpunks".
16296 o Minor bugfixes (circuits):
16297 - Make sure extend_info_from_router() is only called on servers.
16298 Fixes bug 19639; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16300 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16301 - When building with Clang, use a full set of GCC warnings.
16302 (Previously, we included only a subset, because of the way we
16303 detected them.) Fixes bug 19216; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16305 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
16306 - Authorities now sort the "package" lines in their votes, for ease
16307 of debugging. (They are already sorted in consensus documents.)
16308 Fixes bug 18840; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16309 - When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of
16310 the digest algorithm instead of an hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in
16311 order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest
16312 length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
16314 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
16315 - Document the --passphrase-fd option in the tor manpage. Fixes bug
16316 19504; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
16317 - Fix the description of the --passphrase-fd option in the
16318 tor-gencert manpage. The option is used to pass the number of a
16319 file descriptor to read the passphrase from, not to read the file
16320 descriptor from. Fixes bug 19505; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-alpha.
16322 o Minor bugfixes (ephemeral hidden service):
16323 - When deleting an ephemeral hidden service, close its intro points
16324 even if they are not completely open. Fixes bug 18604; bugfix
16327 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection):
16328 - Use a single entry guard even if the NumEntryGuards consensus
16329 parameter is not provided. Fixes bug 17688; bugfix
16331 - Don't mark guards as unreachable if connection_connect() fails.
16332 That function fails for local reasons, so it shouldn't reveal
16333 anything about the status of the guard. Fixes bug 14334; bugfix
16336 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service client):
16337 - Increase the minimum number of internal circuits we preemptively
16338 build from 2 to 3, so a circuit is available when a client
16339 connects to another onion service. Fixes bug 13239; bugfix
16342 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
16343 - When logging a directory ownership mismatch, log the owning
16344 username correctly. Fixes bug 19578; bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta.
16346 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
16347 - Fix a small, uncommon memory leak that could occur when reading a
16348 truncated ed25519 key file. Fixes bug 18956; bugfix
16351 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
16352 - Allow clients to retry HSDirs much faster in test networks. Fixes
16353 bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
16354 - Disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running
16355 test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace
16356 generation code works. Fixes another aspect of bug 18934; bugfix
16357 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16358 - Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the
16359 correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix
16362 o Minor bugfixes (time):
16363 - Improve overflow checks in tv_udiff and tv_mdiff. Fixes bug 19483;
16364 bugfix on all released tor versions.
16365 - When computing the difference between two times in milliseconds,
16366 we now round to the nearest millisecond correctly. Previously, we
16367 could sometimes round in the wrong direction. Fixes bug 19428;
16368 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
16370 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
16371 - Display a more accurate number of suppressed messages in the log
16372 rate-limiter. Previously, there was a potential integer overflow
16373 in the counter. Now, if the number of messages hits a maximum, the
16374 rate-limiter doesn't count any further. Fixes bug 19435; bugfix
16376 - Fix a typo in the passphrase prompt for the ed25519 identity key.
16377 Fixes bug 19503; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16379 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16380 - Remove redundant declarations of the MIN macro. Closes
16382 - Rename tor_dup_addr() to tor_addr_to_str_dup() to avoid confusion.
16383 Closes ticket 18462; patch from "icanhasaccount".
16384 - Split the 600-line directory_handle_command_get function into
16385 separate functions for different URL types. Closes ticket 16698.
16388 - Fix spelling of "--enable-tor2web-mode" in the manpage. Closes
16389 ticket 19153. Patch from "U+039b".
16391 o Removed features:
16392 - Remove support for "GET /tor/bytes.txt" DirPort request, and
16393 "GETINFO dir-usage" controller request, which were only available
16394 via a compile-time option in Tor anyway. Feature was added in
16395 0.2.2.1-alpha. Resolves ticket 19035.
16396 - There is no longer a compile-time option to disable support for
16397 TransPort. (If you don't want TransPort; just don't use it.) Patch
16398 from "U+039b". Closes ticket 19449.
16401 - Run more workqueue tests as part of "make check". These had
16402 previously been implemented, but you needed to know special
16403 command-line options to enable them.
16404 - We now have unit tests for our code to reject zlib "compression
16405 bombs". (Fortunately, the code works fine.)
16408 Changes in version 0.2.8.6 - 2016-08-02
16410 Tor 0.2.8.6 is the first stable version of the Tor 0.2.8 series.
16412 The Tor 0.2.8 series improves client bootstrapping performance,
16413 completes the authority-side implementation of improved identity
16414 keys for relays, and includes numerous bugfixes and performance
16415 improvements throughout the program. This release continues to
16416 improve the coverage of Tor's test suite. For a full list of
16417 changes since Tor 0.2.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
16419 Changes since 0.2.8.5-rc:
16421 o Minor features (geoip):
16422 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16425 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16426 - Fix a compilation warning in the unit tests on systems where char
16427 is signed. Fixes bug 19682; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16429 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
16430 - Remove 1 fallback that was on the hardcoded list, then opted-out,
16431 leaving 89 of the 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
16432 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 2016. Closes ticket 19782; patch by teor.
16434 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16435 - Allow more syscalls when running with "Sandbox 1" enabled:
16436 sysinfo, getsockopt(SO_SNDBUF), and setsockopt(SO_SNDBUFFORCE). On
16437 some systems, these are required for Tor to start. Fixes bug
16438 18397; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
16439 - Allow IPPROTO_UDP datagram sockets when running with "Sandbox 1",
16440 so that get_interface_address6_via_udp_socket_hack() can work.
16441 Fixes bug 19660; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16444 Changes in version 0.2.8.5-rc - 2016-07-07
16445 Tor 0.2.8.5-rc is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8
16446 series. If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable
16447 0.2.8 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes
16448 against previous versions.
16450 o Directory authority changes:
16451 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
16453 o Major bugfixes (heartbeat):
16454 - Fix a regression that would crash Tor when the periodic
16455 "heartbeat" log messages were disabled. Fixes bug 19454; bugfix on
16456 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by "kubaku".
16458 o Minor features (build):
16459 - Tor now again builds with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
16460 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre6-dev). Closes ticket 19499.
16461 - When building manual pages, set the timezone to "UTC", so that the
16462 output is reproducible. Fixes bug 19558; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
16463 Patch from intrigeri.
16465 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory selection):
16466 - Avoid errors during fallback selection if there are no eligible
16467 fallbacks. Fixes bug 19480; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha. Patch
16470 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, microdescriptors):
16471 - Don't check node addresses when we only have a routerstatus. This
16472 allows IPv6-only clients to bootstrap by fetching microdescriptors
16473 from fallback directory mirrors. (The microdescriptor consensus
16474 has no IPv6 addresses in it.) Fixes bug 19608; bugfix
16477 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
16478 - Reduce pointlessly verbose log messages when directory servers
16479 can't be found. Fixes bug 18849; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha and
16480 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
16481 - When a fallback directory changes its fingerprint from the hard-
16482 coded fingerprint, log a less severe, more explanatory log
16483 message. Fixes bug 18812; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
16485 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandboxing):
16486 - Allow statistics to be written to disk when "Sandbox 1" is
16487 enabled. Fixes bugs 19556 and 19957; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
16488 0.2.6.1-alpha respectively.
16490 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
16491 - Remove a warning message "Service [scrubbed] not found after
16492 descriptor upload". This message appears when one uses HSPOST
16493 control command to upload a service descriptor. Since there is
16494 only a descriptor and no service, showing this message is
16495 pointless and confusing. Fixes bug 19464; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16497 o Fallback directory list:
16498 - Add a comment to the generated fallback directory list that
16499 explains how to comment out unsuitable fallbacks in a way that's
16500 compatible with the stem fallback parser.
16501 - Update fallback whitelist and blacklist based on relay operator
16502 emails. Blacklist unsuitable (non-working, over-volatile)
16503 fallbacks. Resolves ticket 19071. Patch by teor.
16504 - Remove 10 unsuitable fallbacks, leaving 90 of the 100 fallbacks
16505 originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 2016. Closes
16506 ticket 19071; patch by teor.
16509 Changes in version 0.2.8.4-rc - 2016-06-15
16510 Tor 0.2.8.4-rc is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8 series.
16511 If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.2.8
16512 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes against
16515 o Major bugfixes (user interface):
16516 - Correctly give a warning in the cases where a relay is specified
16517 by nickname, and one such relay is found, but it is not officially
16518 Named. Fixes bug 19203; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16520 o Minor features (build):
16521 - Tor now builds once again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
16522 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre5 and 1.1.0-pre6-dev).
16524 o Minor features (geoip):
16525 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16528 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16529 - Cause the unit tests to compile correctly on mingw64 versions that
16530 lack sscanf. Fixes bug 19213; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
16532 o Minor bugfixes (downloading):
16533 - Predict more correctly whether we'll be downloading over HTTP when
16534 we determine the maximum length of a URL. This should avoid a
16535 "BUG" warning about the Squid HTTP proxy and its URL limits. Fixes
16539 Changes in version 0.2.8.3-alpha - 2016-05-26
16540 Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha resolves several bugs, most of them introduced over
16541 the course of the 0.2.8 development cycle. It improves the behavior of
16542 directory clients, fixes several crash bugs, fixes a gap in compiler
16543 hardening, and allows the full integration test suite to run on
16546 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy):
16547 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
16548 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
16549 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
16550 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
16552 o Major bugfixes (security, compilation):
16553 - Correctly detect compiler flags on systems where _FORTIFY_SOURCE
16554 is predefined. Previously, our use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE would
16555 cause a compiler warning, thereby making other checks fail, and
16556 needlessly disabling compiler-hardening support. Fixes one case of
16557 bug 18841; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. Patch from "trudokal".
16559 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
16560 - Fix a crash and out-of-bounds write during authority voting, when
16561 the list of relays includes duplicate ed25519 identity keys. Fixes
16562 bug 19032; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
16564 o Major bugfixes (client, bootstrapping):
16565 - Check if bootstrap consensus downloads are still needed when the
16566 linked connection attaches. This prevents tor making unnecessary
16567 begindir-style connections, which are the only directory
16568 connections tor clients make since the fix for 18483 was merged.
16569 - Fix some edge cases where consensus download connections may not
16570 have been closed, even though they were not needed. Related to fix
16572 - Make relays retry consensus downloads the correct number of times,
16573 rather than the more aggressive client retry count. Fixes part of
16575 - Stop downloading consensuses when we have a consensus, even if we
16576 don't have all the certificates for it yet. Fixes bug 18809;
16577 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patches by arma and teor.
16579 o Major bugfixes (directory mirrors):
16580 - Decide whether to advertise begindir support in the the same way
16581 we decide whether to advertise our DirPort. Allowing these
16582 decisions to become out-of-sync led to surprising behavior like
16583 advertising begindir support when hibernation made us not
16584 advertise a DirPort. Resolves bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16587 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 bridges, client):
16588 - Actually use IPv6 addresses when selecting directory addresses for
16589 IPv6 bridges. Fixes bug 18921; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch
16592 o Major bugfixes (key management):
16593 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
16594 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
16595 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
16596 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
16597 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
16598 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
16601 o Major bugfixes (testing):
16602 - Fix a bug that would block 'make test-network-all' on systems where
16603 IPv6 packets were lost. Fixes bug 19008; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
16604 - Avoid "WSANOTINITIALISED" warnings in the unit tests. Fixes bug 18668;
16605 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16607 o Minor features (clients):
16608 - Make clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an
16609 encrypted begindir connection for directory requests. Resolves
16610 ticket 18483. Patch by "teor".
16612 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
16613 - Give each fallback the same weight for client selection; restrict
16614 fallbacks to one per operator; report fallback directory detail
16615 changes when rebuilding list; add new fallback directory mirrors
16616 to the whitelist; and many other minor simplifications and fixes.
16617 Closes tasks 17905, 18749, bug 18689, and fixes part of bug 18812 on
16618 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by "teor".
16619 - Replace the 21 fallbacks generated in January 2016 and included in
16620 Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha, with a list of 100 fallbacks generated in March
16621 2016. Closes task 17158; patch by "teor".
16623 o Minor features (geoip):
16624 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16627 o Minor bugfixes (assert, portability):
16628 - Fix an assertion failure in memarea.c on systems where "long" is
16629 shorter than the size of a pointer. Fixes bug 18716; bugfix
16632 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
16633 - Consistently use the consensus download schedule for authority
16634 certificates. Fixes bug 18816; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
16636 o Minor bugfixes (build):
16637 - Remove a pair of redundant AM_CONDITIONAL declarations from
16638 configure.ac. Fixes one final case of bug 17744; bugfix
16640 - Resolve warnings when building on systems that are concerned with
16641 signed char. Fixes bug 18728; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha
16643 - When libscrypt.h is found, but no libscrypt library can be linked,
16644 treat libscrypt as absent. Fixes bug 19161; bugfix
16647 o Minor bugfixes (client):
16648 - Turn all TestingClientBootstrap* into non-testing torrc options.
16649 This changes simply renames them by removing "Testing" in front of
16650 them and they do not require TestingTorNetwork to be enabled
16651 anymore. Fixes bug 18481; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16652 - Make directory node selection more reliable, mainly for IPv6-only
16653 clients and clients with few reachable addresses. Fixes bug 18929;
16654 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by "teor".
16656 o Minor bugfixes (controller, microdescriptors):
16657 - Make GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus conform to the
16658 control specification by returning "551 Could not open cached
16659 consensus..." when not caching consensuses. Fixes bug 18920;
16660 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
16662 o Minor bugfixes (crypto, portability):
16663 - The SHA3 and SHAKE routines now produce the correct output on Big
16664 Endian systems. No code calls either algorithm yet, so this is
16665 primarily a build fix. Fixes bug 18943; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16666 - Tor now builds again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
16667 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre4 and 1.1.0-pre5-dev). Closes
16670 o Minor bugfixes (directories):
16671 - When fetching extrainfo documents, compare their SHA256 digests
16672 and Ed25519 signing key certificates with the routerinfo that led
16673 us to fetch them, rather than with the most recent routerinfo.
16674 Otherwise we generate many spurious warnings about mismatches.
16675 Fixes bug 17150; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16677 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
16678 - When we can't generate a signing key because OfflineMasterKey is
16679 set, do not imply that we should have been able to load it. Fixes
16680 bug 18133; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16681 - Stop periodic_event_dispatch() from blasting twelve lines per
16682 second at loglevel debug. Fixes bug 18729; fix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16683 - When rejecting a misformed INTRODUCE2 cell, only log at
16684 PROTOCOL_WARN severity. Fixes bug 18761; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
16686 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
16687 - Avoid reporting a spurious error when we decide that we don't need
16688 to terminate a pluggable transport because it has already exited.
16689 Fixes bug 18686; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
16691 o Minor bugfixes (pointer arithmetic):
16692 - Fix a bug in memarea_alloc() that could have resulted in remote
16693 heap write access, if Tor had ever passed an unchecked size to
16694 memarea_alloc(). Fortunately, all the sizes we pass to
16695 memarea_alloc() are pre-checked to be less than 128 kilobytes.
16696 Fixes bug 19150; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. Bug found by
16699 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
16700 - Consider more config options when relays decide whether to
16701 regenerate their descriptor. Fixes more of bug 12538; bugfix
16703 - Resolve some edge cases where we might launch an ORPort
16704 reachability check even when DisableNetwork is set. Noticed while
16705 fixing bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
16707 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
16708 - We now include consensus downloads via IPv6 in our directory-
16709 request statistics. Fixes bug 18460; bugfix on 0.2.3.14-alpha.
16711 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
16712 - Allow directories in small networks to bootstrap by skipping
16713 DirPort checks when the consensus has no exits. Fixes bug 19003;
16714 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
16715 - Fix a small memory leak that would occur when the
16716 TestingEnableCellStatsEvent option was turned on. Fixes bug 18673;
16717 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
16719 o Minor bugfixes (time handling):
16720 - When correcting a corrupt 'struct tm' value, fill in the tm_wday
16721 field. Otherwise, our unit tests crash on Windows. Fixes bug
16722 18977; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
16725 - Document the contents of the 'datadir/keys' subdirectory in the
16726 manual page. Closes ticket 17621.
16727 - Stop recommending use of nicknames to identify relays in our
16728 MapAddress documentation. Closes ticket 18312.
16731 Changes in version 0.2.8.2-alpha - 2016-03-28
16732 Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series. It fixes numerous
16733 bugs in earlier versions of Tor, including some that prevented
16734 authorities using Tor 0.2.7.x from running correctly. IPv6 and
16735 directory support should also be much improved.
16737 o New system requirements:
16738 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL with a broken
16739 implementation of counter mode. (This bug was present in OpenSSL
16740 1.0.0, and was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a.) Tor still detects, but no
16741 longer runs with, these versions.
16742 - Tor no longer attempts to support platforms where the "time_t"
16743 type is unsigned. (To the best of our knowledge, only OpenVMS does
16744 this, and Tor has never actually built on OpenVMS.) Closes
16746 - Tor now uses Autoconf version 2.63 or later, and Automake 1.11 or
16747 later (released in 2008 and 2009 respectively). If you are
16748 building Tor from the git repository instead of from the source
16749 distribution, and your tools are older than this, you will need to
16750 upgrade. Closes ticket 17732.
16752 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers):
16753 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
16754 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
16755 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
16756 Reported by Guido Vranken.
16758 o Major bugfixes (bridges, pluggable transports):
16759 - Modify the check for OR connections to private addresses. Allow
16760 bridges on private addresses, including pluggable transports that
16761 ignore the (potentially private) address in the bridge line. Fixes
16762 bug 18517; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by gk, patch by teor.
16764 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
16765 - Repair hardened builds under the clang compiler. Previously, our
16766 use of _FORTIFY_SOURCE would conflict with clang's address
16767 sanitizer. Fixes bug 14821; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
16769 o Major bugfixes (crash on shutdown):
16770 - Correctly handle detaching circuits from muxes when shutting down.
16771 Fixes bug 18116; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16772 - Fix an assert-on-exit bug related to counting memory usage in
16773 rephist.c. Fixes bug 18651; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16775 o Major bugfixes (crash on startup):
16776 - Fix a segfault during startup: If a Unix domain socket was
16777 configured as listener (such as a ControlSocket or a SocksPort
16778 "unix:" socket), and tor was started as root but not configured to
16779 switch to another user, tor would segfault while trying to string
16780 compare a NULL value. Fixes bug 18261; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16783 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash):
16784 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
16785 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16787 o Major bugfixes (relays, bridge clients):
16788 - Ensure relays always allow IPv4 OR and Dir connections. Ensure
16789 bridge clients use the address configured in the bridge line.
16790 Fixes bug 18348; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb,
16793 o Major bugfixes (voting):
16794 - Actually enable support for authorities to match routers by their
16795 Ed25519 identities. Previously, the code had been written, but
16796 some debugging code that had accidentally been left in the
16797 codebase made it stay turned off. Fixes bug 17702; bugfix
16799 - When collating votes by Ed25519 identities, authorities now
16800 include a "NoEdConsensus" flag if the ed25519 value (or lack
16801 thereof) for a server does not reflect the majority consensus.
16802 Related to bug 17668; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16803 - When generating a vote with keypinning disabled, never include two
16804 entries for the same ed25519 identity. This bug was causing
16805 authorities to generate votes that they could not parse when a
16806 router violated key pinning by changing its RSA identity but
16807 keeping its Ed25519 identity. Fixes bug 17668; fixes part of bug
16808 18318. Bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16810 o Minor features (security, win32):
16811 - Set SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Win32 to avoid a local port-stealing
16812 attack. Fixes bug 18123; bugfix on all tor versions. Patch
16815 o Minor features (bug-resistance):
16816 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
16817 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
16818 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
16820 o Minor features (build):
16821 - Detect systems with FreeBSD-derived kernels (such as GNU/kFreeBSD)
16822 as having possible IPFW support. Closes ticket 18448. Patch from
16823 Steven Chamberlain.
16825 o Minor features (code hardening):
16826 - Use tor_snprintf() and tor_vsnprintf() even in external and low-
16827 level code, to harden against accidental failures to NUL-
16828 terminate. Part of ticket 17852. Patch from jsturgix. Found
16831 o Minor features (crypto):
16832 - Validate the hard-coded Diffie-Hellman parameters and ensure that
16833 p is a safe prime, and g is a suitable generator. Closes
16836 o Minor features (geoip):
16837 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16840 o Minor features (hidden service directory):
16841 - Streamline relay-side hsdir handling: when relays consider whether
16842 to accept an uploaded hidden service descriptor, they no longer
16843 check whether they are one of the relays in the network that is
16844 "supposed" to handle that descriptor. Implements ticket 18332.
16846 o Minor features (IPv6):
16847 - Add ClientPreferIPv6DirPort, which is set to 0 by default. If set
16848 to 1, tor prefers IPv6 directory addresses.
16849 - Add ClientUseIPv4, which is set to 1 by default. If set to 0, tor
16850 avoids using IPv4 for client OR and directory connections.
16851 - Try harder to obey the IP version restrictions "ClientUseIPv4 0",
16852 "ClientUseIPv6 0", "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort", and
16853 "ClientPreferIPv6DirPort". Closes ticket 17840; patch by teor.
16855 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16856 - Reject attempts to change our Address with "Sandbox 1" enabled.
16857 Changing Address with Sandbox turned on would never actually work,
16858 but previously it would fail in strange and confusing ways. Found
16859 while fixing 18548.
16861 o Minor features (robustness):
16862 - Exit immediately with an error message if the code attempts to use
16863 Libevent without having initialized it. This should resolve some
16864 frequently-made mistakes in our unit tests. Closes ticket 18241.
16866 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
16867 - Add a new per-socket option, RelaxDirModeCheck, to allow creating
16868 Unix domain sockets without checking the permissions on the parent
16869 directory. (Tor checks permissions by default because some
16870 operating systems only check permissions on the parent directory.
16871 However, some operating systems do look at permissions on the
16872 socket, and tor's default check is unneeded.) Closes ticket 18458.
16875 o Minor bugfixes (exit policies, security):
16876 - Refresh an exit relay's exit policy when interface addresses
16877 change. Previously, tor only refreshed the exit policy when the
16878 configured external address changed. Fixes bug 18208; bugfix on
16879 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
16881 o Minor bugfixes (security, hidden services):
16882 - Prevent hidden services connecting to client-supplied rendezvous
16883 addresses that are reserved as internal or multicast. Fixes bug
16884 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by dgoulet and teor.
16886 o Minor bugfixes (build):
16887 - Do not link the unit tests against both the testing and non-
16888 testing versions of the static libraries. Fixes bug 18490; bugfix
16890 - Avoid spurious failures from configure files related to calling
16891 exit(0) in TOR_SEARCH_LIBRARY. Fixes bug 18626; bugfix on
16892 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16893 - Silence spurious clang-scan warnings in the ed25519_donna code by
16894 explicitly initializing some objects. Fixes bug 18384; bugfix on
16895 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
16897 o Minor bugfixes (client, bootstrap):
16898 - Count receipt of new microdescriptors as progress towards
16899 bootstrapping. Previously, with EntryNodes set, Tor might not
16900 successfully repopulate the guard set on bootstrapping. Fixes bug
16901 16825; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16903 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
16904 - Update to the latest version of Trunnel, which tries harder to
16905 avoid generating code that can invoke memcpy(p,NULL,0). Bug found
16906 by clang address sanitizer. Fixes bug 18373; bugfix
16909 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
16910 - Fix a tiny memory leak when parsing a port configuration ending in
16911 ":auto". Fixes bug 18374; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
16913 o Minor bugfixes (containers):
16914 - If we somehow attempt to construct a heap with more than
16915 1073741822 elements, avoid an integer overflow when maintaining
16916 the heap property. Fixes bug 18296; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
16918 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
16919 - Fix a bad memory handling bug that would occur if we had queued a
16920 cell on a channel's incoming queue. Fortunately, we can't actually
16921 queue a cell like that as our code is constructed today, but it's
16922 best to avoid this kind of error, even if there isn't any code
16923 that triggers it today. Fixes bug 18570; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
16925 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
16926 - When generating a URL for a directory server on an IPv6 address,
16927 wrap the IPv6 address in square brackets. Fixes bug 18051; bugfix
16928 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Malek.
16930 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
16931 - When requesting extrainfo descriptors from a trusted directory
16932 server, check whether it is an authority or a fallback directory
16933 which supports extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 18489; bugfix on
16934 0.2.4.7-alpha. Reported by atagar, patch by teor.
16936 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, client):
16937 - Handle the case where the user makes several fast consecutive
16938 requests to the same .onion address. Previously, the first six
16939 requests would each trigger a descriptor fetch, each picking a
16940 directory (there are 6 overall) and the seventh one would fail
16941 because no directories were left, thereby triggering a close on
16942 all current directory connections asking for the hidden service.
16943 The solution here is to not close the connections if we have
16944 pending directory fetches. Fixes bug 15937; bugfix
16947 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, control port):
16948 - Add the onion address to the HS_DESC event for the UPLOADED action
16949 both on success or failure. It was previously hardcoded with
16950 UNKNOWN. Fixes bug 16023; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16952 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, directory):
16953 - Bridges now refuse "rendezvous2" (hidden service descriptor)
16954 publish attempts. Suggested by ticket 18332.
16956 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16957 - Allow the setrlimit syscall, and the prlimit and prlimit64
16958 syscalls, which some libc implementations use under the hood.
16959 Fixes bug 15221; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16960 - Avoid a 10-second delay when starting as a client with "Sandbox 1"
16961 enabled and no DNS resolvers configured. This should help TAILS
16962 start up faster. Fixes bug 18548; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16963 - Fix the sandbox's interoperability with unix domain sockets under
16964 setuid. Fixes bug 18253; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16966 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
16967 - When logging information about an unparsable networkstatus vote or
16968 consensus, do not say "vote" when we mean consensus. Fixes bug
16969 18368; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
16970 - Scrub service name in "unrecognized service ID" log messages.
16971 Fixes bug 18600; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha.
16972 - Downgrade logs and backtraces about IP versions to info-level.
16973 Only log backtraces once each time tor runs. Assists in diagnosing
16974 bug 18351; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb and
16975 Christian, patch by teor.
16977 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety):
16978 - Avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer when opening a socket fails
16979 in get_interface_addresses_ioctl(). Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on
16980 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by toralf and "cypherpunks", patch
16982 - Correctly duplicate addresses in get_interface_address6_list().
16983 Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by toralf,
16984 patch by "cypherpunks".
16985 - Fix a memory leak in tor-gencert. Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix
16987 - Fix a memory leak in "tor --list-fingerprint". Fixes part of bug
16988 18672; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16990 o Minor bugfixes (private directory):
16991 - Prevent a race condition when creating private directories. Fixes
16992 part of bug 17852; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13. Part of ticket 17852.
16993 Patch from jsturgix. Found with Flawfinder.
16995 o Minor bugfixes (test networks, IPv6):
16996 - Allow internal IPv6 addresses in descriptors in test networks.
16997 Fixes bug 17153; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Patch by teor, reported
17000 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
17001 - We no longer disable assertions in the unit tests when coverage is
17002 enabled. Instead, we require you to say --disable-asserts-in-tests
17003 to the configure script if you need assertions disabled in the
17004 unit tests (for example, if you want to perform branch coverage).
17005 Fixes bug 18242; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
17007 o Minor bugfixes (time parsing):
17008 - Avoid overflow in tor_timegm when parsing dates in and after 2038
17009 on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 18479; bugfix on
17010 0.0.2pre14. Patch by teor.
17012 o Minor bugfixes (tor-gencert):
17013 - Correctly handle the case where an authority operator enters a
17014 passphrase but sends an EOF before sending a newline. Fixes bug
17015 17443; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by junglefowl.
17017 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17018 - Quote all the string interpolations in configure.ac -- even those
17019 which we are pretty sure can't contain spaces. Closes ticket
17020 17744. Patch from zerosion.
17021 - Remove specialized code for non-inplace AES_CTR. 99% of our AES is
17022 inplace, so there's no need to have a separate implementation for
17023 the non-inplace code. Closes ticket 18258. Patch from Malek.
17024 - Simplify return types for some crypto functions that can't
17025 actually fail. Patch from Hassan Alsibyani. Closes ticket 18259.
17028 - Change build messages to refer to "Fedora" instead of "Fedora
17029 Core", and "dnf" instead of "yum". Closes tickets 18459 and 18426.
17030 Patches from "icanhasaccount" and "cypherpunks".
17032 o Removed features:
17033 - We no longer maintain an internal freelist in memarea.c.
17034 Allocators should be good enough to make this code unnecessary,
17035 and it's doubtful that it ever had any performance benefit.
17038 - Fix several warnings from clang's address sanitizer produced in
17040 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on FreeBSD until we
17041 solve bug 17808. Closes ticket 18204.
17044 Changes in version 0.2.8.1-alpha - 2016-02-04
17045 Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
17046 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
17047 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
17048 notable features are a set of improvements to the directory subsystem.
17050 o Major features (security, Linux):
17051 - When Tor starts as root on Linux and is told to switch user ID, it
17052 can now retain the capability to bind to low ports. By default,
17053 Tor will do this only when it's switching user ID and some low
17054 ports have been configured. You can change this behavior with the
17055 new option KeepBindCapabilities. Closes ticket 8195.
17057 o Major features (directory system):
17058 - When bootstrapping multiple consensus downloads at a time, use the
17059 first one that starts downloading, and close the rest. This
17060 reduces failures when authorities or fallback directories are slow
17061 or down. Together with the code for feature 15775, this feature
17062 should reduces failures due to fallback churn. Implements ticket
17063 4483. Patch by "teor". Implements IPv4 portions of proposal 210 by
17064 "mikeperry" and "teor".
17065 - Include a trial list of 21 default fallback directories, generated
17066 in January 2016, based on an opt-in survey of suitable relays.
17067 Doing this should make clients bootstrap more quickly and reliably,
17068 and reduce the load on the directory authorities. Closes ticket
17069 15775. Patch by "teor".
17070 Candidates identified using an OnionOO script by "weasel", "teor",
17071 "gsathya", and "karsten".
17072 - Previously only relays that explicitly opened a directory port
17073 (DirPort) accepted directory requests from clients. Now all
17074 relays, with and without a DirPort, accept and serve tunneled
17075 directory requests that they receive through their ORPort. You can
17076 disable this behavior using the new DirCache option. Closes
17079 o Major key updates:
17080 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
17081 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
17084 o Minor features (security, clock):
17085 - Warn when the system clock appears to move back in time (when the
17086 state file was last written in the future). Tor doesn't know that
17087 consensuses have expired if the clock is in the past. Patch by
17088 "teor". Implements ticket 17188.
17090 o Minor features (security, exit policies):
17091 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now rejects more private addresses by
17092 default. Specifically, it now rejects the relay's outbound bind
17093 addresses (if configured), and the relay's configured port
17094 addresses (such as ORPort and DirPort). Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on
17095 0.2.0.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17097 o Minor features (security, memory erasure):
17098 - Set the unused entries in a smartlist to NULL. This helped catch
17099 a (harmless) bug, and shouldn't affect performance too much.
17100 Implements ticket 17026.
17101 - Use SecureMemoryWipe() function to securely clean memory on
17102 Windows. Previously we'd use OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function.
17103 Implements feature 17986.
17104 - Use explicit_bzero or memset_s when present. Previously, we'd use
17105 OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function. Closes ticket 7419; patches
17106 from <logan@hackers.mu> and <selven@hackers.mu>.
17107 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
17108 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
17109 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
17112 o Minor features (security, RNG):
17113 - Adjust Tor's use of OpenSSL's RNG APIs so that they absolutely,
17114 positively are not allowed to fail. Previously we depended on
17115 internal details of OpenSSL's behavior. Closes ticket 17686.
17116 - Never use the system entropy output directly for anything besides
17117 seeding the PRNG. When we want to generate important keys, instead
17118 of using system entropy directly, we now hash it with the PRNG
17119 stream. This may help resist certain attacks based on broken OS
17120 entropy implementations. Closes part of ticket 17694.
17121 - Use modern system calls (like getentropy() or getrandom()) to
17122 generate strong entropy on platforms that have them. Closes
17125 o Minor features (accounting):
17126 - Added two modes to the AccountingRule option: One for limiting
17127 only the number of bytes sent ("AccountingRule out"), and one for
17128 limiting only the number of bytes received ("AccountingRule in").
17129 Closes ticket 15989; patch from "unixninja92".
17131 o Minor features (build):
17132 - Since our build process now uses "make distcheck", we no longer
17133 force "make dist" to depend on "make check". Closes ticket 17893;
17134 patch from "cypherpunks."
17135 - Tor now builds successfully with the recent OpenSSL 1.1
17136 development branch, and with the latest LibreSSL. Closes tickets
17137 17549, 17921, and 17984.
17139 o Minor features (controller):
17140 - Adds the FallbackDir entries to 'GETINFO config/defaults'. Closes
17141 tickets 16774 and 17817. Patch by George Tankersley.
17142 - New 'GETINFO hs/service/desc/id/' command to retrieve a hidden
17143 service descriptor from a service's local hidden service
17144 descriptor cache. Closes ticket 14846.
17145 - Add 'GETINFO exit-policy/reject-private/[default,relay]', so
17146 controllers can examine the the reject rules added by
17147 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. This makes it easier for stem to display
17150 o Minor features (crypto):
17151 - Add SHA512 support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17663; patch from
17153 - Add SHA3 and SHAKE support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17783.
17154 - When allocating a digest state object, allocate no more space than
17155 we actually need. Previously, we would allocate as much space as
17156 the state for the largest algorithm would need. This change saves
17157 up to 672 bytes per circuit. Closes ticket 17796.
17158 - Improve performance when hashing non-multiple of 8 sized buffers,
17159 based on Andrew Moon's public domain SipHash-2-4 implementation.
17160 Fixes bug 17544; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
17162 o Minor features (directory downloads):
17163 - Wait for busy authorities and fallback directories to become non-
17164 busy when bootstrapping. (A similar change was made in 6c443e987d
17165 for directory caches chosen from the consensus.) Closes ticket
17166 17864; patch by "teor".
17167 - Add UseDefaultFallbackDirs, which enables any hard-coded fallback
17168 directory mirrors. The default is 1; set it to 0 to disable
17169 fallbacks. Implements ticket 17576. Patch by "teor".
17171 o Minor features (geoip):
17172 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
17175 o Minor features (IPv6):
17176 - Add an argument 'ipv6=address:orport' to the DirAuthority and
17177 FallbackDir torrc options, to specify an IPv6 address for an
17178 authority or fallback directory. Add hard-coded ipv6 addresses for
17179 directory authorities that have them. Closes ticket 17327; patch
17180 from Nick Mathewson and "teor".
17181 - Add address policy assume_action support for IPv6 addresses.
17182 - Limit IPv6 mask bits to 128.
17183 - Warn when comparing against an AF_UNSPEC address in a policy, it's
17184 almost always a bug. Closes ticket 17863; patch by "teor".
17185 - Allow users to configure directory authorities and fallback
17186 directory servers with IPv6 addresses and ORPorts. Resolves
17188 - routerset_parse now accepts IPv6 literal addresses. Fixes bug
17189 17060; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17190 - Make tor_ersatz_socketpair work on IPv6-only systems. Fixes bug
17191 17638; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Patch by "teor".
17193 o Minor features (logging):
17194 - When logging to syslog, allow a tag to be added to the syslog
17195 identity (the string prepended to every log message). The tag can
17196 be configured with SyslogIdentityTag and defaults to none. Setting
17197 it to "foo" will cause logs to be tagged as "Tor-foo". Closes
17200 o Minor features (portability):
17201 - Use timingsafe_memcmp() where available. Closes ticket 17944;
17202 patch from <logan@hackers.mu>.
17204 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
17205 - Add a family argument to get_interface_addresses_raw() and
17206 subfunctions to make network interface address interogation more
17207 efficient. Now Tor can specifically ask for IPv4, IPv6 or both
17208 types of interfaces from the operating system. Resolves
17210 - When get_interface_address6_list(.,AF_UNSPEC,.) is called and
17211 fails to enumerate interface addresses using the platform-specific
17212 API, have it rely on the UDP socket fallback technique to try and
17213 find out what IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6) our machine has.
17214 Resolves ticket 17951.
17216 o Minor features (replay cache):
17217 - The replay cache now uses SHA256 instead of SHA1. Implements
17218 feature 8961. Patch by "teor", issue reported by "rransom".
17220 o Minor features (unix file permissions):
17221 - Defer creation of Unix sockets until after setuid. This avoids
17222 needing CAP_CHOWN and CAP_FOWNER when using systemd's
17223 CapabilityBoundingSet, or chown and fowner when using SELinux.
17224 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
17225 - If any directory created by Tor is marked as group readable, the
17226 filesystem group is allowed to be either the default GID or the
17227 root user. Allowing root to read the DataDirectory prevents the
17228 need for CAP_READ_SEARCH when using systemd's
17229 CapabilityBoundingSet, or dac_read_search when using SELinux.
17230 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
17231 - Introduce a new DataDirectoryGroupReadable option. If it is set to
17232 1, the DataDirectory will be made readable by the default GID.
17233 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
17235 o Minor bugfixes (accounting):
17236 - The max bandwidth when using 'AccountRule sum' is now correctly
17237 logged. Fixes bug 18024; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch
17238 from "unixninja92".
17240 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
17241 - When closing an entry connection, generate a warning if we should
17242 have sent an end cell for it but we haven't. Fixes bug 17876;
17243 bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
17244 - Assert that allocated memory held by the reputation code is freed
17245 according to its internal counters. Fixes bug 17753; bugfix
17247 - Assert when the TLS contexts fail to initialize. Fixes bug 17683;
17250 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17251 - Mark all object files that include micro-revision.i as depending
17252 on it, so as to make parallel builds more reliable. Fixes bug
17253 17826; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17254 - Don't try to use the pthread_condattr_setclock() function unless
17255 it actually exists. Fixes compilation on NetBSD-6.x. Fixes bug
17256 17819; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
17257 - Fix backtrace compilation on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 17827; bugfix
17259 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
17260 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
17261 - Fix search for libevent libraries on OpenBSD (and other systems
17262 that install libevent 1 and libevent 2 in parallel). Fixes bug
17263 16651; bugfix on 0.1.0.7-rc. Patch from "rubiate".
17264 - Isolate environment variables meant for tests from the rest of the
17265 build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
17266 - Replace usage of 'INLINE' with 'inline'. Fixes bug 17804; bugfix
17268 - Remove config.log only from make distclean, not from make clean.
17269 Fixes bug 17924; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
17271 o Minor bugfixes (crypto):
17272 - Check the return value of HMAC() and assert on failure. Fixes bug
17273 17658; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17275 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
17276 - Mark fallbacks as "too busy" when they return a 503 response,
17277 rather than just marking authorities. Fixes bug 17572; bugfix on
17278 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17280 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
17281 - Update the limits in max_dl_per_request for IPv6 address length.
17282 Fixes bug 17573; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
17284 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17285 - Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux
17286 seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
17288 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
17289 - In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__
17290 instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. In GCC, these are synonymous, but
17291 with clang __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ has extra information we don't
17292 need. Fixes bug 16563; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Fix by Tom van
17294 - Remove needless quotes from a log message about unparseable
17295 addresses. Fixes bug 17843; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
17297 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
17298 - Remove an #endif from configure.ac so that we correctly detect the
17299 presence of in6_addr.s6_addr32. Fixes bug 17923; bugfix
17302 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
17303 - Check that both the ORPort and DirPort (if present) are reachable
17304 before publishing a relay descriptor. Otherwise, relays publish a
17305 descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes
17306 longer than the ORPort reachability test. Fixes bug 18050; bugfix
17307 on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "starlight", patch by "teor".
17309 o Minor bugfixes (relays, hidden services):
17310 - Refuse connection requests to private OR addresses unless
17311 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set. Previously, tor would connect,
17312 then refuse to send any cells to a private address. Fixes bugs
17313 17674 and 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by "teor".
17315 o Minor bugfixes (safe logging):
17316 - When logging a malformed hostname received through socks4, scrub
17317 it if SafeLogging says we should. Fixes bug 17419; bugfix
17320 o Minor bugfixes (statistics code):
17321 - Consistently check for overflow in round_*_to_next_multiple_of
17322 functions, and add unit tests with additional and maximal values.
17323 Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
17324 - Handle edge cases in the laplace functions: avoid division by
17325 zero, avoid taking the log of zero, and silence clang type
17326 conversion warnings using round and trunc. Add unit tests for edge
17327 cases with maximal values. Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix
17330 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
17331 - The test for log_heartbeat was incorrectly failing in timezones
17332 with non-integer offsets. Instead of comparing the end of the time
17333 string against a constant, compare it to the output of
17334 format_local_iso_time when given the correct input. Fixes bug
17335 18039; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
17336 - Make unit tests pass on IPv6-only systems, and systems without
17337 localhost addresses (like some FreeBSD jails). Fixes bug 17632;
17338 bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
17339 - Fix a memory leak in the ntor test. Fixes bug 17778; bugfix
17341 - Check the full results of SHA256 and SHA512 digests in the unit
17342 tests. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17344 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17345 - Move logging of redundant policy entries in
17346 policies_parse_exit_policy_internal into its own function. Closes
17347 ticket 17608; patch from "juce".
17348 - Extract the more complicated parts of circuit_mark_for_close()
17349 into a new function that we run periodically before circuits are
17350 freed. This change removes more than half of the functions
17351 currently in the "blob". Closes ticket 17218.
17352 - Clean up a little duplicated code in
17353 crypto_expand_key_material_TAP(). Closes ticket 17587; patch
17355 - Decouple the list of streams waiting to be attached to circuits
17356 from the overall connection list. This change makes it possible to
17357 attach streams quickly while simplifying Tor's callgraph and
17358 avoiding O(N) scans of the entire connection list. Closes
17360 - When a direct directory request fails immediately on launch,
17361 instead of relaunching that request from inside the code that
17362 launches it, instead mark the connection for teardown. This change
17363 simplifies Tor's callback and prevents the directory-request
17364 launching code from invoking itself recursively. Closes
17366 - Remove code for configuring OpenSSL dynamic locks; OpenSSL doesn't
17367 use them. Closes ticket 17926.
17370 - Add a description of the correct use of the '--keygen' command-
17371 line option. Closes ticket 17583; based on text by 's7r'.
17372 - Document the minimum HeartbeatPeriod value. Closes ticket 15638.
17373 - Explain actual minima for BandwidthRate. Closes ticket 16382.
17374 - Fix a minor formatting typo in the manpage. Closes ticket 17791.
17375 - Mention torspec URL in the manpage and point the reader to it
17376 whenever we mention a document that belongs in torspce. Fixes
17379 o Removed features:
17380 - Remove client-side support for connecting to Tor relays running
17381 versions of Tor before 0.2.3.6-alpha. These relays didn't support
17382 the v3 TLS handshake protocol, and are no longer allowed on the
17383 Tor network. Implements the client side of ticket 11150. Based on
17384 patches by Tom van der Woerdt.
17387 - Add unit tests to check for common RNG failure modes, such as
17388 returning all zeroes, identical values, or incrementing values
17389 (OpenSSL's rand_predictable feature). Patch by "teor".
17390 - Log more information when the backtrace tests fail. Closes ticket
17391 17892. Patch from "cypherpunks."
17392 - Always test both ed25519 backends, so that we can be sure that our
17393 batch-open replacement code works. Part of ticket 16794.
17394 - Cover dns_resolve_impl() in dns.c with unit tests. Implements a
17395 portion of ticket 16831.
17396 - More unit tests for compat_libevent.c, procmon.c, tortls.c,
17397 util_format.c, directory.c, and options_validate.c. Closes tickets
17398 17075, 17082, 17084, 17003, and 17076 respectively. Patches from
17400 - Unit tests for directory_handle_command_get. Closes ticket 17004.
17401 Patch from Reinaldo de Souza Jr.
17404 Changes in version 0.2.7.6 - 2015-12-10
17405 Tor version 0.2.7.6 fixes a major bug in entry guard selection, as
17406 well as a minor bug in hidden service reliability.
17408 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
17409 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
17410 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
17411 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
17412 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
17413 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
17416 o Minor features (geoip):
17417 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
17420 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17421 - When checking for net/pfvar.h, include netinet/in.h if possible.
17422 This fixes transparent proxy detection on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
17423 17551; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Patch from "rubiate".
17424 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
17425 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
17427 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
17428 - When displaying an IPv6 exit policy, include the mask bits
17429 correctly even when the number is greater than 31. Fixes bug
17430 16056; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch from "gturner".
17431 - The wrong list was used when looking up expired intro points in a
17432 rend service object, causing what we think could be reachability
17433 issues for hidden services, and triggering a BUG log. Fixes bug
17434 16702; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17435 - Fix undefined behavior in the tor_cert_checksig function. Fixes
17436 bug 17722; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17439 Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
17440 The Tor 0.2.7 release series is dedicated to the memory of Tor user
17441 and privacy advocate Caspar Bowden (1961-2015). Caspar worked
17442 tirelessly to advocate human rights regardless of national borders,
17443 and oppose the encroachments of mass surveillance. He opposed national
17444 exceptionalism, he brought clarity to legal and policy debates, he
17445 understood and predicted the impact of mass surveillance on the world,
17446 and he laid the groundwork for resisting it. While serving on the Tor
17447 Project's board of directors, he brought us his uncompromising focus
17448 on technical excellence in the service of humankind. Caspar was an
17449 inimitable force for good and a wonderful friend. He was kind,
17450 humorous, generous, gallant, and believed we should protect one
17451 another without exception. We honor him here for his ideals, his
17452 efforts, and his accomplishments. Please honor his memory with works
17453 that would make him proud.
17455 Tor 0.2.7.5 is the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.7 series.
17457 The 0.2.7 series adds a more secure identity key type for relays,
17458 improves cryptography performance, resolves several longstanding
17459 hidden-service performance issues, improves controller support for
17460 hidden services, and includes small bugfixes and performance
17461 improvements throughout the program. This release series also includes
17462 more tests than before, and significant simplifications to which parts
17463 of Tor invoke which others.
17465 (This release contains no code changes since 0.2.7.4-rc.)
17468 Changes in version 0.2.7.4-rc - 2015-10-21
17469 Tor 0.2.7.4-rc is the second release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
17470 fixes some important memory leaks, and a scary-looking (but mostly
17471 harmless in practice) invalid-read bug. It also has a few small
17472 bugfixes, notably fixes for compilation and portability on different
17473 platforms. If no further significant bounds are found, the next
17474 release will the the official stable release.
17476 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness):
17477 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
17478 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
17479 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
17480 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
17483 o Major bugfixes (correctness):
17484 - Fix a use-after-free bug in validate_intro_point_failure(). Fixes
17485 bug 17401; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
17487 o Major bugfixes (memory leaks):
17488 - Fix a memory leak in ed25519 batch signature checking. Fixes bug
17489 17398; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
17490 - Fix a memory leak in rend_cache_failure_entry_free(). Fixes bug
17491 17402; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
17492 - Fix a memory leak when reading an expired signing key from disk.
17493 Fixes bug 17403; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-rc.
17495 o Minor features (geoIP):
17496 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
17499 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17500 - Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha)
17501 vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237.
17502 - Fix an integer overflow warning in test_crypto_slow.c. Fixes bug
17503 17251; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17504 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
17505 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
17507 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
17508 - Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD to enable backtrace support. Fixes
17509 part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from
17512 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
17513 - Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
17514 HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
17515 bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
17517 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
17518 - Add unit tests for get_interface_address* failure cases. Fixes bug
17519 17173; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by fk/teor.
17520 - Fix breakage when running 'make check' with BSD make. Fixes bug
17521 17154; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by Marcin Cieślak.
17522 - Make the get_ifaddrs_* unit tests more tolerant of different
17523 network configurations. (Don't assume every test box has an IPv4
17524 address, and don't assume every test box has a non-localhost
17525 address.) Fixes bug 17255; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
17526 - Skip backtrace tests when backtrace support is not compiled in.
17527 Fixes part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch from
17531 - Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609.
17532 - Note that HiddenServicePorts can take a unix domain socket. Closes
17536 Changes in version 0.2.7.3-rc - 2015-09-25
17537 Tor 0.2.7.3-rc is the first release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
17538 contains numerous usability fixes for Ed25519 keys, safeguards against
17539 several misconfiguration problems, significant simplifications to
17540 Tor's callgraph, and numerous bugfixes and small features.
17542 This is the most tested release of Tor to date. The unit tests cover
17543 39.40% of the code, and the integration tests (accessible with "make
17544 test-full-online", requiring stem and chutney and a network
17545 connection) raise the coverage to 64.49%.
17547 o Major features (security, hidden services):
17548 - Hidden services, if using the EntryNodes option, are required to
17549 use more than one EntryNode, in order to avoid a guard discovery
17550 attack. (This would only affect people who had configured hidden
17551 services and manually specified the EntryNodes option with a
17552 single entry-node. The impact was that it would be easy to
17553 remotely identify the guard node used by such a hidden service.
17554 See ticket for more information.) Fixes ticket 14917.
17556 o Major features (Ed25519 keys, keypinning):
17557 - The key-pinning option on directory authorities is now advisory-
17558 only by default. In a future version, or when the AuthDirPinKeys
17559 option is set, pins are enforced again. Disabling key-pinning
17560 seemed like a good idea so that we can survive the fallout of any
17561 usability problems associated with Ed25519 keys. Closes
17564 o Major features (Ed25519 performance):
17565 - Improve the speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519 keypair
17566 generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with SSE2
17567 available. Implements ticket 16535.
17568 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 signature verification by
17569 using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support. Implements
17572 o Major features (performance testing):
17573 - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing.
17574 Requires corresponding chutney performance testing changes. Patch
17575 by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
17577 o Major features (relay, Ed25519):
17578 - Significant usability improvements for Ed25519 key management. Log
17579 messages are better, and the code can recover from far more
17580 failure conditions. Thanks to "s7r" for reporting and diagnosing
17582 - Add a new OfflineMasterKey option to tell Tor never to try loading
17583 or generating a secret Ed25519 identity key. You can use this in
17584 combination with tor --keygen to manage offline and/or encrypted
17585 Ed25519 keys. Implements ticket 16944.
17586 - Add a --newpass option to allow changing or removing the
17587 passphrase of an encrypted key with tor --keygen. Implements part
17589 - On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519
17590 signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790.
17592 o Major bugfixes (relay, Ed25519):
17593 - Avoid crashing on 'tor --keygen'. Fixes bug 16679; bugfix on
17594 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
17595 - Improve handling of expired signing keys with offline master keys.
17596 Fixes bug 16685; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
17598 o Minor features (client-side privacy):
17599 - New KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option to indefinitely extend circuit
17600 lifespan when IsolateSOCKSAuth and streams with SOCKS
17601 authentication are attached to the circuit. This allows
17602 applications like TorBrowser to manage circuit lifetime on their
17603 own. Implements feature 15482.
17604 - When logging malformed hostnames from SOCKS5 requests, respect
17605 SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
17607 o Minor features (compilation):
17608 - Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an
17609 unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901.
17610 - Fail during configure if we're trying to build against an OpenSSL
17611 built without ECC support. Fixes bug 17109, bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha
17612 which started requiring ECC.
17614 o Minor features (geoip):
17615 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
17618 o Minor features (hidden services):
17619 - Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this
17620 is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14%
17621 drop. This change should make some attacks against the hidden
17622 service directory system harder. Fixes ticket 15963.
17623 - Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc
17624 option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. (This keeps
17625 track only of the fraction of traffic used by hidden services, and
17626 the total number of hidden services in existence.) Closes
17628 - Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when
17629 to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache. Previously, failures
17630 were recorded implicitly, but not explicitly remembered. Closes
17633 o Minor features (testing, authorities, documentation):
17634 - New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags to
17635 explicitly manage consensus flags in testing networks. Patch by
17636 "robgjansen", modified by "teor". Implements part of ticket 14882.
17638 o Minor bugfixes (security, exit policies):
17639 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now also rejects the relay's published
17640 IPv6 address (if any), and any publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6
17641 addresses on any local interfaces. ticket 17027. Patch by "teor".
17642 Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 0.2.0.11-alpha.
17644 o Minor bug fixes (torrc exit policies):
17645 - In torrc, "accept6 *" and "reject6 *" ExitPolicy lines now only
17646 produce IPv6 wildcard addresses. Previously they would produce
17647 both IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Patch by "teor". Fixes part
17648 of bug 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17649 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now warn for a number of cases
17650 where the user's intent is likely to differ from Tor's actual
17651 behavior. These include: using an IPv4 address with an accept6 or
17652 reject6 line; using "private" on an accept6 or reject6 line; and
17653 including any ExitPolicy lines after accept *:* or reject *:*.
17654 Related to ticket 16069.
17655 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now issue an info-level
17656 message when expanding an "accept/reject *" line to include both
17657 IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Related to ticket 16069.
17658 - In each instance above, usage advice is provided to avoid the
17659 message. Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug
17660 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17662 o Minor bugfixes (authority):
17663 - Don't assign "HSDir" to a router if it isn't Valid and Running.
17664 Fixes bug 16524; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17665 - Downgrade log messages about Ed25519 key issues if they are in old
17666 cached router descriptors. Fixes part of bug 16286; bugfix
17668 - When we find an Ed25519 key issue in a cached descriptor, stop
17669 saying the descriptor was just "uploaded". Fixes another part of
17670 bug 16286; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17672 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
17673 - Repair a warning and a spurious result when getting the maximum
17674 number of file descriptors from the controller. Fixes bug 16697;
17675 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17677 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
17678 - When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove()
17679 while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit
17680 17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was
17681 incorrectly removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
17683 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
17684 - Advise users on how to configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 exit
17685 policies in the manpage and sample torrcs. Related to ticket 16069.
17686 - Fix the usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
17687 the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
17688 - Fix an error in the manual page and comments for
17689 TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir
17690 required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no
17691 way unique to the HSDir flag. Of all the flags, only HSDirs need a
17692 DirPort configured in order for the authorities to assign that
17693 particular flag. Patch by "teor". Fixed as part of 14882; bugfix
17696 o Minor bugfixes (Ed25519):
17697 - Fix a memory leak when reading router descriptors with expired
17698 Ed25519 certificates. Fixes bug 16539; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17700 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17701 - Allow bridge authorities to run correctly under the seccomp2
17702 sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17703 - Allow routers with ed25519 keys to run correctly under the
17704 seccomp2 sandbox. Fixes bug 16965; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17706 o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
17707 - Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
17708 limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug
17709 16274; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
17711 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
17712 - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
17713 standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
17715 - Check correctly for Windows socket errors in the workqueue
17716 backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
17717 - Fix the behavior of crypto_rand_time_range() when told to consider
17718 times before 1970. (These times were possible when running in a
17719 simulated network environment where time()'s output starts at
17720 zero.) Fixes bug 16980; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
17721 - Restore correct operation of TLS client-cipher detection on
17722 OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug 14047; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17724 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
17725 - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
17726 shutdown is indicated. This fix doesn't currently affect the
17727 behavior of Tor, because Tor workers never indicates fatal error
17728 or shutdown except in the unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix
17730 - Unblock threads before releasing the work queue mutex to ensure
17731 predictable scheduling behavior. Fixes bug 16644; bugfix
17734 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17735 - Change the function that's called when we need to retry all
17736 downloads so that it only reschedules the downloads to happen
17737 immediately, rather than launching them all at once itself. This
17738 further simplifies Tor's callgraph.
17739 - Move some format-parsing functions out of crypto.c and
17740 crypto_curve25519.c into crypto_format.c and/or util_format.c.
17741 - Move the client-only parts of init_keys() into a separate
17742 function. Closes ticket 16763.
17743 - Simplify the microdesc_free() implementation so that it no longer
17744 appears (to code analysis tools) to potentially invoke a huge
17745 suite of other microdesc functions.
17746 - Simply the control graph further by deferring the inner body of
17747 directory_all_unreachable() into a callback. Closes ticket 16762.
17748 - Treat the loss of an owning controller as equivalent to a SIGTERM
17749 signal. This removes a tiny amount of duplicated code, and
17750 simplifies our callgraph. Closes ticket 16788.
17751 - When generating an event to send to the controller, we no longer
17752 put the event over the network immediately. Instead, we queue
17753 these events, and use a Libevent callback to deliver them. This
17754 change simplifies Tor's callgraph by reducing the number of
17755 functions from which all other Tor functions are reachable. Closes
17757 - Wrap Windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools
17758 that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that
17760 - Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup().
17763 - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
17764 than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
17765 - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
17766 to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
17770 - The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor
17771 distribution, in favor of the pure-Go clone available from
17772 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/ . The libraries
17773 used by the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very
17774 confidence- inspiring in their secure-programming techniques.
17775 Closes ticket 13338.
17776 - Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller
17777 connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in
17778 0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding
17779 their limits. But there is no longer a maximum output buffer size,
17780 and flushing data in this way caused some undesirable recursions
17781 in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480.
17784 - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
17785 tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
17786 to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
17787 test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor) and 16946
17788 (chutney). Patches by "teor".
17789 - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and Tor sources are side-
17790 by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
17792 - Use environment variables rather than autoconf substitutions to
17793 send variables from the build system to the test scripts. This
17794 change should be easier to maintain, and cause 'make distcheck' to
17795 work better than before. Fixes bug 17148.
17796 - Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to
17797 produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which
17798 other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify
17799 our code structure by identifying illogical dependencies.
17800 - Add new 'test-full' and 'test-full-online' targets to run all
17801 tests, including integration tests with stem and chutney.
17802 - Make the test-workqueue test work on Windows by initializing the
17803 network before we begin.
17804 - New make target (make test-network-all) to run multiple applicable
17805 chutney test cases. Patch from Teor; closes 16953.
17806 - Unit test dns_resolve(), dns_clip_ttl() and dns_get_expiry_ttl()
17807 functions in dns.c. Implements a portion of ticket 16831.
17808 - When building Tor with testing coverage enabled, run Chutney tests
17809 (if any) using the 'tor-cov' coverage binary.
17810 - When running test-network or test-stem, check for the absence of
17811 stem/chutney before doing any build operations.
17814 Changes in version 0.2.7.2-alpha - 2015-07-27
17815 This, the second alpha in the Tor 0.2.7 series, has a number of new
17816 features, including a way to manually pick the number of introduction
17817 points for hidden services, and the much stronger Ed25519 signing key
17818 algorithm for regular Tor relays (including support for encrypted
17819 offline identity keys in the new algorithm).
17821 Support for Ed25519 on relays is currently limited to signing router
17822 descriptors; later alphas in this series will extend Ed25519 key
17823 support to more parts of the Tor protocol.
17825 o Major features (Ed25519 identity keys, Proposal 220):
17826 - All relays now maintain a stronger identity key, using the Ed25519
17827 elliptic curve signature format. This master key is designed so
17828 that it can be kept offline. Relays also generate an online
17829 signing key, and a set of other Ed25519 keys and certificates.
17830 These are all automatically regenerated and rotated as needed.
17831 Implements part of ticket 12498.
17832 - Directory authorities now vote on Ed25519 identity keys along with
17833 RSA1024 keys. Implements part of ticket 12498.
17834 - Directory authorities track which Ed25519 identity keys have been
17835 used with which RSA1024 identity keys, and do not allow them to
17836 vary freely. Implements part of ticket 12498.
17837 - Microdescriptors now include Ed25519 identity keys. Implements
17838 part of ticket 12498.
17839 - Add support for offline encrypted Ed25519 master keys. To use this
17840 feature on your tor relay, run "tor --keygen" to make a new master
17841 key (or to make a new signing key if you already have a master
17842 key). Closes ticket 13642.
17844 o Major features (Hidden services):
17845 - Add the torrc option HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints, to
17846 specify a fixed number of introduction points. Its maximum value
17847 is 10 and default is 3. Using this option can increase a hidden
17848 service's reliability under load, at the cost of making it more
17849 visible that the hidden service is facing extra load. Closes
17851 - Remove the adaptive algorithm for choosing the number of
17852 introduction points, which used to change the number of
17853 introduction points (poorly) depending on the number of
17854 connections the HS sees. Closes ticket 4862.
17856 o Major features (onion key cross-certification):
17857 - Relay descriptors now include signatures of their own identity
17858 keys, made using the TAP and ntor onion keys. These signatures
17859 allow relays to prove ownership of their own onion keys. Because
17860 of this change, microdescriptors will no longer need to include
17861 RSA identity keys. Implements proposal 228; closes ticket 12499.
17863 o Major features (performance):
17864 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations by using the
17865 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry").
17866 Implements ticket 16467.
17867 - Improve the runtime speed of the ntor handshake by using an
17868 optimized curve25519 basepoint scalarmult implementation from the
17869 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"), based on
17870 ideas by Adam Langley. Implements ticket 9663.
17872 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy, also in 0.2.6.9):
17873 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
17874 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group
17875 was being overwritten by a default value when the listener
17876 connection was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on
17877 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by "jojelino".
17879 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
17880 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
17881 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
17882 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
17883 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
17884 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
17885 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
17886 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
17889 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
17890 - When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always
17891 extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit).
17892 Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which
17893 changed the original choice of introduction point, and could cause
17894 the hidden service to skip excluded introduction points or
17895 reconnect to a skipped introduction point. Fixes bug 16260; bugfix
17898 o Major bugfixes (open file limit):
17899 - The open file limit wasn't checked before calling
17900 tor_accept_socket_nonblocking(), which would make Tor exceed the
17901 limit. Now, before opening a new socket, Tor validates the open
17902 file limit just before, and if the max has been reached, return an
17903 error. Fixes bug 16288; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
17905 o Major bugfixes (stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
17906 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
17907 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
17908 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
17909 by "cypherpunks_backup".
17910 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
17911 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
17912 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
17915 o Minor features (directory authorities, security, also in 0.2.6.9):
17916 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
17917 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
17918 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
17919 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable to
17920 require at the very least 7 days, while maintaining the 96 hours
17921 uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
17923 o Minor features (client):
17924 - Relax the validation of hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, allowing the
17925 character '_' to appear, in order to cope with domains observed in
17926 the wild that are serving non-RFC compliant records. Resolves
17928 - Relax the validation done to hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, and
17929 allow a single trailing '.' to cope with clients that pass FQDNs
17930 using that syntax to explicitly indicate that the domain name is
17931 fully-qualified. Fixes bug 16674; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
17932 - Add GroupWritable and WorldWritable options to unix-socket based
17933 SocksPort and ControlPort options. These options apply to a single
17934 socket, and override {Control,Socks}SocketsGroupWritable. Closes
17937 o Minor features (control protocol):
17938 - Support network-liveness GETINFO key and NETWORK_LIVENESS event in
17939 the control protocol. Resolves ticket 15358.
17941 o Minor features (directory authorities):
17942 - Directory authorities no longer vote against the "Fast", "Stable",
17943 and "HSDir" flags just because they were going to vote against
17944 "Running": if the consensus turns out to be that the router was
17945 running, then the authority's vote should count. Patch from Peter
17946 Retzlaff; closes issue 8712.
17948 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.6.10):
17949 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
17950 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
17952 o Minor features (hidden services):
17953 - Add the new options "HiddenServiceMaxStreams" and
17954 "HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit" to allow hidden services to
17955 limit the maximum number of simultaneous streams per circuit, and
17956 optionally tear down the circuit when the limit is exceeded. Part
17959 o Minor features (portability):
17960 - Use C99 variadic macros when the compiler is not GCC. This avoids
17961 failing compilations on MSVC, and fixes a log-file-based race
17962 condition in our old workarounds. Original patch from Gisle Vanem.
17964 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.6.9):
17965 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
17966 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
17967 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
17969 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
17970 - Add the descriptor ID in each HS_DESC control event. It was
17971 missing, but specified in control-spec.txt. Fixes bug 15881;
17972 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
17974 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, also in 0.2.6.10):
17975 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
17976 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
17977 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
17978 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
17979 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
17981 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
17982 - Fix a crash when reloading configuration while at least one
17983 configured and one ephemeral hidden service exists. Fixes bug
17984 16060; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
17985 - Avoid crashing with a double-free bug when we create an ephemeral
17986 hidden service but adding it fails for some reason. Fixes bug
17987 16228; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
17989 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17990 - Use the sandbox in tor_open_cloexec whether or not O_CLOEXEC is
17991 defined. Patch by "teor". Fixes bug 16515; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17993 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10):
17994 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
17995 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
17996 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
17998 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.9):
17999 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay, by allowing the
18000 renaming of secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex
18001 syscalls. Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by
18003 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
18004 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
18007 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
18008 - Fix a rarely-encountered memory leak when failing to initialize
18009 the thread pool. Fixes bug 16631; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
18010 from "cypherpunks".
18012 o Minor bugfixes (systemd):
18013 - Fix an accidental formatting error that broke the systemd
18014 configuration file. Fixes bug 16152; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
18015 - Tor's systemd unit file no longer contains extraneous spaces.
18016 These spaces would sometimes confuse tools like deb-systemd-
18017 helper. Fixes bug 16162; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
18019 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
18020 - Use the configured Python executable when running test-stem-full.
18021 Fixes bug 16470; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
18023 o Minor bugfixes (tests, also in 0.2.6.9):
18024 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
18025 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
18027 o Minor bugfixes (threads, comments):
18028 - Always initialize return value in compute_desc_id in rendcommon.c
18029 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
18030 - Check for NULL values in getinfo_helper_onions(). Patch by "teor".
18031 Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
18032 - Remove undefined directive-in-macro in test_util_writepid clang
18033 3.7 complains that using a preprocessor directive inside a macro
18034 invocation in test_util_writepid in test_util.c is undefined.
18035 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
18037 o Code simplification and refactoring:
18038 - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order
18039 to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere.
18040 - Remove some vestigial workarounds for the MSVC6 compiler. We
18041 haven't supported that in ages.
18042 - The link authentication code has been refactored for better
18043 testability and reliability. It now uses code generated with the
18044 "trunnel" binary encoding generator, to reduce the risk of bugs
18045 due to programmer error. Done as part of ticket 12498.
18048 - Include a specific and (hopefully) accurate documentation of the
18049 torrc file's meta-format in doc/torrc_format.txt. This is mainly
18050 of interest to people writing programs to parse or generate torrc
18051 files. This document is not a commitment to long-term
18052 compatibility; some aspects of the current format are a bit
18053 ridiculous. Closes ticket 2325.
18055 o Removed features:
18056 - Tor no longer supports copies of OpenSSL that are missing support
18057 for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (We began using ECC when
18058 available in 0.2.4.8-alpha, for more safe and efficient key
18059 negotiation.) In particular, support for at least one of P256 or
18060 P224 is now required, with manual configuration needed if only
18061 P224 is available. Resolves ticket 16140.
18062 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL before 1.0. (If you are
18063 on an operating system that has not upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0 or
18064 later, and you compile Tor from source, you will need to install a
18065 more recent OpenSSL to link Tor against.) These versions of
18066 OpenSSL are still supported by the OpenSSL, but the numerous
18067 cryptographic improvements in later OpenSSL releases makes them a
18068 clear choice. Resolves ticket 16034.
18069 - Remove the HidServDirectoryV2 option. Now all relays offer to
18070 store hidden service descriptors. Related to 16543.
18071 - Remove the VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 option, since all
18072 authorities have long set it to 1. Closes ticket 16543.
18075 - Document use of coverity, clang static analyzer, and clang dynamic
18076 undefined behavior and address sanitizers in doc/HACKING. Include
18077 detailed usage instructions in the blacklist. Patch by "teor".
18078 Closes ticket 15817.
18079 - The link authentication protocol code now has extensive tests.
18080 - The relay descriptor signature testing code now has
18082 - The test_workqueue program now runs faster, and is enabled by
18083 default as a part of "make check".
18084 - Now that OpenSSL has its own scrypt implementation, add an unit
18085 test that checks for interoperability between libscrypt_scrypt()
18086 and OpenSSL's EVP_PBE_scrypt() so that we could not use libscrypt
18087 and rely on EVP_PBE_scrypt() whenever possible. Resolves
18091 Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12
18092 Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden
18093 service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and
18094 fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of
18095 Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version
18096 of 0.2.6, should upgrade.
18098 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability):
18099 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
18100 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
18101 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
18102 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
18103 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
18104 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
18105 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
18108 o Major bugfixes (stability):
18109 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
18110 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
18111 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
18112 by "cypherpunks_backup".
18113 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
18114 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
18115 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
18118 o Minor features (geoip):
18119 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
18120 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
18122 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling):
18123 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
18124 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
18125 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
18126 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
18127 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
18129 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18130 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
18131 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
18132 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
18135 Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11
18136 Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the
18137 requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small
18138 bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation
18139 should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade.
18141 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
18142 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
18143 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was
18144 being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection
18145 was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
18148 o Minor feature (directory authorities, security):
18149 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
18150 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
18151 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
18152 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which
18153 takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96
18154 hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
18156 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18157 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
18158 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
18159 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
18161 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18162 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of
18163 secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes
18164 bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader.
18165 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
18166 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
18169 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
18170 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
18171 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
18174 Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
18175 Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
18176 fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
18177 authorities should upgrade.
18179 o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
18180 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
18181 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
18182 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
18185 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
18186 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
18187 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
18190 o Minor features (geoip):
18191 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
18192 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
18196 Changes in version 0.2.7.1-alpha - 2015-05-12
18197 Tor 0.2.7.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
18198 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
18199 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
18200 notable features are several new ways for controllers to interact with
18201 the hidden services subsystem.
18203 o New system requirements:
18204 - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions
18205 before 1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes
18208 o Major features (controller):
18209 - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
18210 and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
18212 - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached"
18213 commands to get information about hidden services created via the
18214 controller. Part of ticket 6411.
18215 - New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
18216 descriptor. Closes ticket 14847.
18217 - New HSPOST command to upload a hidden service descriptor. Closes
18218 ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
18220 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
18221 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
18222 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
18223 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
18226 o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
18227 - Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
18228 happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
18229 hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
18230 fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
18232 o Minor features (command-line interface):
18233 - Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
18234 Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
18235 - Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
18236 as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
18238 o Minor features (controller):
18239 - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the
18240 output of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
18241 present. Implements ticket 14840.
18242 - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to
18243 retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache.
18244 Closes ticket 14845.
18245 - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-
18246 descs" to fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on
18247 demand just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
18249 o Minor features (DoS-resistance):
18250 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
18251 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
18252 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
18254 o Minor features (geoip):
18255 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
18256 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
18259 o Minor features (HS popularity countermeasure):
18260 - To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
18261 when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
18262 cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
18263 making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
18264 clients that have used the introduction point for a specific HS.
18265 Closes ticket 15745.
18267 o Minor features (logging):
18268 - Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people
18269 tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements
18272 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
18273 - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
18274 attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
18275 pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
18277 - When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open
18278 stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has
18279 terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" environment variable
18280 can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior.
18281 Resolves ticket 15435.
18283 o Minor features (testing):
18284 - Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our
18285 memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377.
18286 - Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes
18287 files. Closes ticket 15180.
18288 - Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile-
18289 time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity
18290 of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for
18291 bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor".
18292 - Command-line argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806.
18293 - Integrate the ntor, backtrace, and zero-length keys tests into the
18294 automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344.
18295 - Remove assertions during builds to determine Tor's test coverage.
18296 We don't want to trigger these even in assertions, so including
18297 them artificially makes our branch coverage look worse than it is.
18298 This patch provides the new test-stem-full and coverage-html-full
18299 configure options. Implements ticket 15400.
18301 o Minor bugfixes (build):
18302 - Improve out-of-tree builds by making non-standard rules work and
18303 clean up additional files and directories. Fixes bug 15053; bugfix
18306 o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface):
18307 - When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not
18308 write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix
18310 - When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use
18311 stderr, not stdout.
18313 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests):
18314 - Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities,
18315 AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options
18316 are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is
18317 currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behavior when it
18318 has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for
18319 consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on
18320 90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18322 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
18323 - For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
18324 handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix
18326 - Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
18327 because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
18328 unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36,
18331 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
18332 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
18333 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
18335 - Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden
18336 service descriptors. Fixes bug 15296; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18338 o Minor bugfixes (interface):
18339 - Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without
18340 an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording
18341 and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix
18344 o Minor bugfixes (logs):
18345 - When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of
18346 parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug
18347 15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with
18348 recent enough Clang.
18350 o Minor bugfixes (network):
18351 - When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface
18352 lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are
18353 unsuitable for public communications.
18355 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
18356 - Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
18357 not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
18358 being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
18359 when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay.
18360 Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
18362 o Minor bugfixes (test networks):
18363 - When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to
18364 determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The
18365 previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
18366 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configurations
18367 where ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is
18368 not. Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor",
18369 issue discovered by CJ Ess.
18371 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
18372 - Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes
18373 bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
18375 - Set the severity correctly when testing
18376 get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and
18377 get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
18378 instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
18379 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
18381 o Code simplification and refactoring:
18382 - Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into
18383 separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
18385 - Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently
18386 report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases
18387 involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391.
18388 - Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more
18389 control over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
18392 - Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in
18393 the manpage to describe rationale and possible uses cases. Fixes
18395 - Improve the layout and formatting of ./configure --help messages.
18396 Closes ticket 15024. Patch from "cypherpunks".
18397 - Standardize on the term "server descriptor" in the manual page.
18398 Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor",
18399 and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987.
18402 - Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
18403 and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
18404 has been part of tor since 0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
18405 be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
18406 - Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
18407 Closes ticket 14922.
18409 o Removed features:
18410 - Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti-
18411 fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward-
18412 secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736.
18413 - Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It
18414 complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on
18415 multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
18416 including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742.
18417 - Tor no longer contains checks for ancient directory cache versions
18418 that didn't know about microdescriptors.
18419 - Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by
18420 super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly.
18423 Changes in version 0.2.4.27 - 2015-04-06
18424 Tor 0.2.4.27 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
18425 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
18426 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
18427 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
18429 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
18430 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
18432 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
18433 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
18434 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
18435 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
18436 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
18437 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
18438 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
18440 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
18441 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
18442 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
18443 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
18444 Resolves ticket 15515.
18447 Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06
18448 Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
18449 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
18450 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
18451 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
18453 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
18454 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
18456 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
18457 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
18458 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
18459 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
18460 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
18461 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
18462 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
18464 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
18465 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
18466 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
18467 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
18468 Resolves ticket 15515.
18471 Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06
18472 Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an
18473 attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden
18474 services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients
18475 should upgrade whenever packages become available.
18477 This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden
18478 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
18480 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
18481 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
18482 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
18483 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
18484 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
18485 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
18486 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
18488 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
18489 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
18490 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
18491 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
18492 Resolves ticket 15515.
18493 - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs
18494 when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational
18495 cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves
18499 Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24
18500 Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series.
18502 It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance
18503 improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of
18504 sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is
18505 improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much
18506 higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is
18507 improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports
18508 should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance
18509 bugs should be addressed.
18511 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
18512 - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent
18513 compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436;
18514 bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
18516 Changes in version 0.2.6.5-rc - 2015-03-18
18517 Tor 0.2.6.5-rc is the second and (hopefully) last release candidate in
18518 the 0.2.6. It fixes a small number of bugs found in 0.2.6.4-rc.
18520 o Major bugfixes (client):
18521 - Avoid crashing when making certain configuration option changes on
18522 clients. Fixes bug 15245; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
18525 o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
18526 - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
18527 launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
18528 that occurred when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
18529 authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
18530 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18532 o Major bugfixes (portability):
18533 - Do not crash on startup when running on Solaris. Fixes a bug
18534 related to our fix for 9495; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Reported
18537 o Minor features (heartbeat):
18538 - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
18539 version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
18540 know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
18541 protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
18543 o Code simplification and refactoring:
18544 - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
18545 easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
18548 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
18549 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
18551 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
18552 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
18553 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
18555 o Directory authority changes:
18556 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
18557 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
18558 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
18559 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
18560 closes ticket 14487.
18562 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
18563 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
18564 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
18567 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
18568 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
18569 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
18570 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
18571 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
18572 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
18573 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
18574 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18576 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
18577 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
18578 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
18579 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
18581 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18582 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
18583 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
18584 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
18586 o Minor features (controller):
18587 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
18588 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
18589 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
18591 o Minor features (geoip):
18592 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
18593 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
18596 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
18597 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
18598 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
18599 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18600 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
18601 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
18603 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18604 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
18605 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
18606 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
18608 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
18609 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
18610 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
18611 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
18612 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
18613 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
18614 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
18615 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
18617 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
18618 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
18619 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
18621 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
18622 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
18623 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
18624 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
18625 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
18629 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
18630 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
18631 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
18634 o Directory authority changes:
18635 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
18636 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
18637 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
18638 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
18639 closes ticket 14487.
18641 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
18642 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
18643 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
18644 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
18646 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
18647 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
18648 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
18649 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
18650 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
18651 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
18652 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
18653 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18655 o Minor features (geoip):
18656 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
18657 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
18660 Changes in version 0.2.6.4-rc - 2015-03-09
18661 Tor 0.2.6.4-alpha fixes an issue in the directory code that an
18662 attacker might be able to use in order to crash certain Tor
18663 directories. It also resolves some minor issues left over from, or
18664 introduced in, Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha or earlier.
18666 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
18667 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
18668 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
18671 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
18672 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
18673 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
18674 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
18675 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
18676 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
18677 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
18678 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18680 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
18681 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
18682 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
18685 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18686 - Pass IPPROTO_TCP rather than 0 to socket(), so that the Linux
18687 seccomp2 sandbox doesn't fail. Fixes bug 14989; bugfix
18689 - Allow AF_UNIX hidden services to be used with the seccomp2
18690 sandbox. Fixes bug 15003; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
18691 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
18692 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
18693 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
18695 o Minor features (controller):
18696 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
18697 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
18698 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
18700 o Minor features (geoip):
18701 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
18702 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
18705 o Minor features (logs):
18706 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
18709 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
18710 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
18711 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
18712 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
18713 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
18714 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
18715 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
18716 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
18717 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
18719 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18720 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
18722 - Fix a compilation warning on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 15151; bugfix
18725 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
18726 - Fix endianness issues in unit test for resolve_my_address() to
18727 have it pass on big endian systems. Fixes bug 14980; bugfix on
18729 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
18730 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
18731 - When running the new 'make test-stem' target, use the configured
18732 python binary. Fixes bug 15037; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
18733 from "cypherpunks".
18734 - When running the zero-length-keys tests, do not use the default
18735 torrc file. Fixes bug 15033; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
18738 o Directory authority IP change:
18739 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
18740 closes ticket 14487.
18743 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
18744 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
18745 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
18749 Changes in version 0.2.6.3-alpha - 2015-02-19
18750 Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha is the third (and hopefully final) alpha release in
18751 the 0.2.6.x series. It introduces support for more kinds of sockets,
18752 makes it harder to accidentally run an exit, improves our
18753 multithreading backend, incorporates several fixes for the
18754 AutomapHostsOnResolve option, and fixes numerous other bugs besides.
18756 If no major regressions or security holes are found in this version,
18757 the next version will be a release candidate.
18759 o Deprecated versions:
18760 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
18761 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
18763 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
18764 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
18765 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
18766 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
18767 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
18768 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
18770 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
18771 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
18772 Implements ticket 11485.
18774 o Major features (changed defaults):
18775 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
18776 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
18777 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
18778 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
18779 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
18780 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
18782 o Major features (directory system):
18783 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
18784 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
18785 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
18786 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
18787 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
18788 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
18789 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
18790 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
18791 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
18792 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
18793 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
18794 227. Closes ticket 10395.
18796 o Major features (guards):
18797 - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
18798 guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
18799 guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
18800 a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
18801 months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
18803 o Major features (performance):
18804 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
18805 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
18806 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
18807 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
18808 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
18809 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
18810 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
18811 Implements ticket 9682.
18813 o Major features (relay):
18814 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
18815 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
18816 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
18818 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
18819 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
18820 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
18821 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
18823 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
18824 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
18825 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
18826 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
18827 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
18828 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
18829 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
18831 o Minor features (build):
18832 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
18833 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
18834 Resolves ticket 13037.
18836 o Minor features (controller):
18837 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
18838 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
18840 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
18841 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
18842 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
18843 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
18844 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
18845 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
18847 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
18848 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
18849 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
18850 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
18851 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
18852 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
18853 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
18854 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
18855 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
18856 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
18858 o Minor features (geoip):
18859 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the January 7 2015 Maxmind
18860 GeoLite2 Country database.
18862 o Minor features (guard nodes):
18863 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
18864 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
18865 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
18867 o Minor features (hidden service):
18868 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
18869 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
18870 hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
18871 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
18872 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
18873 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
18874 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
18875 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
18877 o Minor features (interface):
18878 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
18879 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
18880 the file system. Implements feature 13865.
18882 o Minor features (logging):
18883 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
18884 Resolves ticket 6852.
18885 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
18886 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
18887 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
18889 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
18890 INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
18892 o Minor features (stability):
18893 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
18894 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
18897 o Minor features (systemd):
18898 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
18899 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
18901 o Minor features (testing networks):
18902 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
18903 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
18904 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
18905 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
18906 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
18907 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
18909 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
18910 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
18911 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
18912 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
18913 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
18915 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
18916 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
18917 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
18918 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
18919 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
18921 o Minor bugfixes (client DNS):
18922 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
18923 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
18924 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
18925 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
18926 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
18927 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
18928 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18930 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
18931 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
18932 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
18933 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18934 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
18935 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
18936 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
18937 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
18939 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
18940 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
18941 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
18944 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
18945 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
18946 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
18947 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
18948 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
18950 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
18951 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
18952 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
18953 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
18954 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
18956 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18957 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
18958 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
18959 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
18960 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
18961 - Avoid warnings when building with systemd 209 or later. Fixes bug
18962 14072; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "h.venev".
18963 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
18964 Addresses ticket 14188.
18965 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
18966 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
18967 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
18968 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
18969 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
18970 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
18971 - Remove the --disable-threads configure option again. It was
18972 accidentally partially reintroduced in 29ac883606d6d. Fixes bug
18973 14819; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
18975 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
18976 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
18977 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
18978 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
18979 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
18980 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
18981 - Add a code for the END_CIRC_REASON_IP_NOW_REDUNDANT circuit close
18982 reason. Fixes bug 14207; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
18984 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
18985 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
18986 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
18987 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
18988 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
18989 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
18990 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
18991 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18992 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
18993 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18994 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
18995 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
18996 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
18998 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
18999 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
19000 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
19001 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
19002 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
19003 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
19004 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
19005 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
19006 state, and key files.
19007 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
19008 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
19011 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
19012 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
19013 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
19014 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
19015 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
19016 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
19017 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
19018 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19019 - Successfully launch Tor with a nonexistent hidden service
19020 directory. Our fix for bug 13942 didn't catch this case. Fixes bug
19021 14106; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
19023 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
19024 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
19025 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19026 - Add a string representation for LD_SCHED. Fixes bug 14740; bugfix
19028 - Don't log messages to stdout twice when starting up. Fixes bug
19029 13993; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
19031 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
19032 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
19033 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
19034 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
19035 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
19036 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
19038 o Minor bugfixes (path counting):
19039 - When deciding whether the consensus lists any exit nodes, count
19040 the number listed in the consensus, not the number we have
19041 descriptors for. Fixes part of bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
19042 - When deciding whether we have any exit nodes, only examine
19043 ExitNodes when the ExitNodes option is actually set. Fixes part of
19044 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
19045 - Get rid of redundant and possibly scary warnings that we are
19046 missing directory information while we bootstrap. Fixes part of
19047 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
19049 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
19050 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
19051 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
19053 - Fix scheduler compilation on targets where char is unsigned. Fixes
19054 bug 14764; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Reported by Christian Kujau.
19056 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
19057 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
19058 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
19059 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
19060 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19062 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
19063 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
19064 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
19065 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
19068 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
19069 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
19070 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
19073 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
19074 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
19075 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
19077 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
19078 - Fix detection and operation of systemd watchdog. Fixes part of bug
19079 14141; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
19080 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
19081 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
19082 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
19083 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
19085 - Cause the "--disable-systemd" option to actually disable systemd
19086 support. Fixes bug 14350; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch
19089 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
19090 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
19091 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
19093 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
19094 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
19095 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
19098 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19099 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
19100 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
19101 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
19102 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
19103 the past. Closes ticket 8546.
19104 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
19105 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
19106 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
19108 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
19109 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
19111 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
19115 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
19116 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
19117 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
19118 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
19119 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
19120 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
19122 o Downgraded warnings:
19123 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
19124 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
19126 o Removed features:
19127 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
19128 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
19129 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
19130 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
19131 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
19135 - Make the checkdir/perms test complete successfully even if the
19136 global umask is not 022. Fixes bug 14215; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
19137 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
19138 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
19139 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
19140 (existing behavior).
19141 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
19142 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
19143 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
19144 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
19145 Closes ticket 14107.
19146 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
19147 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
19148 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
19149 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
19151 - Avoid undefined behavior when sampling huge values from the
19152 Laplace distribution. This made unittests fail on Raspberry Pi.
19153 Bug found by Device. Fixes bug 14090; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
19156 Changes in version 0.2.6.2-alpha - 2014-12-31
19157 Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha is the second alpha release in the 0.2.6.x series.
19158 It introduces a major new backend for deciding when to send cells on
19159 channels, which should lead down the road to big performance
19160 increases. It contains security and statistics features for better
19161 work on hidden services, and numerous bugfixes.
19163 This release contains many new unit tests, along with major
19164 performance improvements for running testing networks using Chutney.
19165 Thanks to a series of patches contributed by "teor", testing networks
19166 should now bootstrap in seconds, rather than minutes.
19168 o Major features (relay, infrastructure):
19169 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
19170 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
19171 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
19172 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
19173 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
19175 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
19176 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
19177 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
19178 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
19179 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
19180 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
19181 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
19184 o Major features (hidden services):
19185 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
19186 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
19187 Closes ticket 13667.
19188 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
19189 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
19190 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
19191 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
19192 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
19193 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
19194 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
19195 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
19196 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
19197 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
19198 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
19200 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
19201 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
19202 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
19203 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
19204 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
19205 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
19208 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
19209 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
19210 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
19211 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
19212 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
19213 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
19215 o Directory authority changes:
19216 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
19217 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
19218 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
19220 o Major removed features:
19221 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
19222 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
19223 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
19224 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
19226 o Minor features (client):
19227 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
19228 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
19229 Resolves ticket 13315.
19231 o Minor features (controller):
19232 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
19233 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
19236 o Minor features (geoip):
19237 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 15 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
19240 o Minor features (hidden services):
19241 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
19242 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
19243 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
19244 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
19245 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
19246 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
19248 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
19249 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
19250 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
19252 o Minor features (systemd):
19253 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
19254 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
19255 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
19256 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
19258 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
19259 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
19260 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
19261 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
19262 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
19265 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
19266 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
19267 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
19268 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
19269 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
19271 - Clear all memory targeted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
19272 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
19273 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
19276 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
19277 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
19278 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
19279 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
19280 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
19282 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
19283 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
19284 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19286 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19287 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
19288 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
19289 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
19290 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
19292 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
19293 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
19296 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
19297 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
19298 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
19299 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
19300 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
19301 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
19302 - When adding a new hidden service (for example, via SETCONF), Tor
19303 no longer congratulates the user for running a relay. Fixes bug
19304 13941; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
19305 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
19306 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
19307 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
19308 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
19309 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
19312 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
19313 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
19314 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
19315 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
19316 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
19317 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
19319 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
19320 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
19321 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
19322 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
19324 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
19325 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
19327 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
19328 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
19329 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
19330 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
19333 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
19334 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
19335 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
19336 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
19337 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
19338 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
19340 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
19341 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
19342 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
19343 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
19344 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19345 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
19346 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
19347 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
19348 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
19349 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
19350 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
19351 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
19352 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
19353 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
19354 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
19355 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
19356 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
19357 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
19358 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
19359 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19360 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
19361 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
19362 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
19363 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
19364 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
19365 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
19366 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
19367 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19368 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
19369 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
19370 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
19371 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
19373 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
19374 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
19375 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
19376 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
19377 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19379 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19380 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
19381 with a function instead.
19382 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
19383 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
19384 Closes ticket 13172.
19385 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
19386 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
19387 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
19388 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
19389 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
19390 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
19391 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
19392 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
19393 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
19394 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
19395 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
19396 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
19400 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
19401 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
19402 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
19403 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
19404 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
19405 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
19406 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
19407 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
19408 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
19409 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
19410 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
19411 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
19414 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
19415 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
19416 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
19417 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
19418 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
19419 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
19421 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
19425 Changes in version 0.2.6.1-alpha - 2014-10-30
19426 Tor 0.2.6.1-alpha is the first release in the Tor 0.2.6.x series. It
19427 includes numerous code cleanups and new tests, and fixes a large
19428 number of annoying bugs. Out-of-memory conditions are handled better
19429 than in 0.2.5, pluggable transports have improved proxy support, and
19430 clients now use optimistic data for contacting hidden services. Also,
19431 we are now more robust to changes in what we consider a parseable
19432 directory object, so that tightening restrictions does not have a risk
19433 of introducing infinite download loops.
19435 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
19436 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should stay
19437 with 0.2.5.x for now.
19439 o New compiler and system requirements:
19440 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
19441 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
19442 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
19443 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
19445 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
19446 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
19447 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
19448 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
19449 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
19450 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
19451 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
19452 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
19453 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
19455 o Removed platform support:
19456 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
19457 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
19458 Closes ticket 11446.
19460 o Major features (bridges):
19461 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
19462 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
19463 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
19466 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
19467 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
19468 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
19469 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
19472 o Major features (directory system):
19473 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
19474 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
19475 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
19476 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
19478 o Major features (sample torrc):
19479 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
19480 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
19481 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
19482 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
19483 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
19484 generally useful "sample torrc".
19486 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
19487 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
19488 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19490 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
19491 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
19492 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
19493 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
19494 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
19496 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
19497 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
19498 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
19499 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
19501 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
19502 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
19503 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
19504 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
19505 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
19506 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
19509 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
19510 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
19511 document. Implements feature 10427.
19513 o Minor features (client):
19514 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
19515 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
19516 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
19517 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
19519 o Minor features (directory authorities):
19520 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
19521 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
19522 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
19523 argument more than once.
19524 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
19525 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
19526 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
19527 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
19528 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
19529 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
19531 o Minor features (logging):
19532 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
19533 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
19534 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
19535 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
19536 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
19537 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
19538 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
19539 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
19540 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
19542 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
19543 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
19544 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
19545 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
19547 o Minor features (relay):
19548 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
19549 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
19550 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
19552 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
19553 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
19554 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
19555 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
19557 o Minor features (testing networks):
19558 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
19559 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
19560 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
19561 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
19562 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
19565 o Minor features (validation):
19566 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
19567 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
19568 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
19569 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
19570 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
19571 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
19572 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
19573 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
19575 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
19576 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
19577 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
19578 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
19580 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
19581 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
19582 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
19583 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
19585 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
19586 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
19587 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
19589 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
19590 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
19591 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
19593 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
19594 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19595 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
19596 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
19597 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
19598 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
19599 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
19601 o Minor bugfixes (client):
19602 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
19603 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
19604 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
19605 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
19606 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19607 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
19608 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
19609 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
19611 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
19612 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
19613 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
19614 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
19615 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
19617 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
19618 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
19619 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
19621 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
19622 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
19623 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
19624 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
19625 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
19627 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
19628 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
19629 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
19630 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19631 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
19632 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
19633 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19634 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
19635 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
19636 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
19637 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
19640 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
19641 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
19642 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
19643 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
19644 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
19646 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
19647 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
19648 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
19649 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
19650 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
19653 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
19654 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
19655 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
19656 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
19657 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
19658 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
19660 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
19661 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
19662 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
19663 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
19665 o Minor bugfixes (testing, Windows):
19666 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
19667 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
19668 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
19670 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
19671 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
19672 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
19673 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
19676 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
19677 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
19678 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
19681 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
19682 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
19683 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
19684 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
19685 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
19688 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19689 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
19690 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
19692 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
19693 Resolves ticket 12205.
19694 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
19695 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
19696 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
19697 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
19699 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
19700 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
19701 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
19703 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
19704 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
19706 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
19707 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
19708 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
19709 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
19710 or_options_t structure.
19713 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
19714 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
19715 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
19716 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
19719 o Removed features:
19720 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
19721 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
19722 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
19723 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
19724 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
19725 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
19726 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
19727 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
19728 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
19730 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
19731 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
19733 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
19734 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
19735 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
19736 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
19737 anymore, and ignore it.
19740 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
19741 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
19742 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
19743 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
19744 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
19745 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
19746 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
19747 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
19748 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
19749 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
19750 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
19751 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
19753 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
19754 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
19755 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
19757 o Distribution (systemd):
19758 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
19759 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
19760 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
19761 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
19762 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
19764 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
19765 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
19767 o Removed features (directory authorities):
19768 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
19769 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
19770 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
19771 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
19772 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
19773 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
19774 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
19775 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
19776 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
19778 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
19779 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
19780 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
19781 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
19784 o Testing (test-network.sh):
19785 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
19786 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
19788 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
19790 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
19791 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
19792 Partially implements ticket 13161.
19795 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
19796 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
19798 It adds several new security features, including improved
19799 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
19800 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
19801 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
19802 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
19803 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
19804 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
19805 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
19806 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
19807 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
19808 and features mentioned below.
19810 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
19811 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
19813 o Deprecated versions:
19814 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
19815 attention for some while.
19818 Changes in version 0.2.5.9-rc - 2014-10-20
19819 Tor 0.2.5.9-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
19820 series. It disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
19821 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
19822 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
19823 (which does affect Tor). It also contains a few miscellaneous fixes.
19825 o Major security fixes:
19826 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
19827 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
19828 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
19830 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
19831 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
19832 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
19833 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
19836 - Disable the sandbox name resolver cache when running tor-resolve:
19837 tor-resolve doesn't use the sandbox code, and turning it on was
19838 breaking attempts to do tor-resolve on a non-default server on
19839 Linux. Fixes bug 13295; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
19841 o Compilation fixes:
19842 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
19843 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
19844 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
19846 o Downgraded warnings:
19847 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
19848 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
19851 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
19852 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
19853 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
19854 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
19855 (which does affect Tor).
19857 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
19858 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
19859 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
19860 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
19862 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
19863 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
19864 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
19865 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
19868 Changes in version 0.2.5.8-rc - 2014-09-22
19869 Tor 0.2.5.8-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
19870 series. It fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
19871 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
19872 the directory authorities.
19875 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
19876 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
19877 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
19878 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
19879 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
19880 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
19881 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
19882 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
19883 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
19884 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
19885 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
19886 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
19888 o Directory authority changes:
19889 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
19892 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
19893 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
19894 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
19895 the directory authorities.
19898 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
19899 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
19900 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
19901 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
19902 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
19903 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
19904 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
19905 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
19906 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
19907 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
19908 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
19909 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
19911 o Directory authority changes:
19912 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
19914 o Minor features (geoip):
19915 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
19919 Changes in version 0.2.5.7-rc - 2014-09-11
19920 Tor 0.2.5.7-rc fixes several regressions from earlier in the 0.2.5.x
19921 release series, and some long-standing bugs related to ORPort reachability
19922 testing and failure to send CREATE cells. It is the first release
19923 candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x series.
19925 o Major bugfixes (client, startup):
19926 - Start making circuits as soon as DisabledNetwork is turned off.
19927 When Tor started with DisabledNetwork set, it would correctly
19928 conclude that it shouldn't build circuits, but it would mistakenly
19929 cache this conclusion, and continue believing it even when
19930 DisableNetwork is set to 0. Fixes the bug introduced by the fix
19931 for bug 11200; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
19932 - Resume expanding abbreviations for command-line options. The fix
19933 for bug 4647 accidentally removed our hack from bug 586 that
19934 rewrote HashedControlPassword to __HashedControlSessionPassword
19935 when it appears on the commandline (which allowed the user to set
19936 her own HashedControlPassword in the torrc file while the
19937 controller generates a fresh session password for each run). Fixes
19938 bug 12948; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19939 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
19940 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
19942 o Major bugfixes (relay):
19943 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
19944 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
19945 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
19946 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
19947 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
19948 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
19949 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
19951 o Minor features (bridge):
19952 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
19953 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
19955 o Minor features (geoip):
19956 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
19959 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
19960 - Reduce the log severity of the "Pluggable transport proxy does not
19961 provide any needed transports and will not be launched." message,
19962 since Tor Browser includes several ClientTransportPlugin lines in
19963 its torrc-defaults file, leading every Tor Browser user who looks
19964 at her logs to see these notices and wonder if they're dangerous.
19965 Resolves bug 13124; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
19966 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
19967 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
19968 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
19969 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
19970 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
19971 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
19972 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
19973 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
19975 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
19976 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
19977 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
19978 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
19979 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
19981 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
19982 - Restore the functionality of CookieAuthFileGroupReadable. Fixes
19983 bug 12864; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19984 - Actually send TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED and HS_DESC events to
19985 controllers. Fixes bug 13085; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
19988 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19989 - Fix compilation of test.h with MSVC. Patch from Gisle Vanem;
19990 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
19991 - Make the nmake make files work again. Fixes bug 13081. Bugfix on
19992 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
19993 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
19994 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
19995 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19996 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
19997 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
19998 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
20001 o Distribution (systemd):
20002 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
20003 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
20004 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
20005 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
20006 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
20007 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
20008 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
20009 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
20010 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
20014 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
20015 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
20017 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
20021 Changes in version 0.2.5.6-alpha - 2014-07-28
20022 Tor 0.2.5.6-alpha brings us a big step closer to slowing down the
20023 risk from guard rotation, and fixes a variety of other issues to get
20024 us closer to a release candidate.
20026 o Major features (also in 0.2.4.23):
20027 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
20028 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
20029 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
20030 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
20032 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
20033 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
20034 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
20035 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
20036 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
20037 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
20038 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
20039 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
20040 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
20044 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
20045 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
20046 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
20047 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
20048 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
20049 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
20050 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
20051 to build circuits".
20054 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
20055 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
20056 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
20057 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
20058 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
20059 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
20060 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
20061 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
20063 - Slightly enhance the diagnostic message for bug 12184.
20065 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
20066 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
20067 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
20068 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
20069 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
20070 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
20071 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
20072 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
20073 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
20074 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20077 - Fix compilation when building with bufferevents enabled. (This
20078 configuration is still not expected to work, however.)
20079 Fixes bugs 12438, 12474, 11578; bugfixes on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
20080 0.2.5.3-alpha. Patches from Anthony G. Basile and Sathyanarayanan
20082 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
20083 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
20084 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
20087 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
20088 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
20089 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
20090 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
20093 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
20094 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
20095 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
20096 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
20097 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
20098 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
20099 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
20100 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
20101 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
20102 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
20105 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
20106 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
20107 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
20108 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
20109 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
20110 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
20111 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
20112 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
20116 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
20117 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
20118 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
20119 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
20120 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
20121 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
20122 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
20123 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
20124 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20125 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
20126 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
20127 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
20128 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
20131 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
20135 Changes in version 0.2.5.5-alpha - 2014-06-18
20136 Tor 0.2.5.5-alpha fixes a wide variety of remaining issues in the Tor
20137 0.2.5.x release series, including a couple of DoS issues, some
20138 performance regressions, a large number of bugs affecting the Linux
20139 seccomp2 sandbox code, and various other bugfixes. It also adds
20140 diagnostic bugfixes for a few tricky issues that we're trying to
20143 o Major features (security, traffic analysis resistance):
20144 - Several major improvements to the algorithm used to decide when to
20145 close TLS connections. Previous versions of Tor closed connections
20146 at a fixed interval after the last time a non-padding cell was
20147 sent over the connection, regardless of the target of the
20148 connection. Now, we randomize the intervals by adding up to 50% of
20149 their base value, we measure the length of time since connection
20150 last had at least one circuit, and we allow connections to known
20151 ORs to remain open a little longer (15 minutes instead of 3
20152 minutes minimum). These changes should improve Tor's resistance
20153 against some kinds of traffic analysis, and lower some overhead
20154 from needlessly closed connections. Fixes ticket 6799.
20155 Incidentally fixes ticket 12023; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20157 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
20158 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
20159 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
20160 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
20163 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
20164 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
20165 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
20167 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
20168 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
20169 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
20170 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
20171 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
20172 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
20173 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
20174 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
20175 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
20176 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
20177 router's identity is not forgeable.
20179 o Major bugfixes (relay):
20180 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
20181 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
20182 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
20183 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
20184 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
20185 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
20186 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
20187 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
20188 bugfix on every version of Tor.
20190 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
20191 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
20192 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
20193 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
20196 o Minor features (diagnostic):
20197 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
20198 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
20199 help diagnose bug 7164.
20200 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
20201 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
20202 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
20203 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
20204 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
20206 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
20207 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
20208 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
20209 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
20210 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
20211 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
20212 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
20214 o Minor features (security, memory management):
20215 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
20216 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
20217 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
20218 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
20219 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
20220 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
20222 o Minor features (security):
20223 - Apply the secure SipHash-2-4 function to the hash table mapping
20224 circuit IDs and channels to circuits. We missed this one when we
20225 were converting all the other hash functions to use SipHash back
20226 in 0.2.5.3-alpha. Resolves ticket 11750.
20228 o Minor features (build):
20229 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
20230 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
20231 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
20233 o Minor features (other):
20234 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 4 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
20237 o Minor bugfixes (security, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
20238 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0;
20239 this will keep the hidden service from running, and also
20240 make it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
20241 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
20243 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
20244 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
20245 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
20246 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
20247 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
20248 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
20249 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
20250 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
20251 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
20252 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
20253 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
20254 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
20256 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
20257 - Fix compilation of test_status.c when building with MVSC. Bugfix
20258 on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
20259 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
20260 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
20261 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
20262 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
20263 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
20264 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
20265 - Make Tor compile correctly with --disable-buf-freelists. Fixes bug
20266 11623; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
20267 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
20268 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
20269 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
20270 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
20271 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
20272 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
20273 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
20276 o Minor bugfixes (Directory server):
20277 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
20278 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
20279 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
20280 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
20281 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
20282 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
20284 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp sandbox):
20285 - Make the seccomp sandbox code compile under ARM Linux. Fixes bug
20286 11622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20287 - Avoid crashing when re-opening listener ports with the seccomp
20288 sandbox active. Fixes bug 12115; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20289 - Avoid crashing with the seccomp sandbox enabled along with
20290 ConstrainedSockets. Fixes bug 12139; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20291 - When we receive a SIGHUP with the sandbox enabled, correctly
20292 support rotating our log files. Fixes bug 12032; bugfix
20294 - Avoid crash when running with sandboxing enabled and
20295 DirReqStatistics not disabled. Fixes bug 12035; bugfix
20297 - Fix a "BUG" warning when trying to write bridge-stats files with
20298 the Linux syscall sandbox filter enabled. Fixes bug 12041; bugfix
20300 - Prevent the sandbox from crashing on startup when run with the
20301 --enable-expensive-hardening configuration option. Fixes bug
20302 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
20303 - When running with DirPortFrontPage and sandboxing both enabled,
20304 reload the DirPortFrontPage correctly when restarting. Fixes bug
20305 12028; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20306 - Don't try to enable the sandbox when using the Tor binary to check
20307 its configuration, hash a passphrase, or so on. Doing so was
20308 crashing on startup for some users. Fixes bug 11609; bugfix
20310 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing and node statistics
20311 enabled at the same time. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on
20312 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Michael Wolf.
20313 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing enabled at the same
20314 time as cookie authentication, hidden services, or directory
20315 authority voting. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20316 - Do not allow options that require calls to exec to be enabled
20317 alongside the seccomp2 sandbox: they will inevitably crash. Fixes
20318 bug 12043; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20319 - Handle failures in getpwnam()/getpwuid() when running with the
20320 User option set and the Linux syscall sandbox enabled. Fixes bug
20321 11946; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20322 - Refactor the getaddrinfo workaround that the seccomp sandbox uses
20323 to avoid calling getaddrinfo() after installing the sandbox
20324 filters. Previously, it preloaded a cache with the IPv4 address
20325 for our hostname, and nothing else. Now, it loads the cache with
20326 every address that it used to initialize the Tor process. Fixes
20327 bug 11970; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20329 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
20330 - Enable the ExtORPortCookieAuthFile option, to allow changing the
20331 default location of the authentication token for the extended OR
20332 Port as used by sever-side pluggable transports. We had
20333 implemented this option before, but the code to make it settable
20334 had been omitted. Fixes bug 11635; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20335 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
20336 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
20337 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
20340 o Minor bugfixes (client):
20341 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
20342 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
20343 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
20344 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
20346 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
20347 - The Python parts of the test scripts now work on Python 3 as well
20348 as Python 2, so systems where '/usr/bin/python' is Python 3 will
20349 no longer have the tests break. Fixes bug 11608; bugfix
20351 - When looking for versions of python that we could run the tests
20352 with, check for "python2.7" and "python3.3"; previously we were
20353 only looking for "python", "python2", and "python3". Patch from
20354 Dana Koch. Fixes bug 11632; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
20355 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
20356 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
20357 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
20358 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
20360 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
20361 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
20362 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
20363 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
20366 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
20367 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
20368 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
20369 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
20370 versions. Found by "skruffy".
20371 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
20372 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
20373 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
20376 o Minor bugfixes (relay, oom prevention):
20377 - Correctly detect the total available system memory. We tried to do
20378 this in 0.2.5.4-alpha, but the code was set up to always return an
20379 error value, even on success. Fixes bug 11805; bugfix
20382 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
20383 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
20384 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
20385 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
20387 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS module
20388 using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers used by the
20389 v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found
20391 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
20392 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
20393 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
20395 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
20396 - Fix a misformatted log message about delayed directory fetches.
20397 Fixes bug 11654; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
20398 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
20399 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
20403 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
20404 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
20405 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
20406 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
20409 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
20410 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
20411 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
20412 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
20414 - Correct the documentation so that it lists the correct directory
20415 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
20417 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
20418 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
20419 caches don't get confused.
20422 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
20423 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
20424 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
20425 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
20426 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
20429 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
20430 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes ticket 11742.
20431 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
20432 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
20433 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
20434 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
20438 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
20439 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
20440 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
20441 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
20442 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
20443 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
20444 of RAM, and several others.
20446 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20447 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
20448 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
20449 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
20450 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
20452 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
20453 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
20454 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
20455 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
20458 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20459 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
20460 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
20461 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
20462 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
20463 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
20464 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20465 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
20466 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
20467 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
20468 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
20469 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
20470 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
20471 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
20472 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
20473 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
20474 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
20475 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
20476 Resolves ticket 11438.
20478 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
20479 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
20480 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
20481 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
20482 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
20483 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
20485 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20486 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
20487 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
20489 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20490 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
20491 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
20493 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20494 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
20495 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
20496 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20498 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20499 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
20500 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
20502 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
20503 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
20504 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
20507 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
20508 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
20509 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
20510 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
20513 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20514 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
20515 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
20516 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
20518 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20519 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
20520 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
20521 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
20523 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20524 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
20525 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
20529 Changes in version 0.2.5.4-alpha - 2014-04-25
20530 Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha includes several security and performance
20531 improvements for clients and relays, including blacklisting authority
20532 signing keys that were used while susceptible to the OpenSSL
20533 "heartbleed" bug, fixing two expensive functions on busy relays,
20534 improved TLS ciphersuite preference lists, support for run-time
20535 hardening on compilers that support AddressSanitizer, and more work on
20536 the Linux sandbox code.
20538 There are also several usability fixes for clients (especially clients
20539 that use bridges), two new TransPort protocols supported (one on
20540 OpenBSD, one on FreeBSD), and various other bugfixes.
20542 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.2.x; those Tor versions
20543 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
20545 o Major features (security):
20546 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
20547 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
20548 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
20549 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
20550 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
20551 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
20552 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
20553 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
20555 o Major features (relay performance):
20556 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
20557 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
20558 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
20559 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
20560 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
20561 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
20562 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
20563 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
20564 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
20565 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
20567 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
20568 - The seccomp2 sandbox can now run a test network for multiple hours
20569 without crashing. The sandbox is still experimental, and more bugs
20570 will probably turn up. To try it, enable "Sandbox 1" on a Linux
20571 host. Resolves ticket 11351.
20572 - Strengthen sandbox code: the sandbox can now test the arguments
20573 for rename(), and blocks _sysctl() entirely. Resolves another part
20575 - When the sandbox blocks a system call, it now tries to log a stack
20576 trace before exiting. Resolves ticket 11465.
20578 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection):
20579 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
20580 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
20581 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
20582 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
20583 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
20584 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20585 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
20586 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
20587 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
20588 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
20589 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
20590 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
20591 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
20592 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
20593 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
20594 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
20595 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
20596 Resolves ticket 11438.
20598 o Major bugfixes (bridge client):
20599 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
20600 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
20601 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20603 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
20604 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
20605 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
20606 10267; patch from "yurivict".
20607 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
20608 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
20609 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
20610 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
20611 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
20612 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
20614 o Minor features (security):
20615 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
20616 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
20617 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
20618 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
20621 o Minor features (log verbosity):
20622 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
20623 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
20624 Resolves ticket 5286.
20625 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
20626 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
20627 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
20628 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
20629 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
20630 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
20631 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
20632 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
20633 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
20635 o Minor features (relay):
20636 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
20637 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
20638 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
20640 o Minor features (controller):
20641 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
20642 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
20644 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
20645 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
20646 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
20648 o Minor features (bridge client):
20649 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
20650 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
20651 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
20653 o Minor features (diagnostic):
20654 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
20655 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
20656 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
20657 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
20658 still referenced by a live node_t object.
20660 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
20661 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
20662 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
20663 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
20665 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
20666 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
20667 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
20668 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
20671 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay):
20672 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
20673 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
20675 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
20676 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
20677 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
20678 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20679 - Avoid a 60-second delay in the bootstrapping process when a Tor
20680 client with pluggable transports re-reads its configuration at
20681 just the wrong time. Re-fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
20683 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
20684 - Warn only once if we start logging in an unsafe way. Previously,
20685 we complain as many times as we had problems. Fixes bug 9870;
20686 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20687 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
20688 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
20689 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
20690 - Be more helpful when trying to run sandboxed on Linux without
20691 libseccomp. Instead of saying "Sandbox is not implemented on this
20692 platform", we now explain that we need to be built with
20693 libseccomp. Fixes bug 11543; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20694 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
20695 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
20698 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
20699 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
20700 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
20701 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
20702 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
20704 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
20705 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
20706 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
20709 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
20710 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
20711 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
20713 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
20714 - Allow tor-fw-helper to build again by adding src/ext to its
20715 CPPFLAGS. Fixes bug 11296; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
20717 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
20718 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
20719 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
20720 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
20722 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
20723 - Fix compilation on Solaris, which does not have <endian.h>. Fixes
20724 bug 11426; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
20725 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
20726 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
20728 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
20729 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
20730 early. Fixes bug 10081.
20732 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
20733 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
20734 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
20735 - Free placeholder entries in our circuit table at exit; fixes a
20736 harmless memory leak. Fixes bug 11278; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20737 - Don't re-initialize a second set of OpenSSL mutexes when starting
20738 up. Previously, we'd make one set of mutexes, and then immediately
20739 replace them with another. Fixes bug 11726; bugfix on
20741 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
20742 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
20743 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
20744 should never have affected anyone in practice.
20746 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
20747 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
20748 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
20750 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
20751 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
20752 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
20753 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
20754 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
20755 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
20756 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
20757 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
20758 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
20759 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
20760 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
20761 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
20762 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
20763 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
20765 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
20766 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
20767 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
20768 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
20769 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
20770 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
20771 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
20772 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
20776 - Build the torify.1 manpage again. Previously, we were only trying
20777 to build it when also building tor-fw-helper. That's why we didn't
20778 notice that we'd broken the ability to build it. Fixes bug 11321;
20779 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20780 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
20781 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
20782 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
20783 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
20785 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
20787 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
20788 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
20789 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
20790 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
20791 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
20794 o Deprecated versions:
20795 - Tor 0.2.2.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
20796 attention for some while. Directory authorities no longer accept
20797 descriptors from relays running any version of Tor prior to Tor
20798 0.2.3.16-alpha. Resolves ticket 11149.
20801 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
20802 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
20803 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
20804 Patch from Dana Koch.
20807 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
20808 Resolves ticket 11070.
20811 Changes in version 0.2.5.3-alpha - 2014-03-22
20812 Tor 0.2.5.3-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.21. It contains
20813 two new anti-DoS features for Tor relays, resolves a bug that kept
20814 SOCKS5 support for IPv6 from working, fixes several annoying usability
20815 issues for bridge users, and removes more old code for unused
20818 The Tor 0.2.5.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no feature
20819 patches not already written will be considered for inclusion in 0.2.5.x.
20821 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
20822 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
20823 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
20824 streams attached to each circuit.
20826 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
20827 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
20828 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
20829 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
20830 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
20831 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
20832 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
20833 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
20834 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
20835 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
20836 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
20837 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
20838 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
20840 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInQueues to 256 MBytes (but leave
20841 the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi users. Fixes
20842 bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
20844 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
20845 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
20846 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
20847 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
20848 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
20849 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
20850 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
20851 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
20852 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
20854 o Minor features (other):
20855 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
20856 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
20857 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
20858 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
20859 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
20860 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
20861 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
20862 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
20863 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
20866 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.2-alpha, also in 0.2.4.21):
20867 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
20868 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
20869 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
20870 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
20871 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
20872 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
20873 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
20875 o Minor bugfixes (client):
20876 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
20877 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
20878 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
20879 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20880 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
20881 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
20882 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
20884 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
20885 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
20886 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
20887 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
20888 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
20889 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
20890 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
20891 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
20892 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
20893 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
20894 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
20895 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
20897 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
20898 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
20899 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
20900 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
20901 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
20902 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
20903 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
20904 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
20905 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
20906 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
20907 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
20908 - Stop giving annoying warning messages when we decide not to launch
20909 a pluggable transport proxy that we don't need (because there are
20910 no bridges configured to use it). Resolves ticket 5018; bugfix
20912 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
20913 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
20915 o Minor bugfixes (backtrace support):
20916 - Support automatic backtraces on more platforms by using the
20917 "-fasynchronous-unwind-tables" compiler option. This option is
20918 needed for platforms like 32-bit Intel where "-fomit-frame-pointer"
20919 is on by default and table generation is not. This doesn't yet
20920 add Windows support; only Linux, OSX, and some BSDs are affected.
20921 Reported by 'cypherpunks'; fixes bug 11047; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
20922 - Avoid strange behavior if two threads hit failed assertions at the
20923 same time and both try to log backtraces at once. (Previously, if
20924 this had happened, both threads would have stored their intermediate
20925 results in the same buffer, and generated junk outputs.) Reported by
20926 "cypherpunks". Fixes bug 11048; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
20927 - Fix a compiler warning in format_number_sigsafe(). Bugfix on
20928 0.2.5.2-alpha; patch from Nick Hopper.
20930 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
20931 - Fix a small bug in the unit tests that might have made the tests
20932 call 'chmod' with an uninitialized bitmask. Fixes bug 10928;
20933 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
20936 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
20937 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
20938 the rest of bug 10841.
20941 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
20942 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
20943 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
20944 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
20945 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
20946 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
20947 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
20948 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
20949 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
20950 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
20951 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
20952 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20953 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
20954 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
20955 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
20957 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
20958 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
20959 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
20961 o Test infrastructure:
20962 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
20963 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
20964 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
20965 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
20968 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
20969 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
20970 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
20971 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
20973 o Major features (client security):
20974 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
20975 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
20976 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
20977 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
20978 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
20979 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
20982 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
20983 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
20984 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
20985 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20987 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20988 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
20989 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
20990 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
20991 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
20994 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
20995 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
20997 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
20998 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
20999 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
21000 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
21001 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
21002 GeoLite2 Country database.
21005 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
21006 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
21007 bugfix on every released Tor.
21008 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
21009 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
21010 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
21011 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21012 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
21013 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
21014 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
21015 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
21016 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
21017 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
21018 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
21019 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
21020 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
21021 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
21022 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
21024 o Documentation fixes:
21025 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
21026 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
21029 Changes in version 0.2.5.2-alpha - 2014-02-13
21030 Tor 0.2.5.2-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.18-rc and 0.2.4.20,
21031 like the "poor random number generation" fix and the "building too many
21032 circuits" fix. It also further improves security against potential
21033 adversaries who find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and launches
21034 pluggable transports on demand (which gets us closer to integrating
21035 pluggable transport support by default -- not to be confused with Tor
21036 bundles enabling pluggable transports and bridges by default).
21038 o Major features (client security):
21039 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
21040 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
21041 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
21042 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
21043 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
21044 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
21045 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
21046 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
21047 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
21048 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
21049 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
21050 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
21052 o Major features (bridges):
21053 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
21054 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
21055 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
21056 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
21057 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
21058 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
21059 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
21060 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
21063 o Major features (other):
21064 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
21065 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
21066 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
21067 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
21068 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
21069 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
21070 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
21071 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
21072 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
21073 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
21074 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
21075 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
21078 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
21079 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
21080 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
21081 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
21082 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
21083 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
21084 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
21086 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
21087 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
21088 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
21089 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
21090 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
21091 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
21092 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
21093 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
21094 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
21096 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
21097 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
21098 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
21099 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
21100 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
21101 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
21103 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
21104 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
21105 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
21106 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
21107 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
21108 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
21111 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
21112 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
21113 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
21114 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
21115 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
21116 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
21117 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
21119 o Minor features (security):
21120 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
21121 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
21124 o Minor features (config options and command line):
21125 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
21126 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
21127 Implements ticket 10060.
21128 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
21129 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
21130 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
21132 o Minor features (controller):
21133 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
21134 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
21135 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
21136 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
21137 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
21140 o Minor features (build):
21141 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
21142 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
21143 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
21144 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
21145 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
21146 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
21147 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
21149 o Minor features (testing):
21150 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
21151 the unit test scripts.
21152 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
21153 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
21154 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
21155 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
21157 o Minor features (log messages):
21158 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
21159 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
21160 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
21161 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
21162 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
21163 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
21164 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
21165 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
21166 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
21167 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
21169 o Minor features (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
21170 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
21171 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
21172 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
21173 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
21174 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
21175 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
21176 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
21177 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
21178 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21180 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
21181 - When closing a channel that has already been open, do not close
21182 pending circuits that were waiting to connect to the same relay.
21183 Fixes bug 9880; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Thanks to skruffy for
21186 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
21187 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
21188 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
21189 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
21190 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21192 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
21193 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
21194 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
21195 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
21196 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
21197 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
21198 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
21200 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
21201 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
21202 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
21203 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
21204 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
21205 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
21206 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21207 Reported by "mr-4".
21208 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
21209 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
21210 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
21211 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
21213 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
21214 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
21215 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
21216 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
21217 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
21218 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
21219 - When a command-line option such as --version or --help that
21220 ordinarily implies --hush appears on the command line along with
21221 --quiet, then actually obey --quiet. Previously, we obeyed --quiet
21222 only if it appeared later on the command line. Fixes bug 9578;
21223 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
21225 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
21226 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
21227 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
21228 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
21229 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
21230 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
21231 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
21232 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
21233 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
21234 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
21236 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
21237 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
21238 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
21239 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
21242 o Minor bugfixes (build):
21243 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
21244 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
21245 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
21246 - Fix compilation warnings and startup issues when running with
21247 "Sandbox 1" and libseccomp-2.1.0. Fixes bug 10563; bugfix on
21249 - Fix compilation on Solaris 9, which didn't like us having an
21250 identifier named "sun". Fixes bug 10565; bugfix in 0.2.5.1-alpha.
21252 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
21253 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
21254 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
21255 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
21257 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
21258 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
21259 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
21260 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
21261 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
21262 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
21263 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
21264 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
21265 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
21266 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
21267 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
21268 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
21269 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
21270 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
21272 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
21273 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
21274 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21275 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
21276 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
21277 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
21279 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.4.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
21280 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
21281 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
21282 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
21283 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
21284 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
21285 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
21286 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
21287 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
21288 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
21289 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
21290 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
21292 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.3.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
21293 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
21294 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
21295 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
21296 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
21297 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
21298 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
21299 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
21300 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
21301 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
21302 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
21303 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
21304 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
21305 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
21306 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
21307 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
21310 o Removed code and features:
21311 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
21312 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
21313 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
21314 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
21315 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
21316 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
21318 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
21319 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
21320 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
21321 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
21322 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
21323 part of a fix for bug 10841.
21325 o Code simplification and refactoring:
21326 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
21327 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
21328 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
21329 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
21330 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
21331 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
21332 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
21333 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the addition
21334 of a timestamp to the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which
21335 we did in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve ticket 9093. Implements
21338 o Documentation (man page) fixes:
21339 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
21340 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
21341 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
21342 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
21344 o Documentation fixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
21345 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
21346 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
21347 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
21348 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
21349 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
21350 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
21353 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
21354 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
21355 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
21358 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
21359 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
21360 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
21361 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
21362 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
21363 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
21364 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
21366 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
21367 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
21370 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
21371 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
21372 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
21373 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
21374 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
21375 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
21376 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
21377 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
21379 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
21380 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
21381 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
21382 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
21383 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
21384 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
21387 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
21388 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21389 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
21390 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
21391 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
21394 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
21395 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
21396 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
21397 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
21398 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
21399 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
21400 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
21401 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
21403 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
21404 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
21405 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
21406 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
21407 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
21408 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
21409 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
21410 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
21411 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
21412 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
21413 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
21414 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
21415 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
21416 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
21417 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
21418 security, and privacy fixes.
21421 Changes in version 0.2.4.18-rc - 2013-11-16
21422 Tor 0.2.4.18-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
21423 series. It takes a variety of fixes from the 0.2.5.x branch to improve
21424 stability, performance, and better handling of edge cases.
21427 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
21428 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
21429 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
21430 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
21431 them to solve bug 6033.)
21434 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
21435 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
21436 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
21437 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
21438 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
21439 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21440 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
21441 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
21443 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
21444 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
21445 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
21446 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
21448 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.4.x):
21449 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
21450 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
21451 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
21452 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
21453 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
21454 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
21455 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
21456 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
21457 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
21458 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
21459 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
21461 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x and earlier):
21462 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
21463 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
21464 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
21465 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
21466 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
21467 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
21468 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
21469 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
21470 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
21471 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
21472 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
21473 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
21474 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
21475 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
21476 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
21479 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
21480 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
21481 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
21482 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
21483 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
21484 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
21485 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
21486 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
21487 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
21488 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
21489 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
21490 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
21491 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
21492 Implements part of proposal 222.
21494 o Minor features (other):
21495 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
21496 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
21497 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
21498 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
21499 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
21500 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
21501 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
21502 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
21503 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21505 o Documentation fixes:
21506 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
21507 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
21508 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
21509 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
21510 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
21511 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
21514 Changes in version 0.2.5.1-alpha - 2013-10-02
21515 Tor 0.2.5.1-alpha introduces experimental support for syscall sandboxing
21516 on Linux, allows bridges that offer pluggable transports to report usage
21517 statistics, fixes many issues to make testing easier, and provides
21518 a pile of minor features and bugfixes that have been waiting for a
21519 release of the new branch.
21521 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
21522 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
21523 stay with 0.2.4.x for now.
21525 o Major features (security):
21526 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
21527 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
21528 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
21529 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
21530 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
21531 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
21532 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
21533 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
21534 Google Summer of Code.
21535 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
21536 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
21537 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
21538 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
21539 them to solve bug 6033.)
21541 o Major features (other):
21542 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
21543 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
21544 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
21545 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
21546 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
21548 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
21549 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
21550 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
21551 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
21552 Implements ticket 8530.
21553 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
21554 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
21557 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
21558 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
21559 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
21560 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
21561 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
21562 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21563 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
21564 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
21565 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21566 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
21567 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
21568 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
21569 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
21572 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
21573 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
21574 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
21575 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
21576 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
21577 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
21578 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
21579 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
21580 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
21581 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
21585 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
21586 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
21587 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
21588 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
21589 invoking the other functions it calls.
21590 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
21591 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
21592 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
21593 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
21595 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
21596 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
21597 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
21598 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
21599 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
21600 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
21601 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
21602 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
21603 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
21604 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
21605 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
21606 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
21607 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
21608 Implements part of proposal 222.
21610 o Minor features (config options):
21611 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
21612 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
21613 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
21614 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
21615 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
21616 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
21617 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
21618 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
21619 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
21620 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
21621 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
21622 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
21623 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
21624 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
21625 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
21626 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
21627 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
21630 o Minor features (build):
21631 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
21632 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
21633 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
21634 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
21635 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
21638 o Minor features (other):
21639 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
21640 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
21641 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
21642 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
21643 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
21644 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
21645 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
21646 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
21647 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
21648 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
21649 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
21650 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
21651 Closes ticket 8109.
21652 - Update to the September 4 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21655 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
21656 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
21657 bugfix on every released Tor.
21658 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
21659 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
21660 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
21661 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
21662 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
21663 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
21665 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
21666 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
21667 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
21668 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21669 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
21670 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
21671 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
21672 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
21674 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
21675 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
21676 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
21677 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
21678 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
21680 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
21681 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
21683 o Minor fixes (build, auxiliary programs):
21684 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
21685 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
21687 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
21688 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
21689 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
21690 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
21691 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21693 o Minor code improvements:
21694 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
21695 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
21697 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
21698 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
21699 embarrassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
21700 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
21701 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
21703 o Removed features:
21704 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
21705 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
21706 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
21707 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
21709 o Code simplification and refactoring:
21710 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
21711 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
21712 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
21713 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
21714 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
21715 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
21716 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
21717 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
21718 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
21719 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
21720 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
21721 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
21722 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
21723 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
21724 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
21727 Changes in version 0.2.4.17-rc - 2013-09-05
21728 Tor 0.2.4.17-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
21729 series. It adds an emergency step to help us tolerate the massive
21730 influx of users: 0.2.4 clients using the new (faster and safer) "NTor"
21731 circuit-level handshakes now effectively jump the queue compared to
21732 the 0.2.3 clients using "TAP" handshakes. This release also fixes a
21733 big bug hindering bridge reachability tests.
21736 - Relays now process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
21737 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
21738 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
21739 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
21740 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
21741 Implements ticket 9574.
21744 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
21745 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
21746 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
21747 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
21748 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
21749 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
21750 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
21751 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
21752 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
21753 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
21754 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
21755 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
21759 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
21760 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
21761 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
21762 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
21764 o Minor fixes (config options):
21765 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
21766 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
21767 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
21768 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
21769 message is logged at notice, not at info.
21770 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
21771 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
21772 or we just won't work.)
21775 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
21776 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
21777 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
21778 - Update to the August 7 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21781 Changes in version 0.2.4.16-rc - 2013-08-10
21782 Tor 0.2.4.16-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
21783 series. It fixes several crash bugs in the 0.2.4 branch.
21786 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
21787 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
21788 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21789 - Fix an uninitialized read that could in some cases lead to a remote
21790 crash while parsing INTRODUCE2 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
21791 Anybody running a hidden service on the experimental 0.2.4.x
21792 branch should upgrade. (This is, so far as we know, unrelated to
21794 - Avoid an assertion failure when processing DNS replies without the
21795 answer types we expected. Fixes bug 9337; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
21796 - Avoid a crash when using --hash-password. Fixes bug 9295; bugfix on
21797 0.2.4.15-rc. Found by stem integration tests.
21800 - Fix an invalid memory read that occurred when a pluggable
21801 transport proxy failed its configuration protocol.
21802 Fixes bug 9288; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
21803 - When evaluating whether to use a connection that we haven't
21804 decided is canonical using a recent link protocol version,
21805 decide that it's canonical only if it used address _does_
21806 match the desired address. Fixes bug 9309; bugfix on
21807 0.2.4.4-alpha. Reported by skruffy.
21808 - Make the default behavior of NumDirectoryGuards be to track
21809 NumEntryGuards. Now a user who changes only NumEntryGuards will get
21810 the behavior she expects. Fixes bug 9354; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
21811 - Fix a spurious compilation warning with some older versions of
21812 GCC on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 9254; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
21815 - Update to the July 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21818 Changes in version 0.2.4.15-rc - 2013-07-01
21819 Tor 0.2.4.15-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
21820 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
21821 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
21824 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
21825 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
21826 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
21829 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
21830 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
21831 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
21834 Changes in version 0.2.4.14-alpha - 2013-06-18
21835 Tor 0.2.4.14-alpha fixes a pair of client guard enumeration problems
21836 present in 0.2.4.13-alpha.
21839 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
21840 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits consuming the most
21841 memory. This prevents us from running out of memory as a relay if
21842 circuits fill up faster than they can be drained. Fixes bug 9063;
21843 bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond
21844 bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
21846 This change also fixes an earlier approach taken in 0.2.4.13-alpha,
21847 where we tried to solve this issue simply by imposing an upper limit
21848 on the number of queued cells for a single circuit. That approach
21849 proved to be problematic, since there are ways to provoke clients to
21850 send a number of cells in excess of any such reasonable limit. Fixes
21851 bug 9072; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
21853 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
21854 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
21855 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
21858 Changes in version 0.2.4.13-alpha - 2013-06-14
21859 Tor 0.2.4.13-alpha fixes a variety of potential remote crash
21860 vulnerabilities, makes socks5 username/password circuit isolation
21861 actually actually work (this time for sure!), and cleans up a bunch
21862 of other issues in preparation for a release candidate.
21864 o Major bugfixes (robustness):
21865 - Close any circuit that has too many cells queued on it. Fixes
21866 bug 9063; bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further
21867 fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
21868 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
21869 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
21870 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
21872 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
21873 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
21874 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
21876 - Fix a directory authority crash bug when building a consensus
21877 using an older consensus as its basis. Fixes bug 8833. Bugfix
21881 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
21882 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
21883 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
21885 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
21886 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
21887 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
21888 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
21889 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
21890 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
21892 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
21893 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
21894 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
21895 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
21896 - Prevent failures on Windows Vista and later when rebuilding the
21897 microdescriptor cache. Diagnosed by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 8822;
21898 bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
21901 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
21902 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
21903 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
21904 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
21905 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
21906 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
21907 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21908 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
21909 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
21910 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
21911 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
21912 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta and 0.2.4.8-alpha.
21913 - Relays now treat a changed IPv6 ORPort as sufficient reason to
21914 publish an updated descriptor. Fixes bug 6026; bugfix on
21916 - When launching a resolve request on behalf of an AF_UNIX control
21917 socket, omit the address field of the new entry connection, used in
21918 subsequent controller events, rather than letting tor_dup_addr()
21919 set it to "<unknown address type>". Fixes bug 8639; bugfix on
21922 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
21923 - Fix a scaling issue in the path bias accounting code that
21924 resulted in "Bug:" log messages from either
21925 pathbias_scale_close_rates() or pathbias_count_build_success().
21926 This represents a bugfix on a previous bugfix: the original fix
21927 attempted in 0.2.4.10-alpha was incomplete. Fixes bug 8235; bugfix
21929 - Give a less useless error message when the user asks for an IPv4
21930 address on an IPv6-only port, or vice versa. Fixes bug 8846; bugfix
21934 - Downgrade "unexpected SENDME" warnings to protocol-warn for 0.2.4.x,
21935 to tolerate bug 8093 for now.
21936 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
21937 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
21938 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
21939 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
21940 - Update to the June 5 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21942 o Removed documentation:
21943 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
21944 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
21946 o Code simplification and refactoring:
21947 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
21948 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
21949 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
21952 Changes in version 0.2.4.12-alpha - 2013-04-18
21953 Tor 0.2.4.12-alpha moves Tor forward on several fronts: it starts the
21954 process for lengthening the guard rotation period, makes directory
21955 authority opinions in the consensus a bit less gameable, makes socks5
21956 username/password circuit isolation actually work, and fixes a wide
21957 variety of other issues.
21960 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
21961 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
21962 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
21963 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
21964 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
21965 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
21966 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
21967 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
21969 - Directory authorities that have more than a threshold number
21970 of relays with measured bandwidths now treat relays with unmeasured
21971 bandwidths as having bandwidth 0. Resolves ticket 8435.
21973 o Major bugfixes (assert / resource use):
21974 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
21975 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
21976 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
21977 - Avoid an assertion when we discover that we'd like to write a cell
21978 onto a closing connection: just discard the cell. Fixes another
21979 case of bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
21981 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
21982 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
21983 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
21984 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
21985 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
21986 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
21987 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
21988 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
21989 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
21990 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
21991 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
21992 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
21993 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
21994 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
21995 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
21996 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
21997 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
21998 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
21999 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
22000 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
22001 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
22003 o Major bugfixes (other):
22004 - When unable to find any working directory nodes to use as a
22005 directory guard, give up rather than adding the same non-working
22006 nodes to the directory guard list over and over. Fixes bug 8231;
22007 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
22010 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
22011 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
22012 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
22013 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
22015 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
22016 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
22018 - Update to the April 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22020 o Minor features (build):
22021 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
22022 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
22024 - Clarify that when autoconf is checking for nacl, it is checking
22025 specifically for nacl with a fast curve25519 implementation.
22027 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
22028 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
22029 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
22032 o Minor bugfixes (build):
22033 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
22034 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
22035 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22036 - Add the old src/or/micro-revision.i filename to CLEANFILES.
22037 On the off chance that somebody has one, it will go away as soon
22038 as they run "make clean". Fix for bug 7143; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
22039 - Build Tor correctly on 32-bit platforms where the compiler can build
22040 but not run code using the "uint128_t" construction. Fixes bug 8587;
22041 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
22042 - Fix compilation warning with some versions of clang that would
22043 prefer the -Wswitch-enum compiler flag to warn about switch
22044 statements with missing enum values, even if those switch
22045 statements have a "default:" statement. Fixes bug 8598; bugfix
22048 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
22049 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
22050 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
22051 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
22052 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
22053 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
22054 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
22055 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
22056 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
22057 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
22058 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy".
22059 - Correct our check for which versions of Tor support the EXTEND2
22060 cell. We had been willing to send it to Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha and
22061 later, when support was really added in version 0.2.4.8-alpha.
22062 Fixes bug 8464; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
22064 o Minor bugfixes (other):
22065 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors with
22066 an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22067 Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
22068 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
22069 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
22070 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
22071 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22072 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
22073 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
22074 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
22075 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
22076 Should help resolve bug 8235.
22077 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
22078 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
22079 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
22080 on 0.2.3.21-rc, 0.2.4.5-alpha, 0.2.4.8-alpha, and 0.2.4.10-alpha.
22082 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls):
22083 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
22084 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
22085 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
22086 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
22087 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
22088 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
22089 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
22092 o Minor bugfixes (config):
22093 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
22094 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
22096 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
22097 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
22098 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
22099 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
22100 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
22101 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
22102 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22103 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
22104 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
22105 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
22106 - Allow TestingTorNetworks to override the 4096-byte minimum for
22107 the Fast threshold. Otherwise they can't bootstrap until they've
22108 observed more traffic. Fixes bug 8508; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
22109 - Fix some logic errors when the user manually overrides the
22110 PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option in torrc. Fixes bug 8599; bugfix
22113 o Minor bugfixes (log messages to help diagnose bugs):
22114 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
22115 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
22116 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
22117 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
22118 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
22119 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
22120 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
22122 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
22123 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
22124 or at least make it more diagnosable.
22125 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
22126 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
22127 - Log the purpose of a path-bias testing circuit correctly.
22128 Improves a log message from bug 8477; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
22130 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
22131 - Don't attempt to relax the timeout of already opened 1-hop circuits.
22132 They might never timeout. This should eliminate some/all cases of
22133 the relaxed timeout log message.
22134 - Use circuit creation time for network liveness evaluation. This
22135 should eliminate warning log messages about liveness caused
22136 by changes in timeout evaluation. Fixes bug 6572; bugfix on
22138 - Reduce a path bias length check from notice to info. The message
22139 is triggered when creating controller circuits. Fixes bug 8196;
22140 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
22141 - Fix a path state issue that triggered a notice during relay startup.
22142 Fixes bug 8320; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
22143 - Reduce occurrences of warns about circuit purpose in
22144 connection_ap_expire_building(). Fixes bug 8477; bugfix on
22147 o Minor bugfixes (pre-0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
22148 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
22149 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
22150 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
22151 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
22152 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
22153 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
22154 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
22155 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
22156 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
22157 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
22158 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
22159 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22160 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
22161 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
22162 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
22163 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
22165 o Documentation fixes:
22166 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
22167 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
22168 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
22169 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
22170 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
22171 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
22172 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
22173 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
22176 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
22177 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
22181 Changes in version 0.2.4.11-alpha - 2013-03-11
22182 Tor 0.2.4.11-alpha makes relay measurement by directory authorities
22183 more robust, makes hidden service authentication work again, and
22184 resolves a DPI fingerprint for Tor's SSL transport.
22186 o Major features (directory authorities):
22187 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
22188 where they cap the published bandwidth of servers for which
22189 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
22190 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
22191 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
22192 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
22193 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
22194 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
22195 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
22196 Implements ticket 8151.
22198 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
22199 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
22200 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
22201 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
22202 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
22204 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
22205 - Allow hidden service authentication to succeed again. When we
22206 refactored the hidden service introduction code back
22207 in 0.2.4.1-alpha, we didn't update the code that checks
22208 whether authentication information is present, causing all
22209 authentication checks to return "false". Fix for bug 8207; bugfix
22210 on 0.2.4.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this is CID 718615.
22212 o Minor features (relays, bridges):
22213 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
22214 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
22215 bugs 1913 and 1992.
22216 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
22217 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
22218 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
22219 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
22220 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
22221 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
22222 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2 bridges when making
22223 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
22224 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
22225 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
22226 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
22227 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
22228 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
22229 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
22230 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
22231 - Support a new version of the link protocol that allows 4-byte circuit
22232 IDs. Previously, circuit IDs were limited to 2 bytes, which presented
22233 a possible resource exhaustion issue. Closes ticket 7351; implements
22236 o Minor features (portability):
22237 - Tweak the curve25519-donna*.c implementations to tolerate systems
22238 that lack stdint.h. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
22239 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
22240 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
22241 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
22242 - Detect the sign of enum values, rather than assuming that MSC is the
22243 only compiler where enum types are all signed. Fixes bug 7727;
22244 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
22246 o Minor features (other):
22247 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
22248 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
22249 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
22250 - Clear the high bit on curve25519 public keys before passing them to
22251 our backend, in case we ever wind up using a backend that doesn't do
22252 so itself. If we used such a backend, and *didn't* clear the high bit,
22253 we could wind up in a situation where users with such backends would
22254 be distinguishable from users without. Fixes bug 8121; bugfix on
22256 - Update to the March 6 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22258 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
22259 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
22260 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
22261 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
22262 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
22263 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
22264 - Downgrade an assertion in connection_ap_expire_beginning to an
22265 LD_BUG message. The fix for bug 8024 should prevent this message
22266 from displaying, but just in case, a warn that we can diagnose
22267 is better than more assert crashes. Fixes bug 8065; bugfix on
22269 - Lower path use bias thresholds to .80 for notice and .60 for warn.
22270 Also make the rate limiting flags for the path use bias log messages
22271 independent from the original path bias flags. Fixes bug 8161;
22272 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
22274 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
22275 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
22276 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
22277 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
22278 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
22279 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
22280 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
22282 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
22283 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
22284 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
22285 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
22286 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
22288 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
22289 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
22290 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
22291 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
22293 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
22294 - Directory authorities now use less space when formatting identical
22295 microdescriptor lines in directory votes. Fixes bug 8158; bugfix
22298 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks spotted by Coverity -- bug 7816):
22299 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
22300 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
22301 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
22303 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
22304 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
22305 - Avoid memory leak of IPv6 policy content if we fail to format it into
22306 a router descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
22308 o Minor bugfixes (other code correctness issues):
22309 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
22310 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
22311 this is CID 718634.
22312 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
22313 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
22314 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
22315 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
22317 - Fix a copy-and-paste error when adding a missing A1 to a routerset
22318 because of GeoIPExcludeUnknown. Fix for Coverity CID 980650.
22319 Bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
22320 - Fix an impossible-to-trigger integer overflow when estimating how
22321 long our onionskin queue would take. (This overflow would require us
22322 to accept 4 million onionskins before processing 100 of them.) Fixes
22323 bug 8210; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
22325 o Code simplification and refactoring:
22326 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
22330 Changes in version 0.2.4.10-alpha - 2013-02-04
22331 Tor 0.2.4.10-alpha adds defenses at the directory authority level from
22332 certain attacks that flood the network with relays; changes the queue
22333 for circuit create requests from a sized-based limit to a time-based
22334 limit; resumes building with MSVC on Windows; and fixes a wide variety
22337 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
22338 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
22339 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
22340 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
22342 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
22343 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
22344 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
22348 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
22349 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
22350 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug
22351 7708; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
22352 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
22353 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
22354 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
22355 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
22356 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
22357 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
22358 - Rename all macros in our local copy of queue.h to begin with "TOR_".
22359 This change seems the only good way to permanently prevent conflicts
22360 with queue.h on various operating systems. Fixes bug 8107; bugfix
22363 o Major features (relay):
22364 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
22365 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
22366 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
22367 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
22368 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
22369 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
22370 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
22372 o Major features (portability):
22373 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
22374 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
22375 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
22376 - Make the ntor and curve25519 code build correctly with MSVC.
22377 Fix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
22380 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
22381 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
22382 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
22383 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
22384 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
22385 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
22387 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
22388 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
22389 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
22390 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
22391 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
22392 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
22393 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
22394 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
22396 o Minor features (path selection):
22397 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
22398 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
22399 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
22400 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
22401 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
22402 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
22403 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
22404 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
22405 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
22406 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
22407 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
22408 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
22409 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
22410 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
22411 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
22412 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
22413 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
22414 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
22415 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
22417 o Minor features (log messages):
22418 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
22419 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
22420 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
22421 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
22424 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
22425 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
22426 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
22427 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
22428 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
22429 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
22430 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
22431 - Detect nacl when its headers are in a nacl/ subdirectory. Also,
22432 actually link against nacl when we're configured to use it. Fixes
22433 bug 7972; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
22434 - Compile correctly with the --disable-curve25519 option. Fixes
22435 bug 8153; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
22437 o Build improvements:
22438 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
22439 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
22440 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
22441 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
22442 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
22443 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
22444 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
22445 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
22446 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
22447 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
22448 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
22449 than to perform erroneously.
22451 o Removed features:
22452 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
22453 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
22454 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
22456 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
22457 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer;
22458 warning the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket
22461 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
22462 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
22464 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
22465 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
22469 Changes in version 0.2.4.9-alpha - 2013-01-15
22470 Tor 0.2.4.9-alpha provides a quick fix to make the new ntor handshake
22471 work more robustly.
22474 - Fix backward compatibility logic when receiving an embedded ntor
22475 handshake tunneled in a CREATE cell. This clears up the "Bug:
22476 couldn't format CREATED cell" warning. Fixes bug 7959; bugfix
22480 Changes in version 0.2.4.8-alpha - 2013-01-14
22481 Tor 0.2.4.8-alpha introduces directory guards to reduce user enumeration
22482 risks, adds a new stronger and faster circuit handshake, and offers
22483 stronger and faster link encryption when both sides support it.
22486 - Preliminary support for directory guards (proposal 207): when
22487 possible, clients now use their entry guards for non-anonymous
22488 directory requests. This can help prevent client enumeration. Note
22489 that this behavior only works when we have a usable consensus
22490 directory, and when options about what to download are more or less
22491 standard. In the future we should re-bootstrap from our guards,
22492 rather than re-bootstrapping from the preconfigured list of
22493 directory sources that ships with Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
22494 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
22495 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
22496 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
22497 closes ticket 7199.
22499 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
22500 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
22501 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
22502 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
22503 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
22504 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
22505 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
22506 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
22507 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
22508 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
22509 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
22511 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
22512 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
22513 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
22515 Clients don't currently use this protocol by default, since
22516 comparatively few clients support it so far. To try it, set
22517 UseNTorHandshake to 1.
22519 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
22521 o Major features (better link encryption):
22522 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
22523 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
22524 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
22525 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
22526 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
22527 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
22530 Enabling these ciphers was a little tricky, since for a long time,
22531 clients had been claiming to support them without actually doing
22532 so, in order to foil fingerprinting. But with the client-side
22533 implementation of proposal 198 in 0.2.3.17-beta, clients can now
22534 match the ciphers from recent Firefox versions *and* list the
22535 ciphers they actually mean, so relays can believe such clients
22536 when they advertise ECDHE support in their TLS ClientHello messages.
22538 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
22539 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
22540 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
22541 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
22543 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
22546 - Avoid crashing when, as a relay without IPv6-exit support, a
22547 client insists on getting an IPv6 address or nothing. Fixes bug
22548 7814; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
22551 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
22552 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
22553 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
22554 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
22555 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
22556 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
22557 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
22558 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
22559 - Update to the January 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22561 o Minor features (testing):
22562 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
22563 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
22564 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
22566 o Minor features (path bias detection):
22567 - Alter the Path Bias log messages to be more descriptive in terms
22568 of reporting timeouts and other statistics.
22569 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
22570 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
22571 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
22572 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
22573 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
22574 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
22575 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
22576 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
22577 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
22578 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
22579 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
22580 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
22581 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
22582 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
22583 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
22584 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
22585 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
22586 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
22587 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
22588 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
22589 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
22590 detection capability loss.
22592 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
22593 - Rate-limit the "No circuits are opened. Relaxed timeout for a
22594 circuit with channel state open..." message to once per hour to
22595 keep it from filling the notice logs. Mitigates bug 7799 but does
22596 not fix the underlying cause. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
22597 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
22598 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
22599 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
22602 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
22603 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
22604 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
22605 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
22606 and the different handshakes it supports.
22607 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
22608 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
22609 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
22610 any encoding is overkill.
22613 Changes in version 0.2.4.7-alpha - 2012-12-24
22614 Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha introduces a new approach to providing fallback
22615 directory mirrors for more robust bootstrapping; fixes more issues where
22616 clients with changing network conditions refuse to make any circuits;
22617 adds initial support for exiting to IPv6 addresses; resumes being able
22618 to update our GeoIP database, and includes the geoip6 file this time;
22619 turns off the client-side DNS cache by default due to privacy risks;
22620 and fixes a variety of other issues.
22622 o Major features (client resilience):
22623 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
22624 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
22625 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
22626 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
22627 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
22628 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
22629 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
22630 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
22631 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
22632 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
22633 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
22634 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
22635 95-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
22636 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
22637 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
22639 o Major features (IPv6):
22640 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
22641 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
22642 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
22643 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
22644 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait until the
22645 authorities have upgraded, wait for enough exits to support IPv6,
22646 apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort, and use Socks5. Closes
22647 ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as revised in proposal 208.
22649 We DO NOT recommend that clients with actual anonymity needs start
22650 using IPv6 over Tor yet, since not enough exits support it yet.
22652 o Major features (geoip database):
22653 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
22654 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
22655 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
22656 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
22657 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
22658 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
22659 Fixes bug 6266. Also update to the December 5 2012 Maxmind GeoLite
22660 Country database, as modified above.
22662 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
22663 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
22664 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
22665 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
22666 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
22667 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
22668 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
22669 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
22670 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
22671 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
22672 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
22673 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
22674 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
22675 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
22676 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
22677 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
22678 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
22681 o Major bugfixes (other):
22682 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
22683 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
22684 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
22685 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
22686 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
22687 - Fix an assertion that could trigger in hibernate_go_dormant() when
22688 closing an or_connection_t: call channel_mark_for_close() rather
22689 than connection_mark_for_close(). Fixes bug 7267. Bugfix on
22691 - Include the geoip6 IPv6 GeoIP database in the tarball. Fixes bug
22692 7655; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
22695 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
22696 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
22697 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
22698 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
22699 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
22700 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
22701 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
22702 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
22704 o Minor features (IPv6):
22705 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
22706 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
22707 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
22708 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
22709 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
22710 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
22711 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
22712 connect to the wrong addresses.
22713 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
22714 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
22715 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
22716 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
22720 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
22721 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
22722 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
22723 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha.
22724 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
22725 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
22726 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
22728 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
22729 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
22730 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
22733 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
22734 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
22736 o Code simplification and refactoring:
22737 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
22738 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
22739 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
22740 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
22743 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
22744 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
22745 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
22746 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
22747 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
22748 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
22749 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
22750 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
22752 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
22753 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
22754 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
22755 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
22756 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
22757 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
22758 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
22759 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
22760 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
22761 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
22762 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
22765 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
22766 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
22767 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
22768 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
22769 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
22770 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
22771 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
22772 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
22773 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
22774 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
22777 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
22778 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
22782 Changes in version 0.2.4.6-alpha - 2012-11-13
22783 Tor 0.2.4.6-alpha fixes an assert bug that has been plaguing relays,
22784 makes our defense-in-depth memory wiping more reliable, and begins to
22785 count IPv6 addresses in bridge statistics,
22788 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur when closing a connection
22789 with a spliced rendezvous circuit. Fix for bug 7212; bugfix on
22791 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
22792 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
22793 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
22794 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
22795 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
22796 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
22797 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
22798 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
22799 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
22800 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
22803 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
22805 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
22806 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
22807 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
22808 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
22809 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
22812 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
22813 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
22814 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
22815 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
22816 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
22818 - Add warning message when a managed proxy dies during configuration.
22819 Fixes bug 7195; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
22820 - Fix a linking error when building tor-fw-helper without miniupnp.
22821 Fixes bug 7235; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha. Fix by Anthony G. Basile.
22822 - Check for closing an or_connection_t without going through correct
22823 channel functions; emit a warning and then call
22824 connection_or_close_for_error() so we don't assert as in bugs 7212
22826 - Compile correctly on compilers without C99 designated initializer
22827 support. Fixes bug 7286; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
22828 - Avoid a possible assert that can occur when channel_send_destroy() is
22829 called on a channel in CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSING, CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSED,
22830 or CHANNEL_STATE_ERROR when the Tor process is resumed after being
22831 blocked for a long interval. Fixes bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
22832 - Fix a memory leak on failing cases of channel_tls_process_certs_cell.
22833 Fixes bug 7422; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
22835 o Code simplification and refactoring:
22836 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
22837 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
22838 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
22839 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
22840 present the same extensions.)
22843 Changes in version 0.2.4.5-alpha - 2012-10-25
22844 Tor 0.2.4.5-alpha comes hard at the heels of 0.2.4.4-alpha, to fix
22845 two important security vulnerabilities that could lead to remotely
22846 triggerable relay crashes, fix a major bug that was preventing clients
22847 from choosing suitable exit nodes, and refactor some of our code.
22849 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
22850 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
22851 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
22852 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
22854 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
22855 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
22856 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
22857 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22859 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
22860 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
22861 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
22862 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
22863 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
22864 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
22865 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
22866 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
22867 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22869 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
22870 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
22871 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
22872 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
22873 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22876 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
22877 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
22878 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
22880 o Code simplification and refactoring:
22881 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
22883 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
22884 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
22888 Changes in version 0.2.3.24-rc - 2012-10-25
22889 Tor 0.2.3.24-rc fixes two important security vulnerabilities that
22890 could lead to remotely triggerable relay crashes, and fixes
22891 a major bug that was preventing clients from choosing suitable exit
22894 o Major bugfixes (security):
22895 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
22896 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
22897 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
22899 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
22900 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
22901 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
22902 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22905 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
22906 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
22907 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
22908 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
22909 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
22910 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
22911 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
22912 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22915 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
22916 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
22917 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
22918 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22921 Changes in version 0.2.4.4-alpha - 2012-10-20
22922 Tor 0.2.4.4-alpha adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
22923 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, fixes a remotely
22924 triggerable assert, and adds new channel_t and circuitmux_t abstractions
22925 that will make it easier to test new connection transport and cell
22926 scheduling algorithms.
22928 o New directory authorities (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
22929 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
22930 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
22932 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy, also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
22933 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
22934 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
22935 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
22936 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
22937 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
22938 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
22939 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
22940 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
22941 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
22942 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
22944 o Internal abstraction features:
22945 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
22946 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
22947 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
22948 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
22949 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
22950 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
22951 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
22952 - Also new is the channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it
22953 to the existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
22954 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
22955 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
22956 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
22957 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
22958 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
22959 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
22960 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
22961 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
22963 o Required libraries:
22964 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
22965 strongly recommended.
22968 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
22969 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
22970 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
22971 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
22972 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
22973 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
22974 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
22975 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
22976 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
22978 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
22979 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a
22980 relay's DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it
22981 might make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
22982 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
22983 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
22984 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
22985 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
22986 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
22987 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
22988 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
22989 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
22990 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
22991 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
22992 more accurate picture. Fixes bug 7037; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
22995 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
22996 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
22997 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
22998 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
22999 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
23000 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
23001 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
23002 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
23003 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
23004 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
23005 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
23006 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
23007 - Make clients running with IPv6 bridges connect over IPv6 again,
23008 even without setting new config options ClientUseIPv6 and
23009 ClientPreferIPv6ORPort. Fixes bug 6757; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
23010 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
23011 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
23012 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
23013 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
23015 o Code refactoring and cleanup:
23016 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
23017 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
23018 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
23019 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
23020 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
23021 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
23024 Changes in version 0.2.3.23-rc - 2012-10-20
23025 Tor 0.2.3.23-rc adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
23026 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, and fixes a variety
23027 of smaller bugs in preparation for the release.
23029 o New directory authorities:
23030 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
23031 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
23033 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy):
23034 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
23035 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
23036 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
23037 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
23038 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
23039 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
23040 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
23041 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
23042 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
23043 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
23046 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
23047 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
23048 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
23050 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
23051 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
23052 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
23053 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
23054 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
23055 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
23056 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
23057 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
23058 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
23060 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
23061 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
23062 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
23063 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
23064 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
23065 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
23066 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
23067 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
23068 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
23069 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
23070 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
23071 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
23072 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
23073 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
23074 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
23075 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
23076 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
23077 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
23079 o Documentation fixes:
23080 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
23083 Changes in version 0.2.4.3-alpha - 2012-09-22
23084 Tor 0.2.4.3-alpha fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
23085 assertion, resumes letting relays test reachability of their DirPort,
23086 and cleans up a bunch of smaller bugs.
23089 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
23090 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
23091 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
23094 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
23095 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
23096 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
23097 - Allow routers to detect that their own DirPorts are running. When
23098 we removed support for versions_supports_begindir, we also
23099 accidentally removed the mechanism we used to self-test our
23100 DirPort. Diagnosed with help from kargig. Fixes bugs 6814 and 6815;
23101 bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
23103 o Security features:
23104 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
23105 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
23106 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
23107 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
23108 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
23109 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
23110 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
23111 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
23112 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
23116 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
23117 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
23118 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
23121 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
23122 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
23123 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
23124 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
23125 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23126 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
23127 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
23128 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
23129 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
23130 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
23131 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
23132 - Our new buildsystem was overzealous about rebuilding manpages: it
23133 would rebuild them all whenever any one of them changed. Now our
23134 dependency checking should be correct. Fixes bug 6843; bugfix on
23136 - Don't do reachability testing over IPv6 unless AuthDirPublishIPv6
23137 is set. Fixes bug 6880. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
23138 - Correct log printout about which address family is preferred
23139 when connecting to a bridge with both an IPv4 and IPv6 OR port.
23140 Fixes bug 6884; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
23142 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
23143 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
23144 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
23145 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23146 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
23147 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
23148 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23149 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
23150 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
23151 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
23152 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
23153 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
23154 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
23155 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
23156 - Fix building with older versions of GCC (2.95, for one) that don't
23157 like preprocessor directives inside macro arguments. Found by
23158 grarpamp. Fixes bug 6842; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
23159 - Switch weighted node selection rule from using a list of doubles
23160 to using a list of int64_t. This change should make the process
23161 slightly easier to debug and maintain. Needed to finish ticket 6538.
23163 o Code simplification and refactoring:
23164 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
23165 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
23166 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
23167 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
23168 testable, and a little less fragile too.
23169 - Removed the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
23170 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
23172 o Documentation fixes:
23173 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
23174 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
23178 Changes in version 0.2.3.22-rc - 2012-09-11
23179 Tor 0.2.3.22-rc fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
23183 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
23184 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
23185 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
23188 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
23189 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
23193 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
23194 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
23198 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
23199 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
23200 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
23201 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
23202 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
23203 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
23204 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
23208 Changes in version 0.2.4.2-alpha - 2012-09-10
23209 Tor 0.2.4.2-alpha enables port forwarding for pluggable transports,
23210 raises the default rate limiting even more, and makes the bootstrapping
23211 log messages less noisy.
23214 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
23215 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
23219 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
23220 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
23221 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
23222 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
23223 last time we raised it).
23226 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
23227 one we compiled with. This has occasionally given people hard-to-
23229 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
23230 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
23231 part of ticket 6736.
23232 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
23233 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
23234 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
23238 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
23239 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
23240 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
23241 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
23242 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
23244 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
23245 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
23246 - Don't follow the NULL pointer if microdescriptor generation fails.
23247 (This does not appear to be triggerable, but it's best to be safe.)
23248 Found by "f. tp.". Fixes bug 6797; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
23249 - Fix mis-declared dependencies on src/common/crypto.c and
23250 src/or/tor_main.c that could break out-of-tree builds under some
23251 circumstances. Fixes bug 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
23252 - Avoid a warning when building common_sha1.i out of tree. Fixes bug
23253 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
23254 - Fix a harmless (in this case) build warning for implicitly
23255 converting a strlen() to an int. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
23257 o Removed features:
23258 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
23259 need to work around their missing features. Thus we can remove a
23260 bunch of compatibility code.
23262 o Code refactoring:
23263 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
23264 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
23265 the ORPort and the DirPort.
23268 Changes in version 0.2.4.1-alpha - 2012-09-05
23269 Tor 0.2.4.1-alpha lets bridges publish their pluggable transports to
23270 bridgedb; lets relays use IPv6 addresses and directory authorities
23271 advertise them; and switches to a cleaner build interface.
23273 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
23274 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
23275 stay with 0.2.3.x for now.
23277 o Major features (bridges):
23278 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
23279 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
23280 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
23283 o Major features (IPv6):
23284 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
23285 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
23286 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
23287 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
23288 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
23289 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
23290 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
23291 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports using the new consensus
23292 method 14. Implements ticket 6363.
23294 o Major features (build):
23295 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
23296 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
23297 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
23298 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
23299 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
23300 fixes by Jim Meyering.
23301 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
23302 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
23303 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
23305 o Minor features (code security and spec conformance):
23306 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
23307 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
23308 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
23309 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
23310 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
23311 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
23312 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
23313 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
23314 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
23315 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
23317 o Minor features (streamlining);
23318 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
23319 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
23321 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
23322 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
23323 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
23324 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
23325 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
23326 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23328 o Minor features (controller):
23329 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
23331 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
23332 Implements ticket 4971.
23334 o Minor features (IPv6):
23335 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
23336 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
23337 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
23338 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
23339 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
23341 o Minor features (log messages):
23342 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
23343 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
23344 Resolves ticket 6758.
23345 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
23346 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
23347 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
23348 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
23349 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
23350 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
23351 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
23353 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
23354 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
23355 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
23356 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
23357 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
23360 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
23361 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
23362 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
23363 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
23364 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
23366 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
23367 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
23368 Implements ticket 5529.
23369 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
23370 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
23371 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
23372 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
23373 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
23374 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
23375 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
23376 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
23377 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
23378 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
23380 o New requirements:
23381 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
23382 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
23383 from a source distribution.)
23386 Changes in version 0.2.3.21-rc - 2012-09-05
23387 Tor 0.2.3.21-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
23388 series. It fixes a trio of potential security bugs, fixes a bug where
23389 we were leaving some of the fast relays out of the microdescriptor
23390 consensus, resumes interpreting "ORPort 0" and "DirPort 0" correctly,
23391 and cleans up other smaller issues.
23393 o Major bugfixes (security):
23394 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
23395 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
23396 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
23397 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
23398 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
23399 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0. We had committed
23400 this patch previously, but we had to revert it because of bug 6271.
23401 Now that 6271 is fixed, this patch appears to work.
23402 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
23403 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
23404 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
23405 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
23406 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
23407 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
23408 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
23409 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
23413 - Remove the upper bound on microdescriptor length. We were hitting
23414 the limit for routers with complex exit policies or family
23415 declarations, causing clients to not use them. Fixes the first
23416 piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
23417 - Detect "ORPort 0" as meaning, uniformly, that we're not running
23418 as a relay. Previously, some of our code would treat the presence
23419 of any ORPort line as meaning that we should act like a relay,
23420 even though our new listener code would correctly not open any
23421 ORPorts for ORPort 0. Similar bugs in other Port options are also
23422 fixed. Fixes the first half of bug 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
23425 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
23426 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
23427 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
23428 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
23429 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
23430 - Allow one-hop directory fetching circuits the full "circuit build
23431 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
23432 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
23433 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
23434 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
23435 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
23437 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
23438 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
23439 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
23441 - Detect and reject attempts to specify both "FooPort" and
23442 "FooPort 0" in the same configuration domain. (It's still okay
23443 to have a FooPort in your configuration file, and use "FooPort 0"
23444 on the command line to disable it.) Fixes the second half of bug
23445 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
23446 - Make wildcarded addresses (that is, ones beginning with "*.") work
23447 when provided via the controller's MapAddress command. Previously,
23448 they were accepted, but we never actually noticed that they were
23449 wildcards. Fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
23450 - Avoid crashing on a malformed state file where EntryGuardPathBias
23451 precedes EntryGuard. Fix for bug 6774; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
23452 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
23453 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
23454 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
23457 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
23458 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
23459 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
23460 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
23461 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
23462 - Downgrade path-bias warning messages to "info". We'll try to get
23463 them working better in 0.2.4. Add internal circuit construction
23464 state to protect against the noisy warn message "Unexpectedly high
23465 circuit_successes". Also add some additional rate-limited notice
23466 messages to help determine the root cause of the warn. Fixes bug
23467 6475. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
23468 - Move log message when unable to find a microdesc in a routerstatus
23469 entry to parse time. Previously we'd spam this warning every time
23470 we tried to figure out which microdescriptors to download. Fixes
23471 the third piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
23474 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
23475 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
23476 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
23477 - Add missing documentation for consensus and microdesc files.
23478 Resolves ticket 6732.
23481 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
23482 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
23483 attack that could in theory leak path information.
23486 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
23487 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
23488 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
23489 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
23490 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
23491 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
23492 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
23493 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
23494 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
23495 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
23496 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
23497 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
23498 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
23499 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
23502 Changes in version 0.2.3.20-rc - 2012-08-05
23503 Tor 0.2.3.20-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
23504 series. It fixes a pair of code security bugs and a potential anonymity
23505 issue, updates our RPM spec files, and cleans up other smaller issues.
23508 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
23509 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
23510 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23511 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
23512 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
23513 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
23514 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
23515 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
23516 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
23517 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
23518 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
23519 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
23520 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
23521 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
23522 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
23523 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
23524 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
23527 - Try to make the warning when giving an obsolete SOCKSListenAddress
23528 a little more useful.
23529 - Terminate active server managed proxies if Tor stops being a
23530 relay. Addresses parts of bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
23531 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
23532 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
23533 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
23534 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
23535 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
23538 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
23539 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23540 - Ignore ServerTransportPlugin lines when Tor is not configured as
23541 a relay. Fixes bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
23542 - When disabling guards for having too high a proportion of failed
23543 circuits, make sure to look at each guard. Fixes bug 6397; bugfix
23547 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
23548 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
23549 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
23550 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
23551 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
23554 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
23555 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
23556 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
23559 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
23561 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
23563 o Code simplification and refactoring:
23564 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
23565 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
23566 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
23567 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
23570 Changes in version 0.2.3.19-rc - 2012-07-06
23571 Tor 0.2.3.19-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
23572 series. It fixes the compile on Windows, reverts to a GeoIP database
23573 that isn't as broken, and fixes a flow control bug that has been around
23574 since the beginning of Tor.
23577 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
23578 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
23579 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
23580 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
23581 - Revert to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. In the
23582 June 2012 database, Maxmind marked many Tor relays as country "A1",
23583 which will cause risky behavior for clients that set EntryNodes
23584 or ExitNodes. Addresses bug 6334; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
23585 - Instead of ENOBUFS on Windows, say WSAENOBUFS. Fixes compilation
23586 on Windows. Fixes bug 6296; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
23589 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
23590 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
23593 Changes in version 0.2.3.18-rc - 2012-06-28
23594 Tor 0.2.3.18-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
23595 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
23596 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
23599 - Allow wildcarded mapaddress targets to be specified on the
23600 controlport. Partially fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
23601 - Make our linker option detection code more robust against linkers
23602 such as on FreeBSD 8, where a bad combination of options completes
23603 successfully but makes an unrunnable binary. Fixes bug 6173;
23604 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
23606 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
23607 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
23608 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
23609 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
23610 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
23611 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
23612 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23613 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
23614 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
23615 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
23616 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
23617 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
23618 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
23619 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
23620 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
23621 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
23622 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
23623 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
23624 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
23626 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
23627 - Make format_helper_exit_status() avoid unnecessary space padding
23628 and stop confusing log_from_pipe(). Fixes ticket 5557; bugfix
23630 - Downgrade a message about cleaning the microdescriptor cache to
23631 "info" from "notice". Fixes bug 6238; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
23632 - Log a BUG message at severity INFO if we have a networkstatus with
23633 a missing entry for some microdescriptor. Continues on a patch
23635 - Improve the log message when a managed proxy fails to launch. Fixes
23636 bug 5099; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
23637 - Don't do DNS lookups when parsing corrupted managed proxy protocol
23638 messages. Fixes bug 6226; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
23639 - When formatting wildcarded address mappings for the controller,
23640 be sure to include "*." as appropriate. Partially fixes bug 6244;
23641 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
23642 - Avoid a warning caused by using strcspn() from glibc with clang 3.0.
23643 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
23644 - Stop logging messages about running with circuit timeout learning
23645 enabled at severity LD_BUG. Fixes bug 6169; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
23646 - Disable a spurious warning about reading on a marked and flushing
23647 connection. We shouldn't be doing that, but apparently we
23648 sometimes do. Fixes bug 6203; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
23649 - Fix a bug that stopped AllowDotExit from working on addresses
23650 that had an entry in the DNS cache. Fixes bug 6211; bugfix on
23653 o Code simplification, refactoring, unit tests:
23654 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
23655 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
23656 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
23657 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal function.
23660 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new (in 0.2.3)
23661 semantics for overriding, extending, and clearing lists of
23662 options. Closes bug 4748.
23665 Changes in version 0.2.3.17-beta - 2012-06-15
23666 Tor 0.2.3.17-beta enables compiler and linker hardening by default,
23667 gets our TLS handshake back on track for being able to blend in with
23668 Firefox, fixes a big bug in 0.2.3.16-alpha that broke Tor's interaction
23669 with Vidalia, and otherwise continues to get us closer to a release
23673 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
23674 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
23676 - Implement the client side of proposal 198: remove support for
23677 clients falsely claiming to support standard ciphersuites that
23678 they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL versions, it's not
23679 necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite, and doing so prevents
23680 us from using better ciphersuites in the future, since servers
23681 can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite is really supported or
23682 not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very old versions of OpenSSL
23683 or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC disabled -- will stand
23684 out because of this change; TBB users should not be affected.
23687 - Change the default value for DynamicDHGroups (introduced in
23688 0.2.3.9-alpha) to 0. This feature can make Tor relays less
23689 identifiable by their use of the mod_ssl DH group, but at
23690 the cost of some usability (#4721) and bridge tracing (#6087)
23691 regressions. Resolves ticket 5598.
23692 - Send a CRLF at the end of each STATUS_* control protocol event. This
23693 bug tickled a bug in Vidalia which would make it freeze. Fixes
23694 bug 6094; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
23697 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
23698 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
23699 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
23700 case for flushing marked connections.
23701 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
23702 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
23703 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
23704 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
23705 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
23706 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
23707 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
23708 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
23709 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
23710 - Make sure circuitbuild.c checks LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in all the
23711 right places and never depends on the consensus parameters or
23712 computes adaptive timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049;
23713 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
23714 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
23715 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
23716 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
23717 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
23718 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
23719 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
23720 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
23721 and relays all have an uptime of zero, where the private Tor network
23722 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
23723 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
23724 - Correct the manpage's descriptions for the default values of
23725 DirReqStatistics and ExtraInfoStatistics. Fixes bug 2865; bugfix
23727 - Fix the documentation for the --hush and --quiet command line
23728 options, which changed their behavior back in 0.2.3.3-alpha.
23729 - Fix compilation warning with clang 3.1. Fixes bug 6141; bugfix on
23733 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
23734 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
23735 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
23736 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
23737 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
23738 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
23739 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
23740 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
23741 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
23742 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
23743 - Issue a notice if a guard completes less than 40% of your circuits.
23744 Threshold is configurable by torrc option PathBiasNoticeRate and
23745 consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is additional, off-by-
23746 default code to disable guards which fail too many circuits.
23747 Addresses ticket 5458.
23748 - Update to the June 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23750 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
23751 - Remove validate_pluggable_transports_config(): its warning
23752 message is now handled by connection_or_connect().
23755 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
23756 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
23757 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
23761 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
23762 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
23763 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
23764 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
23765 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
23766 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
23767 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
23768 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
23769 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
23770 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
23771 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23774 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
23775 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
23778 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
23779 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
23782 Changes in version 0.2.3.16-alpha - 2012-06-05
23783 Tor 0.2.3.16-alpha introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
23784 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
23785 currently). It also fixes a variety of smaller bugs and other cleanups
23786 that get us closer to a release candidate.
23788 o Major bugfixes (general):
23789 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
23790 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
23791 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
23792 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
23793 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
23794 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
23795 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
23796 - Pass correct OR address to managed proxies (like obfsproxy),
23797 even when ORListenAddress is used. Fixes bug 4865; bugfix on
23799 - The advertised platform of a router now includes only its operating
23800 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not its
23801 service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture (for Unix).
23802 We also no longer include the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Resolves
23805 o Major bugfixes (clients):
23806 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
23807 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
23808 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
23809 which introduced predicted ports.
23810 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
23811 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
23812 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
23813 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23814 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
23815 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
23816 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
23817 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
23818 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
23819 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
23820 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
23821 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
23822 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
23824 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
23825 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
23826 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
23827 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
23828 value: now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Partial
23829 fix for 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
23830 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
23831 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
23832 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
23833 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
23834 but would let it pass otherwise. Partial fix for bug 5786; bugfix
23838 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
23839 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
23840 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
23841 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
23842 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
23843 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
23844 - Allow packagers to insert an extra string in server descriptor
23845 platform lines by setting the preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG.
23846 Resolves the rest of ticket 2988.
23847 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
23848 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
23849 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
23850 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
23851 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
23853 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the
23854 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
23855 - Improve log messages about managed transports. Resolves ticket 5070.
23856 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
23857 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
23858 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
23859 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
23860 sure. Closes bug 5139.
23861 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
23862 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
23863 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
23864 it's dormant (bug 4718). Fixes bug 5954.
23865 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
23866 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
23867 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23869 o Minor bugfixes (already included in 0.2.2.36):
23870 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
23871 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
23872 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
23873 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
23874 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
23875 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
23876 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
23877 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
23878 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
23879 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
23880 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
23881 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
23882 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
23883 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
23884 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
23885 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
23886 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
23887 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
23888 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
23890 o Minor bugfixes (coding cleanup, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
23891 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
23892 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
23893 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
23894 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
23895 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
23896 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
23897 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
23898 network is disabled or the nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes
23899 bug 5916; bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha (for the unconfigurable
23900 nameserver case) and on 0.2.3.9-alpha (for the DisableNetwork case).
23901 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
23902 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
23904 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
23905 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23906 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
23907 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
23909 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
23910 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
23911 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
23912 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed
23913 SETCIRCUITPURPOSE command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796;
23914 bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
23915 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
23916 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
23917 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
23918 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
23920 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
23921 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
23922 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
23924 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
23925 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
23926 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
23927 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
23928 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
23929 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
23930 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
23931 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
23932 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
23933 - If the configuration tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
23934 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
23935 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23936 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
23937 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
23938 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
23939 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
23940 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
23941 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
23942 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
23943 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
23945 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
23946 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
23947 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
23948 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
23949 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
23950 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
23952 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
23953 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
23954 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
23956 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
23957 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
23958 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
23959 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
23960 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
23961 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36 and 0.2.3.13-alpha.
23963 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
23964 - Turn an assertion (that the number of handshakes received as a
23965 server is not < 1) into a warning. Fixes bug 4873; bugfix on
23967 - Format IPv4 addresses correctly in ADDRMAP events. (Previously,
23968 we had reversed them when the answer was cached.) Fixes bug
23969 5723; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
23970 - Work correctly on Linux systems with accept4 support advertised in
23971 their headers, but without accept4 support in the kernel. Fix
23972 by murb. Fixes bug 5762; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
23973 - When told to add a bridge with the same addr:port as a preexisting
23974 bridge but a different transport, change the transport as
23975 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
23976 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
23977 - Avoid a "double-reply" warning when replying to a SOCKS request
23978 with a parse error. Patch from Fabian Keil. Fixes bug 4108;
23979 bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
23980 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes if it has seen no
23981 directory requests when it's time to write statistics to disk.
23982 Fixes bug 5891; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Also fixes bug 5508 in
23984 - Don't try to open non-control listeners when DisableNetwork is set.
23985 Previously, we'd open all listeners, then immediately close them.
23986 Fixes bug 5604; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
23987 - Don't abort the managed proxy protocol if the managed proxy
23988 sends us an unrecognized line; ignore it instead. Fixes bug
23989 5910; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
23990 - Fix a compile warning in crypto.c when compiling with clang 3.1.
23991 Fixes bug 5969, bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
23992 - Fix a compilation issue on GNU Hurd, which doesn't have PATH_MAX.
23993 Fixes bug 5355; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
23994 - Remove bogus definition of "_WIN32" from src/win32/orconfig.h, to
23995 unbreak the MSVC build. Fixes bug 5858; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
23996 - Resolve numerous small warnings and build issues with MSVC. Resolves
23999 o Documentation fixes:
24000 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
24001 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
24002 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
24003 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
24004 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
24005 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
24008 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
24009 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
24013 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
24014 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
24015 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
24016 and fixes several crash bugs.
24018 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
24019 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
24020 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
24021 those packages and upgrade anyway.
24023 o Directory authority changes:
24024 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
24025 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
24029 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
24030 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
24031 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
24032 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
24033 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
24034 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
24035 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
24036 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
24037 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
24038 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
24039 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
24040 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
24041 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
24042 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
24043 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
24044 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
24045 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
24046 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
24047 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
24048 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
24049 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
24050 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
24051 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
24052 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
24053 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
24054 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
24055 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
24058 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
24059 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
24060 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
24061 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
24063 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
24064 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
24066 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
24067 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
24068 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
24069 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
24070 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
24071 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
24072 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
24073 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
24076 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
24077 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
24078 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
24079 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
24080 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
24081 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
24082 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
24083 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
24084 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
24085 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
24086 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
24087 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
24088 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
24089 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
24090 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
24091 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
24092 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
24093 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
24094 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
24095 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
24096 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
24097 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
24098 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
24099 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
24100 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
24101 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
24102 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
24103 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
24104 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
24105 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
24106 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
24107 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
24108 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
24109 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
24110 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
24111 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
24112 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
24113 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
24114 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
24115 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
24116 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
24117 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
24118 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
24119 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
24120 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
24121 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
24123 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
24124 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
24125 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
24126 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
24127 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
24128 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
24129 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
24130 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
24131 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
24132 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
24133 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24134 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
24135 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
24136 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
24137 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
24140 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
24141 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
24142 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
24143 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
24145 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24148 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
24149 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
24150 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
24151 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
24152 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
24153 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
24154 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
24157 Changes in version 0.2.3.15-alpha - 2012-04-30
24158 Tor 0.2.3.15-alpha fixes a variety of smaller bugs, including making
24159 the development branch build on Windows again.
24161 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
24162 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
24163 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
24164 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
24165 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
24166 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
24167 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
24168 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
24169 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
24170 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
24171 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
24172 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
24173 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
24174 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
24175 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
24177 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
24178 - When Tor is built with kernel headers from a recent (last few
24179 years) Linux kernel, do not fail to run on older (pre-2.6.28
24180 Linux kernels). Fixes bug 5112; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
24181 - Fix cross-compilation issues with mingw. Bugfixes on 0.2.3.6-alpha
24182 and 0.2.3.12-alpha.
24183 - Fix compilation with miniupnpc version 1.6; patch from
24184 Anthony G. Basile. Fixes bug 5434; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
24185 - Fix compilation with MSVC, which had defined MS_WINDOWS. Bugfix
24186 on 0.2.3.13-alpha; found and fixed by Gisle Vanem.
24187 - Fix compilation on platforms without unistd.h, or where environ
24188 is defined in stdlib.h. Fixes bug 5704; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
24191 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
24192 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
24193 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
24194 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
24195 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
24196 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
24197 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
24198 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
24199 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
24201 o Removed features:
24202 - Remove the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays option;
24203 authorities needed to use it for a while to keep the network working
24204 as people upgraded to 0.2.1.31, 0.2.2.34, or 0.2.3.6-alpha, but
24205 that was six months ago. As of now, it should no longer be needed
24209 Changes in version 0.2.3.14-alpha - 2012-04-23
24210 Tor 0.2.3.14-alpha fixes yet more bugs to get us closer to a release
24211 candidate. It also dramatically speeds up AES: fast relays should
24212 consider switching to the newer OpenSSL library.
24214 o Directory authority changes:
24215 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
24219 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
24220 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
24221 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
24222 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
24224 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
24225 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
24226 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
24227 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
24228 documents entirely.
24229 - When we start a Tor client with a normal consensus already cached,
24230 be willing to download a microdescriptor consensus. Fixes bug 4011;
24231 fix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
24233 o Major features (performance):
24234 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
24235 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
24236 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
24237 much faster than other AES implementations.
24239 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.2.x and earlier):
24240 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
24241 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
24242 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
24243 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
24244 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
24245 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
24246 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
24247 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
24248 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
24249 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
24250 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
24251 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
24252 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
24253 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
24254 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
24255 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
24256 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
24258 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.3.x):
24259 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes (on a failed assert)
24260 if it has seen no directory requests when it's time to write
24261 statistics to disk. Fixes bug 5508. Bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
24262 - Fix bug stomping on ORPort option NoListen and ignoring option
24263 NoAdvertise. Fixes bug 5151; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
24264 - In the testsuite, provide a large enough buffer in the tor_sscanf
24265 unit test. Otherwise we'd overrun that buffer and crash during
24266 the unit tests. Found by weasel. Fixes bug 5449; bugfix on
24268 - Make sure we create the keys directory if it doesn't exist and we're
24269 about to store the dynamic Diffie-Hellman parameters. Fixes bug
24270 5572; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
24271 - Fix a small memory leak when trying to decode incorrect base16
24272 authenticator during SAFECOOKIE authentication. Found by
24273 Coverity Scan. Fixes CID 507. Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
24276 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
24277 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
24278 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
24279 please let us know about it.
24280 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
24281 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
24282 - Resolve IPv6 addresses in bridge and entry statistics to country
24283 code "??" which means we at least count them. Resolves ticket 5053;
24284 improves on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
24285 - Update to the April 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24286 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
24287 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
24289 o Default torrc changes:
24290 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
24291 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
24293 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
24294 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
24295 - Document unit of bandwidth related options in sample torrc.
24298 o Removed features:
24299 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
24300 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
24301 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
24302 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
24304 o Code refactoring:
24305 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
24306 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
24307 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
24308 it would be a bad idea to start.
24311 Changes in version 0.2.3.13-alpha - 2012-03-26
24312 Tor 0.2.3.13-alpha fixes a variety of stability and correctness bugs
24313 in managed pluggable transports, as well as providing other cleanups
24314 that get us closer to a release candidate.
24316 o Directory authority changes:
24317 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
24320 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
24321 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
24322 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
24323 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
24324 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
24325 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
24326 this attack. Fixes bug 5185, implements proposal 193.
24327 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
24328 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
24329 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
24330 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
24331 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
24332 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
24333 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
24334 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
24335 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
24337 o Major bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
24338 - Avoid an assert when managed proxies like obfsproxy are configured,
24339 and we receive HUP signals or setconf attempts too rapidly. This
24340 situation happens most commonly when Vidalia tries to attach to
24341 Tor or tries to configure the Tor it's attached to. Fixes bug 5084;
24342 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
24343 - Fix a relay-side pluggable transports bug where managed proxies were
24344 unreachable from the Internet, because Tor asked them to bind on
24345 localhost. Fixes bug 4725; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
24346 - Stop discarding command-line arguments when TestingTorNetwork
24347 is set. Discovered by Kevin Bauer. Fixes bug 5373; bugfix on
24348 0.2.3.9-alpha, where task 4552 added support for two layers of
24350 - Resume allowing the unit tests to run in gdb. This was accidentally
24351 made impossible when the DisableDebuggerAttachment option was
24352 introduced. Fixes bug 5448; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
24353 - Resume building with nat-pmp support. Fixes bug 4955; bugfix on
24354 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
24356 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
24357 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
24358 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
24359 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
24360 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
24361 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
24362 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
24363 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
24364 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
24365 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
24366 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
24367 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
24368 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
24369 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
24370 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
24371 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
24372 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
24373 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
24374 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
24375 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
24376 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
24377 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
24380 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
24381 - On a failed pipe() call, don't leak file descriptors. Fixes bug
24382 4296; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
24383 - Spec conformance: on a v3 handshake, do not send a NETINFO cell
24384 until after we have received a CERTS cell. Fixes bug 4361; bugfix
24385 on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "frosty".
24386 - When binding to an IPv6 address, set the IPV6_V6ONLY socket
24387 option, so that the IP stack doesn't decide to use it for IPv4
24388 too. Fixes bug 4760; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
24389 - Ensure that variables set in Tor's environment cannot override
24390 environment variables that Tor passes to a managed
24391 pluggable-transport proxy. Previously, Tor would pass every
24392 variable in its environment to managed proxies along with the new
24393 ones, in such a way that on many operating systems, the inherited
24394 environment variables would override those which Tor tried to
24395 explicitly set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha for most Unixoid systems;
24396 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha for Windows.
24399 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
24400 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
24401 - Update to the March 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24404 Changes in version 0.2.3.12-alpha - 2012-02-13
24405 Tor 0.2.3.12-alpha lets fast exit relays scale better, allows clients
24406 to use bridges that run Tor 0.2.2.x, and resolves several big bugs
24407 when Tor is configured to use a pluggable transport like obfsproxy.
24410 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
24411 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
24413 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
24414 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
24415 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
24416 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
24417 - Allow 0.2.3.x clients to use 0.2.2.x bridges. Previously the client
24418 would ask the bridge for microdescriptors, which are only supported
24419 in 0.2.3.x, and then fail to bootstrap when it didn't get the
24420 answers it wanted. Fixes bug 4013; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
24421 - Properly set up obfsproxy's environment when in managed mode. The
24422 Tor Browser Bundle needs LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be passed to obfsproxy,
24423 and when you run your Tor as a daemon, there's no HOME. Fixes bugs
24424 5076 and 5082; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
24427 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
24428 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
24429 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
24430 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
24431 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
24432 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
24433 - Update to the February 7 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24436 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
24437 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
24438 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
24439 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24440 - Don't put "TOR_PT_EXTENDED_SERVER_PORT=127.0.0.1:4200" in a
24441 managed pluggable transport server proxy's environment.
24442 Previously, we would put it there, even though Tor doesn't
24443 implement an 'extended server port' yet, and even though Tor
24444 almost certainly isn't listening at that address. For now, we set
24445 it to an empty string to avoid crashing older obfsproxies. Bugfix
24447 - Log the heartbeat message every HeartbeatPeriod seconds, not every
24448 HeartbeatPeriod + 1 seconds. Fixes bug 4942; bugfix on
24449 0.2.3.1-alpha. Bug reported by Scott Bennett.
24450 - Calculate absolute paths correctly on Windows. Fixes bug 4973;
24451 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
24452 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
24453 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
24454 - Use the correct CVE number for CVE-2011-4576 in our comments and
24455 log messages. Found by "fermenthor". Resolves bug 5066; bugfix on
24458 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
24459 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
24460 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
24464 Changes in version 0.2.3.11-alpha - 2012-01-22
24465 Tor 0.2.3.11-alpha marks feature-freeze for the 0.2.3 tree. It deploys
24466 the last step of the plan to limit maximum circuit length, includes
24467 a wide variety of hidden service performance and correctness fixes,
24468 works around an OpenSSL security flaw if your distro is too stubborn
24469 to upgrade, and fixes a bunch of smaller issues.
24472 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
24473 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
24474 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
24475 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
24476 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
24477 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
24478 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
24479 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
24481 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
24482 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
24483 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
24484 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
24485 software warned about binding to UDP sockets, regardless of
24486 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
24487 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
24488 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
24490 o Major security workaround:
24491 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
24492 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
24493 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
24494 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
24495 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
24496 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
24497 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
24498 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
24499 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
24500 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
24501 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
24504 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
24505 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
24506 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
24507 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
24508 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
24509 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
24510 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
24511 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha and 0.2.3.1-alpha.
24512 - Do not use OpenSSL 1.0.0's counter mode: it has a critical bug
24513 that was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a. We test for the counter mode
24514 bug at runtime, not compile time, because some distributions hack
24515 their OpenSSL to mis-report its version. Fixes bug 4779; bugfix
24516 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by Pascal.
24518 o Minor features (controller):
24519 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
24520 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
24521 file. Resolves bug 1101.
24522 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
24523 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
24524 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
24525 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
24526 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
24527 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
24529 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
24530 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
24531 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
24532 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
24533 part of ticket 3457.
24534 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
24535 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
24536 circuit-status' control-port command.
24538 o Minor features (directory authorities):
24539 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
24540 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
24541 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
24542 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
24544 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
24545 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
24546 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
24547 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
24548 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
24549 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
24550 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
24552 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
24553 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
24555 o Minor features (other):
24556 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
24557 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
24558 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
24559 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
24560 - Prepend an informative header to generated dynamic_dh_params files.
24561 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
24562 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
24563 - Log more useful messages when we fail to disable debugger
24565 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
24566 them from the other auths.
24567 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
24568 - Add missing documentation for the MaxClientCircuitsPending,
24569 UseMicrodescriptors, UserspaceIOCPBuffers, and
24570 _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents options, all introduced during
24571 the 0.2.3.x series.
24572 - Update to the January 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24574 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
24575 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
24576 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
24577 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
24578 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
24579 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
24580 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
24581 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
24582 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
24583 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
24584 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
24585 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
24586 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
24587 be disabled using the new
24588 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
24589 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
24590 - Make sure we never mark the wrong rendezvous circuit as having
24591 had its introduction cell acknowledged by the introduction-point
24592 relay. Previously, when we received an INTRODUCE_ACK cell on a
24593 client-side hidden-service introduction circuit, we might have
24594 marked a rendezvous circuit other than the one we specified in
24595 the INTRODUCE1 cell as INTRO_ACKED, which would have produced
24596 a warning message and interfered with the hidden service
24597 connection-establishment process. Fixes bug 4759; bugfix on
24598 0.2.3.3-alpha, when we added the stream-isolation feature which
24599 might cause Tor to open multiple rendezvous circuits for the same
24601 - Don't trigger an assertion failure when we mark a new client-side
24602 hidden-service introduction circuit for close during the process
24603 of creating it. Fixes bug 4796; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported
24606 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
24607 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
24608 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta and
24610 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
24611 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
24612 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
24613 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
24614 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
24615 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
24616 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
24618 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
24619 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
24620 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
24621 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
24622 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
24623 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
24624 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
24625 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
24627 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
24628 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
24629 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
24630 - Preprocessor directives should not be put inside the arguments
24631 of a macro. This would break compilation with GCC releases prior
24632 to version 3.3. We would never recommend such an old GCC version,
24633 but it is apparently required for binary compatibility on some
24634 platforms (namely, certain builds of Haiku). Fixes the other part
24635 of bug 4727; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin
24638 o Minor bugfixes (other):
24639 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
24640 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
24641 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
24642 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
24643 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
24644 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
24645 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
24646 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
24647 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un". This was
24648 erroneously listed as fixed in 0.2.3.9-alpha, but the fix had
24649 accidentally been reverted.
24650 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
24651 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
24652 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
24653 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
24654 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
24655 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
24656 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
24657 - Fix an assertion failure when, while running with bufferevents, a
24658 connection finishes connecting after it is marked for close, but
24659 before it is closed. Fixes bug 4697; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
24660 - test_util_spawn_background_ok() hardcoded the expected value
24661 for ENOENT to 2. This isn't portable as error numbers are
24662 platform specific, and particularly the hurd has ENOENT at
24663 0x40000002. Construct expected string at runtime, using the correct
24664 value for ENOENT. Fixes bug 4733; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
24665 - Reject attempts to disable DisableDebuggerAttachment while Tor is
24666 running. Fixes bug 4650; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
24667 - Use an appropriate-width type for sockets in tor-fw-helper on
24668 win64. Fixes bug 1983 at last. Bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
24671 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
24672 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
24673 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
24674 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
24675 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
24676 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
24677 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
24679 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
24680 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
24681 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
24682 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
24683 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
24684 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
24685 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
24687 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
24688 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
24689 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
24690 invalid value, rather than just -1.
24691 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
24692 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
24693 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
24694 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
24695 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
24696 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
24697 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
24701 Changes in version 0.2.3.10-alpha - 2011-12-16
24702 Tor 0.2.3.10-alpha fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in
24703 Tor's buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
24705 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
24706 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
24707 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
24708 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
24709 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
24710 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
24711 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
24712 (which Tor does not do by default).
24714 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
24715 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
24716 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
24717 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
24718 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
24720 This release also contains a few minor bugfixes for issues discovered
24724 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
24725 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
24726 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
24727 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
24730 - If we can't attach streams to a rendezvous circuit when we
24731 finish connecting to a hidden service, clear the rendezvous
24732 circuit's stream-isolation state and try to attach streams
24733 again. Previously, we cleared rendezvous circuits' isolation
24734 state either too early (if they were freshly built) or not at all
24735 (if they had been built earlier and were cannibalized). Bugfix on
24736 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 4655.
24737 - Fix compilation of the libnatpmp helper on non-Windows. Bugfix on
24738 0.2.3.9-alpha; fixes bug 4691. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
24739 - Fix an assertion failure when a relay with accounting enabled
24740 starts up while dormant. Fixes bug 4702; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
24743 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24746 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
24747 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
24748 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
24750 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
24751 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
24752 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
24753 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
24754 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
24755 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
24756 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
24757 (which Tor does not do by default).
24759 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
24760 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
24761 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
24762 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
24763 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
24765 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
24766 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
24767 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
24770 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
24771 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
24772 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
24773 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
24774 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
24776 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
24777 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
24780 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
24781 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
24782 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
24783 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
24784 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
24785 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
24786 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
24787 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
24789 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
24790 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
24791 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
24792 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
24793 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
24794 close based on processing a cell on it.
24795 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
24796 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
24797 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
24798 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
24799 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
24800 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
24801 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
24802 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
24803 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
24804 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
24805 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
24806 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
24807 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
24808 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
24809 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
24812 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
24813 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
24814 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
24815 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
24816 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
24817 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
24818 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
24820 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
24821 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
24822 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
24823 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
24824 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
24825 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
24826 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
24827 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
24828 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24829 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
24830 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
24831 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
24832 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
24833 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
24834 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
24835 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
24836 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
24837 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
24838 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
24839 Reported by "troll_un".
24840 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
24841 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
24842 Reported by "troll_un".
24843 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
24844 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
24845 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
24846 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
24849 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
24850 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
24851 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
24852 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
24853 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
24854 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
24855 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
24856 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
24857 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
24858 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
24859 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24861 o Packaging changes:
24862 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
24863 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
24866 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
24867 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
24868 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
24869 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
24870 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
24872 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
24873 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
24875 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
24876 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
24877 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
24878 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
24879 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
24880 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
24881 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
24882 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
24883 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
24886 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24889 Changes in version 0.2.3.9-alpha - 2011-12-08
24890 Tor 0.2.3.9-alpha introduces initial IPv6 support for bridges, adds
24891 a "DisableNetwork" security feature that bundles can use to avoid
24892 touching the network until bridges are configured, moves forward on
24893 the pluggable transport design, fixes a flaw in the hidden service
24894 design that unnecessarily prevented clients with wrong clocks from
24895 reaching hidden services, and fixes a wide variety of other issues.
24898 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
24899 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
24900 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
24901 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
24902 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
24903 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
24904 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
24905 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
24906 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
24907 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
24908 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
24909 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
24910 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
24911 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins. It
24912 implements the "managed proxy" part of proposal 180 (ticket 3472).
24913 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
24914 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
24915 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
24916 Resolves ticket 4526.
24917 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
24918 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
24919 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
24920 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
24921 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
24922 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
24923 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
24924 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
24925 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
24926 no effect unless Tor has been built with support for bufferevents,
24927 is running on Windows, and has enabled IOCP. This may, in the long
24928 run, help solve or mitigate bug 98.
24929 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
24930 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
24931 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
24932 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
24935 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
24936 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
24937 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
24938 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
24939 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
24940 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
24941 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
24942 - Only use the EVP interface when AES acceleration is enabled,
24943 to avoid a 5-7% performance regression. Resolves issue 4525;
24944 bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
24946 o Privacy/anonymity features (bridge detection):
24947 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
24948 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
24949 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
24950 - Introduce a new config option "DynamicDHGroups", enabled by
24951 default, which provides each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus
24952 to be used during SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help
24953 against censors who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static
24954 identifier for bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
24956 o Minor features (new/different config options):
24957 - New configuration option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
24958 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
24959 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
24960 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
24961 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
24962 Implements issue 933.
24963 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
24964 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
24965 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
24966 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
24967 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
24968 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
24969 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
24970 appending to the list.
24971 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
24972 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
24973 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
24974 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
24976 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
24977 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
24978 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
24979 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
24980 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
24981 reloads both files. (Note: This is an experimental feature; its
24982 behavior will probably be refined in future 0.2.3.x-alpha versions
24983 to better meet packagers' needs.) Implements task 4552.
24986 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
24987 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
24988 Resolves ticket 2474.
24989 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
24990 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
24991 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
24992 Required by fix for bug 3460.
24993 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
24994 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
24995 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
24996 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
24997 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
24998 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
24999 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
25000 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
25001 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
25003 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier):
25004 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
25005 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
25007 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
25009 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
25010 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
25012 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
25013 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
25014 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
25015 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
25016 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
25017 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
25018 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
25020 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str() on an address of
25021 unknown type, we would have done a strdup() on an uninitialized
25022 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
25023 Reported by "troll_un".
25024 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
25025 tor_addr_lookup(). Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
25026 Reported by "troll_un".
25027 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
25028 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
25029 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
25030 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
25032 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
25033 - Fix a compile warning in tor_inet_pton(). Bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha;
25035 - Don't send two ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cells when opening a new
25036 circuit for use as a hidden service client's rendezvous point.
25037 Fixes bugs 4641 and 4171; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Diagnosed
25038 with help from wanoskarnet.
25039 - Restore behavior of overriding SocksPort, ORPort, and similar
25040 options from the command line. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
25043 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
25044 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
25045 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
25046 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25048 o Code simplifications, cleanups, and refactorings:
25049 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
25050 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
25051 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
25052 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
25053 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
25054 - Remove some dead code spotted by coverity. Fixes cid 432.
25055 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha, closes bug 4637.
25058 Changes in version 0.2.3.8-alpha - 2011-11-22
25059 Tor 0.2.3.8-alpha fixes some crash and assert bugs, including a
25060 socketpair-related bug that has been bothering Windows users. It adds
25061 support to serve microdescriptors to controllers, so Vidalia's network
25062 map can resume listing relays (once Vidalia implements its side),
25063 and adds better support for hardware AES acceleration. Finally, it
25064 starts the process of adjusting the bandwidth cutoff for getting the
25065 "Fast" flag from 20KB to (currently) 32KB -- preliminary results show
25066 that tiny relays harm performance more than they help network capacity.
25069 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
25070 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
25071 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
25072 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
25074 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
25075 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
25076 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
25077 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
25078 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
25079 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
25080 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
25081 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
25082 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
25083 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
25084 - Fix a rare assertion failure when checking whether a v0 hidden
25085 service descriptor has any usable introduction points left, and
25086 we don't have enough information to build a circuit to the first
25087 intro point named in the descriptor. The HS client code in
25088 0.2.3.x no longer uses v0 HS descriptors, but this assertion can
25089 trigger on (and crash) v0 HS authorities. Fixes bug 4411.
25090 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha; diagnosed by frosty_un.
25091 - Make bridge authorities not crash when they are asked for their own
25092 descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.3.7-alpha, reported by Lucky Green.
25093 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
25094 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
25095 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
25096 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
25097 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34 and 0.2.3.7-alpha.
25100 - Allow Tor controllers like Vidalia to obtain the microdescriptor
25101 for a relay by identity digest or nickname. Previously,
25102 microdescriptors were only available by their own digests, so a
25103 controller would have to ask for and parse the whole microdescriptor
25104 consensus in order to look up a single relay's microdesc. Fixes
25105 bug 3832; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25106 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
25107 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
25110 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
25111 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
25112 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
25113 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
25114 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
25115 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
25116 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
25117 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
25118 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
25119 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
25120 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
25121 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
25122 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
25123 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
25124 tor_inet_ntop. Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
25126 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
25127 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
25128 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
25129 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
25130 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
25131 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
25132 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
25133 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
25134 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
25135 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
25136 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
25137 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
25138 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
25139 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
25140 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
25141 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
25142 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
25144 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
25145 - Make util unit tests build correctly with MSVC. Bugfix on
25146 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Gisle Vanem.
25147 - Successfully detect AUTH_CHALLENGE cells with no recognized
25148 authentication type listed. Fixes bug 4367; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
25149 Found by frosty_un.
25150 - If a relay receives an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell it can't answer,
25151 it should still send a NETINFO cell to allow the connection to
25152 become open. Fixes bug 4368; fix on 0.2.3.6-alpha; bug found by
25154 - Log less loudly when we get an invalid authentication certificate
25155 from a source other than a directory authority: it's not unusual
25156 to see invalid certs because of clock skew. Fixes bug 4370; bugfix
25158 - Tolerate servers with more clock skew in their authentication
25159 certificates than previously. Fixes bug 4371; bugfix on
25161 - Fix a couple of compile warnings on Windows. Fixes bug 4469; bugfix
25162 on 0.2.3.4-alpha and 0.2.3.6-alpha.
25165 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
25166 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
25167 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
25168 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
25169 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
25170 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
25171 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
25172 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
25173 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
25174 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
25175 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
25176 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
25177 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
25178 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
25180 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
25181 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
25182 - Update to the November 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25184 o Packaging changes:
25185 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
25186 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
25188 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25189 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
25190 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
25191 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
25192 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
25193 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
25194 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
25195 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
25196 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
25199 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
25201 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
25202 ./src/test/bench binary.
25203 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
25204 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
25207 Changes in version 0.2.3.7-alpha - 2011-10-30
25208 Tor 0.2.3.7-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.3.6-alpha introduced by
25209 the new v3 handshake. It also resolves yet another bridge address
25213 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
25214 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
25215 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
25216 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
25217 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
25218 close based on processing a cell on it.
25219 - Fix a double-free bug that would occur when we received an invalid
25220 certificate in a CERT cell in the new v3 handshake. Fixes bug 4343;
25221 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
25222 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
25223 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
25224 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
25225 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
25226 cells were introduced.
25229 - Fixed a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
25230 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
25233 Changes in version 0.2.3.6-alpha - 2011-10-26
25234 Tor 0.2.3.6-alpha includes the fix from 0.2.2.34 for a critical
25235 anonymity vulnerability where an attacker can deanonymize Tor
25236 users. Everybody should upgrade.
25238 This release also features support for a new v3 connection handshake
25239 protocol, and fixes to make hidden service connections more robust.
25242 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
25243 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
25244 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
25245 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
25246 - Allow variable-length padding cells to disguise the length of
25247 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
25249 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
25250 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
25251 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
25252 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
25253 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
25254 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
25255 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
25256 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
25257 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
25258 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
25259 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
25260 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
25261 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
25262 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
25263 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
25264 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
25265 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
25266 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
25269 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
25270 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
25271 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
25272 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
25273 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
25274 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
25275 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
25276 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
25277 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
25278 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
25279 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
25280 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
25281 Partly fixes bug 3825.
25282 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
25283 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
25284 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
25285 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
25286 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
25287 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
25288 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
25290 o Major bugfixes (other):
25291 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
25292 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
25293 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
25294 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
25295 Found by "frosty_un".
25296 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
25297 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
25298 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
25299 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
25300 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by BryonEldridge, who also helped
25301 immensely in tracking this bug down.
25302 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
25303 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
25306 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
25307 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
25308 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
25309 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
25310 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
25311 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
25312 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
25313 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
25314 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
25315 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
25316 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
25317 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
25318 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
25319 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
25320 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
25321 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
25322 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
25323 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
25324 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
25325 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
25326 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
25328 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
25329 - Fix a bug in configure.in that kept it from building a configure
25330 script with autoconf versions earlier than 2.61. Fixes bug 2430;
25331 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25332 - Don't warn users that they are exposing a client port to the
25333 Internet if they have specified an RFC1918 address. Previously,
25334 we would warn if the user had specified any non-loopback
25335 address. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Fixes bug 4018; reported by Tas.
25336 - Fix memory leaks in the failing cases of the new SocksPort and
25337 ControlPort code. Found by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha;
25338 fixes coverity CIDs 485, 486, and 487.
25341 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
25342 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
25343 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
25344 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
25345 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
25346 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
25347 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
25348 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
25349 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
25350 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
25351 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
25352 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
25353 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
25354 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25356 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25357 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
25358 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
25359 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
25360 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
25361 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
25362 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
25363 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
25366 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
25367 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
25368 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
25370 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
25371 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
25372 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
25373 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
25374 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
25375 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
25376 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
25377 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
25378 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
25379 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
25380 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
25381 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
25382 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
25384 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
25385 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
25386 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
25387 currently connected to them.
25389 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
25390 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
25391 remain; see for example proposal 188.
25393 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
25394 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
25395 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
25396 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
25397 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
25398 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
25399 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
25400 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
25401 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
25402 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
25403 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
25404 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
25405 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
25406 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
25407 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
25408 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
25409 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
25410 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
25413 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
25414 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
25415 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
25416 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
25417 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
25418 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
25419 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
25420 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
25421 when bridges were introduced.
25422 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
25423 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
25424 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
25425 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
25426 Found by "frosty_un".
25429 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
25430 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
25432 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
25433 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
25434 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
25435 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
25436 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
25437 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
25438 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
25441 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
25442 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
25443 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
25444 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
25445 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
25446 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
25447 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
25448 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
25449 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
25450 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
25451 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
25452 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
25453 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
25454 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
25455 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
25456 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
25457 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
25458 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
25460 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
25461 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
25462 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
25463 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
25464 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
25465 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
25466 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
25467 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
25468 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
25469 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
25470 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
25471 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
25474 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
25475 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
25476 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
25477 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25480 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
25481 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
25482 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
25483 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
25484 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
25486 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
25487 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
25488 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
25489 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
25490 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
25491 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
25492 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
25493 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
25494 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
25495 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
25497 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
25498 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
25499 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
25500 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
25501 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
25502 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
25503 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
25504 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
25505 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
25506 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
25507 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
25508 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
25509 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
25510 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
25511 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
25512 Found by "frosty_un".
25513 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
25514 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
25515 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
25516 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
25517 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
25518 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
25519 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
25520 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
25521 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
25522 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
25523 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
25524 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
25525 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
25526 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
25527 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
25528 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
25529 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
25530 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
25531 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
25533 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
25534 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
25535 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
25536 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
25537 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
25538 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
25539 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
25540 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
25542 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
25543 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
25544 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
25545 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
25546 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
25547 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
25548 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
25549 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
25550 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
25551 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
25552 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
25553 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
25555 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
25556 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25557 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
25558 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25559 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
25560 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
25561 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
25562 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
25563 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
25565 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
25567 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
25568 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
25569 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
25570 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
25571 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
25572 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
25573 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
25574 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
25576 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
25577 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
25578 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
25579 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
25580 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
25582 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
25583 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
25584 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
25585 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
25586 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25589 Changes in version 0.2.3.5-alpha - 2011-09-28
25590 Tor 0.2.3.5-alpha fixes two bugs that make it possible to enumerate
25591 bridge relays; fixes an assertion error that many users started hitting
25592 today; and adds the ability to refill token buckets more often than
25593 once per second, allowing significant performance improvements.
25596 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
25597 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
25598 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
25599 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
25600 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
25601 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
25602 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
25603 when bridges were introduced.
25606 - Fix an "Assertion md->held_by_node == 1 failed" error that could
25607 occur when the same microdescriptor was referenced by two node_t
25608 objects at once. Fix for bug 4118; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25610 o Major features (networking):
25611 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
25612 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
25613 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
25614 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
25615 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
25619 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
25620 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
25621 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
25623 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
25624 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
25625 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
25626 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
25627 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
25629 o Minor features (diagnostics):
25630 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
25631 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
25634 Changes in version 0.2.3.4-alpha - 2011-09-13
25635 Tor 0.2.3.4-alpha includes the fixes from 0.2.2.33, including a slight
25636 tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run
25637 this new version reachable from Iran again. It also fixes a few new
25638 bugs in 0.2.3.x, and teaches relays to recognize when they're not
25639 listed in the network consensus and republish.
25641 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
25642 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
25643 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
25644 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
25646 o Minor features (security, also part of 0.2.2.33):
25647 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
25648 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
25649 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
25650 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
25651 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
25652 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
25653 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
25654 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
25655 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
25656 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
25658 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.33):
25659 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
25660 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
25661 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
25662 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
25663 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
25664 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
25665 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
25666 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
25667 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25669 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
25670 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
25671 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
25672 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
25673 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
25674 fixes part of bug 2442.
25675 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
25676 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
25677 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
25679 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
25680 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
25681 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
25682 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
25683 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
25685 o Build fixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
25686 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
25687 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
25688 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
25689 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
25692 - Fix a bug where the SocksPort option (for example) would get
25693 ignored and replaced by the default if a SocksListenAddress
25694 option was set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 3936. Fix by
25698 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
25699 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
25700 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
25701 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
25702 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
25703 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
25704 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
25707 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
25708 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
25709 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
25710 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
25711 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
25712 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
25713 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
25716 - Abort if tor_vasprintf fails in connection_printf_to_buf (a
25717 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
25718 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
25719 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
25720 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
25721 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
25722 - Make 'FetchUselessDescriptors' cause all descriptor types and
25723 all consensus types (including microdescriptors) to get fetched.
25724 Fixes bug 3851; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25726 o Code refactoring:
25727 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
25728 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
25731 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
25732 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
25733 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
25734 reachable from Iran again.
25737 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
25738 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
25739 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
25741 o Minor features (security):
25742 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
25743 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
25744 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
25745 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
25746 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
25747 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
25748 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
25749 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
25750 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
25751 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
25754 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
25755 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
25756 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
25757 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
25758 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
25759 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
25760 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
25761 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
25762 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25764 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
25765 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
25766 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
25767 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
25768 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
25769 raised by bug 3898.
25770 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
25771 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
25772 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
25773 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
25774 fixes part of bug 2442.
25775 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
25776 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
25777 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
25779 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
25780 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
25781 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
25782 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
25783 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
25786 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
25787 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
25788 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
25789 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
25790 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
25791 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
25794 Changes in version 0.2.3.3-alpha - 2011-09-01
25795 Tor 0.2.3.3-alpha adds a new "stream isolation" feature to improve Tor's
25796 security, and provides client-side support for the microdescriptor
25797 and optimistic data features introduced earlier in the 0.2.3.x
25798 series. It also includes numerous critical bugfixes in the (optional)
25799 bufferevent-based networking backend.
25801 o Major features (stream isolation):
25802 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
25803 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
25804 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
25805 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
25806 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
25807 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
25808 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
25809 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
25810 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
25811 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
25812 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
25813 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
25814 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
25815 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
25817 o Major features (other):
25818 - Enable microdescriptor fetching by default for clients. This allows
25819 clients to download a much smaller amount of directory information.
25820 To disable it (and go back to the old-style consensus and
25821 descriptors), set "UseMicrodescriptors 0" in your torrc file.
25822 - Tor's firewall-helper feature, introduced in 0.2.3.1-alpha (see the
25823 "PortForwarding" config option), now supports Windows.
25824 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
25825 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
25826 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
25827 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
25828 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
25829 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
25830 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
25832 o Major bugfixes (bufferevents, fixes on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
25833 - When using IOCP on Windows, we need to enable Libevent windows
25835 - The IOCP backend now works even when the user has not specified
25836 the (internal, debugging-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option.
25837 Fixes part of bug 3752.
25838 - Correctly record the bytes we've read and written when using
25839 bufferevents, so that we can include them in our bandwidth history
25840 and advertised bandwidth. Fixes bug 3803.
25841 - Apply rate-limiting only at the bottom of a chain of filtering
25842 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal read
25843 buffers and violating rate-limits when filtering bufferevents
25844 are enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
25845 - Add high-watermarks to the output buffers for filtered
25846 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal write
25847 buffers and wasting CPU cycles when filtering bufferevents are
25848 enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
25849 - Correctly notice when data has been written from a bufferevent
25850 without flushing it completely. Fixes bug 3805.
25851 - Fix a bug where server-side tunneled bufferevent-based directory
25852 streams would get closed prematurely. Fixes bug 3814.
25853 - Fix a use-after-free error with per-connection rate-limiting
25854 buckets. Fixes bug 3888.
25856 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
25857 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
25858 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
25859 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
25860 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
25861 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
25864 - Added a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
25865 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
25866 user. Implements ticket 1692.
25867 - Use evbuffer_copyout() in inspect_evbuffer(). This fixes a memory
25868 leak when using bufferevents, and lets Libevent worry about how to
25869 best copy data out of a buffer.
25870 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
25871 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
25872 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
25874 o Minor features (build compatibility):
25875 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
25876 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
25877 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
25879 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
25880 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25882 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x-alpha):
25883 - Fix a spurious warning when parsing SOCKS requests with
25884 bufferevents enabled. Fixes bug 3615; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
25885 - Get rid of a harmless warning that could happen on relays running
25886 with bufferevents. The warning was caused by someone doing an http
25887 request to a relay's orport. Also don't warn for a few related
25888 non-errors. Fixes bug 3700; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25890 o Minor bugfixes (on 2.2.x and earlier):
25891 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
25892 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
25893 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
25894 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
25895 raised by bug 3898.
25896 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
25897 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
25898 the absence of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
25901 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
25902 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
25903 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
25904 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
25905 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
25906 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
25907 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
25908 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
25909 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
25910 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
25911 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
25912 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25913 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
25914 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
25915 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
25916 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
25917 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
25918 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
25919 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
25922 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25923 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
25924 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
25928 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
25929 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
25930 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
25931 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
25932 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
25933 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
25936 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
25937 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
25938 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
25939 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
25940 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
25941 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
25942 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
25943 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
25944 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
25945 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
25947 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
25948 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
25949 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
25950 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
25951 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
25952 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
25953 many many other features and bugfixes.
25956 Changes in version 0.2.2.31-rc - 2011-08-17
25957 Tor 0.2.2.31-rc is the second and hopefully final release candidate
25958 for the Tor 0.2.2.x series.
25961 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
25962 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
25963 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
25964 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
25965 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
25966 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
25967 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
25968 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
25971 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25974 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
25975 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
25976 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25977 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
25978 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
25979 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
25980 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
25981 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
25982 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
25983 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
25984 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
25985 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
25986 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
25987 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25988 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
25989 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
25990 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
25991 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
25995 Changes in version 0.2.3.2-alpha - 2011-07-18
25996 Tor 0.2.3.2-alpha introduces two new experimental features:
25997 microdescriptors and pluggable transports. It also continues cleaning
25998 up a variety of recently introduced features.
26001 - Clients can now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
26002 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
26003 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change
26004 very rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is
26005 designed to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
26006 connections. It's off by default for now, since nearly no caches
26007 support it, but it will be on-by-default for clients in a future
26008 version. You can use the UseMicrodescriptors option to turn it on.
26009 - Tor clients using bridges can now be configured to use a separate
26010 'transport' proxy for each bridge. This approach helps to resist
26011 censorship by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation
26012 plugins. It implements part of proposal 180. Implements ticket 2841.
26013 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
26014 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
26015 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
26016 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
26018 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
26019 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes (as with
26020 'EntryNodes {cc}' or 'EntryNodes 1.1.1.1/16'), choose only a
26021 random subset to be guards, and choose them in random
26022 order. Fixes bug 2798.
26023 - Tor could crash when remembering a consensus in a non-used consensus
26024 flavor without having a current consensus set. Fixes bug 3361.
26025 - Comparing an unknown address to a microdescriptor's shortened exit
26026 policy would always give a "rejected" result. Fixes bug 3599.
26027 - Using microdescriptors as a client no longer prevents Tor from
26028 uploading and downloading hidden service descriptors. Fixes
26032 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
26033 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
26034 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
26035 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
26037 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
26038 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
26039 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
26040 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
26041 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
26042 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
26043 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
26044 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
26045 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
26046 Implements ticket 3264.
26047 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
26048 implements ticket 3439.
26050 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
26051 - Do not free all general-purpose regular descriptors just
26052 because microdescriptor use is enabled. Fixes bug 3113.
26053 - Correctly link libevent_openssl when --enable-static-libevent
26054 is passed to configure. Fixes bug 3118.
26055 - Bridges should not complain during their heartbeat log messages that
26056 they are unlisted in the consensus: that's more or less the point
26057 of being a bridge. Fixes bug 3183.
26058 - Report a SIGNAL event to controllers when acting on a delayed
26059 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Previously, we would report a SIGNAL
26060 event to the controller if we acted on a SIGNAL NEWNYM command
26061 immediately, and otherwise not report a SIGNAL event for the
26062 command at all. Fixes bug 3349.
26063 - Fix a crash when handling the SIGNAL controller command or
26064 reporting ERR-level status events with bufferevents enabled. Found
26065 by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 3367.
26066 - Always ship the tor-fw-helper manpage in our release tarballs.
26067 Fixes bug 3389. Reported by Stephen Walker.
26068 - Fix a class of double-mark-for-close bugs when bufferevents
26069 are enabled. Fixes bug 3403.
26070 - Update tor-fw-helper to support libnatpmp-20110618. Fixes bug 3434.
26071 - Add SIGNAL to the list returned by the 'GETINFO events/names'
26072 control-port command. Fixes part of bug 3465.
26073 - Prevent using negative indices during unit test runs when read_all()
26074 fails. Spotted by coverity.
26075 - Fix a rare memory leak when checking the nodelist without it being
26076 present. Found by coverity.
26077 - Only try to download a microdescriptor-flavored consensus from
26078 a directory cache that provides them.
26080 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
26081 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
26082 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
26083 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
26084 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
26085 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
26087 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
26088 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
26089 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
26090 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
26091 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
26092 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26093 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
26094 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
26096 o Code simplification and refactoring:
26097 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
26098 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
26099 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
26100 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
26101 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
26102 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
26104 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
26108 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
26109 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
26110 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
26113 Changes in version 0.2.2.30-rc - 2011-07-07
26114 Tor 0.2.2.30-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.2.x
26115 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
26116 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
26119 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
26120 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
26121 discovered by katmagic.
26122 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
26123 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
26124 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
26125 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
26126 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
26127 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
26128 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
26129 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
26130 - Add BUILDTIMEOUT_SET to the list returned by the 'GETINFO
26131 events/names' control-port command. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha;
26132 fixes part of bug 3465.
26133 - Fix a memory leak when receiving a descriptor for a hidden
26134 service we didn't ask for. Found by Coverity; CID #30. Bugfix
26138 - Update to the July 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26141 Changes in version 0.2.2.29-beta - 2011-06-20
26142 Tor 0.2.2.29-beta reverts an accidental behavior change for users who
26143 have bridge lines in their torrc but don't want to use them; gets
26144 us closer to having the control socket feature working on Debian;
26145 and fixes a variety of smaller bugs.
26148 - Revert the UseBridges option to its behavior before 0.2.2.28-beta.
26149 When we changed the default behavior to "use bridges if any
26150 are listed in the torrc", we surprised users who had bridges
26151 in their torrc files but who didn't actually want to use them.
26152 Partial resolution for bug 3354.
26155 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
26156 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
26157 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
26158 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
26159 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
26160 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
26163 - Fix a bug when using ControlSocketsGroupWritable with User. The
26164 directory's group would be checked against the current group, not
26165 the configured group. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio. Fixes bug 3393;
26166 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
26167 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
26168 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
26169 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
26170 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
26171 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
26172 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
26173 fixes part of bug 3407.
26174 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
26175 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
26176 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
26177 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
26178 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
26179 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
26180 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
26181 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
26182 - Avoid a segfault when reading a malformed circuit build state
26183 with more than INT_MAX entries. Found by wanoskarnet. Bugfix on
26185 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
26186 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
26187 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
26188 - Fix a rare memory leak during stats writing. Found by coverity.
26191 - Update to the June 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26193 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
26194 - Remove some dead code as indicated by coverity.
26195 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
26197 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
26199 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
26202 Changes in version 0.2.2.28-beta - 2011-06-04
26203 Tor 0.2.2.28-beta makes great progress towards a new stable release: we
26204 fixed a big bug in whether relays stay in the consensus consistently,
26205 we moved closer to handling bridges and hidden services correctly,
26206 and we started the process of better handling the dreaded "my Vidalia
26207 died, and now my Tor demands a password when I try to reconnect to it"
26211 - Don't decide to make a new descriptor when receiving a HUP signal.
26212 This bug has caused a lot of 0.2.2.x relays to disappear from the
26213 consensus periodically. Fixes the most common case of triggering
26214 bug 1810; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
26215 - Actually allow nameservers with IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug 2574.
26216 - Don't try to build descriptors if "ORPort auto" is set and we
26217 don't know our actual ORPort yet. Fix for bug 3216; bugfix on
26219 - Resolve a crash that occurred when setting BridgeRelay to 1 with
26220 accounting enabled. Fixes bug 3228; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
26221 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
26222 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
26223 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
26224 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
26225 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
26226 - Use the same circuit timeout for client-side introduction
26227 circuits as for other four-hop circuits, rather than the timeout
26228 for single-hop directory-fetch circuits; the shorter timeout may
26229 have been appropriate with the static circuit build timeout in
26230 0.2.1.x and earlier, but caused many hidden service access attempts
26231 to fail with the adaptive CBT introduced in 0.2.2.2-alpha. Bugfix
26232 on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes another part of bug 1297.
26233 - In ticket 2511 we fixed a case where you could use an unconfigured
26234 bridge if you had configured it as a bridge the last time you ran
26235 Tor. Now fix another edge case: if you had configured it as a bridge
26236 but then switched to a different bridge via the controller, you
26237 would still be willing to use the old one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha;
26241 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
26242 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
26243 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
26244 - If "UseBridges 1" is set and no bridges are configured, Tor will
26245 now refuse to build any circuits until some bridges are set.
26246 If "UseBridges auto" is set, Tor will use bridges if they are
26247 configured and we are not running as a server, but otherwise will
26248 make circuits as usual. The new default is "auto". Patch by anonym,
26249 so the Tails LiveCD can stop automatically revealing you as a Tor
26253 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
26254 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
26255 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
26257 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows builds.
26259 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
26260 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
26261 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
26262 - Remove dead code from rend_cache_lookup_v2_desc_as_dir. Fixes
26263 part of bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
26264 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
26265 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
26266 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
26267 info-level messages. Fixes the other part of bug 2748; bugfix
26269 - Clear the table recording the time of the last request for each
26270 hidden service descriptor from each HS directory on SIGNAL NEWNYM.
26271 Previously, we would clear our HS descriptor cache on SIGNAL
26272 NEWNYM, but if we had previously retrieved a descriptor (or tried
26273 to) from every directory responsible for it, we would refuse to
26274 fetch it again for up to 15 minutes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha;
26276 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
26277 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
26279 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
26280 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
26281 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
26284 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
26285 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
26286 Resolves ticket 3252.
26287 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
26288 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
26289 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
26290 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
26291 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
26292 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
26295 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
26296 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
26299 Changes in version 0.2.2.27-beta - 2011-05-18
26300 Tor 0.2.2.27-beta fixes a bridge-related stability bug in the previous
26301 release, and also adds a few more general bugfixes.
26304 - Fix a crash bug when changing bridges in a running Tor process.
26305 Fixes bug 3213; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
26306 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
26307 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
26308 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
26311 - Require that onion keys have exponent 65537 in microdescriptors too.
26312 Fixes more of bug 3207; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
26313 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
26314 Changed the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
26315 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
26316 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
26317 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
26318 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
26319 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
26323 Changes in version 0.2.2.26-beta - 2011-05-17
26324 Tor 0.2.2.26-beta fixes a variety of potential privacy problems. It
26325 also introduces a new "socksport auto" approach that should make it
26326 easier to run multiple Tors on the same system, and does a lot of
26327 cleanup to get us closer to a release candidate.
26329 o Security/privacy fixes:
26330 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
26331 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
26332 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
26333 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
26334 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
26335 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
26336 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
26337 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
26338 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
26339 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
26340 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
26341 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
26342 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
26343 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
26344 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
26347 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
26348 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
26349 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
26350 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
26351 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
26352 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
26353 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
26354 part of ticket 3076.
26355 - Set SO_REUSEADDR on all sockets, not just listeners. This should
26356 help busy exit nodes avoid running out of useable ports just
26357 because all the ports have been used in the near past. Resolves
26361 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
26362 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
26363 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
26364 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
26365 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
26366 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
26367 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
26368 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
26370 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
26371 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
26372 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
26373 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
26374 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
26375 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
26376 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
26377 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
26378 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
26379 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
26380 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
26381 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
26382 - Update to the May 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26385 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
26386 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
26387 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
26388 on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 2230.
26389 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
26390 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
26391 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
26393 - Avoid a bug that would keep us from replacing a microdescriptor
26394 cache on Windows. (We would try to replace the file while still
26395 holding it open. That's fine on Unix, but Windows doesn't let us
26396 do that.) Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; bug found by wanoskarnet.
26397 - Add missing explanations for the authority-related torrc options
26398 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey in the
26399 man page. Resolves issue 2379.
26400 - As an authority, do not upload our own vote or signature set to
26401 ourself. It would tell us nothing new, and as of 0.2.2.24-alpha,
26402 it would get flagged as a duplicate. Resolves bug 3026.
26403 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
26404 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
26405 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
26406 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
26407 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
26408 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
26410 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
26411 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
26413 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
26414 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
26416 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
26417 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
26419 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
26420 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
26421 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
26423 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanup):
26424 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
26425 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
26426 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
26427 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
26428 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
26429 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
26430 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
26431 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
26432 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
26433 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
26435 - Avoid a possible null-pointer dereference when rebuilding the mdesc
26436 cache without actually having any descriptors to cache. Bugfix on
26437 0.2.2.6-alpha. Issue discovered using clang's static analyzer.
26438 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
26439 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
26440 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
26441 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
26442 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
26443 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
26444 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
26445 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
26446 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
26447 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
26450 o Removed features:
26451 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
26452 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
26453 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
26457 Changes in version 0.2.3.1-alpha - 2011-05-05
26458 Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha adds some new experimental features, including support
26459 for an improved network IO backend, IOCP networking on Windows,
26460 microdescriptor caching, "fast-start" support for streams, and automatic
26461 home router configuration. There are also numerous internal improvements
26462 to try to make the code easier for developers to work with.
26464 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
26465 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
26466 stay with 0.2.2.x for now.
26469 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
26470 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
26471 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
26472 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
26473 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
26474 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
26475 zero-copy transports where available.
26476 - As an experimental feature, Tor can use IOCP for networking on Windows.
26477 Once this code is tuned and optimized, it promises much better
26478 performance than the select-based backend we've used in the past. To
26479 try this feature, you must build Tor with Libevent 2, configure Tor
26480 with the "bufferevents" buffered IO backend, and add "DisableIOCP 0" to
26481 your torrc. There are known bugs here: only try this if you can help
26482 debug it as it breaks.
26483 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
26484 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these options
26485 because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up to
26486 date. Fixes bug 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved issue here.
26487 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
26488 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the stream was
26489 connected, which slowed down all connections. This change will enable
26490 clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams and send data without
26491 having to wait for a confirmation that the stream has opened. (Patch
26492 from Ian Goldberg; implements the server side of Proposal 174.)
26493 - Tor now has initial support for automatic port mapping on the many
26494 home routers that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. (Not yet supported on
26495 Windows). To build the support code, you'll need to have libnatpnp
26496 library and/or the libminiupnpc library, and you'll need to enable the
26497 feature specifically by passing "--enable-upnp" and/or
26498 "--enable-natpnp" to configure. To turn it on, use the new
26499 PortForwarding option.
26500 - Caches now download, cache, and serve multiple "flavors" of the
26501 consensus, including a flavor that describes microdescriptors.
26502 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors -- small
26503 summaries of router descriptors that are authenticated by all of the
26504 directory authorities. Once enough caches are running this code,
26505 clients will be able to save significant amounts of directory bandwidth
26506 by downloading microdescriptors instead of router descriptors.
26509 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
26510 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
26511 Implements enhancement 1668.
26512 - We log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements ticket
26514 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
26515 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
26516 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
26517 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
26518 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
26519 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
26520 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
26522 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
26523 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
26524 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
26525 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
26526 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
26527 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
26528 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
26530 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
26531 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
26532 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
26533 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
26534 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
26535 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
26536 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
26538 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.25-alpha):
26539 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
26540 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
26541 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
26542 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
26543 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
26544 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
26545 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
26546 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
26547 - If as an authority we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3
26548 legacy keypair, warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead.
26549 Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
26550 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
26551 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
26552 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
26555 o Minor features (controller):
26556 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
26557 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
26558 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
26559 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
26560 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
26561 - Implement some GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
26562 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
26565 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
26566 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
26567 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
26568 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
26569 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
26570 - Our autogen.sh script uses autoreconf to launch autoconf, automake, and
26571 so on. This is more robust against some of the failure modes
26572 associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
26574 o Minor packaging issues:
26575 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it is not
26576 already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
26578 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
26579 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
26580 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
26581 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
26582 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
26583 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
26584 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
26585 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
26586 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
26587 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
26588 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
26589 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
26590 our library structure used to force them to link it.
26592 o Removed features:
26593 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
26594 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
26595 are no longer in use as servers.
26597 o Documentation fixes:
26598 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
26599 - Add missing documentation for the authority-related torrc options
26600 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey. Resolves
26604 Changes in version 0.2.2.25-alpha - 2011-04-29
26605 Tor 0.2.2.25-alpha fixes many bugs: hidden service clients are more
26606 robust, routers no longer overreport their bandwidth, Win7 should crash
26607 a little less, and NEWNYM (as used by Vidalia's "new identity" button)
26608 now prevents hidden service-related activity from being linkable. It
26609 provides more information to Vidalia so you can see if your bridge is
26610 working. Also, 0.2.2.25-alpha revamps the Entry/Exit/ExcludeNodes and
26611 StrictNodes configuration options to make them more reliable, more
26612 understandable, and more regularly applied. If you use those options,
26613 please see the revised documentation for them in the manual page.
26616 - Relays were publishing grossly inflated bandwidth values because
26617 they were writing their state files wrong--now they write the
26618 correct value. Also, resume reading bandwidth history from the
26619 state file correctly. Fixes bug 2704; bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
26620 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
26621 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
26622 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
26623 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
26624 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
26625 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
26626 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
26627 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
26628 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
26629 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
26630 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
26631 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
26633 o Security and stability fixes:
26634 - Don't double-free a parsable, but invalid, microdescriptor, even if
26635 it is followed in the blob we're parsing by an unparsable
26636 microdescriptor. Fixes an issue reported in a comment on bug 2954.
26637 Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fix by "cypherpunks".
26638 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
26639 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
26640 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
26641 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
26642 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
26643 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
26644 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
26645 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
26646 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26647 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
26648 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
26649 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
26652 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
26653 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
26654 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
26655 contributions to the network.
26657 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
26658 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
26659 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and StrictNodes
26660 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
26661 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
26662 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
26663 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
26664 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
26665 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
26666 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
26667 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
26668 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
26669 connections to directory servers.
26670 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
26671 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
26672 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
26673 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
26674 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
26675 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
26676 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
26677 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
26678 information, or fetch directory information.
26679 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
26680 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
26681 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
26682 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
26683 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
26684 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
26685 unless you really want your Tor to break.
26686 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
26687 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
26688 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
26689 - When StrictNodes is 1:
26690 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
26691 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
26692 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
26693 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
26694 reachability self-tests.
26695 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
26696 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
26697 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
26698 - Remove a misfeature that caused us to ignore the Fast/Stable flags
26699 when ExitNodes is set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
26700 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
26701 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
26703 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
26704 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
26705 - Revert a change where we would be laxer about attaching streams to
26706 circuits than when building the circuits. This was meant to prevent
26707 a set of bugs where streams were never attachable, but our improved
26708 code here should make this unnecessary. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
26709 - Keep track of how many times we launch a new circuit to handle a
26710 given stream. Too many launches could indicate an inconsistency
26711 between our "launch a circuit to handle this stream" logic and our
26712 "attach this stream to one of the available circuits" logic.
26713 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
26716 - Fix a spurious warning when moving from a short month to a long
26717 month on relays with month-based BandwidthAccounting. Bugfix on
26718 0.2.2.17-alpha; fixes bug 3020.
26719 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
26720 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
26721 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
26722 - Add a forgotten cast that caused a compile warning on OS X 10.6.
26723 Bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
26724 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
26725 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
26726 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
26727 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
26728 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
26729 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
26730 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
26731 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
26732 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
26734 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
26735 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
26736 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
26737 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
26738 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
26739 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
26740 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
26741 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP control-port command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
26742 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
26743 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
26744 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
26745 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
26746 - Write the current time into the LastWritten line in our state file,
26747 rather than the time from the previous write attempt. Also, stop
26748 trying to use a time of -1 in our log statements. Fixes bug 3039;
26749 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
26750 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
26751 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
26752 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
26753 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
26756 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
26757 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
26758 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
26759 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
26760 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
26761 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
26762 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
26763 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
26764 Required by fix for bug 3000.
26765 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
26766 by fix for bug 3000.
26767 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
26768 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
26770 o Code simplification and refactoring:
26771 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
26772 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
26773 send a body too). Since only server versions before
26774 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
26775 keep the workaround in place.
26776 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
26777 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
26778 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
26779 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
26780 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
26781 want to do it differently.
26782 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
26783 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
26784 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
26785 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
26786 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch by
26790 Changes in version 0.2.2.24-alpha - 2011-04-08
26791 Tor 0.2.2.24-alpha fixes a variety of bugs, including a big bug that
26792 prevented Tor clients from effectively using "multihomed" bridges,
26793 that is, bridges that listen on multiple ports or IP addresses so users
26794 can continue to use some of their addresses even if others get blocked.
26797 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
26798 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
26799 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it should be
26800 able to advertise those addresses independently and any non-blocked
26801 addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.x. Fixes
26803 - If you configured Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
26804 configured Tor to use bridge B instead, it would happily continue
26805 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
26806 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
26807 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
26808 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
26809 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
26810 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
26811 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
26812 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
26813 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
26814 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
26817 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
26818 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
26819 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
26820 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
26821 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
26822 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
26823 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
26825 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
26826 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
26827 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
26828 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
26829 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
26830 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on
26831 versions 0.2.1.23/0.2.2.8-alpha (the versions introducing
26832 the --with-static-libevent configure option).
26833 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
26834 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
26835 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
26836 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
26837 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
26838 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
26839 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
26840 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
26841 - Avoid a double-mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
26842 transparent proxy connection. (We thought we had fixed this in
26843 0.2.2.23-alpha, but it turns out our fix was checking the wrong
26844 connection.) Fixes bug 2757; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha (the original
26845 bug) and 0.2.2.23-alpha (the incorrect fix).
26846 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
26847 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26850 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
26851 networkstatus vote.
26852 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
26853 --enable-gcc-warnings by removing two warning options that clang
26854 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Implements
26856 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
26857 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
26858 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
26859 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
26861 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
26862 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
26863 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
26864 - Update to the April 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26867 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
26868 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
26870 o Documentation changes:
26871 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
26872 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
26874 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
26877 Changes in version 0.2.2.23-alpha - 2011-03-08
26878 Tor 0.2.2.23-alpha lets relays record their bandwidth history so when
26879 they restart they don't lose their bandwidth capacity estimate. This
26880 release also fixes a diverse set of user-facing bugs, ranging from
26881 relays overrunning their rate limiting to clients falsely warning about
26882 clock skew to bridge descriptor leaks by our bridge directory authority.
26885 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
26886 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
26887 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
26888 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
26889 the rest of bug 1074.
26890 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
26891 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
26892 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
26893 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
26894 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
26895 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
26896 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
26897 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
26898 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
26899 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
26900 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
26901 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
26902 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
26903 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26906 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
26907 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved)
26908 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
26909 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
26910 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
26911 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
26912 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
26913 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
26914 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
26915 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
26916 change could take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
26917 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
26918 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
26919 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
26921 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
26922 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
26923 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
26924 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
26925 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
26926 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
26928 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
26929 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
26930 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
26931 - Country codes aren't supported in EntryNodes until 0.2.3.x, so
26932 don't mention them in the manpage. Fixes bug 2450; issue
26933 spotted by keb and G-Lo.
26934 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
26935 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
26936 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
26937 Tor 0.1.1.11-alpha.
26938 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
26939 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
26940 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
26941 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
26942 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
26943 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
26944 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
26945 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
26946 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
26947 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
26948 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
26949 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
26950 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
26951 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
26952 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
26953 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
26955 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
26956 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
26957 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
26958 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
26959 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
26960 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
26962 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
26963 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
26964 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
26966 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
26967 - Clients should not weight BadExit nodes as Exits in their node
26968 selection. Similarly, directory authorities should not count BadExit
26969 bandwidth as Exit bandwidth when computing bandwidth-weights.
26970 Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 2203.
26971 - Correctly clear our dir_read/dir_write history when there is an
26972 error parsing any bw history value from the state file. Bugfix on
26973 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha.
26974 - Resolve a bug in verifying signatures of directory objects
26975 with digests longer than SHA1. Bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
26976 Fixes bug 2409. Found by "piebeer".
26977 - Bridge authorities no longer crash on SIGHUP when they try to
26978 publish their relay descriptor to themselves. Fixes bug 2572. Bugfix
26982 - Log less aggressively about circuit timeout changes, and improve
26983 some other circuit timeout messages. Resolves bug 2004.
26984 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
26985 accepting new connections. Resolves bug 2181.
26986 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
26987 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
26988 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
26989 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
26990 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
26991 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
26992 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
26993 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
26995 - Update to the March 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26997 o Minor features (log subsystem):
26998 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
26999 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
27000 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
27002 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
27003 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
27005 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
27006 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
27007 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
27010 o Packaging changes:
27011 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
27012 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
27013 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
27016 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
27017 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
27018 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
27019 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
27020 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
27021 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
27024 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
27025 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
27026 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
27027 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
27028 the rest of bug 1074.
27029 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
27030 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
27031 Found by "piebeer".
27032 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
27033 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
27034 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
27035 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
27036 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
27037 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
27038 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
27041 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
27043 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27046 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
27047 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
27048 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
27049 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
27050 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
27051 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
27052 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
27053 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
27054 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
27055 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
27056 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
27058 o Packaging changes:
27059 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
27060 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
27061 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
27062 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
27063 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
27064 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
27067 Changes in version 0.2.2.22-alpha - 2011-01-25
27068 Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha fixes a few more less-critical security issues. The
27069 main other change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes
27070 relays and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
27071 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
27072 will buy us a bit more time until we roll out a better solution.
27075 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
27076 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
27077 Found by "piebeer".
27078 - Don't assert when changing from bridge to relay or vice versa
27079 via the controller. The assert happened because we didn't properly
27080 initialize our keys in this case. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha; fixes
27081 bug 2433. Reported by bastik.
27084 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
27086 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
27087 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
27088 Implements ticket 2432.
27091 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
27092 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
27093 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28 / 0.2.2.20-alpha. Found by "doorss".
27096 Changes in version 0.2.2.21-alpha - 2011-01-15
27097 Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha includes all the patches from Tor 0.2.1.29, which
27098 continues our recent code security audit work. The main fix resolves
27099 a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote code
27100 execution (CVE-2011-0427). Other fixes address a variety of assert
27101 and crash bugs, most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
27103 o Major bugfixes (security), also included in 0.2.1.29:
27104 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
27105 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
27106 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
27108 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
27109 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
27110 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
27111 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
27112 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
27113 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
27114 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
27115 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
27117 o Major bugfixes (crashes), also included in 0.2.1.29:
27118 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
27119 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
27120 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
27121 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
27122 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
27123 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
27124 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
27125 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
27126 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
27127 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
27128 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
27129 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
27130 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
27133 o Minor bugfixes (other), also included in 0.2.1.29:
27134 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
27135 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
27136 bug reported by doorss.
27137 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
27138 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
27139 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
27140 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
27141 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
27143 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
27144 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
27145 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
27146 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
27147 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
27149 o Minor features, also included in 0.2.1.29:
27150 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27151 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
27153 o Build changes, also included in 0.2.1.29:
27154 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
27155 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
27156 Automake 1.7 or later.
27157 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
27158 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
27159 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
27160 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
27162 o Major bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
27163 - Prevent crash/heap corruption when the cbtnummodes consensus
27164 parameter is set to 0 or large values. Fixes bug 2317; bugfix
27167 o Major features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
27168 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
27169 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
27170 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
27172 o Minor features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
27173 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
27174 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
27175 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
27176 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
27177 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
27178 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
27179 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
27180 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
27182 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
27183 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
27184 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
27187 o Minor bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
27188 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
27189 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
27190 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
27191 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
27192 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
27193 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
27194 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
27195 - Correctly detect failures to create DNS requests when using Libevent
27196 versions before v2. (Before Libevent 2, we used our own evdns
27197 implementation. Its return values for Libevent's evdns_resolve_*()
27198 functions are not consistent with those from Libevent.) Fixes bug
27199 2363; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Found by "lodger".
27201 o Documentation, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
27202 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
27206 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
27207 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
27208 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
27209 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
27210 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
27212 o Major bugfixes (security):
27213 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
27214 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
27215 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
27217 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
27218 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
27219 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
27220 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
27221 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
27222 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
27223 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
27224 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
27226 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
27227 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
27228 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
27229 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
27230 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
27231 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
27232 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
27233 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
27234 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
27235 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
27236 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
27237 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
27238 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
27239 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
27242 o Minor bugfixes (other):
27243 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
27244 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
27245 bug reported by doorss.
27246 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
27247 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
27248 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
27249 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
27250 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
27252 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
27253 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
27254 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
27255 - Correctly handle wrapping around to when we run out of virtual
27256 address space. Found by cypherpunks, bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
27257 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
27258 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
27259 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
27260 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
27263 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27264 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
27267 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
27268 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
27269 Automake 1.7 or later.
27272 Changes in version 0.2.2.20-alpha - 2010-12-17
27273 Tor 0.2.2.20-alpha does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
27274 exploitable bugs. We also fix a variety of other significant bugs,
27275 change the IP address for one of our directory authorities, and update
27276 the minimum version that Tor relays must run to join the network.
27279 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
27280 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
27281 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
27282 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
27283 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
27284 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
27285 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
27286 - Fix a logic error in directory_fetches_from_authorities() that
27287 would cause all _non_-exits refusing single-hop-like circuits
27288 to fetch from authorities, when we wanted to have _exits_ fetch
27289 from authorities. Fixes more of 2097. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha;
27291 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
27292 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
27293 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
27294 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
27296 o Directory authority changes:
27297 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
27300 - Avoid crashes when AccountingMax is set on clients. Fixes bug 2235.
27301 Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha. Diagnosed by boboper.
27302 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
27303 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
27304 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
27305 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
27306 - Do not dereference NULL if a bridge fails to build its
27307 extra-info descriptor. Found by an anonymous commenter on
27308 Trac. Bugfix on 0.2.2.19-alpha.
27311 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27312 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
27313 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
27314 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
27315 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
27316 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
27317 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
27318 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
27319 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
27320 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
27324 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
27325 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
27326 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
27327 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
27331 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
27332 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
27333 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
27334 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
27336 o Directory authority changes:
27337 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
27340 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27343 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
27344 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
27345 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
27346 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
27347 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
27350 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
27351 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
27352 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
27353 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
27354 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
27355 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
27356 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
27357 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
27358 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
27359 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
27360 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
27361 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
27362 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
27363 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
27364 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
27365 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
27366 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
27367 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
27368 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
27369 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
27370 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
27371 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
27372 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
27375 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
27376 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
27377 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
27378 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
27380 o New directory authorities:
27381 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
27385 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
27386 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
27387 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
27389 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
27390 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
27391 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
27392 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
27393 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
27394 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
27396 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
27397 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
27398 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
27401 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
27402 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
27403 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
27404 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
27405 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
27406 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
27407 Patch from mingw-san.
27410 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
27411 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
27412 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
27413 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
27414 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
27415 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
27418 Changes in version 0.2.2.19-alpha - 2010-11-22
27419 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
27420 Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha makes relays work with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b.
27423 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
27424 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
27425 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
27426 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
27427 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
27430 - Try harder not to exceed the maximum length of 50 KB when writing
27431 statistics to extra-info descriptors. This bug was triggered by very
27432 fast relays reporting exit-port, entry, and dirreq statistics.
27433 Reported by Olaf Selke. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes bug 2183.
27434 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
27435 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
27436 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
27437 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
27438 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
27441 Changes in version 0.2.2.18-alpha - 2010-11-16
27442 Tor 0.2.2.18-alpha fixes several crash bugs that have been nagging
27443 us lately, makes unpublished bridge relays able to detect their IP
27444 address, and fixes a wide variety of other bugs to get us much closer
27445 to a stable release.
27448 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
27449 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
27450 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
27451 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
27452 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
27453 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
27454 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
27455 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
27456 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
27457 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
27458 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
27459 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
27460 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
27461 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
27462 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
27463 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
27464 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
27465 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
27466 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
27467 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
27468 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
27469 - Avoid an assertion failure when we as an authority receive a
27470 duplicate upload of a router descriptor that we already have,
27471 but which we previously considered an obsolete descriptor.
27472 Fixes another case of bug 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
27473 - Avoid a crash bug triggered by looking at a dangling pointer while
27474 setting the network status consensus. Found by Robert Ransom.
27475 Bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Fixes bug 2097.
27476 - Fix a logic error where servers that _didn't_ act as exits would
27477 try to keep their server lists more aggressively up to date than
27478 exits, when it was supposed to be the other way around. Bugfix
27481 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.1.x and earlier):
27482 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
27483 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
27484 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
27485 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
27486 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
27487 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
27488 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
27489 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
27490 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
27491 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
27492 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
27493 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
27494 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
27495 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
27496 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
27497 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
27499 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
27500 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
27501 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produced during
27502 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
27503 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
27505 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x):
27506 - Enable protection of small arrays whenever we build with gcc
27507 hardening features, not only when also building with warnings
27508 enabled. Fixes bug 2031; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. Reported by keb.
27511 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
27512 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
27513 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
27514 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
27515 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
27516 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
27517 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
27518 - Update to the November 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27520 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
27521 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
27522 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
27523 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
27524 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
27525 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
27526 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
27527 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
27528 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
27529 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
27530 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
27531 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
27532 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
27533 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
27534 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
27537 Changes in version 0.2.2.17-alpha - 2010-09-30
27538 Tor 0.2.2.17-alpha introduces a feature to make it harder for clients
27539 to use one-hop circuits (which can put the exit relays at higher risk,
27540 plus unbalance the network); fixes a big bug in bandwidth accounting
27541 for relays that want to limit their monthly bandwidth use; fixes a
27542 big pile of bugs in how clients tolerate temporary network failure;
27543 and makes our adaptive circuit build timeout feature (which improves
27544 client performance if your network is fast while not breaking things
27545 if your network is slow) better handle bad networks.
27548 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
27549 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
27550 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
27551 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
27552 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751.
27554 o Major bugfixes (0.2.1.x and earlier):
27555 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
27556 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
27557 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
27558 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
27559 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
27560 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
27561 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
27562 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
27563 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
27564 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
27565 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
27566 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
27567 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
27569 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
27570 - Fix compilation on Windows. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha; related to
27572 - Fix a segfault that could happen when operating a bridge relay with
27573 no GeoIP database set. Fixes bug 1964; bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
27574 - The consensus bandwidth-weights (used by clients to choose fast
27575 relays) entered an unexpected edge case in September where
27576 Exits were much scarcer than Guards, resulting in bad weight
27577 recommendations. Now we compute them using new constraints that
27578 should succeed in all cases. Also alter directory authorities to
27579 not include the bandwidth-weights line if they fail to produce
27580 valid values. Fixes bug 1952; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
27581 - When weighting bridges during path selection, we used to trust
27582 the bandwidths they provided in their descriptor, only capping them
27583 at 10MB/s. This turned out to be problematic for two reasons:
27584 Bridges could claim to handle a lot more traffic then they
27585 actually would, thus making more clients pick them and have a
27586 pretty effective DoS attack. The other issue is that new bridges
27587 that might not have a good estimate for their bw capacity yet
27588 would not get used at all unless no other bridges are available
27589 to a client. Fixes bug 1912; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
27591 o Major bugfixes (on the circuit build timeout feature, 0.2.2.x):
27592 - Ignore cannibalized circuits when recording circuit build times.
27593 This should provide for a minor performance improvement for hidden
27594 service users using 0.2.2.14-alpha, and should remove two spurious
27595 notice log messages. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1740.
27596 - Simplify the logic that causes us to decide if the network is
27597 unavailable for purposes of recording circuit build times. If we
27598 receive no cells whatsoever for the entire duration of a circuit's
27599 full measured lifetime, the network is probably down. Also ignore
27600 one-hop directory fetching circuit timeouts when calculating our
27601 circuit build times. These changes should hopefully reduce the
27602 cases where we see ridiculous circuit build timeouts for people
27603 with spotty wireless connections. Fixes part of bug 1772; bugfix
27605 - Prevent the circuit build timeout from becoming larger than
27606 the maximum build time we have ever seen. Also, prevent the time
27607 period for measurement circuits from becoming larger than twice that
27608 value. Fixes the other part of bug 1772; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
27611 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
27612 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
27613 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
27614 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
27615 - Be more generous with how much bandwidth we'd use up (with
27616 accounting enabled) before entering "soft hibernation". Previously,
27617 we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd used up 95% of
27618 our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment, AND make sure
27619 that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of expected traffic,
27620 whichever is lower) remaining before we enter soft hibernation.
27621 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
27622 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
27623 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
27624 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
27625 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
27626 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
27627 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
27628 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
27629 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
27632 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
27633 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
27634 based on the time during which we were active and not in
27635 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
27636 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
27637 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
27638 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
27639 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
27641 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
27642 - Resume generating CIRC FAILED REASON=TIMEOUT control port messages,
27643 which were disabled by the circuit build timeout changes in
27644 0.2.2.14-alpha. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1739.
27645 - Make sure we don't warn about missing bandwidth weights when
27646 choosing bridges or other relays not in the consensus. Bugfix on
27647 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1805.
27648 - In our logs, do not double-report signatures from unrecognized
27649 authorities both as "from unknown authority" and "not
27650 present". Fixes bug 1956, bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
27653 Changes in version 0.2.2.16-alpha - 2010-09-17
27654 Tor 0.2.2.16-alpha fixes a variety of old stream fairness bugs (most
27655 evident at exit relays), and also continues to resolve all the little
27656 bugs that have been filling up trac lately.
27658 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
27659 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
27660 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
27661 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
27662 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
27663 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
27664 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
27665 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
27666 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
27667 the longest-lived bug prize.
27668 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
27669 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
27670 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
27671 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
27672 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
27673 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
27675 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
27676 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
27677 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
27678 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
27679 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
27680 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
27684 - Update to the September 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27685 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
27686 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
27687 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
27688 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
27689 got suppressed since the last warning.
27690 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
27691 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
27692 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
27693 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
27694 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
27695 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
27696 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
27697 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
27698 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
27699 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
27700 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
27701 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
27702 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
27703 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
27704 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
27705 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
27706 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
27707 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
27708 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
27710 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
27711 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
27712 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
27714 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
27715 - Authorities will now attempt to download consensuses if their
27716 own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This change
27717 means authorities that restart will fetch a valid consensus, and
27718 it means authorities that didn't agree with the current consensus
27719 will still fetch and serve it if it has enough signatures. Bugfix
27720 on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
27721 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
27722 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
27723 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
27724 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
27725 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
27726 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
27727 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
27728 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
27730 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
27731 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
27732 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
27733 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
27734 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
27735 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
27736 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
27738 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
27739 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
27740 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
27741 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
27742 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
27745 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
27746 - Fix a regression introduced in 0.2.2.7-alpha that marked relays
27747 down if a directory fetch fails and you've configured either
27748 bridges or EntryNodes. The intent was to mark the relay as down
27749 _unless_ you're using bridges or EntryNodes, since if you are
27750 then you could quickly run out of entry points.
27751 - Fix the Windows directory-listing code. A bug introduced in
27752 0.2.2.14-alpha could make Windows directory servers forget to load
27753 some of their cached v2 networkstatus files.
27754 - Really allow clients to use relays as bridges. Fixes bug 1776;
27755 bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
27756 - Demote a warn to info that happens when the CellStatistics option
27757 was just enabled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha; fixes bug 1921.
27758 Reported by Moritz Bartl.
27759 - On Windows, build correctly either with or without Unicode support.
27760 This is necessary so that Tor can support fringe platforms like
27761 Windows 98 (which has no Unicode), or Windows CE (which has no
27762 non-Unicode). Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1797.
27765 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
27768 Changes in version 0.2.2.15-alpha - 2010-08-18
27769 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha fixes a big bug in hidden service availability,
27770 fixes a variety of other bugs that were preventing performance
27771 experiments from moving forward, fixes several bothersome memory leaks,
27772 and generally closes a lot of smaller bugs that have been filling up
27776 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
27777 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
27778 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
27779 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
27780 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
27781 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
27782 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
27783 - The PerConnBWRate and Burst config options, along with the
27784 bwconnrate and bwconnburst consensus params, initialized each conn's
27785 token bucket values only when the connection is established. Now we
27786 update them if the config options change, and update them every time
27787 we get a new consensus. Otherwise we can encounter an ugly edge
27788 case where we initialize an OR conn to client-level bandwidth,
27789 but then later the relay joins the consensus and we leave it
27790 throttled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 1830.
27791 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
27792 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
27795 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
27796 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
27797 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
27798 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
27799 they first get the Guard flag.
27800 - Allow enabling or disabling the *Statistics config options while
27804 - Update to the August 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27805 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
27806 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
27807 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
27808 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
27809 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
27810 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
27811 Patch from mingw-san.
27812 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
27813 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
27815 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
27816 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
27817 Implements enhancement 1790.
27819 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
27820 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
27821 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
27822 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
27823 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
27824 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
27825 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
27826 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
27827 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
27828 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
27829 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
27830 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
27831 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
27832 - Users can't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It didn't
27833 work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
27834 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
27835 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
27836 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
27837 0.1.1.9-alpha. Bug 1776 not yet fixed because now we immediately
27838 refetch the descriptor with router purpose 'general', disabling
27840 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
27841 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
27842 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
27843 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
27844 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
27845 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
27846 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
27847 it. Also update the spec to reflect this new reason. Bugfix on
27848 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
27849 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
27850 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
27851 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
27852 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug
27854 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
27855 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
27856 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
27857 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in caches or bridge users
27858 when using a very short voting interval on a testing network.
27859 Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
27861 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
27862 - Alter directory authorities to always consider Exit-flagged nodes
27863 as potential Guard nodes in their votes. The actual decision to
27864 use Exits as Guards is done in the consensus bandwidth weights.
27865 Fixes bug 1294; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
27866 - When the controller is reporting the purpose of circuits that
27867 didn't finish building before the circuit build timeout, it was
27868 printing UNKNOWN_13. Now print EXPIRED. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
27869 - Our libevent version parsing code couldn't handle versions like
27870 1.4.14b-stable and incorrectly warned the user about using an
27871 old and broken version of libevent. Treat 1.4.14b-stable like
27872 1.4.14-stable when parsing the version. Fixes bug 1731; bugfix
27874 - Don't use substitution references like $(VAR:MOD) when
27875 $(asciidoc_files) is empty -- make(1) on NetBSD transforms
27876 '$(:x)' to 'x' rather than the empty string. This bites us in
27877 doc/ when configured with --disable-asciidoc. Bugfix on
27878 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1773.
27879 - Remove a spurious hidden service server-side log notice about
27880 "Ancient non-dirty circuits". Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes
27882 - Fix compilation with --with-dmalloc set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha;
27884 - Correctly report written bytes on linked connections. Found while
27885 implementing 1790. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
27886 - Fix three memory leaks: one in circuit_build_times_parse_state(),
27887 one in dirvote_add_signatures_to_pending_consensus(), and one every
27888 time we parse a v3 network consensus. Bugfixes on 0.2.2.14-alpha,
27889 0.2.2.6-alpha, and 0.2.2.10-alpha respectively; fixes bug 1831.
27891 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
27892 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
27893 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
27894 structures and defines in or.h for now.
27895 - Remove a bunch of unused function declarations as well as a block of
27896 #if 0'd code from the unit tests. Closes bug 1824.
27897 - New unit tests for exit-port history statistics; refactored exit
27898 statistics code to be more easily tested.
27899 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
27900 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
27901 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
27904 Changes in version 0.2.2.14-alpha - 2010-07-12
27905 Tor 0.2.2.14-alpha greatly improves client-side handling of
27906 circuit build timeouts, which are used to estimate speed and improve
27907 performance. We also move to a much better GeoIP database, port Tor to
27908 Windows CE, introduce new compile flags that improve code security,
27909 add an eighth v3 directory authority, and address a lot of more
27913 - Tor directory authorities no longer crash when started with a
27914 cached-microdesc-consensus file in their data directory. Bugfix
27915 on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 1532.
27916 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
27917 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
27918 - Ignore negative and large circuit build timeout values that can
27919 happen during a suspend or hibernate. These values caused various
27920 asserts to fire. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1245.
27921 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Xm' for
27922 Circuit Build Timeout learning to use the weighted average of the
27923 top N=3 modes (because we have three entry guards). Considering
27924 multiple modes should improve the timeout calculation in some cases,
27925 and prevent extremely high timeout values. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha;
27927 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Alpha' to use a
27928 right censored distribution model. This approach improves over the
27929 synthetic timeout generation approach that was producing insanely
27930 high timeout values. Now we calculate build timeouts using truncated
27931 times. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bugs 1245 and 1335.
27932 - Do not close circuits that are under construction when they reach
27933 the circuit build timeout. Instead, leave them building (but do not
27934 use them) for up until the time corresponding to the 95th percentile
27935 on the Pareto CDF or 60 seconds, whichever is greater. This is done
27936 to provide better data for the new Pareto model. This percentile
27937 can be controlled by the consensus.
27940 - Move to the June 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather than the
27941 June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that count
27942 how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we have
27943 more accurate data for many African countries.
27944 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
27945 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
27946 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
27947 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
27948 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
27949 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
27950 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
27951 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
27952 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
27953 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
27954 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
27955 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
27957 o New directory authorities:
27958 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
27962 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
27963 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
27964 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
27965 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
27966 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
27967 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
27968 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
27969 what should go in a patch.
27970 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
27971 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
27972 over our stored history.
27973 - Add ability to disable circuit build time learning via consensus
27974 parameter and via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. Also
27975 automatically disable circuit build time calculation if we are
27976 either a AuthoritativeDirectory, or if we fail to write our state
27977 file. Fixes bug 1296.
27978 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
27979 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
27980 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
27984 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
27986 - When a2x fails, mention that the user could disable manpages instead
27987 of trying to fix their asciidoc installation.
27988 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
27989 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
27990 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
27991 - If you run a bridge that listens on multiple IP addresses, and
27992 some user configures a bridge address that uses a different IP
27993 address than your bridge writes in its router descriptor, and the
27994 user doesn't specify an identity key, their Tor would discard the
27995 descriptor because "it isn't one of our configured bridges", and
27996 fail to bootstrap. Now believe the descriptor and bootstrap anyway.
27997 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
27998 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
27999 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
28000 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
28001 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
28002 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
28003 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
28004 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
28005 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
28006 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
28007 two-hop circuits are actually created.
28008 - Make directory mirrors report non-zero dirreq-v[23]-shares again.
28009 Fixes bug 1564; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
28010 - Eliminate a case where a circuit build time warning was displayed
28011 after network connectivity resumed. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
28014 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
28015 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
28016 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
28017 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
28018 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
28020 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
28021 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
28024 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
28025 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
28026 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
28027 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
28028 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
28029 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
28030 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
28031 their directory fetches over TLS).
28032 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
28033 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
28034 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
28035 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
28036 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
28037 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
28038 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
28039 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
28042 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
28043 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
28047 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
28048 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
28049 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
28050 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
28051 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
28052 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
28053 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28056 Changes in version 0.2.2.13-alpha - 2010-04-24
28057 Tor 0.2.2.13-alpha addresses the recent connection and memory overload
28058 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
28059 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
28060 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
28063 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
28064 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
28065 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
28066 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
28067 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
28068 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
28069 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
28070 their directory fetches over TLS).
28073 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
28074 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
28076 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
28077 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
28078 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
28079 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
28080 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
28081 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
28082 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
28083 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
28084 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
28085 hour of their uptime.
28088 Changes in version 0.2.2.12-alpha - 2010-04-20
28089 Tor 0.2.2.12-alpha fixes a critical bug in how directory authorities
28090 handle and vote on descriptors. It was causing relays to drop out of
28094 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
28095 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
28096 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
28097 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
28098 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
28099 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
28101 - Fix two typos in tor_vasprintf() that broke the compile on Windows,
28102 and a warning in or.h related to bandwidth_weight_rule_t that
28103 prevented clean compile on OS X. Fixes bug 1363; bugfix on
28105 - Fix a segfault on relays when DirReqStatistics is enabled
28106 and 24 hours pass. Bug found by keb. Fixes bug 1365; bugfix on
28110 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
28111 someone tries to talk to their OrPort. It is neither the operator's
28112 fault nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
28116 Changes in version 0.2.2.11-alpha - 2010-04-15
28117 Tor 0.2.2.11-alpha fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL
28118 libraries that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
28121 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
28122 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
28123 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
28124 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
28125 - Fix a parsing error that made every possible value of
28126 CircPriorityHalflifeMsec get treated as "1 msec". Bugfix
28127 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Rename CircPriorityHalflifeMsec to
28128 CircuitPriorityHalflifeMsec, so authorities can tell newer relays
28129 about the option without breaking older ones.
28130 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
28131 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
28132 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
28133 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
28136 - Experiment with a more aggressive approach to preventing clients
28137 from making one-hop exit streams. Exit relays who want to try it
28138 out can set "RefuseUnknownExits 1" in their torrc, and then look
28139 for "Attempt by %s to open a stream" log messages. Let us know
28141 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
28142 --enable-static-zlib, to go with our support for statically linking
28143 openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
28146 - Fix a segfault that happens whenever a Tor client that is using
28147 libevent2's bufferevents gets a hup signal. Bugfix on 0.2.2.5-alpha;
28149 - When we cleaned up the contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file, we left
28150 out the first line. Fixes bug 1295.
28151 - When building the manpage from a tarball, we required asciidoc, but
28152 the asciidoc -> roff/html conversion was already done for the
28153 tarball. Make 'make' complain only when we need asciidoc (either
28154 because we're compiling directly from git, or because we altered
28155 the asciidoc manpage in the tarball). Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
28156 - When none of the directory authorities vote on any params, Tor
28157 segfaulted when trying to make the consensus from the votes. We
28158 didn't trigger the bug in practice, because authorities do include
28159 params in their votes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1322.
28162 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
28163 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
28164 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
28165 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
28166 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
28167 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
28168 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28171 Changes in version 0.2.2.10-alpha - 2010-03-07
28172 Tor 0.2.2.10-alpha fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.2.9-alpha that
28173 could prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also
28174 starts the groundwork for another client-side performance boost, since
28175 currently we're not making efficient use of relays that have both the
28176 Guard flag and the Exit flag.
28179 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
28180 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
28181 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
28182 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1269.
28184 o Major features (performance):
28185 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
28186 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
28187 and no flag. Clients that use these weightings will distribute
28188 network load more evenly across these different relay types. The
28189 weightings are in the consensus so we can change them globally in
28190 the future. Extra thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty
28191 security bugs in the first implementation of this feature.
28193 o Minor features (performance):
28194 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
28195 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
28196 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
28197 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
28198 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
28202 - Allow disabling building of the manpages. Skipping the manpage
28203 speeds up the build considerably.
28205 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
28206 - Fix a memleak in the EXTENDCIRCUIT logic. Spotted by coverity.
28207 Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
28208 - Disallow values larger than INT32_MAX for PerConnBWRate|Burst
28209 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
28210 - Ship the asciidoc-helper file in the tarball, so that people can
28211 build from source if they want to, and touching the .1.txt files
28212 doesn't break the build. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
28214 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x or earlier):
28215 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
28216 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
28218 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
28219 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
28220 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
28221 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
28223 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
28224 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
28225 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
28226 - Don't use sed in asciidoc-helper anymore.
28227 - Make the build process fail if asciidoc cannot be found and
28228 building with asciidoc isn't disabled.
28231 Changes in version 0.2.2.9-alpha - 2010-02-22
28232 Tor 0.2.2.9-alpha makes Tor work again on the latest OS X, updates the
28233 location of a directory authority, and cleans up a bunch of small bugs.
28235 o Directory authority changes:
28236 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
28237 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
28238 service directory authority) from the list.
28241 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
28242 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
28243 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
28244 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
28245 libraries in a security patch.
28246 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
28247 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
28248 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
28249 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
28251 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
28252 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
28253 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
28254 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
28255 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
28256 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
28257 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
28260 - Fix static compilation by listing the openssl libraries in the right
28261 order. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha; fixes bug 1237.
28262 - Resume handling .exit hostnames in a special way: originally we
28263 stripped the .exit part and used the requested exit relay. In
28264 0.2.2.1-alpha we stopped treating them in any special way, meaning
28265 if you use a .exit address then Tor will pass it on to the exit
28266 relay. Now we reject the .exit stream outright, since that behavior
28267 might be more expected by the user. Found and diagnosed by Scott
28268 Bennett and Downie on or-talk.
28269 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
28270 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
28271 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
28272 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
28274 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
28275 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
28276 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
28277 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
28278 control-spec.txt said they were.
28279 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
28280 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
28281 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
28282 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
28283 parakeep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
28285 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
28286 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
28287 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
28288 produce nicer HTML.
28289 - Remove the --enable-iphone option. According to reports from Marco
28290 Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special tweaking on recent
28291 iPhone SDK versions.
28292 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
28293 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
28294 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
28295 projects directory in svn.
28296 - Enabled various circuit build timeout constants to be controlled
28297 by consensus parameters. Also set better defaults for these
28298 parameters based on experimentation on broadband and simulated
28299 high latency links.
28302 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
28303 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
28304 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
28306 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
28307 to the circuit build timeout.
28308 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
28309 arguments we do not recognize.
28310 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
28311 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
28312 open() without checking it.
28315 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
28316 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
28317 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
28318 several minor potential security bugs.
28321 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
28322 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
28323 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
28324 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
28325 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
28326 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
28327 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
28330 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
28331 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
28333 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
28334 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
28335 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
28336 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
28340 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
28341 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
28345 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
28346 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
28347 customized patches to run/build.
28350 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
28351 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
28352 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
28355 o Major bugfixes (performance):
28356 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
28357 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
28358 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
28359 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
28360 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
28361 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
28362 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
28365 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
28366 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
28367 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
28368 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
28369 libraries in a security patch.
28370 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
28371 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
28372 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
28373 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
28376 o Directory authority changes:
28377 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
28378 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
28379 service directory authority) from the list.
28382 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
28383 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
28386 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
28387 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
28388 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
28389 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
28390 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
28393 Changes in version 0.2.2.8-alpha - 2010-01-26
28394 Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.2.7-alpha that has been
28395 causing bridge relays to disappear. If you're running a bridge,
28399 - Fix a memory corruption bug on bridges that occurred during the
28400 inclusion of stats data in extra-info descriptors. Also fix the
28401 interface for geoip_get_bridge_stats* to prevent similar bugs in
28402 the future. Diagnosis by Tas, patch by Karsten and Sebastian.
28403 Fixes bug 1208; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
28406 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
28407 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
28408 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
28412 Changes in version 0.2.2.7-alpha - 2010-01-19
28413 Tor 0.2.2.7-alpha fixes a huge client-side performance bug, as well
28414 as laying the groundwork for further relay-side performance fixes. It
28415 also starts cleaning up client behavior with respect to the EntryNodes,
28416 ExitNodes, and StrictNodes config options.
28418 This release also rotates two directory authority keys, due to a
28419 security breach of some of the Torproject servers.
28421 o Directory authority changes:
28422 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
28425 o Major features (performance):
28426 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
28427 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
28428 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
28429 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
28430 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
28431 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
28432 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
28433 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays can now favor
28434 circuits that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency
28435 for low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
28436 feature based on a setting in the consensus. You can override
28437 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
28438 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
28440 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
28441 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
28442 but never per-conn write limits.
28443 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
28444 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
28445 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
28446 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
28448 o Major features (relay selection options):
28449 - Switch to a StrictNodes config option, rather than the previous
28450 "StrictEntryNodes" / "StrictExitNodes" separation that was missing a
28451 "StrictExcludeNodes" option.
28452 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
28453 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
28454 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
28455 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
28457 - If EntryNodes or ExitNodes are set, be more willing to use an
28458 unsuitable (e.g. slow or unstable) circuit. The user asked for it,
28460 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
28461 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
28462 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
28463 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
28464 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
28465 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
28466 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
28467 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
28468 the network changes.
28471 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
28472 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
28473 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
28476 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
28477 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
28478 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
28479 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
28480 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
28481 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
28482 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
28483 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
28484 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
28485 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
28486 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
28487 generated while acting as a relay.
28488 - Ship the bridges spec file in the tarball too.
28489 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
28490 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
28491 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
28492 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
28493 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
28495 o Minor bugfixes (compiling):
28496 - Fix compilation on OS X 10.3, which has a stub mlockall() but
28497 hides it. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
28498 - Fix compilation on Solaris by removing support for the
28499 DisableAllSwap config option. Solaris doesn't have an rlimit for
28500 mlockall, so we cannot use it safely. Fixes bug 1198; bugfix on
28503 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
28504 - Do not segfault when writing buffer stats when we haven't observed
28505 a single circuit to report about. Found by Fabian Lanze. Bugfix on
28507 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
28508 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
28509 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
28511 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
28512 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
28514 o Minor bugfixes (privacy):
28515 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
28516 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
28518 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
28519 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
28522 o Minor bugfixes (other):
28523 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
28524 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
28525 - Fix statistics on client numbers by country as seen by bridges that
28526 were broken in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Also switch to reporting full 24-hour
28527 intervals instead of variable 12-to-48-hour intervals.
28528 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
28529 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
28530 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
28532 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
28535 o Removed features:
28536 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
28537 service authorities could have used to track statistics of overall
28538 hidden service usage.
28541 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
28542 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
28543 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
28544 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
28545 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
28547 o Directory authority changes:
28548 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
28552 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
28553 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
28554 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
28557 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
28558 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
28559 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
28560 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
28561 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
28564 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
28565 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
28566 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
28567 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
28568 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
28569 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
28570 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
28573 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
28574 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
28575 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
28576 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
28577 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
28578 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
28580 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
28581 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
28584 Changes in version 0.2.2.6-alpha - 2009-11-19
28585 Tor 0.2.2.6-alpha lays the groundwork for many upcoming features:
28586 support for the new lower-footprint "microdescriptor" directory design,
28587 future-proofing our consensus format against new hash functions or
28588 other changes, and an Android port. It also makes Tor compatible with
28589 the upcoming OpenSSL 0.9.8l release, and fixes a variety of bugs.
28592 - Directory authorities can now create, vote on, and serve multiple
28593 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
28594 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
28596 - Directory authorities can now agree on and publish small summaries
28597 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
28598 server descriptors. This transition will eventually allow clients
28599 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
28600 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
28601 download consensus + microdescriptors".
28602 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
28603 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
28604 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
28605 hash algorithm in the future.
28606 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
28607 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
28608 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
28609 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
28610 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
28611 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
28612 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
28613 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
28614 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
28617 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
28618 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
28619 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, but OpenSSL 0.9.8l
28620 won't work unless we say we are.
28623 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
28624 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
28625 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
28626 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
28627 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
28628 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
28629 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
28630 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
28631 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
28632 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
28633 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
28634 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
28635 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
28636 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
28637 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
28638 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
28639 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
28640 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
28641 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
28642 on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1113.
28643 - Fix a memory leak on directory authorities during voting that was
28644 introduced in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Found via valgrind.
28647 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
28648 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
28649 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
28650 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
28652 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
28653 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
28655 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
28656 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
28657 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
28658 in the Vidalia Settings window.
28661 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
28662 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
28663 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
28664 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
28665 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
28667 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
28668 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
28670 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
28671 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
28672 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
28675 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
28676 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
28677 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
28679 o New directory authorities:
28680 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
28682 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
28685 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
28686 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
28688 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
28689 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
28690 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
28691 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
28692 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
28693 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
28694 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
28695 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
28696 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
28697 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
28698 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
28699 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
28700 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
28701 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
28702 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
28703 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
28704 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
28706 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
28707 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
28708 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
28710 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
28711 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
28715 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
28716 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
28717 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
28718 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
28719 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
28722 Changes in version 0.2.2.5-alpha - 2009-10-11
28723 Tor 0.2.2.5-alpha fixes a few compile problems in 0.2.2.4-alpha.
28726 - Make the tarball compile again. Oops. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
28728 o Directory authorities:
28729 - Temporarily (just for this release) move dizum to an alternate
28733 Changes in version 0.2.2.4-alpha - 2009-10-10
28734 Tor 0.2.2.4-alpha fixes more crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha. It also
28735 introduces a new unit test framework, shifts directry authority
28736 addresses around to reduce the impact from recent blocking events,
28737 and fixes a few smaller bugs.
28740 - Fix several more asserts in the circuit_build_times code, for
28741 example one that causes Tor to fail to start once we have
28742 accumulated 5000 build times in the state file. Bugfixes on
28743 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1108.
28745 o New directory authorities:
28746 - Move moria1 and Tonga to alternate IP addresses.
28749 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
28750 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
28751 SSL handshake issues.
28752 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
28753 during the TLS handshake.
28754 - Revert to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file. The September one
28755 seems to have removed most US IP addresses.
28756 - Directory authorities now reject Tor relays with versions less than
28757 0.1.2.14. This step cuts out four relays from the current network,
28758 none of which are very big.
28761 - Fix a couple of smaller issues with gathering statistics. Bugfixes
28763 - Fix two memory leaks in the error case of
28764 circuit_build_times_parse_state(). Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
28765 - Don't count one-hop circuits when we're estimating how long it
28766 takes circuits to build on average. Otherwise we'll set our circuit
28767 build timeout lower than we should. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
28768 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
28769 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
28770 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
28773 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
28774 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
28775 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
28776 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
28777 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
28780 Changes in version 0.2.2.3-alpha - 2009-09-23
28781 Tor 0.2.2.3-alpha fixes a few crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha.
28784 - Fix an overzealous assert in our new circuit build timeout code.
28785 Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1103.
28788 - If the networkstatus consensus tells us that we should use a
28789 negative circuit package window, ignore it. Otherwise we'll
28790 believe it and then trigger an assert. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
28793 Changes in version 0.2.2.2-alpha - 2009-09-21
28794 Tor 0.2.2.2-alpha introduces our latest performance improvement for
28795 clients: Tor tracks the average time it takes to build a circuit, and
28796 avoids using circuits that take too long to build. For fast connections,
28797 this feature can cut your expected latency in half. For slow or flaky
28798 connections, it could ruin your Tor experience. Let us know if it does!
28801 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
28802 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
28803 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
28804 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
28805 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
28806 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
28807 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
28808 We are especially looking for reports (good and bad) from users with
28809 both EDGE and broadband connections that can move from broadband
28810 to EDGE and find out if the build-time data in the .tor/state gets
28811 reset without loss of Tor usability. You should also see a notice
28812 log message telling you that Tor has reset its timeout.
28813 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitrary integer values as
28814 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
28815 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
28816 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
28817 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
28818 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
28821 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
28822 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
28826 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
28827 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
28828 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
28829 - Fix parsing for memory or time units given without a space between
28830 the number and the unit. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1076.
28831 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
28832 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
28833 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
28834 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
28835 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
28836 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
28837 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
28838 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
28839 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
28840 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
28841 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
28842 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
28843 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
28844 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
28845 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
28846 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
28848 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
28849 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
28850 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090, but more problems
28851 remain. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
28852 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
28853 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
28855 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
28856 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
28857 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
28860 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
28861 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
28862 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
28863 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
28864 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
28865 - Update to the "September 4 2009" ip-to-country file.
28868 Changes in version 0.2.2.1-alpha - 2009-08-26
28869 Tor 0.2.2.1-alpha disables ".exit" address notation by default, allows
28870 Tor clients to bootstrap on networks where only port 80 is reachable,
28871 makes it more straightforward to support hardware crypto accelerators,
28872 and starts the groundwork for gathering stats safely at relays.
28875 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
28876 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
28877 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
28880 o New directory authorities:
28881 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
28885 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
28886 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
28887 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
28888 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
28889 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
28892 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
28893 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
28894 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
28895 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
28896 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
28899 o New options for gathering stats safely:
28900 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
28901 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
28902 --enable-geoip-stats flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few improvements:
28903 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours; 2) estimated
28904 shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean values, not at
28905 the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved requests are listed
28906 with country code '??'; 4) directories also measure download times.
28907 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
28908 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
28910 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
28911 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
28912 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
28913 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
28915 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
28916 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
28917 their extra-info documents.
28920 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
28921 source files Tor was built with.
28922 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
28923 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
28924 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
28925 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
28926 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
28927 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
28929 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
28930 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
28931 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
28932 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
28933 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
28935 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
28936 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
28939 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
28940 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
28941 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
28942 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
28943 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
28945 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
28946 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
28948 o Deprecated and removed features:
28949 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
28950 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
28951 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
28952 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
28953 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
28954 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
28955 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
28956 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
28958 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
28959 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
28960 via application-level web tricks.
28962 o Packaging changes:
28963 - Upgrade Vidalia from 0.1.15 to 0.2.3 in the Windows and OS X
28964 installer bundles. See
28965 https://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/tags/vidalia-0.2.3/CHANGELOG
28966 for details of what's new in Vidalia 0.2.3.
28967 - Windows Vidalia Bundle: update Privoxy from 3.0.6 to 3.0.14-beta.
28968 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: move to Polipo 1.0.4 with Tor specific
28969 configuration file, rather than the old Privoxy.
28970 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: Vidalia, Tor, and Polipo are compiled as
28971 x86-only for better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
28972 - OS X Tor Expert Bundle: Tor is compiled as x86-only for
28973 better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
28974 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: The multi-package installer is now replaced
28975 by a simple drag and drop to the /Applications folder. This change
28976 occurred with the upgrade to Vidalia 0.2.3.
28979 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
28980 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
28981 services on Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18.
28984 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
28985 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
28986 part of patch provided by "optimist".
28989 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
28990 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
28991 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
28992 and confuse fewer users.
28995 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
28996 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
28997 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
28998 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
28999 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
29000 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
29001 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
29004 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
29005 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
29006 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
29007 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
29008 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
29009 other features and bug fixes.
29012 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
29015 Changes in version 0.2.1.17-rc - 2009-07-07
29016 Tor 0.2.1.17-rc marks the fourth -- and hopefully last -- release
29017 candidate for the 0.2.1.x series. It lays the groundwork for further
29018 client performance improvements, and also fixes a big bug with directory
29019 authorities that were causing them to assign Guard and Stable flags
29022 The Windows bundles also finally include the geoip database that we
29023 thought we'd been shipping since 0.2.0.x (oops), and the OS X bundles
29024 should actually install Torbutton rather than giving you a cryptic
29025 failure message (oops).
29028 - Clients now use the bandwidth values in the consensus, rather than
29029 the bandwidth values in each relay descriptor. This approach opens
29030 the door to more accurate bandwidth estimates once the directory
29031 authorities start doing active measurements. Implements more of
29035 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
29036 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
29037 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
29038 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
29039 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
29040 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
29041 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29042 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
29043 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
29044 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
29045 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
29046 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu"
29047 and "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable
29048 flags very wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and
29049 969. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
29052 - Serve the DirPortFrontPage page even when we have been approaching
29053 our quotas recently. Fixes bug 1013; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
29054 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
29055 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
29056 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
29057 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fixed a spurious
29058 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
29059 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
29060 by Marcus Griep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
29061 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
29062 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
29063 Workaround for bug 1024.
29064 - Fix a log message that did not respect the SafeLogging option.
29068 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
29069 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
29070 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
29073 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
29075 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
29076 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
29077 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
29078 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
29079 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
29082 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
29083 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
29084 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
29085 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
29086 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
29087 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
29088 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
29089 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
29090 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
29091 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
29094 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
29095 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
29096 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
29097 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
29098 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
29099 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
29100 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
29101 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
29104 Changes in version 0.2.1.16-rc - 2009-06-20
29105 Tor 0.2.1.16-rc speeds up performance for fast exit relays, and fixes
29106 a bunch of minor bugs.
29109 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
29110 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
29111 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
29113 o Major performance improvements (on 0.2.0.x):
29114 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
29115 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
29116 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Found
29118 - Disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
29122 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
29123 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
29124 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
29126 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
29127 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
29129 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
29130 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
29132 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
29133 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
29134 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
29135 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
29136 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
29137 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
29138 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
29139 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
29141 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
29142 - Don't warn users about low port and hibernation mix when they
29143 provide a *ListenAddress directive to fix that. Bugfix on
29145 - When switching back and forth between bridge mode, do not start
29146 gathering GeoIP data until two hours have passed.
29147 - Do not complain that the user has requested an excluded node as
29148 an exit when the node is not really an exit. This could happen
29149 because the circuit was for testing, or an introduction point.
29153 Changes in version 0.2.1.15-rc - 2009-05-25
29154 Tor 0.2.1.15-rc marks the second release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
29155 series. It fixes a major bug on fast exit relays, as well as a variety
29156 of more minor bugs.
29158 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
29159 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
29160 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
29161 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
29163 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
29164 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
29165 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
29166 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
29167 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
29168 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
29169 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
29170 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
29171 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
29172 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
29173 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
29174 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29175 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
29176 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
29177 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
29178 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
29179 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
29181 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
29182 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
29183 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
29184 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29186 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
29187 - Fix use of freed memory when deciding to mark a non-addable
29188 descriptor as never-downloadable. Bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
29191 Changes in version 0.2.1.14-rc - 2009-04-12
29192 Tor 0.2.1.14-rc marks the first release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
29193 series. It begins fixing some major performance problems, and also
29194 finally addresses the bug that was causing relays on dynamic IP
29195 addresses to fall out of the directory.
29198 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
29199 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
29200 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
29201 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
29203 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0):
29204 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
29205 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
29206 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
29207 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
29208 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
29209 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
29210 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
29211 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
29212 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
29213 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
29214 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
29215 if bandwidthrate or bandwidthburst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
29216 patch by Sebastian.
29217 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
29218 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
29221 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
29222 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
29223 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
29224 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
29225 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
29226 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
29228 - Raise the minimum bandwidth to be a relay from 20000 bytes to 20480
29229 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also update
29230 directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag to relays
29231 with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't suddenly
29232 find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets faster
29234 - Update to the "April 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
29237 - Avoid trying to print raw memory to the logs when we decide to
29238 give up on downloading a given relay descriptor. Bugfix on
29240 - In tor-resolve, when the Tor client to use is specified by
29241 <hostname>:<port>, actually use the specified port rather than
29242 defaulting to 9050. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
29243 - Make directory usage recording work again. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
29244 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
29245 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
29247 - Avoid double-free on list of successfully uploaded hidden
29248 service discriptors. Fix for bug 948. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
29249 - Change memarea_strndup() implementation to work even when
29250 duplicating a string at the end of a page. This bug was
29251 harmless for now, but could have meant crashes later. Fix by
29252 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
29253 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
29254 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
29255 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
29256 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
29257 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
29258 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
29262 Changes in version 0.2.1.13-alpha - 2009-03-09
29263 Tor 0.2.1.13-alpha includes another big pile of minor bugfixes and
29264 cleanups. We're finally getting close to a release candidate.
29267 - Correctly update the list of which countries we exclude as
29268 exits, when the GeoIP file is loaded or reloaded. Diagnosed by
29269 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
29271 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and earlier):
29272 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
29273 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
29274 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
29275 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
29276 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
29277 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
29278 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
29279 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
29280 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
29281 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
29282 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
29283 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
29284 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
29285 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
29286 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
29287 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
29288 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
29289 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
29290 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
29291 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
29292 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
29293 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
29294 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
29295 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
29296 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
29298 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
29299 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
29300 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
29301 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
29302 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
29303 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
29304 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
29305 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
29306 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
29307 of 0. Suggested by lark.
29309 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
29310 - Don't re-extend introduction circuits if we ran out of RELAY_EARLY
29311 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Fixes more of bug 878.
29312 - If we're an exit node, scrub the IP address to which we are exiting
29313 in the logs. Bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
29316 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the user
29318 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
29319 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
29320 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
29321 - Update to the "February 26 2009" ip-to-country file.
29324 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
29325 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
29326 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
29327 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
29328 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
29330 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
29331 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
29332 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
29333 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
29336 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
29337 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
29338 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
29339 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
29340 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
29341 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
29342 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
29343 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
29346 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
29347 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
29348 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
29349 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
29352 Changes in version 0.2.1.12-alpha - 2009-02-08
29353 Tor 0.2.1.12-alpha features several more security-related fixes. You
29354 should upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or
29355 a directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
29356 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit). It also
29357 includes a big pile of minor bugfixes and cleanups.
29360 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
29361 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
29362 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
29363 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
29364 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
29365 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
29368 - Let controllers actually ask for the "clients_seen" event for
29369 getting usage summaries on bridge relays. Bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha;
29370 reported by Matt Edman.
29371 - Fix a compile warning on OSX Panther. Fixes bug 913; bugfix against
29373 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
29374 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
29375 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
29376 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
29378 - Remove a bash-ism from configure.in to build properly on non-Linux
29379 platforms. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
29380 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
29381 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
29382 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
29383 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
29384 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
29385 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
29386 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
29387 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
29388 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
29389 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
29390 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
29391 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
29392 - Support changing value of ServerDNSRandomizeCase during SIGHUP.
29393 Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
29394 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
29395 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
29396 request. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29399 - Support platforms where time_t is 64 bits long. (Congratulations,
29400 NetBSD!) Patch from Matthias Drochner.
29401 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
29402 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
29405 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
29406 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
29407 the letter of C99's alias rules.
29410 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
29411 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
29412 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
29413 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
29415 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
29416 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
29417 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
29420 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
29421 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
29424 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
29425 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
29426 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
29427 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
29428 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
29429 reported by "wood".
29430 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
29431 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
29432 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
29433 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
29434 identify a connection.
29435 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
29436 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
29437 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
29438 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
29439 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
29440 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
29441 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
29442 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
29443 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
29444 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
29446 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
29447 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
29448 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
29449 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
29450 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
29451 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
29452 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
29455 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
29456 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
29458 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
29459 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
29460 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
29461 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
29462 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
29463 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
29464 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
29465 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
29467 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
29468 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
29469 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
29470 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
29471 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
29472 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
29473 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
29474 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
29475 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
29476 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
29477 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
29478 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
29479 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
29480 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
29481 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
29482 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
29483 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
29484 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
29485 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
29486 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
29487 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
29488 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
29489 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
29490 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
29491 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
29492 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
29493 840. Patch from rovv.
29494 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
29495 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
29496 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
29498 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
29499 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
29500 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
29501 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
29502 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
29503 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
29504 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
29506 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
29507 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
29508 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
29511 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
29512 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
29514 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
29515 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
29516 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
29517 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
29518 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
29519 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
29520 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
29521 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
29522 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
29524 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
29526 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
29527 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
29531 Changes in version 0.2.1.11-alpha - 2009-01-20
29532 Tor 0.2.1.11-alpha finishes fixing the "if your Tor is off for a
29533 week it will take a long time to bootstrap again" bug. It also fixes
29534 an important security-related bug reported by Ilja van Sprundel. You
29535 should upgrade. (We'll send out more details about the bug once people
29536 have had some time to upgrade.)
29539 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
29540 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
29543 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
29544 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
29545 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion
29546 keys in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Bugfix
29547 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
29550 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
29551 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
29553 - Make setting ServerDNSRandomizeCase to 0 actually work. Bugfix
29554 for bug 905. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
29555 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
29556 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
29557 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
29558 entirely. Patch from coderman.
29561 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
29562 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
29563 - When our circuit fails at the first hop (e.g. we get a destroy
29564 cell back), avoid using that OR connection anymore, and also
29565 tell all the one-hop directory requests waiting for it that they
29566 should fail. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
29567 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
29571 Changes in version 0.2.1.10-alpha - 2009-01-06
29572 Tor 0.2.1.10-alpha fixes two major bugs in bridge relays (one that
29573 would make the bridge relay not so useful if it had DirPort set to 0,
29574 and one that could let an attacker learn a little bit of information
29575 about the bridge's users), and a bug that would cause your Tor relay
29576 to ignore a circuit create request it can't decrypt (rather than reply
29577 with an error). It also fixes a wide variety of other bugs.
29580 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
29581 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could
29582 be useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in
29583 practice it just means we spend many minutes trying directory
29584 mirrors that are long gone from the network. Helps bug 887 a bit;
29586 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
29587 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
29588 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
29589 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
29590 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
29591 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
29592 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
29593 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
29594 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
29595 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
29599 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
29600 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
29601 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
29603 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later built
29604 without support for deprecated functions.
29605 - Update to the "December 19 2008" ip-to-country file.
29607 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
29608 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
29609 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
29610 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
29611 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
29612 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
29613 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
29614 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
29615 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
29616 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
29617 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
29618 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
29619 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
29620 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
29621 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
29622 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
29623 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
29624 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
29625 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
29626 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
29627 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
29628 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
29629 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
29631 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
29632 - Make get_interface_address() function work properly again; stop
29633 guessing the wrong parts of our address as our address.
29634 - Do not cannibalize a circuit if we're out of RELAY_EARLY cells to
29635 send on that circuit. Otherwise we might violate the proposal-110
29636 limit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Partial fix for bug 878. Diagnosis
29638 - When we're sending non-EXTEND cells to the first hop in a circuit,
29639 for example to use an encrypted directory connection, we don't need
29640 to use RELAY_EARLY cells: the first hop knows what kind of cell
29641 it is, and nobody else can even see the cell type. Conserving
29642 RELAY_EARLY cells makes it easier to cannibalize circuits like
29644 - Stop logging nameserver addresses in reverse order.
29645 - If we are retrying a directory download slowly over and over, do
29646 not automatically give up after the 254th failure. Bugfix on
29648 - Resume reporting accurate "stream end" reasons to the local control
29649 port. They were lost in the changes for Proposal 148. Bugfix on
29652 o Deprecated and removed features:
29653 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
29654 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
29655 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
29658 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
29659 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
29660 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
29661 with log.h on Android.
29662 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
29663 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
29666 Changes in version 0.2.1.9-alpha - 2008-12-25
29667 Tor 0.2.1.9-alpha fixes many more bugs, some of them security-related.
29669 o New directory authorities:
29670 - gabelmoo (the authority run by Karsten Loesing) now has a new
29674 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
29675 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
29676 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
29677 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
29678 - Avoid a possible memory corruption bug when receiving hidden service
29679 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
29682 - Fix a logic error that would automatically reject all but the first
29683 configured DNS server. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Possible fix for
29684 part of bug 813/868. Bug spotted by coderman.
29685 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
29686 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
29687 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
29688 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
29689 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in 0.1.2.1-alpha;
29690 reported by "wood".
29691 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
29692 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, retry failed
29693 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
29694 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
29697 - Give a better error message when an overzealous init script says
29698 "sudo -u username tor --user username". Makes Bug 882 easier for
29700 - When a directory authority gives us a new guess for our IP address,
29701 log which authority we used. Hopefully this will help us debug
29702 the recent complaints about bad IP address guesses.
29703 - Detect svn revision properly when we're using git-svn.
29704 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
29705 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
29706 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
29707 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
29708 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate.
29709 Partial implementation of proposal 157.
29710 - Start serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
29711 pairs. Partial implementation of proposal 157.
29712 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
29713 Implements proposal 148.
29714 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
29715 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
29716 system to do it for us.
29717 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
29718 or for every cell. On systems where time() is a slow syscall,
29719 this fix will be slightly helpful.
29720 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
29721 - When we download a descriptor that we then immediately (as
29722 a directory authority) reject, do not retry downloading it right
29723 away. Should save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug
29724 888. Patch by Sebastian Hahn.
29725 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
29726 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
29727 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
29728 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
29731 o Minor features (controller):
29732 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
29733 been fetched and validated.
29734 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
29735 descriptors file, print out a more useful error message rather
29736 than triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
29737 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
29738 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the
29739 configuration. Fixes bug 856.
29742 - Resume using the correct "REASON=" stream when telling the
29743 controller why we closed a stream. Bugfix in 0.2.1.1-alpha.
29744 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
29745 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
29746 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
29748 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
29749 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
29750 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
29751 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
29752 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
29753 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
29754 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
29755 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
29756 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
29758 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
29759 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP (bugfix on
29760 0.0.6pre1); also, do not stall hidden services because we're
29761 throwing away introduction points; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Spotted
29762 by John Brooks. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
29763 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous
29764 descriptor to the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor
29765 with the same ID. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
29767 o Deprecated and removed features:
29768 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
29770 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
29771 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
29772 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
29774 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
29775 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
29776 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
29778 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
29779 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
29780 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
29781 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
29782 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
29783 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
29786 Changes in version 0.2.1.8-alpha - 2008-12-08
29787 Tor 0.2.1.8-alpha fixes some crash bugs in earlier alpha releases,
29788 builds better on unusual platforms like Solaris and old OS X, and
29789 fixes a variety of other issues.
29792 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
29793 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
29794 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
29795 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
29798 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
29799 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
29800 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
29801 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
29804 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
29805 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29806 - Fix a possible segfault when establishing an exit connection. Bugfix
29810 - Get file locking working on win32. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fixes
29812 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
29813 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
29814 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
29815 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fix for bug 862.
29816 - Fix a crash bug when changing EntryNodes from the controller. Bugfix
29817 on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fix for bug 867. Patched by Sebastian.
29818 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
29820 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
29821 rest, and don't automatically fail.
29822 - Use fcntl() for locking when flock() is not available. Should fix
29823 compilation on Solaris. Should fix Bug 873. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
29824 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
29825 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
29827 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
29828 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
29829 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
29830 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
29831 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
29832 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
29833 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
29834 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
29835 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
29836 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880. Bugfix
29838 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
29842 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
29843 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
29844 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
29846 o Minor features (controller):
29847 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status. Fixes
29851 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
29852 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
29853 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
29854 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
29855 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
29856 variety of other issues.
29859 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
29860 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
29861 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
29862 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
29863 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
29864 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
29865 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
29866 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
29867 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
29868 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
29869 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
29870 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
29873 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
29874 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29876 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
29877 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
29878 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
29879 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
29880 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
29881 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
29882 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
29883 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
29884 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
29885 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
29886 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
29887 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
29888 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
29889 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
29890 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
29894 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
29895 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
29896 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
29897 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
29898 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
29899 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
29900 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
29901 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
29902 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
29903 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
29904 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
29905 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
29906 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
29907 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
29908 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
29909 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
29910 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
29911 list. It has been gone for many months.
29912 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
29913 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
29914 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
29917 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
29918 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
29919 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
29922 Changes in version 0.2.1.7-alpha - 2008-11-08
29923 Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
29924 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
29925 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
29926 services, adds better defense against DNS poisoning attacks on exit
29927 relays, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
29928 variety of other issues.
29931 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
29932 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
29933 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
29934 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
29935 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
29936 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
29937 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
29938 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
29939 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
29940 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
29941 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
29942 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848.
29943 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
29944 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
29947 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
29948 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
29949 Suggested by Lucky Green.
29950 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
29951 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
29952 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
29953 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
29954 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
29955 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
29957 - Preserve case in replies to DNSPort requests in order to support
29958 the 0x20 hack for resisting DNS poisoning attacks.
29960 o Hidden service performance improvements:
29961 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
29962 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
29963 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
29964 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
29965 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
29966 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
29967 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
29968 faster after restart.
29971 - Minor fix in the warning messages when you're having problems
29972 bootstrapping; also, be more forgiving of bootstrap problems when
29973 we're still making incremental progress on a given bootstrap phase.
29974 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
29975 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
29976 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
29977 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
29978 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
29979 840. Patch from rovv.
29980 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
29981 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
29982 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
29983 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
29984 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
29985 Fixes another case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
29986 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
29987 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
29988 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
29990 - Avoid using a negative right-shift when comparing 32-bit
29991 addresses. Possible fix for bug 845 and bug 811.
29992 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
29993 have already been marked for close.
29994 - Fix read-off-the-end-of-string error in unit tests when decoding
29995 introduction points.
29996 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
29997 memory performance during directory parsing.
29998 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
29999 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
30000 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
30001 because of a pending download.
30004 Changes in version 0.2.1.6-alpha - 2008-09-30
30005 Tor 0.2.1.6-alpha further improves performance and robustness of
30006 hidden services, starts work on supporting per-country relay selection,
30007 and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
30010 - Implement proposal 121: make it possible to build hidden services
30011 that only certain clients are allowed to connect to. This is
30012 enforced at several points, so that unauthorized clients are unable
30013 to send INTRODUCE cells to the service, or even (depending on the
30014 type of authentication) to learn introduction points. This feature
30015 raises the bar for certain kinds of active attacks against hidden
30016 services. Code by Karsten Loesing.
30017 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
30018 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
30019 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
30020 lookups more reliable.
30021 - Start work to allow node restrictions to include country codes. The
30022 syntax to exclude nodes in a country with country code XX is
30023 "ExcludeNodes {XX}". Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
30024 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
30025 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
30026 - Allow ExitNodes list to include IP ranges and country codes, just
30027 like the Exclude*Nodes lists. Patch from Robert Hogan.
30030 - Fix a bug when parsing ports in tor_addr_port_parse() that caused
30031 Tor to fail to start if you had it configured to use a bridge
30032 relay. Fixes bug 809. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
30033 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
30034 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
30035 requests failed, because the router descriptor had not been
30036 downloaded yet. In these cases, we now wait until the router
30037 descriptor is downloaded, and then retry. Likewise, clients
30038 now skip over a hidden service directory if they don't yet have
30039 its router descriptor, rather than futilely requesting it and
30040 putting mysterious complaints in the logs. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
30042 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
30043 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
30044 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
30045 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
30046 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
30047 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
30048 - DNS replies need to have names matching their requests, but
30049 these names should be in the questions section, not necessarily
30050 in the answers section. Fixes bug 823. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
30053 - Update to the "September 1 2008" ip-to-country file.
30054 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
30055 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
30056 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
30057 locked down these days.
30058 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
30059 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
30060 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
30061 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
30062 - Better logging about stability/reliability calculations on directory
30064 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
30065 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
30066 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
30067 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
30068 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
30069 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
30070 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
30071 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
30072 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
30073 people find host:port too confusing.
30074 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
30075 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
30076 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
30079 - Fix compile on OpenBSD 4.4-current. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
30081 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
30082 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
30083 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
30084 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
30085 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
30087 - Catch and report a few more bootstrapping failure cases when Tor
30088 fails to establish a TCP connection. Cleanup on 0.2.1.x.
30089 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
30090 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
30091 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
30092 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
30093 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
30094 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
30095 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
30096 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
30097 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
30098 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
30100 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
30101 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
30102 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
30103 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch by rovv.
30104 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
30105 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
30106 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
30107 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
30108 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
30110 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
30111 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
30112 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
30113 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
30114 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
30115 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
30116 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
30117 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
30118 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
30119 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
30120 bug 820, reported by seeess.
30121 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
30122 list. It has been gone for many months.
30124 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
30125 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
30126 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
30127 actual mistakes we're making here.
30128 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
30129 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
30130 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
30131 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
30134 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
30135 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
30136 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
30137 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
30140 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
30141 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
30142 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
30143 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
30144 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
30145 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
30147 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
30148 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
30149 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
30150 pointed out by rovv.
30153 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
30154 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
30155 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
30156 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
30157 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
30158 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
30159 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
30160 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
30161 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
30162 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
30163 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
30164 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
30165 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
30166 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
30167 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
30168 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
30169 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
30170 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
30171 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
30172 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
30173 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
30176 Changes in version 0.2.1.5-alpha - 2008-08-31
30177 Tor 0.2.1.5-alpha moves us closer to handling IPv6 destinations, puts
30178 in a lot of the infrastructure for adding authorization to hidden
30179 services, lays the groundwork for having clients read their load
30180 balancing information out of the networkstatus consensus rather than
30181 the individual router descriptors, addresses two potential anonymity
30182 issues, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
30185 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
30187 - Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol elements.
30188 - Make resolver code handle nameservers located at ipv6 addresses.
30189 - Begin implementation of proposal 121 ("Client authorization for
30190 hidden services"): configure hidden services with client
30191 authorization, publish descriptors for them, and configure
30192 authorization data for hidden services at clients. The next
30193 step is to actually access hidden services that perform client
30195 - More progress toward proposal 141: Network status consensus
30196 documents and votes now contain bandwidth information for each
30197 router and a summary of that router's exit policy. Eventually this
30198 will be used by clients so that they do not have to download every
30199 known descriptor before building circuits.
30201 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and before):
30202 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
30203 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
30204 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
30205 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
30206 identify a connection.
30207 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
30208 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
30209 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
30211 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
30212 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
30213 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
30214 pointed out by rovv.
30217 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
30218 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
30219 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
30220 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open /dev/pf
30221 before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from Christopher
30222 Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
30223 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
30224 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
30225 - Add a missing safe_str() call for a debug log message.
30226 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
30227 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
30228 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
30229 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
30230 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
30231 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
30234 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
30235 a lot. Resolves bug 748.
30236 - Resist DNS poisoning a little better by making sure that names in
30237 answer sections match.
30238 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
30239 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
30242 Changes in version 0.2.1.4-alpha - 2008-08-04
30243 Tor 0.2.1.4-alpha fixes a pair of crash bugs in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
30246 - The address part of exit policies was not correctly written
30247 to router descriptors. This generated router descriptors that failed
30248 their self-checks. Noticed by phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix
30250 - Tor triggered a false assert when extending a circuit to a relay
30251 but we already have a connection open to that relay. Noticed by
30252 phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
30255 - Fix a hidden service logging bug: in some edge cases, the router
30256 descriptor of a previously picked introduction point becomes
30257 obsolete and we need to give up on it rather than continually
30258 complaining that it has become obsolete. Observed by xiando. Bugfix
30261 o Removed features:
30262 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
30263 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
30266 Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-08-03
30267 Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha implements most of the pieces to prevent
30268 infinite-length circuit attacks (see proposal 110); fixes a bug that
30269 might cause exit relays to corrupt streams they send back; allows
30270 address patterns (e.g. 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in ExcludeNodes and
30271 ExcludeExitNodes config options; and fixes a big pile of bugs.
30273 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x-alpha):
30274 - Send a bootstrap problem "warn" event on the first problem if the
30275 reason is NO_ROUTE (that is, our network is down).
30278 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
30279 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
30280 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
30281 certain kinds of DOS attack by requiring that EXTEND commands must
30282 be sent using an "early" cell.
30285 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
30286 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
30287 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
30288 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
30289 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
30290 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
30291 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
30294 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
30295 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
30296 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
30297 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
30298 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
30299 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
30300 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
30301 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
30302 - Allow address patterns (e.g., 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in
30303 ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes lists.
30304 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
30305 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
30306 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
30307 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
30308 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
30309 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
30312 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
30313 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
30314 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
30315 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
30316 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
30317 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
30318 - When a hidden service is giving up on an introduction point candidate
30319 that was not included in the last published rendezvous descriptor,
30320 don't reschedule publication of the next descriptor. Fixes bug 763.
30322 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
30323 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
30324 and nobody claims to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
30325 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
30326 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
30329 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
30330 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit
30331 is getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly.
30332 Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
30334 o Removed features:
30335 - Remove all backward-compatibility code to support relays running
30336 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
30340 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
30342 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
30343 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
30344 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
30347 Changes in version 0.2.0.29-rc - 2008-07-08
30348 Tor 0.2.0.29-rc fixes two big bugs with using bridges, fixes more
30349 hidden-service performance bugs, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
30352 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys,
30353 you would only launch a request for the descriptor of the first one
30354 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
30355 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
30356 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
30357 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, and the
30358 connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel all
30359 pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the same
30360 digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
30361 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
30362 and Tor had built circuits preemptively for such purposes, we
30363 were ignoring all the preemptive circuits and launching a new one
30364 instead. Bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
30365 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
30366 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
30367 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
30368 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
30369 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
30370 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
30371 - Make directory servers include the X-Your-Address-Is: http header in
30372 their responses even for begin_dir conns. Now clients who only
30373 ever use begin_dir connections still have a way to learn their IP
30374 address. Fixes bug 737; bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc. Reported by goldy.
30377 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
30378 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
30380 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
30381 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
30382 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
30383 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
30384 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
30385 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
30386 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
30388 - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation
30389 stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be trying
30390 session resumption at this point, but apparently some did, in
30391 ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Bug
30392 found by Geoff Goodell.
30395 Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20
30396 Tor 0.2.1.2-alpha includes a new "TestingTorNetwork" config option to
30397 make it easier to set up your own private Tor network; fixes several
30398 big bugs with using more than one bridge relay; fixes a big bug with
30399 offering hidden services quickly after Tor starts; and uses a better
30400 API for reporting potential bootstrapping problems to the controller.
30403 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
30404 previously constant values that, while reasonable, could slow
30405 bootstrapping. Implements proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
30408 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
30409 you would only learn a request for the descriptor of the first one
30410 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
30411 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
30412 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
30413 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
30414 and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel
30415 all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the
30416 same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
30417 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
30418 originate from cannibalized circuits are completely ignored and not
30419 included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might be another
30420 reason for delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix
30421 from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
30424 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
30425 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
30426 This will cut down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements
30428 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
30429 fingerprints with or without space.
30430 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
30431 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
30432 partway through and wants to catch up.
30433 - Send an initial "Starting" bootstrap status event, so we have a
30434 state to start out in.
30437 - Asking for a conditional consensus at .../consensus/<fingerprints>
30438 would crash a dirserver if it did not already have a
30439 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
30440 - Clean up some macro/CPP interactions: some GCC versions don't like
30441 #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. Bugfix on
30444 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.1-alpha):
30445 - Directory authorities shouldn't complain about bootstrapping
30446 problems just because they do a lot of reachability testing and
30447 some of the connection attempts fail.
30448 - Start sending "count" and "recommendation" key/value pairs in
30449 bootstrap problem status events, so the controller can hear about
30450 problems even before Tor decides they're worth reporting for sure.
30451 - If you're using bridges, generate "bootstrap problem" warnings
30452 as soon as you run out of working bridges, rather than waiting
30453 for ten failures -- which will never happen if you have less than
30455 - If we close our OR connection because there's been a circuit
30456 pending on it for too long, we were telling our bootstrap status
30457 events "REASON=NONE". Now tell them "REASON=TIMEOUT".
30460 Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13
30461 Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha fixes a lot of memory fragmentation problems that
30462 were making the Tor process bloat especially on Linux; makes our TLS
30463 handshake blend in better; sends "bootstrap phase" status events to
30464 the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress (and
30465 problems) fetching directory information and establishing circuits;
30466 and adds a variety of smaller features.
30469 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
30470 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
30471 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
30472 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
30474 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
30475 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
30476 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
30477 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
30479 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
30480 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
30481 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
30482 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
30483 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
30484 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
30485 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
30488 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
30489 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
30490 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
30491 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
30492 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
30494 o Memory fixes and improvements:
30495 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
30496 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
30497 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
30498 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
30499 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
30500 on a typical directory cache.
30501 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
30502 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
30503 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
30504 and may reduce fragmentation.
30505 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
30506 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
30507 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
30509 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
30510 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
30511 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
30513 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
30514 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed,
30518 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
30519 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
30520 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
30521 done that for a long time.
30522 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
30523 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
30524 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
30525 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
30528 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
30529 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
30530 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
30531 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
30532 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
30533 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
30535 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
30536 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
30537 output to messages of warning and error severity.
30538 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
30539 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
30540 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
30541 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
30542 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
30543 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
30544 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
30545 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
30546 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
30547 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
30548 directory requests we should expect to see.
30549 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
30551 - Lots of new unit tests.
30552 - Add a macro to implement the common pattern of iterating through
30553 two parallel lists in lockstep.
30556 Changes in version 0.2.0.28-rc - 2008-06-13
30557 Tor 0.2.0.28-rc fixes an anonymity-related bug, fixes a hidden-service
30558 performance bug, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
30561 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
30562 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
30563 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
30564 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
30565 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
30566 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
30567 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
30570 - While setting up a hidden service, some valid introduction circuits
30571 were overlooked and abandoned. This might be the reason for
30572 the long delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix on
30576 - Update to the "June 9 2008" ip-to-country file.
30577 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
30578 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
30581 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
30582 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
30583 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
30585 - Bridge relays no longer print "xx=0" in their extrainfo document
30586 for every single country code in the geoip db. Bugfix on
30588 - Only warn when we fail to load the geoip file if we were planning to
30589 include geoip stats in our extrainfo document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc.
30590 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
30591 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
30592 bug 688, reported by mfr. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
30593 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
30594 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors. Bugfix
30596 - Make relay cells written on a connection count as non-padding when
30597 tracking how long a connection has been in use. Bugfix on
30598 0.2.0.1-alpha. Spotted by lodger.
30599 - Fix unit tests in 0.2.0.27-rc.
30600 - Fix compile on Windows.
30603 Changes in version 0.2.0.27-rc - 2008-06-03
30604 Tor 0.2.0.27-rc adds a few features we left out of the earlier
30605 release candidates. In particular, we now include an IP-to-country
30606 GeoIP database, so controllers can easily look up what country a
30607 given relay is in, and so bridge relays can give us some sanitized
30608 summaries about which countries are making use of bridges. (See proposal
30609 126-geoip-fetching.txt for details.)
30612 - Include an IP-to-country GeoIP file in the tarball, so bridge
30613 relays can report sanitized summaries of the usage they're seeing.
30616 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
30617 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
30618 - Make bridge authorities never serve extrainfo docs.
30619 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
30621 - Fix build on gcc 4.3 with --enable-gcc-warnings set.
30622 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
30623 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
30626 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
30627 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
30628 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
30629 - Make bridge authorities correctly expire old extrainfo documents
30633 Changes in version 0.2.0.26-rc - 2008-05-13
30634 Tor 0.2.0.26-rc fixes a major security vulnerability caused by a bug
30635 in Debian's OpenSSL packages. All users running any 0.2.0.x version
30636 should upgrade, whether they're running Debian or not.
30638 o Major security fixes:
30639 - Use new V3 directory authority keys on the tor26, gabelmoo, and
30640 moria1 V3 directory authorities. The old keys were generated with
30641 a vulnerable version of Debian's OpenSSL package, and must be
30642 considered compromised. Other authorities' keys were not generated
30643 with an affected version of OpenSSL.
30646 - List authority signatures as "unrecognized" based on DirServer
30647 lines, not on cert cache. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
30650 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey option to make it easier for
30651 authorities to change their identity keys if they have to.
30654 Changes in version 0.2.0.25-rc - 2008-04-23
30655 Tor 0.2.0.25-rc makes Tor work again on OS X and certain BSDs.
30658 - Remember to initialize threading before initializing logging.
30659 Otherwise, many BSD-family implementations will crash hard on
30660 startup. Fixes bug 671. Bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc.
30663 - Authorities correctly free policies on bad servers on
30664 exit. Fixes bug 672. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
30667 Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-22
30668 Tor 0.2.0.24-rc adds dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth
30669 v3 directory authority, makes relays with dynamic IP addresses and no
30670 DirPort notice more quickly when their IP address changes, fixes a few
30671 rare crashes and memory leaks, and fixes a few other miscellaneous bugs.
30673 o New directory authorities:
30674 - Take lefkada out of the list of v3 directory authorities, since
30675 it has been down for months.
30676 - Set up dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory
30680 - Detect address changes more quickly on non-directory mirror
30681 relays. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 652.
30683 o Minor features (security):
30684 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
30685 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
30686 - Non-exit relays no longer allow DNS requests. Fixes bug 619. Patch
30689 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
30690 - Avoid a rare assert that can trigger when Tor doesn't have much
30691 directory information yet and it tries to fetch a v2 hidden
30692 service descriptor. Fixes bug 651, reported by nwf.
30693 - Initialize log mutex before initializing dmalloc. Otherwise,
30694 running with dmalloc would crash. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha.
30695 - Use recursive pthread mutexes in order to avoid deadlock when
30696 logging debug-level messages to a controller. Bug spotted by nwf,
30697 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
30699 o Minor bugfixes (resource management):
30700 - Keep address policies from leaking memory: start their refcount
30701 at 1, not 2. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
30702 - Free authority certificates on exit, so they don't look like memory
30703 leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
30704 - Free static hashtables for policy maps and for TLS connections on
30705 shutdown, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
30706 - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on 64-bit
30707 platforms. Bug spotted by aakova.
30709 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
30710 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
30711 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
30712 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
30713 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
30714 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
30715 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
30716 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
30717 - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should
30718 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
30719 Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
30720 - Warn less verbosely about clock skew from netinfo cells from
30721 untrusted sources. Fixes bug 663.
30722 - Make controller stream events for DNS requests more consistent,
30723 by adding "new stream" events for DNS requests, and removing
30724 spurious "stream closed" events" for cached reverse resolves.
30725 Patch from mwenge. Fixes bug 646.
30726 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
30727 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
30730 Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24
30731 Tor 0.2.0.23-rc is the fourth release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
30732 makes bootstrapping faster if the first directory mirror you contact
30733 is down. The bundles also include the new Vidalia 0.1.2 release.
30736 - When a tunneled directory request is made to a directory server
30737 that's down, notice after 30 seconds rather than 120 seconds. Also,
30738 fail any begindir streams that are pending on it, so they can
30739 retry elsewhere. This was causing multi-minute delays on bootstrap.
30742 Changes in version 0.2.0.22-rc - 2008-03-18
30743 Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is the third release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
30744 enables encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, fixes
30745 some broken TLS behavior we added in 0.2.0.20-rc, and resolves many
30746 other bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.1 and Torbutton 1.1.17.
30749 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
30750 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
30751 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
30752 certain censored countries by default again.
30755 - Make sure servers always request certificates from clients during
30756 TLS renegotiation. Reported by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
30757 - Do not enter a CPU-eating loop when a connection is closed in
30758 the middle of client-side TLS renegotiation. Fixes bug 622. Bug
30759 diagnosed by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
30760 - Fix assertion failure that could occur when a blocked circuit
30761 became unblocked, and it had pending client DNS requests. Bugfix
30762 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 632.
30764 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
30765 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
30766 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
30767 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
30768 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
30769 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
30770 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
30771 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
30772 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
30773 a directory. Fix from lodger.
30775 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
30776 - Downgrade "sslv3 alert handshake failure" message to INFO.
30777 - If we set RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst very high but
30778 left BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at the default, we would be
30779 silently limited by those defaults. Now raise them to match the
30780 RelayBandwidth* values.
30781 - Fix the SVK version detection logic to work correctly on a branch.
30782 - Make --enable-openbsd-malloc work correctly on Linux with alpha
30783 CPUs. Fixes bug 625.
30784 - Logging functions now check that the passed severity is sane.
30785 - Use proper log levels in the testsuite call of
30786 get_interface_address6().
30787 - When using a nonstandard malloc, do not use the platform values for
30788 HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE or HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE.
30789 - Make the openbsd malloc code use 8k pages on alpha CPUs and
30791 - Detect mismatched page sizes when using --enable-openbsd-malloc.
30792 - Avoid double-marked-for-close warning when certain kinds of invalid
30793 .in-addr.arpa addresses are passed to the DNSPort. Part of a fix
30794 for bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
30795 - Make sure that the "NULL-means-reject *:*" convention is followed by
30796 all the policy manipulation functions, avoiding some possible crash
30797 bugs. Bug found by lodger. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
30798 - Fix the implementation of ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses so that it
30799 actually works, and doesn't warn about every single reverse lookup.
30800 Fixes the other part of bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
30803 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
30804 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
30805 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
30808 Changes in version 0.2.0.21-rc - 2008-03-02
30809 Tor 0.2.0.21-rc is the second release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
30810 makes Tor work well with Vidalia again, fixes a rare assert bug,
30811 and fixes a pair of more minor bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia
30812 0.1.0 and Torbutton 1.1.16.
30815 - The control port should declare that it requires password auth
30816 when HashedControlSessionPassword is set too. Patch from Matt Edman;
30817 bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Fixes bug 615.
30818 - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message.
30819 This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its
30820 symptoms less severe. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Reported by fredzupy.
30821 - We were sometimes miscounting the number of bytes read from the
30822 network, causing our rate limiting to not be followed exactly.
30823 Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by lodger.
30826 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a. All other supported
30827 OpenSSL versions should have been working fine. Diagnosis and patch
30828 from lodger, Karsten Loesing, and Sebastian Hahn. Fixes bug 616.
30829 Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
30832 Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24
30833 Tor 0.2.0.20-rc is the first release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
30834 makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes
30835 hidden services work better again, helps relays bootstrap if they don't
30836 know their IP address, adds optional support for linking in openbsd's
30837 allocator or tcmalloc, allows really fast relays to scale past 15000
30838 sockets, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs reported by Veracode.
30841 - Enable the revised TLS handshake based on the one designed by
30842 Steven Murdoch in proposal 124, as revised in proposal 130. It
30843 includes version negotiation for OR connections as described in
30844 proposal 105. The new handshake is meant to be harder for censors
30845 to fingerprint, and it adds the ability to detect certain kinds of
30846 man-in-the-middle traffic analysis attacks. The version negotiation
30847 feature will allow us to improve Tor's link protocol more safely
30849 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
30850 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
30851 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
30852 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
30853 stop using it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 437.
30856 - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors.
30857 Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha
30858 and 0.2.0.19-alpha.
30859 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
30860 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
30861 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
30862 by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
30863 - Servers that don't know their own IP address should go to the
30864 authorities for their first directory fetch, even if their DirPort
30865 is off or if they don't know they're reachable yet. This will help
30866 them bootstrap better. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 609.
30867 - When counting the number of open sockets, count not only the number
30868 of sockets we have received from the socket() call, but also
30869 the number we've gotten from accept() and socketpair(). This bug
30870 made us fail to count all sockets that we were using for incoming
30871 connections. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
30872 - Fix code used to find strings within buffers, when those strings
30873 are not in the first chunk of the buffer. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
30874 - Fix potential segfault when parsing HTTP headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
30875 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
30876 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
30877 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
30878 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
30879 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
30880 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
30881 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
30883 o Minor features (performance):
30884 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
30886 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc
30887 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly
30888 with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass
30889 --enable-openbsd-malloc to get the replacement malloc code.
30890 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
30891 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for
30892 non-system include paths.
30893 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
30894 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
30897 o Minor features (other):
30898 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
30900 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
30901 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
30902 - Add a --passphrase-fd argument to the tor-gencert command for
30905 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks and code problems):
30906 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
30907 cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2.
30908 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
30910 - We were comparing the raw BridgePassword entry with a base64'ed
30911 version of it, when handling a "/tor/networkstatus-bridges"
30912 directory request. Now compare correctly. Noticed by Veracode.
30913 - Recover from bad tracked-since value in MTBF-history file.
30914 Should fix bug 537.
30915 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
30916 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
30917 unhandled errors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
30918 - Make Unix controlsockets work correctly on OpenBSD. Patch from
30919 tup. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
30921 o Minor bugfixes (other):
30922 - If we have an extra-info document for our server, always make
30923 it available on the control port, even if we haven't gotten
30924 a copy of it from an authority yet. Patch from mwenge.
30925 - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c.
30926 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
30927 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
30928 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
30929 - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting.
30930 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten.
30931 - When starting as an authority, do not overwrite all certificates
30932 cached from other authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 606.
30933 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
30934 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
30935 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
30936 on the socket. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
30937 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
30938 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
30939 - Even though the man page said that "TrackHostExits ." should
30940 work, nobody had ever implemented it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
30941 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
30942 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
30943 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
30944 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
30945 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
30948 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
30949 - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused,
30950 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
30954 Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09
30955 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS
30956 handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address
30957 guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation
30958 for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable.
30961 - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
30962 Tor's x509 certificates.
30965 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
30966 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
30967 reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
30968 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
30969 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
30970 IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
30972 o Minor features (security):
30973 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
30974 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
30976 o Minor features (directory authority):
30977 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
30978 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
30979 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
30980 bandwidthburst values.
30982 o Minor features (controller):
30983 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue
30984 processes from running us out of memory.
30986 o Minor features (misc):
30987 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
30988 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
30989 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
30990 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
30992 o Deprecated features (controller):
30993 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
30994 GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol:
30995 treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
30998 - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop
30999 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix
31001 - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities
31002 listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not
31003 recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31004 - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert
31005 the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as
31006 a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31007 - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the
31008 library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix
31010 - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority
31011 signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31012 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
31013 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
31014 - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a
31015 private IP address (like 127.0.0.1).
31016 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
31017 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix
31019 - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control
31020 port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of
31021 connections, tell the controller that the request has failed.
31022 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few
31023 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
31024 - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure
31025 script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31026 - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like
31027 cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31028 - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all
31029 introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from
31030 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31032 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
31033 - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved
31035 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
31036 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
31037 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
31038 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
31039 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
31040 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
31043 Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25
31044 Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC,
31045 fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options
31046 that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with
31047 vulnerable-plaintext protocols.
31049 o New directory authorities:
31050 - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory
31054 - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS
31055 handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589.
31056 - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake
31057 code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while
31058 renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590.
31059 - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory
31060 responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients
31061 asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially
31065 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
31066 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
31067 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
31068 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
31069 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
31070 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
31071 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
31072 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
31073 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
31074 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any.
31077 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
31078 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
31079 - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than
31080 we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported
31084 - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if
31085 the request isn't encrypted.
31086 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
31087 - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more
31088 robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available;
31089 retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we
31090 already have a usable v0 rend desc.
31093 Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17
31094 Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops).
31097 - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball.
31100 Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17
31101 Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten
31102 Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs.
31104 o New directory authorities:
31105 - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory
31108 o Major performance improvements:
31109 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
31110 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
31111 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
31112 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
31113 memory fragmentation.
31116 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
31117 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
31118 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
31119 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
31120 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out
31121 there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such
31122 bodies when they receive them.
31123 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
31124 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
31125 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
31127 o Minor performance improvements:
31128 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
31129 of them were actually distinct.
31130 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is
31131 interested in a given message.
31134 - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to
31135 download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix
31136 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569.
31137 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
31138 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
31139 list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare
31140 bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222.
31141 - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client
31142 and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't
31143 anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor.
31144 - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on
31146 - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried
31147 to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583.
31148 - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest
31149 estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from
31150 this country" and "1 person from this country".
31151 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.
31152 - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in
31153 crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
31154 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
31155 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
31157 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
31158 router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.
31159 - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix
31161 - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present
31162 but client versions are not.
31163 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
31164 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
31166 - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're
31167 compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k
31168 left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
31169 - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service.
31170 - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre
31172 - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the
31173 control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current
31174 network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on
31177 o Minor features (controller):
31178 - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup.
31179 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
31180 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
31181 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
31183 o Minor features (directory authorities):
31184 - New configuration options to override default maximum number of
31185 servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
31186 running a test network on a single host.
31187 - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert.
31188 - Add a manual page for tor-gencert.
31190 o Minor features (bridges):
31191 - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over
31192 unencrypted connections.
31194 o Minor features (other):
31195 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
31196 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
31197 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
31198 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
31201 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
31202 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
31203 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
31204 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
31207 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
31208 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
31209 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
31210 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
31211 on network address.
31214 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
31215 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
31216 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
31217 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
31218 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
31219 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
31220 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
31221 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
31222 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
31223 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
31224 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
31225 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
31228 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
31229 rebuild our server descriptor.
31230 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
31231 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
31232 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
31233 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
31234 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
31235 nonstandard integer types.
31236 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
31237 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
31238 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
31239 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
31240 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
31242 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
31243 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
31244 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
31245 when they receive them.
31246 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
31247 This includes some 64-bit systems.
31248 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
31249 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
31250 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
31251 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
31252 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
31253 router_get_by_hexdigest().
31254 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
31255 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
31259 Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25
31260 Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the
31261 features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha.
31264 - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests
31265 for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This
31266 was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who
31267 would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash
31268 when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x.
31269 - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than
31270 estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority
31271 compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31274 - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation.
31275 - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was
31276 previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just
31277 ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes
31279 - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example
31280 self-reachability and authority-reachability tests.
31283 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
31284 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
31287 Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23
31289 - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh
31290 without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported
31292 - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be
31293 unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started
31294 fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we
31295 aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31296 - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first
31297 time you use a given introduction point for your service, but
31298 on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by
31299 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
31300 - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't
31301 currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on
31305 - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a
31306 snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to
31307 anybody who knows that password. Unset by default.
31310 - Make the unit tests build again.
31311 - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" actually work.
31312 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
31313 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
31314 - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to
31315 be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes
31316 bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31317 - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an
31318 identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard
31319 the next one as a duplicate.
31322 - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for
31323 PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3".
31324 - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set
31325 RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out.
31328 Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21
31329 Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff
31330 Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for
31333 o New directory authorities:
31334 - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory
31338 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
31339 enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick
31340 two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was
31341 causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been
31342 running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448.
31343 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
31344 service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix
31346 - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds
31347 after opening a circuit -- even a relayed circuit. Bugfix on
31349 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
31350 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
31351 crashing or mis-answering these types of requests.
31352 - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2
31353 directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only
31354 authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities.
31356 - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring
31357 the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose
31358 descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
31359 - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we
31360 were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the
31361 whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
31364 - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time
31365 intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they
31366 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
31367 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
31368 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
31369 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
31370 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
31371 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
31372 - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one
31373 of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses
31374 to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country.
31375 - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users
31376 are coming from, and report aggregate information in their
31377 extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn
31378 where Tor is blocked.
31379 - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the
31380 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
31381 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
31382 to a file periodically.
31383 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
31384 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
31385 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
31389 - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network
31390 consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single
31391 IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and
31392 also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed
31393 in the relevant networkstatus document.
31394 - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the
31395 PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman;
31396 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
31397 - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors
31398 that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried
31399 to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have
31400 crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch
31401 by Karsten Loesing.
31402 - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc.
31403 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
31404 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
31405 clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer.
31406 - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr
31407 via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31408 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
31409 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
31410 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
31411 "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
31412 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
31413 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
31414 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
31415 to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
31416 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
31417 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown
31418 routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.)
31419 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
31420 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
31421 nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
31422 - Fix compilation with --disable-threads set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31423 - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes
31424 bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31425 - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should
31426 create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors
31427 used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
31428 - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info
31429 documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
31432 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
31433 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
31434 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
31435 less often, now that v3 is encouraged.
31436 - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to
31437 be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes
31438 you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info,
31439 even if your DirPort isn't on.
31440 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
31441 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
31442 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
31444 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
31445 multiple controller passwords.
31446 - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given
31447 router based on the router's purpose.
31448 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
31449 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
31450 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
31451 the approved-routers file.
31454 Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16
31455 This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as
31456 well as a few minor bugs.
31459 - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup.
31460 - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes
31461 package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc.
31463 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
31464 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
31465 rebuild our server descriptor.
31467 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
31468 - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous
31469 operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing.
31470 - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a
31471 newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry.
31472 - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same
31473 IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting
31474 to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a
31475 given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they
31476 never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running'
31478 - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way
31479 the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know
31480 a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to
31481 fall back to asking the bridge authority.
31482 - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our
31483 chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards,
31484 then be flexible about families.
31487 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
31488 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
31489 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for
31493 Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12
31494 This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with
31495 the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit
31496 policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and
31497 fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list.
31500 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
31501 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
31502 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
31503 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
31504 on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
31507 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
31508 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix
31510 - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply
31511 because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22
31512 where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an
31513 old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the
31514 consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548.
31515 Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so,
31516 we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
31518 o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha:
31519 - We were including instructions about what to do with the
31520 src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually
31521 including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now.
31524 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
31525 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
31528 - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document
31529 just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend
31530 to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31533 Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10
31534 This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority
31535 run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service
31536 descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced
31537 in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation,
31538 fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and
31539 addresses many more minor issues.
31541 o New directory authorities:
31542 - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority.
31545 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
31546 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
31547 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
31548 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
31550 - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to
31551 implement new hidden service descriptor format.
31552 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
31553 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
31554 and are reaching it.
31555 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes
31556 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
31557 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
31558 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
31559 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
31560 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
31563 - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or
31564 maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported
31566 - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in
31567 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges
31568 no longer work for clients.
31569 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
31570 buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544.
31572 o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha):
31573 - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were
31574 mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the
31575 descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers
31576 would start complaining after a few days that they don't have
31577 enough directory information to build a circuit.
31578 - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive
31579 that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only
31580 considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help.
31581 - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the
31582 consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching
31583 the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it
31585 - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad
31586 Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending
31587 requests for all of them.
31588 - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes
31590 - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running
31591 for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly
31592 started authority would vote that everyone was down.
31594 o New requirements:
31595 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
31596 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
31600 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
31601 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
31602 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
31603 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
31604 - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus
31605 networkstatuses that we already have.
31606 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
31607 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
31608 we start knowing some directory caches.
31609 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
31610 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
31611 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
31612 - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that
31613 certificate's claims about the authority's IP address.
31614 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
31615 Good in combination with --hash-password.
31616 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
31617 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
31619 - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful.
31620 - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to
31621 track down the second incarnation of bug 546.
31623 o Minor features (bridges):
31624 - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest
31625 they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall
31626 back to trying the bridge directly.
31627 - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
31628 the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns.
31630 o Minor features (controller):
31631 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
31632 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
31633 report the value as a "minimum skew."
31636 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
31637 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
31641 - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix
31642 on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman.
31643 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
31644 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x;
31645 reported by tup and ioerror.
31646 - Better log message on vote from unknown authority.
31647 - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message.
31649 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
31650 - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix
31652 - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix
31653 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 536.
31654 - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on
31656 - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus.
31657 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
31658 - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature.
31659 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
31660 - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or
31661 a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
31662 - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on
31664 - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a
31665 Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when
31666 using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
31668 - Minor bugfixes (portability):
31669 - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned
31670 long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is
31671 OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In
31672 particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5.
31675 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
31676 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
31677 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
31678 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
31679 lists for a few hours each day.
31681 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
31682 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
31683 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
31684 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
31685 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
31686 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
31687 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
31688 rend_process_relay_cell().
31690 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
31691 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
31692 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
31693 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
31694 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
31695 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
31696 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
31697 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
31699 o Major bugfixes (other):
31700 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
31701 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
31702 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
31703 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
31704 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
31705 circuit cannibalization).
31706 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
31707 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
31708 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
31709 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
31710 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
31711 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
31714 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
31715 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
31717 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
31718 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
31719 absent. Resolves bug 467.
31720 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
31721 a way to trigger this remotely.)
31722 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
31723 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
31724 were reporting the dir port.)
31725 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
31726 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
31727 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
31728 the future. Fixes bug 434.
31729 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
31731 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
31732 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
31733 the onion key from getting rotated.
31734 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
31735 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
31736 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
31737 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
31738 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
31739 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
31740 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
31741 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
31742 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
31745 Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24
31746 This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory
31747 system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they
31748 have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other
31749 bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear
31750 from the network status lists for a few hours each day.
31752 o Major features (directory system):
31753 - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead
31754 of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their
31755 opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only
31756 download router descriptors listed in the consensus.
31757 - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as
31758 a different named server, but list them with a new flag,
31759 "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same
31760 nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
31761 disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122.
31762 - If the consensus lists a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned
31763 to a different router: do not identify the router by that name.
31764 Partially implements proposal 122.
31765 - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to
31766 compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility.
31769 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or
31770 when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish
31771 it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the
31772 authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule.
31774 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
31775 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
31776 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
31777 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
31778 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
31779 consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
31780 - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch
31781 extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not
31782 matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
31784 o Minor features (v3 directory protocol):
31785 - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing
31787 - Allow certificates to include an address.
31788 - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting
31789 and download operations.
31790 - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as
31791 we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet.
31792 - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading
31793 certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a
31794 consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure,
31795 and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a
31797 - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a
31798 little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are
31801 o Minor features (router descriptor cache):
31802 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
31803 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
31804 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
31806 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
31807 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
31808 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
31810 o Minor features (performance):
31811 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
31812 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
31813 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
31814 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
31815 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
31816 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
31817 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
31820 o Minor features (compilation):
31821 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
31822 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
31824 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
31825 - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately
31826 after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them
31827 stick around indefinitely.
31828 - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as
31830 - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a
31831 v3 directory authority.
31832 - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed
31833 as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct
31835 - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put
31836 its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to
31837 "moria on moria:9031."
31838 - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and
31839 detached signatures for a divergent vote.
31840 - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus.
31841 - When there's no consensus, we were forming a vote every 30
31842 minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based
31843 on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals
31844 matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't
31845 start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote.
31847 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
31848 - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set.
31849 - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately
31850 after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice.
31851 - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus
31852 should exist before trying to replace the current one.
31853 - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus
31854 downloads than for other types.
31856 o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues):
31857 - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on
31859 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
31860 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
31861 supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
31863 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
31864 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
31865 option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
31866 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
31867 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
31868 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
31869 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
31870 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
31872 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
31873 - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor"
31874 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman.
31875 - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make
31876 it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
31877 - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to
31878 fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough
31879 info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31880 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
31881 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
31882 yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix
31884 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
31885 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix
31888 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
31889 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
31890 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
31891 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
31892 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
31893 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
31894 - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory.
31895 - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c.
31896 - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server
31897 so that they all take the same named flags.
31900 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
31901 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
31902 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
31905 Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12
31906 This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering
31907 us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge
31908 descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working,
31909 starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors,
31910 and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks.
31912 o Major features (router descriptor cache):
31913 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
31914 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
31915 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
31916 annotations along with descriptors.
31917 - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its
31918 source, and its purpose.
31919 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
31921 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
31922 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
31923 - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning
31924 we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them
31927 o Major features (directory authorities):
31928 - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries
31930 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as
31931 weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding
31932 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
31933 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
31934 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
31935 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
31937 o Major features (v3 directory system):
31938 - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed,
31939 and download the descriptors listed in them.
31940 - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority
31941 certificates, and re-attempt after failures.
31942 - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing.
31944 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
31945 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
31946 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
31947 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on
31950 o Major bugfixes (performance):
31951 - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of
31952 routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info "
31953 string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo
31954 we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like.
31956 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
31957 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
31958 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
31959 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
31960 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
31961 eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
31963 o Minor features (v3 authority system):
31964 - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the
31966 - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or
31967 certificate is requested.
31968 - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of
31969 certificate requests.
31971 o Minor bugfixes (network statuses):
31972 - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most
31973 two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location
31974 of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on
31977 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
31978 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
31979 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
31980 were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
31982 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system):
31983 - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on
31985 - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already
31986 set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may
31987 have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
31988 - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule.
31989 - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting
31990 schedule, not on our preferred schedule.
31991 - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and
31992 downloads more sensible.
31993 - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and
31994 another when serving certificates.
31996 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
31997 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
31998 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
31999 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
32001 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state
32002 file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
32003 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on
32005 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
32006 command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
32008 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
32009 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
32010 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
32011 - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases.
32012 Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha.
32014 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
32015 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
32016 WARN-severity events.
32017 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
32018 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is
32019 fishy. Resolves bug 463.
32021 o Minor bugfixes (anonymity):
32022 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
32023 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
32025 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
32026 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
32027 circuit cannibalization).
32029 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
32030 - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code.
32031 - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a
32032 new module, networkstatus.c.
32033 - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into
32034 routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each
32035 authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally
32036 computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally
32037 modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common
32038 stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use,
32039 clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions;
32040 thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone.
32041 - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more
32043 - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to
32045 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
32046 The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha.
32049 Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21
32050 This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge
32051 authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws
32052 in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues.
32054 o New directory authorities:
32055 - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See
32056 doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design.
32058 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
32059 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
32060 rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32062 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
32063 - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to
32064 attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers
32065 to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort,
32066 and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
32067 - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge
32068 users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity
32069 fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the
32070 default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits
32071 are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later
32072 connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
32074 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
32075 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
32076 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
32077 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
32078 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
32079 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
32080 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both
32081 are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service
32082 connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing.
32084 o Minor features (security):
32085 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
32086 address maps to an internal address space.
32087 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
32088 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
32090 o Minor features (guard nodes):
32091 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
32092 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
32093 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
32094 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
32096 o Minor features (speed):
32097 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
32098 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
32099 network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e.,
32100 on big-endian hosts.)
32102 o Minor features (controller):
32103 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
32104 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
32105 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
32106 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
32109 o Removed features:
32110 - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their
32111 descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info
32112 documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60%
32113 (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes
32114 implementation of proposal 104.
32115 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
32116 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
32117 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
32118 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
32119 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
32120 patch from Karsten Loesing.
32121 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
32122 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
32125 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
32126 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes
32127 bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
32128 - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault
32129 in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32130 - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
32131 Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
32132 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
32133 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves
32134 bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32135 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
32136 BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
32137 were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and
32138 RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32139 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
32140 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
32141 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
32142 code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32143 - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status.
32144 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode.
32146 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
32147 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
32148 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
32150 - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type.
32151 - Move all NT services code into a separate source file.
32152 - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc.
32153 - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies.
32156 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
32157 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
32158 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
32159 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
32160 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
32163 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
32164 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
32167 o Major bugfixes (security):
32168 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
32169 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
32170 become more of a headache than it's worth.
32172 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
32173 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
32174 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
32176 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
32177 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
32178 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
32179 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
32180 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
32181 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
32183 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
32184 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
32185 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
32186 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
32187 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
32189 o Minor features (controller):
32190 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
32191 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
32192 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
32193 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
32195 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
32196 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
32197 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
32198 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
32199 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
32200 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
32201 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
32202 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
32204 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
32205 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
32206 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
32207 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
32208 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
32209 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
32210 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
32211 if we ran off the end of the list.
32212 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
32213 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
32214 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
32215 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
32216 every time we change any piece of our config.
32217 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
32218 encourage people using them to stop.
32219 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
32221 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
32222 servers to choose a circuit.
32223 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
32224 unparseable piece of it.
32227 Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26
32228 This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the
32229 Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for
32230 the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
32233 In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems
32234 with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many
32235 people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new
32236 mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable,
32237 rather than just looking at the most recent uptime.
32239 o New directory authorities:
32240 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
32243 - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted
32244 mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data,
32245 use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether
32246 to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108.
32248 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
32249 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
32250 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
32252 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
32253 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
32254 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
32255 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
32256 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
32257 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
32259 o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing):
32260 - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug
32261 found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32264 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
32265 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
32266 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
32267 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
32271 - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added
32272 routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x)
32273 - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected
32274 address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix
32276 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
32277 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
32279 - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0"
32280 in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the
32281 new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman.
32282 - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that
32283 conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman.
32284 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
32285 servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32286 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
32287 unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32288 - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit.
32291 Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
32292 This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again;
32293 fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put
32294 extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory
32295 voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based
32296 authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs.
32298 o Removed features:
32299 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
32300 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
32301 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
32302 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
32305 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
32306 - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
32307 - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
32308 not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
32309 - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
32312 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
32313 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
32314 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
32315 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
32316 circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454;
32317 reported by lodger.
32319 o Minor features (directory servers):
32320 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
32321 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
32323 o Minor features (directory voting):
32324 - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
32327 o Minor features (security):
32328 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
32329 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
32330 encourage people using them to stop.
32332 o Minor features (controller):
32333 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
32334 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
32335 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
32336 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
32337 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
32338 cookie authentication file, and config option
32339 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
32341 o Minor features (unit testing):
32342 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
32343 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
32344 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
32345 logging for the unit tests.
32347 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
32348 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
32349 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
32350 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
32351 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
32352 every time we change any piece of our config.
32353 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
32354 the future. Fixes bug 434.
32355 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
32357 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
32358 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
32359 the onion key from getting rotated.
32360 - Clean up torrc sample config file.
32361 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
32362 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
32365 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
32366 - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
32367 the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
32369 - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes
32370 try to print a NULL. Patch from tup.
32371 - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
32372 - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
32375 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
32376 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
32377 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
32378 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
32379 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
32380 TorK, etc. Or worse.
32382 o Major security fixes:
32383 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
32384 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
32387 Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
32388 This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability
32389 for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody
32390 should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha.
32392 o Major security fixes:
32393 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
32394 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
32396 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
32397 - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
32400 o Minor features (performance):
32401 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
32402 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
32403 performance-intensive.
32404 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
32405 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
32406 now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
32407 powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
32408 slightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
32409 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
32413 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
32414 This third development snapshot introduces new experimental
32415 blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3
32416 directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features
32420 - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
32421 are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
32422 people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
32423 with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
32424 See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
32426 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
32427 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
32428 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
32429 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
32431 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
32432 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
32433 on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
32434 - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
32435 traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
32437 o Major features (experimental):
32438 - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
32439 vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
32440 their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
32441 handling before it's ready for use.
32444 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
32445 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
32446 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
32447 complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
32448 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
32449 Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
32451 - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
32452 procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
32453 some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
32454 solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
32455 the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
32457 o Major bugfixes (directory):
32458 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
32459 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
32461 o Minor features (controller):
32462 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
32463 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
32464 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
32465 from Robert Hogan.)
32466 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
32467 from Robert Hogan.)
32468 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
32469 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
32471 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
32472 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
32473 support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
32474 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
32475 tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
32476 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
32477 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
32480 o Minor features (misc):
32481 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
32483 - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
32484 files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
32485 the authority identity key.
32486 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
32488 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
32489 - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
32490 if they generate a network status document that is somehow
32493 o Traffic load balancing improvements:
32494 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
32495 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
32496 (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
32497 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
32498 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
32499 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
32500 if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
32502 o Performance improvements:
32503 - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
32505 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
32506 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
32509 o Deprecated and removed features:
32510 - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
32511 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
32512 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
32513 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
32515 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
32516 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
32517 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
32518 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
32519 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
32520 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
32521 - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
32522 suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
32523 servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
32526 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
32527 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
32528 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
32529 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
32530 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
32532 - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
32533 changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
32536 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
32537 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
32538 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
32539 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
32540 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
32541 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
32542 from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
32543 - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
32544 events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
32547 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
32548 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
32549 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
32550 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
32552 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
32553 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
32555 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
32556 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
32557 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
32558 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
32559 routerlist while inserting a new router.
32560 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
32561 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
32563 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
32564 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
32565 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
32567 o Major bugfixes (security):
32568 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
32570 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
32571 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
32572 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
32573 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
32574 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
32575 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
32576 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
32577 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
32578 guard list unless we need to.
32580 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
32581 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
32582 don't get overused as guards.
32584 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
32585 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
32586 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
32587 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
32588 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
32590 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
32591 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
32592 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
32595 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
32596 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
32597 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
32598 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
32599 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
32600 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
32601 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
32602 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
32605 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
32606 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
32607 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
32608 Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
32610 o Minor features (directory):
32611 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
32612 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
32613 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
32614 are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
32616 o Minor build issues:
32617 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
32618 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
32619 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
32620 in the tarball, not as "x".
32623 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
32624 This early development snapshot provides new features for people running
32625 Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth
32626 config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us
32627 forward on a lot of fronts.
32629 o Major features, server usability:
32630 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
32631 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
32632 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
32633 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
32635 o Major features, client usability:
32636 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
32637 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
32638 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
32639 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
32640 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
32641 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
32642 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
32643 do all of their connections protected by TLS.
32645 o Major features, performance and efficiency:
32646 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
32647 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
32648 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
32649 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
32650 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
32652 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
32653 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
32654 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
32656 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
32657 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
32658 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
32659 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
32660 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
32662 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
32663 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
32664 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
32665 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
32667 o Major features, other:
32668 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
32669 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
32670 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
32671 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
32672 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
32675 - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
32676 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
32677 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
32680 o Minor fixes (resource management):
32681 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
32682 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
32683 our allocated connection limit.
32684 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
32685 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
32686 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
32687 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
32688 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
32690 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
32691 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
32692 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
32694 o Minor features (build):
32695 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
32696 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
32697 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
32698 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
32700 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
32701 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
32702 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
32703 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
32704 Use this version consistently in log messages.
32706 o Minor features (logging):
32707 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
32708 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
32709 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
32710 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
32711 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
32714 o Minor features (directory system):
32715 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
32716 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
32717 not to serve V2 directory information.
32718 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
32719 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
32720 implementing proposal 104 simpler.
32722 o Minor features (controller):
32723 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
32724 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
32726 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
32727 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
32728 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
32729 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
32730 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
32731 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
32733 o Minor features (hidden services):
32734 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
32735 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
32736 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
32737 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
32739 o Minor features (other):
32741 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
32742 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
32743 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
32744 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
32745 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
32746 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
32747 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
32748 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
32749 longer a completely silly thing to do.
32750 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
32751 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
32752 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
32753 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
32755 o Removed features:
32756 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
32757 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
32758 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
32759 back an error and close the connection.
32760 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
32761 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
32764 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
32765 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
32766 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
32767 makes the log messages nicer.
32768 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
32769 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
32770 partial results on small file reads.
32772 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
32773 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
32774 more often than they are allowed to appear.
32775 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
32776 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
32778 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
32779 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
32780 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
32781 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
32783 o Minor bugfixes (other):
32784 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
32785 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
32786 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
32787 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
32788 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
32789 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
32790 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
32791 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
32792 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
32793 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
32795 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
32796 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
32797 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
32799 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
32800 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
32801 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
32802 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
32804 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
32805 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
32806 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
32808 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
32809 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
32812 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
32813 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
32814 implicit in other procedure arguments.
32815 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
32816 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
32817 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
32818 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
32819 properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
32820 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
32821 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
32822 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
32823 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
32826 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
32827 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
32828 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
32829 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
32831 o Directory authority changes:
32832 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
32833 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
32834 or use hidden services.
32836 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
32837 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
32838 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
32839 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
32840 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
32841 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
32842 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
32843 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
32844 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
32847 o Major bugfixes (security):
32848 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
32849 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
32850 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
32852 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
32853 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
32854 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
32855 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
32856 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
32857 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
32858 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
32859 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
32860 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
32861 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
32864 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
32865 purpose=controller.
32866 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
32867 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
32869 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
32870 having a hard time downloading.
32871 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
32872 partial results on small file reads.
32873 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
32874 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
32875 the gaps in the store get very large.
32878 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
32879 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
32881 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
32882 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
32885 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
32886 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
32887 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
32888 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
32889 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
32890 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
32892 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
32893 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
32894 free speech on the Internet.
32897 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
32898 get one we don't recognize.
32899 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
32900 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
32903 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
32905 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
32906 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
32907 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
32908 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
32911 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
32912 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
32915 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
32916 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
32917 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
32918 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
32919 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
32920 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
32921 ask for GUARDS too.
32924 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
32925 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
32926 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
32927 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
32928 on Win98 and friends again.
32930 o Minor bugfixes (other):
32931 - Clarify a couple of log messages.
32932 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
32935 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
32936 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
32937 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
32938 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
32939 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
32940 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
32941 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
32942 and maybe also bug 397.)
32944 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
32945 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
32946 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
32948 o Minor bugfixes (server):
32949 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
32952 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
32953 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
32954 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
32955 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
32956 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
32958 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
32959 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
32960 load on authorities.
32962 o Minor bugfixes (other):
32963 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
32964 cleared EntryNodes. Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.
32965 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
32967 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
32969 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
32970 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
32971 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
32972 the last of bug 326.)
32973 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
32974 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
32978 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
32979 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
32980 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
32981 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
32982 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
32983 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
32984 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
32986 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
32987 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
32989 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
32990 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
32991 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
32993 o Major bugfixes (accounting):
32994 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
32995 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
32997 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
32998 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
32999 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
33000 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. Resolves part
33002 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
33003 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
33005 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
33006 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
33007 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
33010 o Minor bugfixes (other):
33011 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
33012 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
33013 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
33014 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
33015 from all known directories, not that it will have the average
33016 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
33017 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
33018 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
33019 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
33020 user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
33021 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
33022 other than file-not-found.
33023 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
33024 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
33025 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
33026 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
33027 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
33028 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
33029 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
33030 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
33031 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
33032 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
33033 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
33034 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
33035 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
33036 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
33037 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
33039 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
33041 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
33042 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
33044 o Minor features (controller):
33045 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
33046 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
33047 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
33049 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
33050 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
33051 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
33052 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
33053 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
33054 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
33055 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
33056 connected or resolved cell.
33058 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
33059 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
33060 some profiles, but not others.)
33061 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
33062 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
33063 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
33066 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
33068 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
33069 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
33070 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
33071 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
33072 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
33073 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
33074 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
33075 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
33076 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
33077 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
33078 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
33079 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
33080 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
33081 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
33082 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
33084 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
33087 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
33088 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
33089 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
33090 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
33091 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
33092 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
33093 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
33095 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
33096 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
33097 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
33098 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
33099 buckets go absurdly negative.
33100 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
33101 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
33104 o Major bugfixes (NT services):
33105 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
33106 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
33107 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
33108 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
33109 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
33110 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
33111 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
33114 o Major bugfixes (other):
33115 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
33116 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
33117 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
33118 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
33120 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
33122 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
33123 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
33125 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
33126 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
33127 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
33128 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
33129 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
33130 to wait for 0.2.0.)
33132 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
33133 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
33134 possible memory-stomping bugs.
33135 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
33136 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
33138 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
33139 in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
33140 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
33141 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
33142 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
33143 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
33145 o Minor bugfixes (other):
33146 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
33147 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
33148 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
33150 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
33151 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
33152 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
33153 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
33154 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
33155 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
33156 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
33157 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
33158 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
33159 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
33160 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
33161 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
33162 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
33164 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
33165 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
33166 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
33167 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
33168 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
33169 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
33170 to the resulting address.
33173 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
33174 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
33175 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
33176 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
33179 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
33180 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
33182 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
33183 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
33184 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
33185 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
33186 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
33187 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
33188 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
33189 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
33190 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
33191 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
33192 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
33193 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
33194 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
33195 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
33196 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
33197 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
33198 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
33201 o Minor features (controller):
33202 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
33203 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
33204 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
33205 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
33206 - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
33207 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
33208 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
33212 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
33214 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
33215 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
33216 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
33217 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
33218 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
33219 Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
33222 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
33223 weren't planning to resolve.
33224 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
33225 unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
33226 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
33227 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
33228 the controller from learning about current events.
33230 o Minor features (more controller status events):
33231 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
33232 learn when our address changes.
33233 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
33234 can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
33235 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
33236 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
33238 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
33239 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
33240 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
33241 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
33242 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
33243 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
33244 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
33245 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
33246 are accepted by a directory.
33247 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
33248 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
33249 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
33250 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
33251 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
33253 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
33254 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
33255 about changes to DNS server status.
33257 o Minor features (directory):
33258 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
33259 too much load to the exit nodes.
33262 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
33264 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
33265 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
33266 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
33267 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
33268 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
33270 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
33271 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
33272 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
33274 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
33275 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
33276 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
33277 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
33278 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
33279 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
33280 config options if you like.
33282 o Minor features (config and docs):
33283 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
33284 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
33285 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
33286 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
33287 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
33289 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
33290 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
33291 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
33292 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
33293 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
33295 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
33296 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
33297 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
33298 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
33299 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
33300 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
33301 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
33302 documentation: "make check-docs".
33303 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
33304 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
33306 o Minor features (DNS):
33307 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
33308 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
33309 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
33310 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
33311 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
33312 our tests for DNS hijacking.
33314 o Minor features (directory):
33315 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
33316 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
33317 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
33318 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
33319 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
33320 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
33321 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
33322 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
33323 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
33324 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
33325 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
33326 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
33327 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
33328 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
33329 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
33330 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
33331 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
33332 for the thing we're trying to download.
33333 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
33334 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
33335 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
33337 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
33338 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
33339 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
33342 o Minor features (controller):
33343 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
33344 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
33346 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
33347 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
33348 entry guard status as it changes.
33350 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
33351 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
33352 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
33353 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
33354 to set log options.
33355 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
33356 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
33357 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
33358 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
33361 o Major bugfixes (security):
33362 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
33363 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
33364 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
33365 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
33367 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
33368 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
33369 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
33370 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
33371 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
33373 o Major bugfixes (other):
33374 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
33375 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
33376 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
33377 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
33379 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
33380 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
33381 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
33382 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
33383 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
33384 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
33388 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
33389 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
33390 unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
33391 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
33392 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
33394 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
33395 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
33397 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
33398 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
33399 family lists conveniently.
33400 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
33401 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
33402 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
33404 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
33405 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
33407 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
33408 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
33409 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
33410 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
33411 if their identity keys are as expected.
33412 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
33413 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
33414 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
33416 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
33417 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
33418 reported by Mike Perry.
33419 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
33420 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
33421 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
33422 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
33425 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
33426 o Security bugfixes:
33427 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
33428 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
33429 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
33430 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
33434 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
33435 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
33436 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
33439 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
33441 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
33442 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
33443 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
33446 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
33447 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
33448 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
33449 watching for STREAM events.
33450 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
33451 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
33452 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
33453 operations, for profiling.
33456 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
33457 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
33458 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
33459 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
33460 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
33461 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
33463 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
33467 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
33468 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
33469 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
33470 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
33471 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
33473 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
33474 correctly in the Windows installer.
33475 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
33476 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
33477 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
33478 MIPSpro C compiler.
33479 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
33480 when we're running as a client.
33483 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
33485 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
33486 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
33487 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
33488 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
33489 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
33490 its circuits on demand.
33491 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
33492 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
33493 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
33494 connections more stable on average.
33495 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
33496 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
33497 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
33499 o Security bugfixes:
33500 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
33501 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
33504 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
33506 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
33507 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
33508 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
33509 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
33510 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
33511 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
33512 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
33513 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
33516 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
33518 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
33519 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
33520 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
33521 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
33522 routers for even longer.
33523 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
33524 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
33525 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
33526 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
33527 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
33528 caching HTTP proxies.
33529 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
33532 o Minor features, controller:
33533 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
33534 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
33535 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
33536 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
33538 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
33539 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
33540 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
33541 working much like those for circuit events.
33542 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
33543 about the current status of a router.
33544 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
33545 a router's status has changed.
33546 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
33547 can tell which events and features are supported.
33548 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
33549 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
33551 o Security bugfixes:
33552 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
33553 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
33556 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
33557 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
33558 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
33559 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
33560 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
33561 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
33562 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
33563 long nicknames where appropriate.
33564 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
33565 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
33566 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
33567 chews through many circuits before giving up.
33568 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
33569 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
33570 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
33571 stop. Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.
33572 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
33573 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
33575 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
33576 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
33577 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
33579 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
33580 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
33581 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
33582 with mmap). This bug was harmless.
33583 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
33584 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
33585 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
33586 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
33587 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
33588 (reported by fookoowa).
33589 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
33590 and reported by some Centos users.
33591 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
33592 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
33593 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
33594 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
33595 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
33596 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
33597 before we check for libevent.
33600 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
33602 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
33603 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
33604 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
33605 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
33606 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
33607 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
33608 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
33609 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
33610 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
33611 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
33612 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
33613 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
33614 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
33615 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
33616 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
33617 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
33618 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
33619 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
33620 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
33621 lets you turn it off.
33622 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
33623 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
33624 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
33625 us into the directory more quickly.
33627 o New/improved config options:
33628 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
33629 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
33630 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
33631 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
33632 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
33633 all the machines on the same subnet.
33634 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
33635 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
33636 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
33637 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
33638 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
33639 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
33640 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
33641 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
33642 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
33643 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
33645 o Minor features, controller:
33646 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
33647 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
33648 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
33649 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
33650 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
33651 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
33652 for more information.
33653 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
33654 best guess to the user.
33655 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
33656 descriptor has changed.
33657 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
33659 o Minor features, other:
33660 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
33661 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
33662 useful to the network.
33663 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
33664 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
33665 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
33666 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
33667 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
33668 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
33669 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
33670 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
33671 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
33672 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
33673 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
33674 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
33675 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
33676 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
33677 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
33679 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
33680 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
33681 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
33682 could return an unnamed server instead.
33683 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
33684 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
33685 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
33686 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
33687 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
33688 a more attractive target for compromise.)
33689 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
33690 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
33691 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
33693 o Major bugfixes, other:
33694 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
33695 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
33696 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
33697 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
33698 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
33699 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
33700 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
33701 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
33702 its circuits on demand.
33703 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
33704 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
33705 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
33706 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
33708 o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
33709 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
33710 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
33711 we don't recognize.
33712 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
33714 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
33715 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
33716 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
33717 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
33718 "extendcircuit" request.
33719 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
33720 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
33721 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
33723 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
33724 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
33725 instead of "X resolved to X".
33726 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
33727 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
33728 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
33729 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
33730 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
33731 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
33732 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
33733 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
33734 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
33736 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
33737 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
33738 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
33739 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
33740 result more than once.
33741 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
33742 non-versioning dirservers.
33743 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
33744 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
33746 o Minor bugfixes, performance:
33747 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
33748 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
33749 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
33750 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
33751 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
33752 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
33753 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
33754 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
33756 o Packaging, features:
33757 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
33758 now universal binaries.
33759 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
33760 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
33761 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
33763 o Packaging, bugfixes:
33764 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
33765 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
33766 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
33767 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
33769 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
33770 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
33771 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
33774 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
33775 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
33776 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
33780 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
33782 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
33783 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
33784 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
33785 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
33786 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
33787 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
33788 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
33789 it can't resolve its hostname.
33792 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
33793 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
33794 "extendcircuit" request.
33795 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
33796 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
33797 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
33798 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
33800 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
33801 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
33802 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
33804 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
33805 methods: these are known to be buggy.
33806 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
33807 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
33808 we don't recognize.
33811 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
33813 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
33814 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
33815 --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
33816 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
33817 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
33818 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
33819 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
33820 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
33821 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
33822 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
33823 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
33824 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
33825 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
33826 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
33827 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
33828 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
33829 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
33830 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
33831 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
33832 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
33833 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
33834 /16 network when constructing a circuit.
33835 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
33836 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
33839 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
33840 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
33841 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
33842 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
33843 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
33844 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
33845 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
33846 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
33847 recommendation system saner.)
33848 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
33850 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
33851 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
33852 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
33853 - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
33854 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
33855 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
33856 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
33857 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
33858 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
33859 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
33860 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
33861 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
33862 your ORPort is set.
33863 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
33864 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
33865 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
33866 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
33867 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
33868 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
33869 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
33870 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
33871 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
33872 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
33873 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
33874 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
33876 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
33877 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
33878 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
33879 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
33880 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
33881 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
33884 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
33885 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
33886 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
33887 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
33888 our DirPort now, etc.
33889 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
33890 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
33891 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
33892 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
33893 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
33894 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
33895 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
33897 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
33898 whether the config options are bad or good.
33899 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
33900 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
33901 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
33902 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
33903 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
33904 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
33905 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
33906 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
33909 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
33910 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
33911 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
33912 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
33913 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
33914 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
33915 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
33916 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
33917 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
33918 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
33919 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
33920 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
33921 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
33922 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
33923 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
33924 of it), is not therefore "up".
33925 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
33926 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
33927 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
33928 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
33929 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
33930 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
33933 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
33935 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
33936 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
33937 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
33938 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
33939 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
33940 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
33941 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
33942 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
33943 test reachability, so you won't publish.
33946 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
33947 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
33948 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
33949 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
33950 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
33952 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
33953 own server descriptor yet.
33956 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
33958 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
33959 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
33960 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
33961 make sure to test via one of these.
33962 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
33963 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
33964 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
33965 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
33966 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
33968 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
33969 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
33970 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
33973 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
33974 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
33975 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
33976 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
33977 directory authority.
33978 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
33979 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
33980 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
33981 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
33984 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
33985 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
33986 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
33988 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
33989 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
33990 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
33991 current guards when picking a new guard.
33992 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
33993 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
33994 when we had more than one pending.
33995 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
33996 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
33997 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
33998 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
33999 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
34000 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
34001 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
34002 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
34003 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
34004 debug the reachability problems better.
34006 o Log / documentation fixes:
34007 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
34008 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
34009 about protocol violations by others.
34010 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
34011 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
34012 about what happened to our old torrc.
34015 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
34017 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
34019 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
34020 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
34021 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
34022 more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
34025 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
34027 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
34028 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
34029 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
34030 old ORPort and receive connections.
34031 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
34033 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
34034 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
34035 and network-statuses.
34036 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
34037 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
34038 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
34039 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
34041 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
34044 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
34045 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
34046 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
34049 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
34051 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
34052 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
34053 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
34054 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
34055 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
34058 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
34059 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
34061 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
34062 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
34063 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
34064 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
34065 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
34066 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
34067 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
34068 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
34069 rather than not sending anything back at all.
34070 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
34071 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
34072 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
34073 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
34074 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
34075 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
34076 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
34077 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
34078 clients more convinced that it's recommended.
34079 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
34080 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
34081 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
34082 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
34083 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
34084 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
34085 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
34086 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
34087 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
34088 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
34089 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
34090 default ulimit -n is 1024.
34093 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
34094 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
34095 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
34096 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
34099 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
34101 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
34102 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
34103 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
34104 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
34105 entry guards running these flawed versions.
34106 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
34107 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
34108 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
34109 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
34110 include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
34113 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
34114 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
34116 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
34117 and it is confusing some users.
34118 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
34119 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
34120 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
34121 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
34122 win32 versions it thinks it's found.
34125 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
34127 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
34128 message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
34129 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
34130 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
34131 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
34132 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
34133 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
34134 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
34135 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
34136 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
34137 dirport is set for now.
34139 o New config options rather than constants in the code:
34140 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
34141 unattached before we fail it?
34142 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
34143 at least this many seconds ago.
34144 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
34145 at least this many seconds ago.
34148 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
34149 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
34150 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
34151 or resolve-wait stream.
34152 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
34153 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
34154 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
34155 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
34156 can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
34157 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
34158 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
34159 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
34161 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
34162 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
34163 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
34164 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
34165 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
34166 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
34167 given as hex digests.
34168 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
34169 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
34170 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
34171 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
34172 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
34173 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
34174 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
34175 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
34178 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
34179 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
34180 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
34181 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
34182 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
34183 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
34184 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
34185 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
34186 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
34187 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
34188 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
34191 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
34192 directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
34193 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
34194 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
34195 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
34196 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
34197 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
34200 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
34201 o Bugfixes and cleanups:
34202 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
34203 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
34204 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
34205 misreading their logs.
34206 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
34207 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
34208 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
34209 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
34210 valid router descriptors.
34211 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
34212 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
34213 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
34214 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
34215 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
34216 silently resetting it to its default.
34217 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
34219 - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
34222 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
34223 use clean circuits.
34224 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
34225 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
34226 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
34227 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
34228 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
34230 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
34231 because older Tors do not understand it.
34232 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
34236 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
34237 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
34238 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
34239 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
34240 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
34241 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
34242 fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
34243 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
34244 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
34245 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
34246 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
34248 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
34249 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
34250 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
34251 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
34253 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
34254 permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
34257 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
34258 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
34259 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
34260 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
34261 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
34262 without getting overloaded.
34263 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
34265 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
34266 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
34267 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
34268 be forward-compatible.
34269 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
34270 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
34271 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
34272 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
34274 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
34275 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
34276 and OR conns to port 443.
34277 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
34278 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
34280 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
34281 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
34282 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
34283 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
34284 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
34285 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
34286 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
34289 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
34290 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
34291 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
34292 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
34294 o Other important bugfixes:
34295 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
34296 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
34297 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
34298 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
34300 o Backported features:
34301 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
34302 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
34303 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
34304 without getting overloaded.
34305 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
34306 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
34307 503's whenever they feel busy.
34308 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
34309 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
34310 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
34311 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
34312 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
34315 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
34316 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
34317 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
34318 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
34319 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
34320 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
34321 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
34322 know if the crashes continue.
34323 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
34324 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
34325 seg faults in at least some cases.)
34326 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
34327 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
34328 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
34331 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
34332 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
34333 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
34334 try to be a bit more fair.
34335 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
34336 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
34337 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
34338 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
34339 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
34340 bug that let it go negative.
34341 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
34342 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
34343 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
34344 transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
34345 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
34346 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
34347 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
34348 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
34349 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
34350 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
34351 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
34354 - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running
34356 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
34357 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
34358 service descriptors.
34361 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
34362 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
34363 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
34364 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
34366 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
34367 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
34368 versions *are* still recommended.
34369 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
34370 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
34371 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
34372 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
34373 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
34374 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
34375 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
34376 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
34378 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
34379 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
34380 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
34381 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
34382 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
34383 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
34384 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
34385 on it. Not used by clients yet.
34386 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
34387 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
34388 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
34389 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
34390 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
34391 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
34392 established a circuit.
34393 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
34394 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
34395 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
34396 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
34399 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
34400 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
34401 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
34402 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
34403 quickly enough. Oops.
34404 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
34406 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
34407 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
34410 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
34411 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
34412 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
34413 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
34414 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
34415 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
34416 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
34417 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
34418 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
34419 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
34420 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
34421 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
34422 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
34423 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
34424 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
34425 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
34426 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
34429 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
34430 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
34431 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
34432 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
34433 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
34434 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
34435 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
34436 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
34437 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
34438 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
34439 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
34440 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
34441 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
34442 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
34443 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
34444 connections more reliable.
34447 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
34448 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
34449 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
34450 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
34451 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
34452 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
34453 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
34454 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
34455 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
34456 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
34457 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
34458 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
34459 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
34460 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
34464 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
34465 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
34466 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
34467 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
34468 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
34469 need to be uint64_t's.
34470 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
34471 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
34472 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
34474 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
34476 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
34477 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
34478 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
34479 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
34480 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
34481 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
34482 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
34484 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
34485 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
34486 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
34487 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
34488 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
34489 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
34490 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
34491 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
34492 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
34493 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
34494 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
34495 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
34496 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
34499 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
34500 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
34501 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
34502 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
34503 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
34504 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
34505 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
34507 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
34508 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
34509 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
34510 can answer v2 directory requests too.
34511 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
34512 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
34513 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
34514 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
34516 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
34517 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
34518 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
34519 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
34520 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
34521 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
34522 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
34523 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
34524 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
34525 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
34526 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
34527 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
34528 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
34529 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
34530 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
34532 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
34533 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
34536 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
34537 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
34538 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
34539 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
34540 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
34541 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
34542 too -- so detect and avoid this.
34543 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
34545 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
34546 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
34547 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
34548 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
34549 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
34550 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
34551 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
34552 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
34553 rendezvous circuits.
34554 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
34556 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
34557 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
34558 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
34559 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
34560 advertising it because of hibernation.
34561 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
34562 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
34563 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
34564 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
34565 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
34566 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
34567 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
34568 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
34569 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
34570 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
34571 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
34572 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
34573 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
34574 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
34577 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
34578 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
34579 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
34580 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
34581 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
34582 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
34583 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
34584 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
34585 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
34586 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
34587 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
34588 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
34589 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
34590 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
34591 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
34592 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
34593 connections once a week.
34594 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
34595 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
34596 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
34597 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
34598 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
34599 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
34601 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
34602 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
34603 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
34605 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
34606 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
34607 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
34608 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
34609 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
34610 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
34611 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
34612 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
34613 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
34614 firewall options forbid.
34615 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
34616 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
34617 can only proxy to certain destinations.
34618 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
34619 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
34620 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
34621 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
34622 aids some statistical attacks.
34623 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
34624 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
34625 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
34626 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
34628 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
34629 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
34630 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
34631 server descriptor sometimes.
34632 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
34633 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
34634 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
34635 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
34636 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
34637 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
34638 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
34639 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
34641 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
34642 case the controller wants to change that too.
34643 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
34644 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
34645 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
34646 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
34648 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
34649 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
34650 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
34652 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
34653 descriptors that they know they will reject.
34655 o Features and updates:
34656 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
34657 significantly faster.
34658 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
34659 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
34660 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
34661 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
34662 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
34663 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
34664 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
34665 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
34666 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
34667 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
34668 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
34669 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
34670 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
34671 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
34672 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
34673 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
34674 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
34675 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
34676 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
34677 as authoritative dirserver.
34678 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
34679 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
34680 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
34683 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
34684 o Usability improvements:
34685 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
34686 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
34688 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
34689 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
34690 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
34692 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
34693 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
34694 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
34695 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
34696 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
34697 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
34698 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
34699 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
34700 memory leaks better.
34701 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
34702 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
34703 their operators to pay close attention.
34704 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
34705 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
34707 o Performance improvements:
34708 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
34709 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
34710 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
34711 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
34712 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
34713 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
34714 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
34715 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
34716 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
34717 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
34718 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
34719 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
34720 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
34721 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
34722 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
34723 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
34724 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
34726 o Security improvements:
34727 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
34728 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
34729 fingerprint of server.
34730 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
34731 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
34732 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
34734 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
34735 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
34736 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
34737 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
34738 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
34739 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
34740 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
34741 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
34742 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
34743 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
34744 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
34745 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
34746 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
34747 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
34748 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
34749 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
34750 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
34751 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
34752 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
34753 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
34754 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
34756 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
34757 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
34758 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
34760 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
34761 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
34763 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
34764 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
34765 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
34766 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
34767 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
34768 of the controller protocol.
34769 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
34770 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
34771 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
34774 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
34775 o New features (major):
34776 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
34777 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
34778 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
34779 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
34780 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
34781 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
34782 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
34783 we're using a default DirPort.
34784 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
34786 o New features (minor):
34787 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
34788 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
34789 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
34790 mirrors still cache and serve it).
34791 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
34792 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
34793 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
34794 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
34795 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
34796 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
34797 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
34798 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
34799 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
34800 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
34801 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
34802 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
34803 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
34804 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
34805 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
34807 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
34808 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
34809 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
34810 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
34811 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
34812 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
34813 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
34814 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
34816 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
34817 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
34818 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
34819 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
34820 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
34821 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
34822 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
34823 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
34824 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
34825 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
34827 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
34828 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
34829 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
34830 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
34831 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
34833 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
34834 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
34835 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
34837 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
34838 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
34840 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
34841 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
34842 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
34843 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
34844 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
34845 don't warn twice about the same name.
34846 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
34847 if we've not heard of the server.
34848 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
34849 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
34852 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
34853 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
34854 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
34855 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
34856 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
34857 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
34858 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
34859 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
34860 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
34861 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
34862 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
34863 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
34864 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
34865 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
34866 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
34869 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
34870 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
34871 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
34872 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
34873 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
34875 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
34876 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
34877 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
34878 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
34879 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
34880 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
34884 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
34885 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
34886 nickname) is reachable by you.
34887 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
34890 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
34891 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
34892 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
34893 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
34894 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
34895 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
34896 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
34897 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
34898 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
34899 we fail to connect).
34900 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
34901 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
34902 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
34903 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
34905 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
34906 it was self-testing that told us so.
34909 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
34910 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
34911 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
34912 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
34913 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
34914 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
34915 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
34916 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
34917 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
34918 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
34919 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
34920 exit policy using him for any exits.
34921 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
34924 o New controller features/fixes:
34925 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
34926 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
34927 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
34928 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
34929 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
34930 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
34931 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
34932 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
34933 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
34935 o Start on the new directory design:
34936 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
34937 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
34939 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
34940 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
34941 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
34942 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
34944 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
34945 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
34946 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
34947 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
34948 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
34949 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
34950 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
34951 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
34954 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
34955 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
34956 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
34957 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
34958 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
34959 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
34960 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
34961 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
34962 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
34963 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
34965 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
34966 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
34967 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
34968 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
34969 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
34970 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
34971 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
34972 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
34973 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
34975 o Config option changes:
34976 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
34977 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
34978 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
34979 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
34980 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
34981 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
34983 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
34984 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
34985 people have started using them for spam too.
34986 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
34987 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
34988 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
34989 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
34990 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
34991 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
34992 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
34993 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
34994 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
34995 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
34996 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
34997 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
34998 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
34999 services faster on the service end.
35000 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
35001 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
35002 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
35003 it a fair shake next time we try.
35004 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
35005 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
35006 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
35007 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
35008 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
35009 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
35010 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
35011 able to discover them.
35012 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
35013 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
35014 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
35015 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
35016 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
35017 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
35018 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
35019 testing for reachability.
35020 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
35021 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
35023 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
35025 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
35026 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
35029 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
35030 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
35032 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
35033 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
35034 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
35035 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
35038 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
35039 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
35040 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
35042 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
35043 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
35046 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
35047 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
35050 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
35051 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
35052 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
35053 options, getinfo keys.
35056 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
35057 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
35058 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
35059 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
35060 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
35061 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
35062 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
35064 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
35065 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
35069 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
35070 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
35071 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
35073 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
35075 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
35076 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
35077 circuit events and we go offline.
35078 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
35079 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
35080 you don't have enough intro points already.
35082 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
35083 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
35084 many bytes we've used in this time period.
35085 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
35086 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
35087 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
35088 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
35089 enabled by default yet.
35091 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
35092 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
35093 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
35094 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
35095 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
35098 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
35099 o New directory servers:
35100 - tor26 has changed IP address.
35102 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
35103 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
35104 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
35105 pthreads libraries.
35106 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
35107 claims its dirport is 0.
35108 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
35109 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
35113 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
35114 o New directory servers:
35115 - tor26 has changed IP address.
35117 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
35118 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
35120 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
35121 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
35122 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
35123 ports that have changed.
35124 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
35126 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
35127 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
35128 Windows-style errno back.
35129 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
35131 want to make it an NT service.
35132 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
35133 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
35134 name, give the full name in our response.
35135 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
35136 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
35137 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
35138 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
35139 pthreads libraries.
35141 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
35142 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
35146 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
35147 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
35148 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
35149 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
35150 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
35153 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
35154 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
35155 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
35156 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
35157 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
35158 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
35159 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
35160 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
35163 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
35165 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
35166 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
35167 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
35168 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
35169 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
35170 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
35172 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
35173 temporarily unreachable.
35174 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
35178 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
35179 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
35180 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
35181 our protocol works.
35182 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
35186 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
35187 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
35188 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
35189 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
35190 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
35194 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
35195 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
35196 libevent before 1.1a.
35199 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
35201 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
35202 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
35203 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
35204 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
35205 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
35207 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
35208 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
35209 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
35210 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
35211 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
35212 of CPU time plus memory.
35213 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
35214 normal web requests.
35215 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
35216 tor_lookup_hostname().
35217 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
35218 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
35219 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
35220 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
35221 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
35222 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
35224 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
35225 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
35226 HttpProxyAuthenticator
35227 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
35228 pretend that getting these occasionally is normal and fine.
35229 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
35231 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
35232 the user asks you to.
35233 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
35234 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
35235 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
35236 their descriptors are being rejected.
35237 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
35241 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
35243 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
35244 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
35245 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
35247 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
35249 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
35251 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
35252 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
35253 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
35254 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
35255 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
35256 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
35257 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
35258 keys) from the exit server's process.
35259 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
35260 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
35261 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
35262 so it doesn't seg fault on error.
35263 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
35264 point at your Tor server.
35265 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
35266 you're not sending a socks reply back.
35269 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
35270 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
35271 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
35272 to make it easier to write controllers.
35275 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
35277 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
35278 installing on Tiger.
35279 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
35280 complain during installation.
35281 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
35282 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
35283 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
35284 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
35285 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
35286 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
35288 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
35289 something more reasonable when first installing.
35290 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
35293 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
35295 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
35296 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
35298 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
35299 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
35300 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
35301 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
35302 when using the default exit policy.
35303 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
35304 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
35305 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
35306 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
35307 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
35308 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
35309 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
35310 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
35311 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
35312 we fetched a new directory.
35313 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
35314 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
35317 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
35318 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
35319 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
35320 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
35321 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
35322 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
35323 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
35324 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
35326 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
35327 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
35328 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
35329 save memory on systems that need to fork.
35330 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
35331 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
35332 is valid without actually launching Tor.
35333 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
35334 rather than just rejecting it.
35337 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
35339 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
35340 we didn't like its cert.
35342 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
35343 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
35344 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
35345 on patch from Adam Langley.
35346 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
35347 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
35348 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
35349 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
35351 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
35352 directory every time you regenerate it.
35353 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
35354 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
35357 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
35358 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
35359 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
35360 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
35361 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
35364 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
35366 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
35367 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
35368 TLS errors better in other situations too.
35369 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
35370 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
35371 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
35372 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
35373 and don't log when you are.
35374 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
35375 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
35377 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
35378 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
35379 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
35380 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
35381 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
35384 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
35385 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
35386 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
35387 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
35388 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
35389 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
35390 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
35391 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
35392 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
35393 nickname+key are allowed.
35394 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
35395 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
35396 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
35397 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
35398 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
35399 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
35400 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
35401 have quite wrong clocks).
35402 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
35403 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
35404 - Efficiency improvements:
35405 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
35406 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
35407 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
35408 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
35409 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
35410 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
35411 lowercase and be done with it.
35412 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
35413 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
35414 to abandon partially built circuits.
35415 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
35416 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
35418 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
35420 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
35421 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
35422 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
35423 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
35425 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
35426 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
35428 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
35429 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
35430 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
35431 obeying the exit policy internally.
35432 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
35433 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
35435 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
35436 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
35437 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
35438 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
35440 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
35441 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
35442 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
35443 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
35444 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
35446 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
35447 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
35448 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
35449 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
35450 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
35451 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
35452 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
35453 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
35454 descriptors we just dropped.
35455 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
35456 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
35457 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
35458 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
35459 artificially capped at 500kB.
35462 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
35463 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
35464 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
35465 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
35466 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
35467 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
35468 busy for more than 100 seconds.
35471 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
35472 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
35473 - Fixes on reachability detection:
35474 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
35475 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
35476 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
35477 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
35478 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
35479 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
35480 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
35481 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
35482 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
35483 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
35484 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
35485 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
35486 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
35487 server not already connected to them.
35488 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
35489 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
35490 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
35492 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
35494 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
35495 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
35496 are in a different state than they actually are.
35497 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
35498 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
35499 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
35501 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
35502 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
35503 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
35505 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
35506 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
35507 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
35508 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
35509 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
35510 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
35511 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
35513 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
35514 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
35515 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
35516 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
35519 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
35520 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
35521 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
35522 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
35523 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
35524 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
35525 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
35526 creating actual system users.
35527 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
35528 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
35532 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
35534 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
35535 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
35536 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
35537 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
35538 hidden services better.
35539 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
35541 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
35542 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
35543 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
35544 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
35545 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
35546 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
35547 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
35548 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
35549 patch by Matt Edman).
35550 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
35551 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
35552 required exit node for certain sites.
35553 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
35554 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
35555 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
35556 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
35557 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
35558 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
35559 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
35560 rather than just "success" or "failure".
35561 - A more sane version numbering system. See
35562 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
35563 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
35564 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
35566 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
35567 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
35568 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
35569 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
35570 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
35571 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
35572 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
35574 o Robustness/stability fixes:
35575 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
35576 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
35577 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
35579 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
35580 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
35581 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
35583 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
35584 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
35585 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
35587 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
35588 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
35589 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
35590 that will want high uptime circuits.
35591 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
35592 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
35593 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
35594 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
35595 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
35596 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
35597 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
35598 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
35599 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
35600 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
35601 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
35602 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
35603 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
35604 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
35605 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
35606 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
35607 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
35608 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
35609 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
35610 when we try to launch one.
35611 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
35612 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
35613 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
35614 "ShutdownWaitLength".
35615 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
35616 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
35617 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
35618 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
35619 and to take errno into account where possible.
35622 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
35623 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
35624 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
35625 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
35626 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
35627 file more reasonable.
35628 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
35629 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
35630 addresses -- it won't.
35631 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
35632 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
35633 for google.com" problem.
35634 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
35635 so it's not just "unknown platform".
35636 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
35637 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
35638 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
35639 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
35641 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
35642 they could use instead.
35643 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
35644 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
35645 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
35646 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
35647 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
35648 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
35649 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
35650 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
35651 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
35653 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
35657 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
35658 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
35660 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
35661 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
35662 private-IP addresses.
35663 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
35664 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
35666 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
35667 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
35668 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
35669 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
35670 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
35671 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
35672 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
35674 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
35675 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
35676 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
35677 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
35678 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
35679 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
35680 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
35681 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
35683 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
35685 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
35686 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
35687 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
35688 whether the server is hibernating.
35691 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
35692 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
35693 - Add new end stream reasons to maintenance branch. Fix bug where
35694 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
35695 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
35696 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
35697 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
35698 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
35699 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
35700 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
35701 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
35702 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
35703 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
35704 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
35705 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
35707 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
35708 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
35709 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
35710 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
35711 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
35712 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
35713 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
35714 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
35715 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
35716 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
35717 existing torrc files.
35718 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
35721 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
35722 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
35723 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
35724 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
35725 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
35726 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
35727 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
35728 the win32 SYSTEM account.
35729 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
35730 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
35731 file descriptors available.
35732 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
35733 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
35734 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
35737 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
35738 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
35739 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
35740 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
35742 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
35743 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
35744 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
35745 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
35746 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
35748 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
35749 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
35750 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
35751 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
35752 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
35753 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
35754 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
35755 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
35756 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
35757 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
35758 800kB/s of capacity.
35759 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
35762 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
35763 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
35764 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
35765 need as much processor time.
35766 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
35767 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
35768 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
35769 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
35770 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
35771 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
35772 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
35773 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
35774 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
35775 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
35776 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
35777 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
35779 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
35780 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
35781 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
35782 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
35783 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
35784 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
35785 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
35788 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
35789 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
35790 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
35792 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
35793 style address, then we'd crash.
35794 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
35795 a dirserver is broken.
35796 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
35798 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
35799 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
35800 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
35802 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
35803 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
35804 name out of the warning/assert messages.
35805 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
35806 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
35807 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
35809 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
35810 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
35811 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
35813 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
35815 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
35816 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
35817 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
35818 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
35819 values at once couldn't work.
35820 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
35821 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
35822 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
35823 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
35824 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
35825 they can handle any number of routers.
35826 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
35827 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
35828 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
35829 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
35830 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
35831 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
35832 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
35833 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
35834 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
35837 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
35838 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
35839 - Make hibernation actually work.
35840 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
35841 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
35842 don't use the stream status code.
35845 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
35847 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
35848 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
35850 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
35853 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
35854 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
35855 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
35856 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
35857 ports we need to build circuits to cover.
35858 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
35859 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
35860 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
35861 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
35862 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
35864 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
35865 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
35866 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
35867 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
35868 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
35869 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
35870 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
35871 - Make unit tests work on win32.
35874 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
35875 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
35876 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
35878 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
35879 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
35880 than just chopping them off.
35881 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
35883 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
35884 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
35885 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
35886 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
35887 right after sending the begin cell.
35888 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
35889 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
35890 exit nodes too. Oops.
35893 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
35894 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
35895 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
35896 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
35897 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
35898 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
35899 the user knows which one it's talking about.
35900 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
35901 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
35902 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
35905 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
35906 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
35907 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
35908 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
35910 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
35912 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
35913 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
35914 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
35916 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
35917 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
35918 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
35919 Clip rather than rejecting.
35920 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
35921 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
35924 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
35925 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
35926 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
35927 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
35929 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
35932 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
35933 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
35934 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
35935 win32 socket errors better.
35937 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
35938 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
35941 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
35942 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
35943 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
35944 so we don't see those messages days later.
35946 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
35947 - Make tor-resolve work again.
35948 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
35949 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
35952 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
35953 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
35954 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
35955 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
35957 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
35958 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
35959 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
35962 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
35963 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
35964 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
35965 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
35966 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
35967 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
35968 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
35969 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
35970 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
35972 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
35973 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
35974 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
35975 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
35977 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
35978 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
35981 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
35982 hibernation properties by
35983 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
35984 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
35985 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
35986 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
35987 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
35988 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
35989 get back to normal.)
35990 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
35992 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
35993 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
35994 to fill the last cell completely.
35995 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
35998 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
35999 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
36000 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
36001 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
36002 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
36003 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
36004 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
36005 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
36006 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
36007 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
36008 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
36010 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
36011 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
36012 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
36013 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
36014 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
36015 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
36016 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
36017 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
36019 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
36020 - Make kill -USR1 work again.
36021 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
36022 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
36023 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
36024 have it on start-up.
36027 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
36028 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
36029 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
36030 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
36031 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
36032 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
36033 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
36034 configuration to torrc.
36035 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
36036 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
36037 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
36038 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
36039 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
36041 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
36042 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
36043 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
36044 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
36045 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
36046 log more informatively.
36047 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
36048 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
36049 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
36050 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
36051 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
36052 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
36053 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
36054 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
36055 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
36056 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
36057 from each other, to hinder linkability.
36060 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
36061 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
36062 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
36063 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
36064 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
36065 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
36066 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
36068 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
36069 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
36070 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
36071 they ran out of file descriptors.
36072 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
36073 enough version of the resolve code to work right.
36074 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
36075 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
36076 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
36077 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
36078 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
36080 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
36083 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
36084 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
36085 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
36086 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
36087 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
36088 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
36089 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
36090 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
36091 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
36092 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
36093 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
36094 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
36095 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
36096 with the control port.
36097 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
36098 use in authenticating to the control interface.
36099 - New log format in config:
36100 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
36101 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
36104 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
36105 from their dirserver.
36106 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
36108 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
36109 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
36110 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
36111 them act more like real nodes.
36112 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
36113 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
36115 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
36116 nickname to its identity key.
36117 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
36118 not on the command line.
36119 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
36120 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
36121 1024) file descriptors.
36123 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
36124 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
36126 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
36127 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
36128 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
36131 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
36132 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
36133 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
36134 exit policy, not reject *:*.
36135 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
36136 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
36137 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
36138 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
36139 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
36140 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
36141 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
36144 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
36145 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
36146 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
36147 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
36148 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
36149 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
36150 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
36153 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
36154 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
36155 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
36156 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
36157 the ones we find in directories.)
36158 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
36160 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
36161 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
36163 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
36164 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
36165 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
36167 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
36168 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
36169 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
36170 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
36172 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
36173 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
36174 any more exit policy lines.
36177 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
36178 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
36179 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
36180 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
36181 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
36182 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
36183 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
36184 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
36185 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
36186 will be able to get a directory.
36187 - Http proxy support
36188 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
36189 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
36190 be routed through this host.
36191 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
36192 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
36193 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
36194 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
36197 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
36199 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
36200 clients/servers with an open dirport.
36201 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
36202 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
36203 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
36204 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
36205 intermittent connections.
36206 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
36207 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
36209 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
36210 in reporting stats locally.
36211 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
36212 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
36213 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
36216 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
36218 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
36219 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
36222 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
36224 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
36225 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
36226 if you don't want it open.
36227 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
36228 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
36229 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
36230 intermittent connections.
36231 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
36233 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
36234 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
36235 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
36236 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
36237 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
36238 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
36239 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
36240 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
36241 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
36242 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
36243 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
36244 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
36245 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
36246 the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
36247 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
36248 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
36251 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
36252 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
36253 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
36254 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
36255 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
36257 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
36259 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
36260 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
36261 specified in HTTP 1.0.
36262 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
36263 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
36264 than once per minute.
36265 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
36266 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
36269 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
36270 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
36273 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
36274 o Make it compile on cygwin again.
36275 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
36276 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
36279 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
36280 o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
36282 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
36283 don't put it into the client dns cache.
36284 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
36285 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
36286 until we get our next directory.
36288 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
36289 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
36290 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
36291 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
36292 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
36293 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
36294 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
36295 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
36296 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
36297 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
36298 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
36300 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
36302 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
36303 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
36305 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
36306 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
36307 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
36309 o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
36311 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
36312 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
36313 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
36314 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
36315 routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
36316 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
36317 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
36318 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
36321 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
36322 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
36323 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
36324 - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
36327 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
36328 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
36329 ask them to resolve the host "".
36332 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
36333 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
36334 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
36335 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
36336 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
36337 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
36338 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
36339 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
36340 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
36341 clients don't use this yet.)
36342 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
36343 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
36344 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
36345 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
36346 for pointing out this bug.)
36347 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
36348 fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
36349 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
36350 kazaa, gnutella ports.
36351 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
36353 o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
36354 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
36355 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
36356 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
36357 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
36358 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
36359 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
36360 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
36361 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
36362 wolf unpredictably.
36363 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
36364 that's still handshaking.
36365 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
36366 you'll choose it for your path.
36367 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
36368 end relay cell, etc.
36369 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
36370 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
36371 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
36374 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
36375 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
36377 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
36378 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
36379 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
36380 list to decide who's running or verified.
36381 - Bugfixes and features:
36382 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
36383 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
36384 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
36385 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
36386 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
36387 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
36389 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
36390 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
36391 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
36392 know you might want to get it verified.
36393 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
36396 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
36398 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
36399 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
36400 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
36401 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
36403 o Protocol changes:
36404 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
36405 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
36406 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
36407 hadn't heard of before.
36410 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
36411 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
36412 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
36413 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
36414 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
36415 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
36416 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
36417 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
36418 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
36419 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
36420 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
36421 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
36422 - Directory caching.
36423 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
36424 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
36425 directory they've pulled down.
36426 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
36427 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
36428 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
36429 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
36430 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
36431 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
36432 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
36434 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
36435 This isn't used yet.
36436 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
36437 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
36438 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
36439 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
36440 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
36441 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
36442 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
36443 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
36444 - File and name management:
36445 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
36446 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
36448 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
36449 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
36450 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
36451 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
36452 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
36453 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
36454 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
36456 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
36457 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
36458 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
36459 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
36460 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
36462 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
36463 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
36464 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
36465 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
36466 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
36467 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
36468 - New docs in the tarball:
36470 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
36473 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
36474 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
36475 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
36478 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
36479 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
36480 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
36483 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
36484 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
36487 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
36488 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
36489 - Make it build on Win32 again.
36490 o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
36491 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
36495 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
36497 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
36498 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
36499 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
36500 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
36501 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
36502 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
36503 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
36504 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
36505 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
36506 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
36509 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
36512 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
36513 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
36514 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
36515 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
36517 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
36518 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
36519 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
36521 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
36522 hidden service per 15-minute period.
36523 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
36524 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
36525 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
36526 o Fixes for security bugs:
36527 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
36528 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
36529 a trusted dirserver.
36531 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
36532 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
36533 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
36534 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
36535 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
36536 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
36537 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
36538 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
36539 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
36540 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
36542 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
36543 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
36544 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
36545 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
36547 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
36548 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
36549 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
36550 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
36551 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
36552 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
36553 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
36554 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
36555 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
36556 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
36557 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
36558 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
36559 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
36562 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
36563 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
36564 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
36565 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
36568 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
36569 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
36570 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
36571 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
36572 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
36573 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
36574 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
36578 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
36579 [version bump only]
36582 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
36583 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
36584 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
36585 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
36586 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
36588 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
36591 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
36592 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
36593 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
36594 when they had a stream attached. oops.)
36595 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
36596 o Better debugging for tls errors
36597 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
36598 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
36599 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
36600 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
36601 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
36602 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
36603 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
36604 o win32's close can't close a socket.
36607 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
36608 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
36609 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
36610 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
36611 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
36612 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
36613 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
36614 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
36615 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
36616 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
36617 just close the circ.
36618 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
36619 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
36620 (this was quite rare).
36623 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
36624 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
36625 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
36626 if you decrypted them correctly.
36627 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
36628 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
36629 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
36632 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
36633 o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
36634 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
36635 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
36636 a second one and it works.
36637 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
36638 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
36639 alice would just have to wait to time out.
36640 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
36641 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
36642 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
36643 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
36644 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
36645 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
36646 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
36647 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
36648 i'd still like to find the bug though.
36649 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
36651 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
36655 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
36656 o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
36657 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
36658 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
36659 he retries a couple of times
36660 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
36661 (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
36662 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
36663 too long (they were sticking around forever).
36664 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
36668 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
36669 o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
36670 - make hup work again
36671 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
36672 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
36673 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
36674 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
36675 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
36676 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
36678 - bob publishes intro points more correctly
36679 o changes from 0.0.5:
36680 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
36681 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
36682 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
36683 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
36684 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
36686 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
36687 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
36688 in-memory directories too
36691 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
36692 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
36695 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
36697 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
36698 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
36699 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
36700 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
36703 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
36704 [version bump only]
36707 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
36708 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
36710 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
36711 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
36712 but that aren't warnings
36715 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
36716 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
36717 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
36718 the dns farm to do it.
36719 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
36720 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
36722 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
36723 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
36724 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
36727 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
36728 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
36729 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
36730 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
36731 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
36732 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
36733 expect it to have a nickname.
36734 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
36735 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
36738 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
36739 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
36743 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
36744 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
36745 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
36746 - include missing header fcntl.h
36747 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
36748 - deal with hardware word alignment
36749 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
36750 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
36751 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
36752 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
36753 by kill -USR1 currently.
36754 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
36755 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
36756 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
36759 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
36760 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
36761 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
36764 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
36766 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
36767 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
36768 - And fix a few endian issues.
36771 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
36773 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
36774 try that circuit again: try a new one.
36775 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
36776 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
36777 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
36778 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
36779 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
36780 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
36782 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
36783 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
36784 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
36786 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
36788 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
36789 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
36790 side isn't reading right then.
36791 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
36792 RecommendedVersions
36793 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
36794 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
36795 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
36798 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
36800 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
36801 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
36804 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
36808 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
36810 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
36811 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
36812 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
36813 connection is finished.
36814 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
36815 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
36816 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
36817 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
36818 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
36819 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
36820 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
36821 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
36822 rather than warn and continue.
36823 - Make --version work
36824 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
36827 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
36829 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
36830 knows it's working.
36831 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
36832 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
36834 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
36835 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
36836 so you can collect coredumps there.
36838 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
36839 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
36840 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
36841 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
36842 dns cache actually gets populated.
36843 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
36844 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
36845 end cell down it first.
36846 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
36847 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
36850 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
36852 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
36853 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
36855 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
36856 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
36857 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
36858 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
36859 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
36860 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
36862 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
36864 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
36865 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
36866 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
36867 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
36868 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
36869 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
36871 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
36872 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
36875 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
36877 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
36878 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
36879 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
36880 tor. It even has a man page.
36881 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
36882 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
36883 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
36884 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
36886 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
36888 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
36891 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
36893 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
36894 it, apt-getters. :)
36895 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
36896 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
36897 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
36898 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
36899 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
36900 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
36901 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
36902 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
36903 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
36904 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
36905 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
36907 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
36908 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
36911 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
36913 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
36914 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
36917 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
36919 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
36920 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
36921 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
36922 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
36923 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
36924 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
36925 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
36926 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
36927 logfile so you know it's working.
36928 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
36929 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
36932 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
36934 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
36935 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
36936 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
36939 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
36941 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
36942 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
36943 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
36946 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
36947 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
36948 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
36950 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
36951 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
36953 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
36954 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
36955 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
36957 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
36958 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
36962 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
36964 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
36965 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
36966 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
36969 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
36970 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
36971 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
36972 - Add port ranges to exit policies
36973 - Add a conservative default exit policy
36974 - Warn if you're running tor as root
36975 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
36976 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
36977 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
36978 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
36980 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
36983 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
36984 o Robustness and bugfixes:
36985 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
36986 really screw things up.
36987 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
36989 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
36990 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
36992 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
36993 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
36994 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
36995 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
36996 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
36997 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
37000 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
37003 - Change default loglevel to warn.
37004 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
37005 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
37007 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
37010 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
37011 o Robustness and bugfixes:
37012 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
37013 - to get ownership/permissions right
37014 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
37015 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
37016 pull down a directory again
37017 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
37018 causing server crashes
37019 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
37020 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
37021 - exit if bind() fails
37022 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
37023 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
37024 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
37025 - fix minor bias in PRNG
37026 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
37029 - Wrote the design document (woo)
37031 o Circuit building and exit policies:
37032 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
37034 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
37035 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
37036 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
37037 exists, rather than failing
37038 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
37039 which AP connections are standing by
37040 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
37041 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
37042 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
37044 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
37045 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
37048 - APPort is now called SocksPort
37049 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
37051 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
37052 hardcoded (for dirservers)
37053 - Reloads config on HUP
37054 - Usage info on -h or --help
37055 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
37058 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
37059 o General stability:
37060 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
37061 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
37062 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
37063 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
37064 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
37065 to take down the network when I approve a new router
37066 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
37069 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
37070 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
37072 o Autoconf improvements:
37073 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
37074 - Make install now works
37075 - create var/lib/tor on make install
37076 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
37077 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
37079 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
37080 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
37081 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
37082 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup