1 This document summarizes new features and bugfixes in each stable
2 release of Tor. If you want to see more detailed descriptions of the
3 changes in each development snapshot, see the ChangeLog file.
5 Changes in version 0.3.3.11 - 2019-01-07
6 Tor 0.3.3.11 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
7 numerous fixes, including an important fix for anyone using OpenSSL
8 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.3 should upgrade
9 to this version, or to a later series.
11 As a reminder, support the Tor 0.3.3 series will end on 22 Feb 2019.
12 We anticipate that this will be the last release of Tor 0.3.3, unless
13 some major bug is before then. Some time between now and then, users
14 should switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported until at least
15 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term
16 support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
18 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
19 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
20 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
21 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
22 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
25 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
26 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
27 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
28 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
30 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
31 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
32 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
33 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
34 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
35 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
36 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
37 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
39 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
40 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
41 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
42 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
44 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
45 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
46 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
47 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
48 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
50 o Minor features (geoip):
51 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
52 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
54 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
55 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
56 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
57 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
58 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
61 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
62 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
63 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
64 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
66 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
67 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
68 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
71 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
72 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
73 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
75 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
76 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
77 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
78 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
80 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
81 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
82 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
83 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
85 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
86 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
87 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
88 were the same, the default setting (0) for
89 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
90 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
93 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
94 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
95 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
98 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
99 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
100 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
101 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
102 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
104 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
105 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
106 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
107 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
108 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
110 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
111 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
112 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
113 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
114 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
115 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
117 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
118 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to
119 an HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix on
122 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
123 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
124 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
126 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
127 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
128 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
130 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
131 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
132 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
135 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
136 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
137 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
138 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
139 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
140 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
141 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
142 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
144 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
145 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
146 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
147 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
149 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
150 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
151 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
152 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
153 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
154 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
155 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
156 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
157 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
158 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
160 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
161 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
162 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
163 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
164 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
165 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
167 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
168 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
169 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
170 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
171 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
173 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
174 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
175 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
178 Changes in version 0.3.4.10 - 2019-01-07
179 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
180 numerous fixes, including an important fix for relays, and for anyone
181 using OpenSSL 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.4
184 As a reminder, the Tor 0.3.4 series will be supported until 10 June
185 2019. Some time between now and then, users should switch to the Tor
186 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term support until at least 1
189 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
190 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
191 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
192 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
193 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
196 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory, backport from 0.3.5.7):
197 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
198 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
199 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
200 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
201 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
202 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
204 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
205 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
206 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
209 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
210 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
211 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
212 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
213 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
216 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
217 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
218 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
219 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
220 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
222 o Minor features (geoip):
223 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
224 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
226 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
227 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
228 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
229 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
230 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
233 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
234 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
235 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
236 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
238 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
239 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
240 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
241 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
242 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
245 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
246 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
247 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
248 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
250 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
251 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
252 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
254 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
255 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
256 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
257 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
259 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
260 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
261 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
262 were the same, the default setting (0) for
263 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
264 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
267 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
268 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
269 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
271 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
272 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
273 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
274 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
275 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
277 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
278 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
279 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
280 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
281 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
282 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
284 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
285 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
286 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
287 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
289 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
290 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
291 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
294 Changes in version 0.3.5.7 - 2019-01-07
295 Tor 0.3.5.7 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
296 compilation and portability fixes, and a fix for a severe problem
297 affecting directory caches.
299 The Tor 0.3.5 series includes several new features and performance
300 improvements, including client authorization for v3 onion services,
301 cleanups to bootstrap reporting, support for improved bandwidth-
302 measurement tools, experimental support for NSS in place of OpenSSL,
303 and much more. It also begins a full reorganization of Tor's code
304 layout, for improved modularity and maintainability in the future.
305 Finally, there is the usual set of performance improvements and
306 bugfixes that we try to do in every release series.
308 There are a couple of changes in the 0.3.5 that may affect
309 compatibility. First, the default version for newly created onion
310 services is now v3. Use the HiddenServiceVersion option if you want to
311 override this. Second, some log messages related to bootstrapping have
312 changed; if you use stem, you may need to update to the latest version
313 so it will recognize them.
315 We have designated 0.3.5 as a "long-term support" (LTS) series: we
316 will continue to patch major bugs in typical configurations of 0.3.5
317 until at least 1 Feb 2022. (We do not plan to provide long-term
318 support for embedding, Rust support, NSS support, running a directory
319 authority, or unsupported platforms. For these, you will need to stick
320 with the latest stable release.)
322 Below are the changes since 0.3.4.9. For a complete list of changes
323 since 0.3.5.6-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
325 o Major features (bootstrap):
326 - Don't report directory progress until after a connection to a
327 relay or bridge has succeeded. Previously, we'd report 80%
328 progress based on cached directory information when we couldn't
329 even connect to the network. Closes ticket 27169.
331 o Major features (new code layout):
332 - Nearly all of Tor's source code has been moved around into more
333 logical places. The "common" directory is now divided into a set
334 of libraries in "lib", and files in the "or" directory have been
335 split into "core" (logic absolutely needed for onion routing),
336 "feature" (independent modules in Tor), and "app" (to configure
337 and invoke the rest of Tor). See doc/HACKING/CodeStructure.md for
338 more information. Closes ticket 26481.
340 This refactoring is not complete: although the libraries have been
341 refactored to be acyclic, the main body of Tor is still too
342 interconnected. We will attempt to improve this in the future.
344 o Major features (onion services v3):
345 - Implement onion service client authorization at the descriptor
346 level: only authorized clients can decrypt a service's descriptor
347 to find out how to contact it. A new torrc option was added to
348 control this client side: ClientOnionAuthDir <path>. On the
349 service side, if the "authorized_clients/" directory exists in the
350 onion service directory path, client configurations are read from
351 the files within. See the manpage for more details. Closes ticket
352 27547. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
353 - Improve revision counter generation in next-gen onion services.
354 Onion services can now scale by hosting multiple instances on
355 different hosts without synchronization between them, which was
356 previously impossible because descriptors would get rejected by
357 HSDirs. Addresses ticket 25552.
358 - Version 3 onion services can now use the per-service
359 HiddenServiceExportCircuitID option to differentiate client
360 circuits. It communicates with the service by using the HAProxy
361 protocol to assign virtual IP addresses to inbound client
362 circuits. Closes ticket 4700. Patch by Mahrud Sayrafi.
364 o Major features (onion services, UI change):
365 - For a newly created onion service, the default version is now 3.
366 Tor still supports existing version 2 services, but the operator
367 now needs to set "HiddenServiceVersion 2" in order to create a new
368 version 2 service. For existing services, Tor now learns the
369 version by reading the key file. Closes ticket 27215.
371 o Major features (portability, cryptography, experimental, TLS):
372 - Tor now has the option to compile with the NSS library instead of
373 OpenSSL. This feature is experimental, and we expect that bugs may
374 remain. It is mainly intended for environments where Tor's
375 performance is not CPU-bound, and where NSS is already known to be
376 installed. To try it out, configure Tor with the --enable-nss
377 flag. Closes tickets 26631, 26815, and 26816.
379 If you are experimenting with this option and using an old cached
380 consensus, Tor may fail to start. To solve this, delete your
381 "cached-consensus" and "cached-microdesc-consensus" files,
382 (if present), and restart Tor.
384 o Major features (relay, UI change):
385 - Relays no longer run as exits by default. If the "ExitRelay"
386 option is auto (or unset), and no exit policy is specified with
387 ExitPolicy or ReducedExitPolicy, we now treat ExitRelay as 0.
388 Previously in this case, we allowed exit traffic and logged a
389 warning message. Closes ticket 21530. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
390 - Tor now validates that the ContactInfo config option is valid UTF-
391 8 when parsing torrc. Closes ticket 27428.
393 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
394 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
395 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
397 o Major bugfixes (compilation, rust):
398 - Rust tests can now build and run successfully with the
399 --enable-fragile-hardening option enabled. Doing this currently
400 requires the rust beta channel; it will be possible with stable
401 rust once Rust version 1.31 is released. Patch from Alex Crichton.
402 Fixes bugs 27272, 27273, and 27274. Bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
404 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
405 - Actually check that the address we get from DirAuthority
406 configuration line is valid IPv4. Explicitly disallow DirAuthority
407 address to be a DNS hostname. Fixes bug 26488; bugfix
410 o Major bugfixes (embedding, main loop):
411 - When DisableNetwork becomes set, actually disable periodic events
412 that are already enabled. (Previously, we would refrain from
413 enabling new ones, but we would leave the old ones turned on.)
414 Fixes bug 28348; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
416 o Major bugfixes (main loop, bootstrap):
417 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
418 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
419 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
420 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
422 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
423 - On an intro point for a version 3 onion service, stop closing
424 introduction circuits on a NACK. This lets the client decide
425 whether to reuse the circuit or discard it. Previously, we closed
426 intro circuits when sending NACKs. Fixes bug 27841; bugfix on
427 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chaunan.
429 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability):
430 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
431 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
432 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
433 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
436 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth statistics):
437 - When we close relayed circuits, report the data in the circuit
438 queues as being written in our relay bandwidth stats. This
439 mitigates guard discovery and other attacks that close circuits
440 for the explicit purpose of noticing this discrepancy in
441 statistics. Fixes bug 23512; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
443 o Major bugfixes (relay):
444 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
445 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
446 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
447 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
449 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
450 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
451 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
452 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
453 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
454 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
456 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process):
457 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
458 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
459 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
461 o Minor features (admin tools):
462 - Add a new --key-expiration option to print the expiration date of
463 the signing cert in an ed25519_signing_cert file. Resolves
466 o Minor features (build):
467 - If you pass the "--enable-pic" option to configure, Tor will try
468 to tell the compiler to build position-independent code suitable
469 to link into a dynamic library. (The default remains -fPIE, for
470 code suitable for a relocatable executable.) Closes ticket 23846.
472 o Minor features (code correctness, testing):
473 - Tor's build process now includes a "check-includes" make target to
474 verify that no module of Tor relies on any headers from a higher-
475 level module. We hope to use this feature over time to help
476 refactor our codebase. Closes ticket 26447.
478 o Minor features (code layout):
479 - We have a new "lowest-level" error-handling API for use by code
480 invoked from within the logging module. With this interface, the
481 logging code is no longer at risk of calling into itself if a
482 failure occurs while it is trying to log something. Closes
485 o Minor features (compilation):
486 - When possible, place our warning flags in a separate file, to
487 avoid flooding verbose build logs. Closes ticket 28924.
488 - Tor's configure script now supports a --with-malloc= option to
489 select your malloc implementation. Supported options are
490 "tcmalloc", "jemalloc", "openbsd" (deprecated), and "system" (the
491 default). Addresses part of ticket 20424. Based on a patch from
494 o Minor features (config):
495 - The "auto" keyword in torrc is now case-insensitive. Closes
498 o Minor features (continuous integration):
499 - Add a Travis CI build for --enable-nss on Linux gcc. Closes
501 - Add new CI job to Travis configuration to run stem-based
502 integration tests. Closes ticket 27913.
503 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
504 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
505 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
506 - Report what program produced the mysterious core file that we
507 occasionally see on Travis CI during make distcheck. Closes
509 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
510 Implements ticket 27252.
511 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
512 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
513 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
514 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
515 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
516 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
517 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
518 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
519 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
521 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows):
522 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
523 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
525 - Build tor on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016 using
526 Appveyor's CI. Closes ticket 28318.
528 o Minor features (controller):
529 - Emit CIRC_BW events as soon as we detect that we processed an
530 invalid or otherwise dropped cell on a circuit. This allows
531 vanguards and other controllers to react more quickly to dropped
532 cells. Closes ticket 27678.
533 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
534 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
535 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
536 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
538 - Implement a 'GETINFO md/all' controller command to enable getting
539 all known microdescriptors. Closes ticket 8323.
540 - The GETINFO command now support an "uptime" argument, to return
541 Tor's uptime in seconds. Closes ticket 25132.
543 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
544 - Make our OOM handler aware of the DNS cache so that it doesn't
545 fill up the memory. This check is important for our DoS mitigation
546 subsystem. Closes ticket 18642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
548 o Minor features (development):
549 - Tor's makefile now supports running the "clippy" Rust style tool
550 on our Rust code. Closes ticket 22156.
552 o Minor features (directory authority):
553 - There is no longer an artificial upper limit on the length of
554 bandwidth lines. Closes ticket 26223.
555 - When a bandwidth file is used to obtain the bandwidth measurements,
556 include this bandwidth file headers in the votes. Closes
558 - Improved support for networks with only a single authority or a
559 single fallback directory. Patch from Gabriel Somlo. Closes
562 o Minor features (embedding API):
563 - The Tor controller API now supports a function to launch Tor with
564 a preconstructed owning controller FD, so that embedding
565 applications don't need to manage controller ports and
566 authentication. Closes ticket 24204.
567 - The Tor controller API now has a function that returns the name
568 and version of the backend implementing the API. Closes
571 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
572 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
573 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
574 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
575 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
577 o Minor features (geoip):
578 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
579 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
581 o Minor features (memory management):
582 - Get Libevent to use the same memory allocator as Tor, by calling
583 event_set_mem_functions() during initialization. Resolves
586 o Minor features (memory usage):
587 - When not using them, store legacy TAP public onion keys in DER-
588 encoded format, rather than as expanded public keys. This should
589 save several megabytes on typical clients. Closes ticket 27246.
591 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround):
592 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
593 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
594 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
595 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
598 o Minor features (OpenSSL):
599 - When possible, use RFC5869 HKDF implementation from OpenSSL rather
600 than our own. Resolves ticket 19979.
602 o Minor features (performance):
603 - Remove about 96% of the work from the function that we run at
604 startup to test our curve25519_basepoint implementation. Since
605 this function has yet to find an actual failure, we now only run
606 it for 8 iterations instead of 200. Based on our profile
607 information, this change should save around 8% of our startup time
608 on typical desktops, and may have a similar effect on other
609 platforms. Closes ticket 28838.
610 - Stop re-validating our hardcoded Diffie-Hellman parameters on
611 every startup. Doing this wasted time and cycles, especially on
612 low-powered devices. Closes ticket 28851.
614 o Minor features (Rust, code quality):
615 - Improve rust code quality in the rust protover implementation by
616 making it more idiomatic. Includes changing an internal API to
617 take &str instead of &String. Closes ticket 26492.
619 o Minor features (testing):
620 - Add scripts/test/chutney-git-bisect.sh, for bisecting using
621 chutney. Implements ticket 27211.
623 o Minor features (tor-resolve):
624 - The tor-resolve utility can now be used with IPv6 SOCKS proxies.
625 Side-effect of the refactoring for ticket 26526.
627 o Minor features (UI):
628 - Log each included configuration file or directory as we read it,
629 to provide more visibility about where Tor is reading from. Patch
630 from Unto Sten; closes ticket 27186.
631 - Lower log level of "Scheduler type KIST has been enabled" to INFO.
634 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing):
635 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
636 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
637 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
638 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
640 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
641 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
642 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
643 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
644 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
647 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
648 - Try harder to get descriptors in non-exit test networks, by using
649 the mid weight for the third hop when there are no exits. Fixes
650 bug 27237; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
652 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
653 - Avoid casting smartlist index to int implicitly, as it may trigger
654 a warning (-Wshorten-64-to-32). Fixes bug 26282; bugfix on
655 0.2.3.13-alpha, 0.2.7.1-alpha and 0.2.1.1-alpha.
656 - Use time_t for all values in
657 predicted_ports_prediction_time_remaining(). Rework the code that
658 computes difference between durations/timestamps. Fixes bug 27165;
659 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
661 o Minor bugfixes (client, memory usage):
662 - When not running as a directory cache, there is no need to store
663 the text of the current consensus networkstatus in RAM.
664 Previously, however, clients would store it anyway, at a cost of
665 over 5 MB. Now, they do not. Fixes bug 27247; bugfix
668 o Minor bugfixes (client, ReachableAddresses):
669 - Instead of adding a "reject *:*" line to ReachableAddresses when
670 loading the configuration, add one to the policy after parsing it
671 in parse_reachable_addresses(). This prevents extra "reject *.*"
672 lines from accumulating on reloads. Fixes bug 20874; bugfix on
673 0.1.1.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
675 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
676 - Rename sandbox_getaddrinfo() and other functions to no longer
677 misleadingly suggest that they are sandbox-only. Fixes bug 26525;
678 bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
680 o Minor bugfixes (code safety):
681 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
682 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
685 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
686 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
687 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
688 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
690 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
691 - Refuse to start with relative file paths and RunAsDaemon set
692 (regression from the fix for bug 22731). Fixes bug 28298; bugfix
695 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, Onion Services):
696 - In rend_service_parse_port_config(), disallow any input to remain
697 after address-port pair was parsed. This will catch address and
698 port being whitespace-separated by mistake of the user. Fixes bug
699 27044; bugfix on 0.2.9.10.
701 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay):
702 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
703 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
704 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
705 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
708 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
709 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
710 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
711 - Install only the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
712 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
713 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
714 ships. Fixes bugs 27765 and 27943; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
715 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
716 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
717 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
718 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
719 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
720 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
722 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
723 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
724 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
726 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
727 - Consider all routerinfo errors other than "not a server" to be
728 transient for the purpose of "GETINFO exit-policy/*" controller
729 request. Print stacktrace in the unlikely case of failing to
730 recompute routerinfo digest. Fixes bug 27034; bugfix
733 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
734 - Fix an unreached code path where we checked the value of
735 "hostname" inside send_resolved_hostname_cell(). Previously, we
736 used it before checking it; now we check it first. Fixes bug
737 28879; bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
739 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown):
740 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
741 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
743 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions):
744 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
745 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
746 were the same, the default setting (0) for
747 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
748 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
751 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
752 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
753 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
756 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
757 - In addrs_in_same_network_family(), we choose the subnet size based
758 on the IP version (IPv4 or IPv6). Previously, we chose a fixed
759 subnet size of /16 for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug
760 15518; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
762 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
763 - Permit the "shutdown()" system call, which is apparently used by
764 OpenSSL under some circumstances. Fixes bug 28183; bugfix
767 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
768 - Stop talking about the Named flag in log messages. Clients have
769 ignored the Named flag since 0.3.2. Fixes bug 28441; bugfix
771 - As a precaution, do an early return from log_addr_has_changed() if
772 Tor is running as client. Also, log a stack trace for debugging as
773 this function should only be called when Tor runs as server. Fixes
774 bug 26892; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
775 - Refrain from mentioning bug 21018 in the logs, as it is already
776 fixed. Fixes bug 25477; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
778 o Minor bugfixes (logging, documentation):
779 - When SafeLogging is enabled, scrub IP address in
780 channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(). Also, add a note to manpage
781 that scrubbing is not guaranteed on loglevels below Notice. Fixes
782 bug 26882; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
784 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
785 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
786 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
787 - Fix a small memory leak when calling Tor with --dump-config. Fixes
788 bug 27893; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
790 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding):
791 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
792 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
794 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
795 - Log at level "info", not "warning", in the case that we do not
796 have a consensus when a .onion request comes in. This can happen
797 normally while bootstrapping. Fixes bug 27040; bugfix
800 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
801 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
802 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
803 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
804 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
805 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
806 - Build the service descriptor's signing key certificate before
807 uploading, so we always have a fresh one: leaving no chances for
808 it to expire service side. Fixes bug 27838; bugfix
810 - Stop dumping a stack trace when trying to connect to an intro
811 point without having a descriptor for it. Fixes bug 27774; bugfix
813 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
814 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
815 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
816 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
817 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
818 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
819 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
820 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
821 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
822 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
823 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
825 - When replacing a descriptor in the client cache, make sure to
826 close all client introduction circuits for the old descriptor, so
827 we don't end up with unusable leftover circuits. Fixes bug 27471;
828 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
830 o Minor bugfixes (OS compatibility):
831 - Properly handle configuration changes that move a listener to/from
832 wildcard IP address. If the first attempt to bind a socket fails,
833 close the old listener and try binding the socket again. Fixes bug
834 17873; bugfix on 0.0.8pre-1.
836 o Minor bugfixes (performance)::
837 - Rework node_is_a_configured_bridge() to no longer call
838 node_get_all_orports(), which was performing too many memory
839 allocations. Fixes bug 27224; bugfix on 0.2.3.9.
841 o Minor bugfixes (protover):
842 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
843 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
846 o Minor bugfixes (protover, rust):
847 - Reject extra commas in version strings. Fixes bug 27197; bugfix
849 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
850 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
851 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
852 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
853 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
854 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
855 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
856 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
857 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
858 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
860 o Minor bugfixes (relay shutdown, systemd):
861 - Notify systemd of ShutdownWaitLength so it can be set to longer
862 than systemd's TimeoutStopSec. In Tor's systemd service file, set
863 TimeoutSec to 60 seconds to allow Tor some time to shut down.
864 Fixes bug 28113; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
866 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
867 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
868 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
869 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
871 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
872 - Consider the fact that we'll be making direct connections to our
873 entry and guard nodes when computing the fraction of nodes that
874 have their descriptors. Also, if we are using bridges and there is
875 at least one bridge with a full descriptor, treat the fraction of
876 guards available as 100%. Fixes bug 25886; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
877 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
878 - Update the message logged on relays when DirCache is disabled.
879 Since 0.3.3.5-rc, authorities require DirCache (V2Dir) for the
880 Guard flag. Fixes bug 24312; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
882 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
883 - Stop running stem's unit tests as part of "make test-stem", but
884 continue to run stem's unit and online tests during "make test-
885 stem-full". Fixes bug 28568; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
886 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
887 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
888 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
889 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
890 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
892 - Revise the "conditionvar_timeout" test so that it succeeds even on
893 heavily loaded systems where the test threads are not scheduled
894 within 200 msec. Fixes bug 27073; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
895 - Fix two unit tests to work when HOME environment variable is not
896 set. Fixes bug 27096; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
897 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
898 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
899 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
900 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
901 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
902 - When logging a version mismatch in our openssl_version tests,
903 report the actual offending version strings. Fixes bug 26152;
904 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
905 - Fix forking tests on Windows when there is a space somewhere in
906 the path. Fixes bug 26437; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
908 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
909 - Correctly identify Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows Server
910 2008 and later from their NT versions. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on
911 0.2.2.34; reported by Keifer Bly.
912 - On recent Windows versions, the GetVersionEx() function may report
913 an earlier Windows version than the running OS. To avoid user
914 confusion, add "[or later]" to Tor's version string on affected
915 versions of Windows. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34; reported
917 - Remove Windows versions that were never supported by the
918 GetVersionEx() function. Stop duplicating the latest Windows
919 version in get_uname(). Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34;
920 reported by Keifer Bly.
922 o Code simplification and refactoring:
923 - When parsing a port configuration, make it more obvious to static
924 analyzer tools that we always initialize the address. Closes
926 - Divide more large Tor source files -- especially ones that span
927 multiple areas of functionality -- into smaller parts, including
928 onion.c and main.c. Closes ticket 26747.
929 - Divide the "routerparse.c" module into separate modules for each
930 group of parsed objects. Closes ticket 27924.
931 - Move protover_rust.c to the same place protover.c was moved to.
933 - Split directory.c into separate pieces for client, server, and
934 common functionality. Closes ticket 26744.
935 - Split the non-statistics-related parts from the rephist.c and
936 geoip.c modules. Closes ticket 27892.
937 - Split the router.c file into relay-only and shared components, to
938 help with future modularization. Closes ticket 27864.
939 - Divide the routerlist.c and dirserv.c modules into smaller parts.
941 - 'updateFallbackDirs.py' now ignores the blacklist file, as it's not
942 longer needed. Closes ticket 26502.
943 - Include paths to header files within Tor are now qualified by
944 directory within the top-level src directory.
945 - Many structures have been removed from the centralized "or.h"
946 header, and moved into their own headers. This will allow us to
947 reduce the number of places in the code that rely on each
948 structure's contents and layout. Closes ticket 26383.
949 - Remove ATTR_NONNULL macro from codebase. Resolves ticket 26527.
950 - Remove GetAdaptersAddresses_fn_t. The code that used it was
951 removed as part of the 26481 refactor. Closes ticket 27467.
952 - Rework Tor SOCKS server code to use Trunnel and benefit from
953 autogenerated functions for parsing and generating SOCKS wire
954 format. New implementation is cleaner, more maintainable and
955 should be less prone to heartbleed-style vulnerabilities.
956 Implements a significant fraction of ticket 3569.
957 - Split sampled_guards_update_from_consensus() and
958 select_entry_guard_for_circuit() into subfunctions. In
959 entry_guards_update_primary() unite three smartlist enumerations
960 into one and move smartlist comparison code out of the function.
962 - Tor now assumes that you have standards-conformant stdint.h and
963 inttypes.h headers when compiling. Closes ticket 26626.
964 - Unify our bloom filter logic. Previously we had two copies of this
965 code: one for routerlist filtering, and one for address set
966 calculations. Closes ticket 26510.
967 - Use the simpler strcmpstart() helper in
968 rend_parse_v2_service_descriptor instead of strncmp(). Closes
970 - Utility functions that can perform a DNS lookup are now wholly
971 separated from those that can't, in separate headers and C
972 modules. Closes ticket 26526.
975 - In the tor-resolve(1) manpage, fix the reference to socks-
976 extensions.txt by adding a web URL. Resolves ticket 27853.
977 - Mention that we require Python to be 2.7 or newer for some
978 integration tests that we ship with Tor. Resolves ticket 27677.
979 - Copy paragraph and URL to Tor's code of conduct document from
980 CONTRIBUTING to new CODE_OF_CONDUCT file. Resolves ticket 26638.
981 - Remove old instructions from INSTALL document. Closes ticket 26588.
982 - Warn users that they should not include MyFamily line(s) in their
983 torrc when running Tor bridge. Closes ticket 26908.
986 - Tor no longer supports building with the dmalloc library. For
987 debugging memory issues, we suggest using gperftools or msan
988 instead. Closes ticket 26426.
989 - Tor no longer attempts to run on Windows environments without the
990 GetAdaptersAddresses() function. This function has existed since
991 Windows XP, which is itself already older than we support.
992 - Remove Tor2web functionality for version 2 onion services. The
993 Tor2webMode and Tor2webRendezvousPoints options are now obsolete.
994 (This feature was never shipped in vanilla Tor and it was only
995 possible to use this feature by building the support at compile
996 time. Tor2webMode is not implemented for version 3 onion services.)
1000 - Increase logging and tag all log entries with timestamps in
1001 test_rebind.py. Provides diagnostics for issue 28229.
1003 o Code simplification and refactoring (shared random, dirauth):
1004 - Change many tor_assert() to use BUG() instead. The idea is to not
1005 crash a dirauth but rather scream loudly with a stacktrace and let
1006 it continue run. The shared random subsystem is very resilient and
1007 if anything wrong happens with it, at worst a non coherent value
1008 will be put in the vote and discarded by the other authorities.
1009 Closes ticket 19566.
1011 o Documentation (onion services):
1012 - Improve HSv3 client authorization by making some options more
1013 explicit and detailed. Closes ticket 28026. Patch by Mike Tigas.
1014 - Document in the man page that changing ClientOnionAuthDir value or
1015 adding a new file in the directory will not work at runtime upon
1016 sending a HUP if Sandbox 1. Closes ticket 28128.
1017 - Note in the man page that the only real way to fully revoke an
1018 onion service v3 client authorization is by restarting the tor
1019 process. Closes ticket 28275.
1022 Changes in version 0.3.4.9 - 2018-11-02
1023 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
1024 numerous fixes, including a fix for a bandwidth management bug that
1025 was causing memory exhaustion on relays. Anyone running an earlier
1026 version of Tor 0.3.4.9 should upgrade.
1028 o Major bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
1029 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
1030 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1032 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
1033 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
1034 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
1035 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
1036 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1038 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
1039 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
1040 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
1041 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
1042 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
1045 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
1046 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
1047 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
1048 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1050 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
1051 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
1052 Implements ticket 27252.
1053 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
1054 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
1055 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
1056 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
1057 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
1058 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
1059 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
1061 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
1062 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
1063 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
1064 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
1066 o Minor features (geoip):
1067 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
1068 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
1070 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
1071 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
1072 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
1073 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
1074 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
1076 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
1077 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
1078 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1079 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
1080 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
1083 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
1084 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
1085 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
1088 o Minor bugfixes (CI, appveyor, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
1089 - Only install the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
1090 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
1091 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
1092 ships. Fixes bugs 27943 and 27765; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
1094 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
1095 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
1096 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
1098 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
1099 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
1100 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1102 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
1103 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
1104 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
1105 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1107 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
1108 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
1109 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1111 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
1112 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
1113 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
1116 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
1117 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
1118 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1120 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
1121 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
1122 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
1125 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
1126 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
1127 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
1128 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
1129 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1131 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
1132 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
1133 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
1134 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
1135 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
1136 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1138 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
1139 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
1140 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
1143 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
1144 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
1145 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
1146 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
1147 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
1148 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
1149 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
1150 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1152 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
1153 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
1154 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
1155 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
1157 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
1158 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
1159 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
1160 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
1161 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
1163 o Minor bugfixes (rust, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
1164 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
1165 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1166 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
1167 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
1168 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1170 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
1171 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
1172 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
1173 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
1174 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
1175 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
1177 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
1178 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
1179 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
1180 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
1183 o Minor bugfixes (testing, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
1184 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
1185 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
1186 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
1187 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
1190 Changes in version 0.2.9.17 - 2018-09-10
1191 Tor 0.2.9.17 backports numerous bugfixes from later versions of Tor.
1193 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
1194 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
1195 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
1196 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
1198 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1199 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
1201 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
1202 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
1203 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
1204 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
1206 o Minor features (geoip):
1207 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
1208 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
1210 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
1211 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
1212 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
1213 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
1215 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1216 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
1217 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
1218 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
1219 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
1220 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
1221 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
1222 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
1225 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1226 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
1227 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
1228 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
1230 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
1231 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
1232 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
1233 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
1235 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1236 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
1237 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
1238 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1240 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
1241 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
1242 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
1243 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
1244 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
1246 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
1247 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
1248 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
1251 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1252 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
1253 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
1254 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
1255 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
1257 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
1258 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
1259 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
1262 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
1263 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
1264 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
1265 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
1267 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
1268 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
1269 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
1271 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
1272 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
1273 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
1276 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1277 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
1278 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
1279 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
1280 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1282 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1283 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
1284 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
1287 Changes in version 0.3.2.12 - 2018-09-10
1288 Tor 0.3.2.12 backport numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
1290 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
1291 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
1292 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
1293 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
1295 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1296 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
1298 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
1299 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
1300 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
1301 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
1303 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1304 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
1307 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
1308 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
1309 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
1310 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
1312 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1313 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
1314 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
1315 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
1317 o Minor features (geoip):
1318 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
1319 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
1321 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
1322 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
1323 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
1324 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
1325 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
1326 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
1327 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
1329 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1330 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
1331 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
1332 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
1333 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
1334 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
1335 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
1336 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
1339 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1340 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
1341 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
1342 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
1344 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
1345 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
1346 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
1347 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
1349 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1350 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
1351 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
1352 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
1353 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1355 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
1356 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
1357 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
1358 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
1359 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
1361 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
1362 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
1363 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
1366 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1367 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
1368 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
1369 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
1370 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
1372 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
1373 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
1374 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
1377 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1378 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
1379 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
1382 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
1383 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
1384 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
1387 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1388 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
1390 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
1391 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
1392 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
1393 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
1395 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
1396 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
1397 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
1398 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
1400 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
1401 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
1402 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
1404 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
1405 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
1406 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
1407 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
1408 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1409 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
1410 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
1413 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
1414 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on OpenSSL
1415 internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL behavior in
1416 a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p. Fixes bug 27226;
1417 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1419 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1420 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
1421 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
1422 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
1423 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1425 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1426 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
1427 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
1430 Changes in version 0.3.3.10 - 2018-09-10
1431 Tor 0.3.3.10 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
1433 o Minor features (bug workaround, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1434 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
1435 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
1436 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
1438 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
1439 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
1440 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
1441 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
1443 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1444 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
1445 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
1447 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
1448 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
1449 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
1450 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
1452 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1453 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
1456 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
1457 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
1458 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
1459 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
1461 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1462 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
1463 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
1464 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
1466 o Minor features (geoip):
1467 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
1468 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
1470 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
1471 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
1472 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
1473 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
1474 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
1475 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
1476 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
1478 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1479 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
1480 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
1481 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
1482 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
1483 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
1484 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
1485 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
1488 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1489 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
1490 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
1491 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
1493 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
1494 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
1495 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
1496 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
1498 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1499 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
1500 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
1501 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
1502 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1504 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
1505 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
1506 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
1507 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
1508 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
1510 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
1511 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
1512 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
1515 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1516 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
1517 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
1518 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1520 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1521 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
1522 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
1523 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
1524 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
1526 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
1527 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
1528 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
1531 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1532 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
1533 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
1536 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
1537 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
1538 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
1541 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
1542 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
1543 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
1544 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1546 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1547 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
1548 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
1551 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1552 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
1554 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
1555 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
1556 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
1557 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
1558 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
1559 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
1560 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
1562 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
1563 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
1564 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
1565 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
1566 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
1568 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
1569 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
1570 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
1571 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
1573 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
1574 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
1575 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
1577 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
1578 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
1579 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
1580 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
1581 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1582 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
1583 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
1586 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1587 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
1588 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
1589 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
1590 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1592 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
1593 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
1594 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
1595 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
1596 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
1598 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1599 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
1600 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
1603 Changes in version 0.3.4.8 - 2018-09-10
1604 Tor 0.3.4.8 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
1605 compilation and portability fixes.
1607 The Tor 0.3.4 series includes improvements for running Tor in
1608 low-power and embedded environments, which should help performance in
1609 general. We've begun work on better modularity, and included preliminary
1610 changes on the directory authority side to accommodate a new bandwidth
1611 measurement system. We've also integrated more continuous-integration
1612 systems into our development process, and made corresponding changes to
1613 Tor's testing infrastructure. Finally, we've continued to refine
1614 our anti-denial-of-service code.
1616 Below are the changes since 0.3.3.9. For a list of only the changes
1617 since 0.3.4.7-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
1619 o New system requirements:
1620 - Tor no longer tries to support old operating systems without
1621 mmap() or some local equivalent. Apparently, compilation on such
1622 systems has been broken for some time, without anybody noticing or
1623 complaining. Closes ticket 25398.
1625 o Major features (directory authority, modularization):
1626 - The directory authority subsystem has been modularized. The code
1627 is now located in src/or/dirauth/, and is compiled in by default.
1628 To disable the module, the configure option
1629 --disable-module-dirauth has been added. This module may be
1630 disabled by default in some future release. Closes ticket 25610.
1632 o Major features (main loop, CPU usage):
1633 - When Tor is disabled (via DisableNetwork or via hibernation), it
1634 no longer needs to run any per-second events. This change should
1635 make it easier for mobile applications to disable Tor while the
1636 device is sleeping, or Tor is not running. Closes ticket 26063.
1637 - Tor no longer enables all of its periodic events by default.
1638 Previously, Tor would enable all possible main loop events,
1639 regardless of whether it needed them. Furthermore, many of these
1640 events are now disabled when Tor is hibernating or DisableNetwork
1641 is set. This is a big step towards reducing client CPU usage by
1642 reducing the amount of wake-ups the daemon does. Closes tickets
1644 - The bandwidth-limitation logic has been refactored so that
1645 bandwidth calculations are performed on-demand, rather than every
1646 TokenBucketRefillInterval milliseconds. This change should improve
1647 the granularity of our bandwidth calculations, and limit the
1648 number of times that the Tor process needs to wake up when it is
1649 idle. Closes ticket 25373.
1650 - Move responsibility for many operations from a once-per-second
1651 callback to a callback that is only scheduled as needed. Moving
1652 this functionality has allowed us to disable the callback when
1653 Tor's network is disabled. Once enough items are removed from our
1654 once-per-second callback, we can eliminate it entirely to conserve
1655 CPU when idle. The functionality removed includes: closing
1656 connections, circuits, and channels (ticket 25932); consensus
1657 voting (25937); flushing log callbacks (25951); honoring delayed
1658 SIGNEWNYM requests (25949); rescanning the consensus cache
1659 (25931); saving the state file to disk (25948); warning relay
1660 operators about unreachable ports (25952); and keeping track of
1661 Tor's uptime (26009).
1663 o Minor features (accounting):
1664 - When Tor becomes dormant, it now uses a scheduled event to wake up
1665 at the right time. Previously, we would use the per-second timer
1666 to check whether to wake up, but we no longer have any per-second
1667 timers enabled when the network is disabled. Closes ticket 26064.
1669 o Minor features (bug workaround):
1670 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
1671 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
1672 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
1674 o Minor features (code quality):
1675 - Add optional spell-checking for the Tor codebase, using the
1676 "misspell" program. To use this feature, run "make check-typos".
1677 Closes ticket 25024.
1679 o Minor features (compatibility):
1680 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
1681 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
1682 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
1683 - Tor now detects versions of OpenSSL 1.1.0 and later compiled with
1684 the no-deprecated option, and builds correctly with them. Closes
1685 tickets 19429, 19981, and 25353.
1687 o Minor features (compilation):
1688 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
1689 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
1690 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
1691 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
1692 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
1693 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
1694 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
1695 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
1698 o Minor features (compression, zstd):
1699 - When running with zstd, Tor now considers using advanced functions
1700 that the zstd maintainers have labeled as potentially unstable. To
1701 prevent breakage, Tor will only use this functionality when the
1702 runtime version of the zstd library matches the version with which
1703 Tor was compiled. Closes ticket 25162.
1705 o Minor features (configuration):
1706 - The "DownloadSchedule" options have been renamed to end with
1707 "DownloadInitialDelay". The old names are still allowed, but will
1708 produce a warning. Comma-separated lists are still permitted for
1709 these options, but all values after the first are ignored (as they
1710 have been since 0.2.9). Closes ticket 23354.
1712 o Minor features (continuous integration):
1713 - Log the compiler path and version during Appveyor builds.
1714 Implements ticket 27449.
1715 - Show config.log and test-suite.log after failed Appveyor builds.
1716 Also upload the zipped full logs as a build artifact. Implements
1718 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
1719 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
1721 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
1722 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
1723 - Only post Appveyor IRC notifications when the build fails.
1724 Implements ticket 27275.
1725 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
1726 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
1727 - Add the necessary configuration files for continuous integration
1728 testing on Windows, via the Appveyor platform. Closes ticket
1729 25549. Patches from Marcin Cieślak and Isis Lovecruft.
1731 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust):
1732 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
1735 o Minor features (control port):
1736 - Introduce GETINFO "current-time/{local,utc}" to return the local
1737 and UTC times respectively in ISO format. This helps a controller
1738 like Tor Browser detect a time-related error. Closes ticket 25511.
1739 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1740 - Introduce new fields to the CIRC_BW event. There are two new
1741 fields in each of the read and written directions. The DELIVERED
1742 fields report the total valid data on the circuit, as measured by
1743 the payload sizes of verified and error-checked relay command
1744 cells. The OVERHEAD fields report the total unused bytes in each
1745 of these cells. Closes ticket 25903.
1747 o Minor features (controller):
1748 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
1749 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
1750 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
1752 o Minor features (directory authorities):
1753 - Stop warning about incomplete bw lines before the first complete
1754 bw line has been found, so that additional header lines can be
1755 ignored. Fixes bug 25960; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha
1756 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
1757 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
1758 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
1760 o Minor features (directory authority):
1761 - Directory authorities now open their key-pinning files as O_SYNC,
1762 to limit their chances of accidentally writing partial lines.
1763 Closes ticket 23909.
1765 o Minor features (directory authority, forward compatibility):
1766 - Make the lines of the measured bandwidth file able to contain
1767 their entries in any order. Previously, the node_id entry needed
1768 to come first. Closes ticket 26004.
1770 o Minor features (entry guards):
1771 - Introduce a new torrc option NumPrimaryGuards for controlling the
1772 number of primary guards. Closes ticket 25843.
1774 o Minor features (geoip):
1775 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
1776 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
1778 o Minor features (performance):
1779 - Avoid a needless call to malloc() when processing an incoming
1780 relay cell. Closes ticket 24914.
1781 - Make our timing-wheel code run a tiny bit faster on 32-bit
1782 platforms, by preferring 32-bit math to 64-bit. Closes
1784 - Avoid a needless malloc()/free() pair every time we handle an ntor
1785 handshake. Closes ticket 25150.
1787 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
1788 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
1790 o Minor features (testing):
1791 - Add a unit test for voting_schedule_get_start_of_next_interval().
1792 Closes ticket 26014, and helps make unit test coverage
1794 - A new unittests module specifically for testing the functions in
1795 the (new-ish) bridges.c module has been created with new
1796 unittests, raising the code coverage percentages. Closes 25425.
1797 - We now have improved testing for addressmap_get_virtual_address()
1798 function. This should improve our test coverage, and make our test
1799 coverage more deterministic. Closes ticket 25993.
1801 o Minor features (timekeeping, circuit scheduling):
1802 - When keeping track of how busy each circuit have been recently on
1803 a given connection, use coarse-grained monotonic timers rather
1804 than gettimeofday(). This change should marginally increase
1805 accuracy and performance. Implements part of ticket 25927.
1807 o Minor features (unit tests):
1808 - Test complete bandwidth measurements files, and test that
1809 incomplete bandwidth lines only give warnings when the end of the
1810 header has not been detected. Fixes bug 25947; bugfix
1813 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth management):
1814 - Consider ourselves "low on write bandwidth" if we have exhausted
1815 our write bandwidth some time in the last second. This was the
1816 documented behavior before, but the actual behavior was to change
1817 this value every TokenBucketRefillInterval. Fixes bug 25828;
1818 bugfix on 0.2.3.5-alpha.
1820 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
1821 - Add a missing lock acquisition in the shutdown code of the control
1822 subsystem. Fixes bug 25675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Found by
1823 Coverity; this is CID 1433643.
1825 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
1826 - Fixed multiple includes of transports.h in src/or/connection.c
1827 Fixes bug 25261; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1828 - Remove the unused variable n_possible from the function
1829 channel_get_for_extend(). Fixes bug 25645; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha
1831 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1832 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
1833 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
1834 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
1835 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
1836 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
1837 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
1838 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
1840 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
1841 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
1842 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
1843 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
1844 - Refrain from compiling unit testing related object files when
1845 --disable-unittests is set to configure script. Fixes bug 24891;
1846 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1847 - The --enable-fatal-warnings flag now affects Rust code as well.
1848 Closes ticket 26245.
1849 - Avoid a compiler warning when casting the return value of
1850 smartlist_len() to double with DEBUG_SMARTLIST enabled. Fixes bug
1851 26283; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
1853 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows):
1854 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
1855 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
1856 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
1858 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
1859 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
1860 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
1861 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
1862 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
1864 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
1865 - Respond with more human-readable error messages to GETINFO exit-
1866 policy/* requests. Also, let controller know if an error is
1867 transient (response code 551) or not (response code 552). Fixes
1868 bug 25852; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1869 - Parse the "HSADDRESS=" parameter in HSPOST commands properly.
1870 Previously, it was misparsed and ignored. Fixes bug 26523; bugfix
1871 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
1872 - Make CIRC_BW event reflect the total of all data sent on a
1873 circuit, including padding and dropped cells. Also fix a mis-
1874 counting bug when STREAM_BW events were enabled. Fixes bug 25400;
1875 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
1877 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
1878 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
1879 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
1882 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
1883 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
1884 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
1887 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
1888 - When unverified-consensus is verified, rename it to cached-
1889 consenus. Fixes bug 4187; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1890 - Fixed launching a certificate fetch always during the scheduled
1891 periodic consensus fetch by fetching only in those cases when
1892 consensus are waiting for certs. Fixes bug 24740; bugfix
1895 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting):
1896 - Improve tolerance for directory authorities with skewed clocks.
1897 Previously, an authority with a clock more than 60 seconds ahead
1898 could cause a client with a correct clock to warn that the
1899 client's clock was behind. Now the clocks of a majority of
1900 directory authorities have to be ahead of the client before this
1901 warning will occur. Fixes bug 25756; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
1903 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart):
1904 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
1905 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
1906 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1908 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
1909 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
1910 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
1911 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
1912 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
1914 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1915 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
1916 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
1919 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
1920 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
1921 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
1923 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
1924 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
1926 - Recompute some consensus information after detecting a clock jump,
1927 or after transitioning from a non-live consensus to a live
1928 consensus. We do this to avoid having an outdated state, and
1929 miscalculating the index for next-generation onion services. Fixes
1930 bug 24977; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1932 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
1933 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
1934 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
1936 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
1937 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
1938 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1939 - Do not align mmap length, as it is not required by POSIX, and the
1940 getpagesize function is deprecated. Fixes bug 25399; bugfix
1943 o Minor bugfixes (portability, FreeBSD):
1944 - In have_enough_mem_for_dircache(), the variable DIRCACHE_MIN_MEM_MB
1945 does not stringify on FreeBSD, so we switch to tor_asprintf().
1946 Fixes bug 20887; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1948 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
1949 - When a relay is collecting internal statistics about how many
1950 create cell requests it has seen of each type, accurately count
1951 the requests from relays that temporarily fall out of the
1952 consensus. (To be extra conservative, we were already ignoring
1953 requests from clients in our counts, and we continue ignoring them
1954 here.) Fixes bug 24910; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
1956 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
1957 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
1959 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
1960 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
1961 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
1962 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
1963 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
1965 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
1966 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
1967 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
1968 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
1969 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
1971 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
1972 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web
1973 clients fail to authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes
1974 bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
1976 o Minor bugfixes (test coverage tools):
1977 - Update our "cov-diff" script to handle output from the latest
1978 version of gcov, and to remove extraneous timestamp information
1979 from its output. Fixes bugs 26101 and 26102; bugfix
1982 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
1983 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
1984 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
1985 - When testing workqueue event-cancellation, make sure that we
1986 actually cancel an event, and that cancel each event with equal
1987 probability. (It was previously possible, though extremely
1988 unlikely, for our event-canceling test not to cancel any events.)
1989 Fixes bug 26008; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1990 - Repeat part of the test in test_client_pick_intro() a number of
1991 times, to give it consistent coverage. Fixes bug 25996; bugfix
1993 - Remove randomness from the hs_common/responsible_hsdirs test, so
1994 that it always takes the same path through the function it tests.
1995 Fixes bug 25997; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1996 - Change the behavior of the "channel/outbound" test so that it
1997 never causes a 10-second rollover for the EWMA circuitmux code.
1998 Previously, this behavior would happen randomly, and result in
1999 fluctuating test coverage. Fixes bug 25994; bugfix
2001 - Use X509_new() to allocate certificates that will be freed later
2002 with X509_free(). Previously, some parts of the unit tests had
2003 used tor_malloc_zero(), which is incorrect, and which caused test
2004 failures on Windows when they were built with extra hardening.
2005 Fixes bugs 25943 and 25944; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by
2007 - While running the circuit_timeout test, fix the PRNG to a
2008 deterministic AES stream, so that the test coverage from this test
2009 will itself be deterministic. Fixes bug 25995; bugfix
2012 o Minor bugfixes (testing, bootstrap):
2013 - When calculating bootstrap progress, check exit policies and the
2014 exit flag. Previously, Tor would only check the exit flag, which
2015 caused race conditions in small and fast networks like chutney.
2016 Fixes bug 27236; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
2018 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney):
2019 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
2020 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
2021 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
2022 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2023 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
2024 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
2027 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
2028 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
2029 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
2030 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
2031 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2033 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
2034 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
2035 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
2036 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
2037 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
2039 o Minor bugfixes (vanguards):
2040 - Allow the last hop in a vanguard circuit to be the same as our
2041 first, to prevent the adversary from influencing guard node choice
2042 by choice of last hop. Also prevent the creation of A - B - A
2043 paths, or A - A paths, which are forbidden by relays. Fixes bug
2044 25870; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2046 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation):
2047 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
2048 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
2050 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2051 - Remove duplicate code in parse_{c,s}method_line and bootstrap
2052 their functionalities into a single function. Fixes bug 6236;
2053 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
2054 - We remove the PortForwsrding and PortForwardingHelper options,
2055 related functions, and the port_forwarding tests. These options
2056 were used by the now-deprecated Vidalia to help ordinary users
2057 become Tor relays or bridges. Closes ticket 25409. Patch by
2059 - In order to make the OR and dir checking function in router.c less
2060 confusing we renamed some functions and
2061 consider_testing_reachability() has been split into
2062 router_should_check_reachability() and
2063 router_do_reachability_checks(). Also we improved the documentation
2064 in some functions. Closes ticket 18918.
2065 - Initial work to isolate Libevent usage to a handful of modules in
2066 our codebase, to simplify our call structure, and so that we can
2067 more easily change event loops in the future if needed. Closes
2069 - Introduce a function to call getsockname() and return tor_addr_t,
2070 to save a little complexity throughout the codebase. Closes
2072 - Make hsdir_index in node_t a hsdir_index_t rather than a pointer
2073 as hsdir_index is always present. Also, we move hsdir_index_t into
2074 or.h. Closes ticket 23094. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2075 - Merge functions used for describing nodes and suppress the
2076 functions that do not allocate memory for the output buffer
2077 string. NODE_DESC_BUF_LEN constant and format_node_description()
2078 function cannot be used externally from router.c module anymore.
2079 Closes ticket 25432. Patch by valentecaio.
2080 - Our main loop has been simplified so that all important operations
2081 happen inside events. Previously, some operations had to happen
2082 outside the event loop, to prevent infinite sequences of event
2083 activations. Closes ticket 25374.
2084 - Put a SHA1 public key digest in hs_service_intro_point_t, and use
2085 it in register_intro_circ() and service_intro_point_new(). This
2086 prevents the digest from being re-calculated each time. Closes
2087 ticket 23107. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2088 - Refactor token-bucket implementations to use a common backend.
2089 Closes ticket 25766.
2090 - Remove extern declaration of stats_n_seconds_working variable from
2091 main, protecting its accesses with get_uptime() and reset_uptime()
2092 functions. Closes ticket 25081, patch by “valentecaio”.
2093 - Remove our previous logic for "cached gettimeofday()" -- our
2094 coarse monotonic timers are fast enough for this purpose, and far
2095 less error-prone. Implements part of ticket 25927.
2096 - Remove the return value for fascist_firewall_choose_address_base(),
2097 and sister functions such as fascist_firewall_choose_address_node()
2098 and fascist_firewall_choose_address_rs(). Also, while we're here,
2099 initialize the ap argument as leaving it uninitialized can pose a
2100 security hazard. Closes ticket 24734. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2101 - Rename two fields of connection_t struct. timestamp_lastwritten is
2102 renamed to timestamp_last_write_allowed and timestamp_lastread is
2103 renamed to timestamp_last_read_allowed. Closes ticket 24714, patch
2105 - Since Tor requires C99, remove our old workaround code for libc
2106 implementations where free(NULL) doesn't work. Closes ticket 24484.
2107 - Use our standard rate-limiting code to deal with excessive
2108 libevent failures, rather than the hand-rolled logic we had
2109 before. Closes ticket 26016.
2110 - We remove the return value of node_get_prim_orport() and
2111 node_get_prim_dirport(), and introduce node_get_prim_orport() in
2112 node_ipv6_or_preferred() and node_ipv6_dir_preferred() in order to
2113 check for a null address. Closes ticket 23873. Patch by
2115 - We switch to should_record_bridge_info() in
2116 geoip_note_client_seen() and options_need_geoip_info() instead of
2117 accessing the configuration values directly. Fixes bug 25290;
2118 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2120 o Deprecated features:
2121 - As we are not recommending 0.2.5 anymore, we require relays that
2122 once had an ed25519 key associated with their RSA key to always
2123 have that key, instead of allowing them to drop back to a version
2124 that didn't support ed25519. This means they need to use a new RSA
2125 key if they want to downgrade to an older version of tor without
2126 ed25519. Closes ticket 20522.
2129 - Directory authorities will no longer support voting according to
2130 any consensus method before consensus method 25. This keeps
2131 authorities compatible with all authorities running 0.2.9.8 and
2132 later, and does not break any clients or relays. Implements ticket
2133 24378 and proposal 290.
2134 - The PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper features have been
2135 removed. The reasoning is, given that implementations of NAT
2136 traversal protocols within common consumer grade routers are
2137 frequently buggy, and that the target audience for a NAT punching
2138 feature is a perhaps less-technically-inclined relay operator,
2139 when the helper fails to setup traversal the problems are usually
2140 deep, ugly, and very router specific, making them horrendously
2141 impossible for technical support to reliable assist with, and thus
2142 resulting in frustration all around. Unfortunately, relay
2143 operators who would like to run relays behind NATs will need to
2144 become more familiar with the port forwarding configurations on
2145 their local router. Closes 25409.
2146 - The TestingEnableTbEmptyEvent option has been removed. It was used
2147 in testing simulations to measure how often connection buckets
2148 were emptied, in order to improve our scheduling, but it has not
2149 been actively used in years. Closes ticket 25760.
2150 - The old "round-robin" circuit multiplexer (circuitmux)
2151 implementation has been removed, along with a fairly large set of
2152 code that existed to support it. It has not been the default
2153 circuitmux since we introduced the "EWMA" circuitmux in 0.2.4.x,
2154 but it still required an unreasonable amount of memory and CPU.
2155 Closes ticket 25268.
2158 Changes in version 0.3.3.9 - 2018-07-13
2159 Tor 0.3.3.9 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
2160 bridge relays should upgrade.
2162 o Directory authority changes:
2163 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
2164 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
2165 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
2168 Changes in version 0.3.2.11 - 2018-07-13
2169 Tor 0.3.2.11 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
2170 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
2173 o Directory authority changes:
2174 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
2175 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
2176 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
2178 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
2179 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
2180 Closes ticket 26343.
2182 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2183 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
2184 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
2185 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
2186 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2188 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2189 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
2190 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
2192 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
2193 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
2194 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
2195 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
2197 o Minor feature (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
2198 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
2199 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
2201 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2202 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
2203 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
2204 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
2205 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
2206 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
2208 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
2209 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
2210 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
2211 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
2213 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
2214 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
2215 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
2218 o Minor features (geoip):
2219 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
2220 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
2222 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2223 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
2224 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
2225 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
2226 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
2228 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2229 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
2230 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2232 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
2233 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
2234 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
2235 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
2236 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2237 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
2238 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
2239 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
2242 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
2243 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
2244 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
2245 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
2246 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
2247 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
2249 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
2250 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
2251 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
2252 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
2253 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
2255 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
2256 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
2257 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
2258 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
2259 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
2261 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2262 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
2263 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
2266 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
2267 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
2268 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
2270 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
2271 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
2272 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
2273 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
2275 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2276 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
2277 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2278 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
2279 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
2280 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
2281 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2283 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
2284 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
2285 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
2286 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
2289 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2290 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
2291 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2293 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
2294 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
2295 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2297 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
2298 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
2299 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
2300 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
2303 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
2304 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
2305 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
2306 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
2308 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
2309 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
2310 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
2312 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
2313 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
2314 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
2317 Changes in version 0.2.9.16 - 2018-07-13
2318 Tor 0.2.9.16 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
2319 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
2322 o Directory authority changes:
2323 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
2324 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
2325 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
2327 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
2328 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
2329 Closes ticket 26343.
2331 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2332 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
2333 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
2334 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
2335 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2337 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
2338 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
2339 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
2340 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
2342 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2343 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
2344 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
2345 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
2346 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
2347 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
2349 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
2350 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
2351 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
2354 o Minor features (geoip):
2355 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
2356 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
2358 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2359 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
2360 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
2361 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
2362 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
2364 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2365 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
2366 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2368 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
2369 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
2370 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
2371 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
2374 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
2375 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
2376 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
2377 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
2378 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
2379 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
2381 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
2382 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
2383 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
2384 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
2385 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
2387 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2388 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
2389 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
2392 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
2393 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
2394 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
2396 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
2397 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
2398 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
2399 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
2401 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
2402 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
2403 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
2405 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
2406 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
2407 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
2410 Changes in version 0.3.3.8 - 2018-07-09
2411 Tor 0.3.3.8 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
2412 fixes for a memory leak affecting directory authorities.
2414 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
2415 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
2416 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
2417 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
2419 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
2420 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
2421 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
2424 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
2425 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
2426 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
2429 o Minor features (geoip):
2430 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
2431 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
2433 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
2434 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
2435 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
2436 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
2438 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2439 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
2440 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
2441 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
2442 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
2445 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
2446 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
2447 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
2448 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
2449 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
2451 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
2452 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
2453 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
2454 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
2456 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
2457 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
2458 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
2460 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
2461 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
2462 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
2463 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
2466 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2467 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
2468 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
2469 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2471 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
2472 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
2473 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
2474 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
2475 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2476 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
2477 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
2478 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
2482 Changes in version 0.3.3.7 - 2018-06-12
2483 Tor 0.3.3.7 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
2484 fixes for bugs affecting compatibility and stability.
2486 o Directory authority changes:
2487 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
2488 Closes ticket 26343.
2490 o Minor features (geoip):
2491 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
2492 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
2494 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
2495 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
2496 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
2497 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
2498 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
2499 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
2501 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
2502 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
2503 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2505 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
2506 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
2507 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
2508 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
2509 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2511 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
2512 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
2513 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
2515 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2516 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
2517 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
2518 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
2519 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
2520 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
2523 Changes in version 0.3.3.6 - 2018-05-22
2524 Tor 0.3.3.6 is the first stable release in the 0.3.3 series. It
2525 backports several important fixes from the 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2527 The Tor 0.3.3 series includes controller support and other
2528 improvements for v3 onion services, official support for embedding Tor
2529 within other applications, and our first non-trivial module written in
2530 the Rust programming language. (Rust is still not enabled by default
2531 when building Tor.) And as usual, there are numerous other smaller
2532 bugfixes, features, and improvements.
2534 Below are the changes since 0.3.2.10. For a list of only the changes
2535 since 0.3.3.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
2537 o New system requirements:
2538 - When built with Rust, Tor now depends on version 0.2.39 of the
2539 libc crate. Closes tickets 25310 and 25664.
2541 o Major features (embedding):
2542 - There is now a documented stable API for programs that need to
2543 embed Tor. See tor_api.h for full documentation and known bugs.
2544 Closes ticket 23684.
2545 - Tor now has support for restarting in the same process.
2546 Controllers that run Tor using the "tor_api.h" interface can now
2547 restart Tor after Tor has exited. This support is incomplete,
2548 however: we fixed crash bugs that prevented it from working at
2549 all, but many bugs probably remain, including a possibility of
2550 security issues. Implements ticket 24581.
2552 o Major features (IPv6, directory documents):
2553 - Add consensus method 27, which adds IPv6 ORPorts to the microdesc
2554 consensus. This information makes it easier for IPv6 clients to
2555 bootstrap and choose reachable entry guards. Implements
2557 - Add consensus method 28, which removes IPv6 ORPorts from
2558 microdescriptors. Now that the consensus contains IPv6 ORPorts,
2559 they are redundant in microdescs. This change will be used by Tor
2560 clients on 0.2.8.x and later. (That is to say, with all Tor
2561 clients that have IPv6 bootstrap and guard support.) Implements
2563 - Expand the documentation for AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity when it is
2564 set by different numbers of authorities. Fixes 23870
2567 o Major features (onion service v3, control port):
2568 - The control port now supports commands and events for v3 onion
2569 services. It is now possible to create ephemeral v3 services using
2570 ADD_ONION. Additionally, several events (HS_DESC, HS_DESC_CONTENT,
2571 CIRC and CIRC_MINOR) and commands (GETINFO, HSPOST, ADD_ONION and
2572 DEL_ONION) have been extended to support v3 onion services. Closes
2573 ticket 20699; implements proposal 284.
2575 o Major features (onion services):
2576 - Provide torrc options to pin the second and third hops of onion
2577 service circuits to a list of nodes. The option HSLayer2Guards
2578 pins the second hop, and the option HSLayer3Guards pins the third
2579 hop. These options are for use in conjunction with experiments
2580 with "vanguards" for preventing guard enumeration attacks. Closes
2582 - When v3 onion service clients send introduce cells, they now
2583 include the IPv6 address of the rendezvous point, if it has one.
2584 Current v3 onion services running 0.3.2 ignore IPv6 addresses, but
2585 in future Tor versions, IPv6-only v3 single onion services will be
2586 able to use IPv6 addresses to connect directly to the rendezvous
2587 point. Closes ticket 23577. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2589 o Major features (relay):
2590 - Implement an option, ReducedExitPolicy, to allow an Tor exit relay
2591 operator to use a more reasonable ("reduced") exit policy, rather
2592 than the default one. If you want to run an exit node without
2593 thinking too hard about which ports to allow, this one is for you.
2594 Closes ticket 13605. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
2596 o Major features (rust, portability, experimental):
2597 - Tor now ships with an optional implementation of one of its
2598 smaller modules (protover.c) in the Rust programming language. To
2599 try it out, install a Rust build environment, and configure Tor
2600 with "--enable-rust --enable-cargo-online-mode". This should not
2601 cause any user-visible changes, but should help us gain more
2602 experience with Rust, and plan future Rust integration work.
2603 Implementation by Chelsea Komlo. Closes ticket 22840.
2605 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2606 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
2607 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
2608 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
2609 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2611 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service):
2612 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
2613 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
2614 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
2615 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
2617 o Major bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2618 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
2619 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
2620 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
2622 o Major bugfixes (netflow padding):
2623 - Stop adding unneeded channel padding right after we finish
2624 flushing to a connection that has been trying to flush for many
2625 seconds. Instead, treat all partial or complete flushes as
2626 activity on the channel, which will defer the time until we need
2627 to add padding. This fix should resolve confusing and scary log
2628 messages like "Channel padding timeout scheduled 221453ms in the
2629 past." Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2631 o Major bugfixes (networking):
2632 - Tor will no longer reject IPv6 address strings from Tor Browser
2633 when they are passed as hostnames in SOCKS5 requests. Fixes bug
2634 25036, bugfix on Tor 0.3.1.2.
2636 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2637 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
2638 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
2640 o Major bugfixes (performance, load balancing):
2641 - Directory authorities no longer vote in favor of the Guard flag
2642 for relays without directory support. Starting in Tor
2643 0.3.0.1-alpha, clients have been avoiding using such relays in the
2644 Guard position, leading to increasingly broken load balancing for
2645 the 5%-or-so of Guards that don't advertise directory support.
2646 Fixes bug 22310; bugfix on 0.3.0.6.
2648 o Major bugfixes (relay):
2649 - If we have failed to connect to a relay and received a connection
2650 refused, timeout, or similar error (at the TCP level), do not try
2651 that same address/port again for 60 seconds after the failure has
2652 occurred. Fixes bug 24767; bugfix on 0.0.6.
2654 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2655 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
2656 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
2659 o Minor features (cleanup):
2660 - Tor now deletes the CookieAuthFile and ExtORPortCookieAuthFile
2661 when it stops. Closes ticket 23271.
2663 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2664 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
2665 Closes ticket 26006.
2667 o Minor features (config options):
2668 - Change the way the default value for MaxMemInQueues is calculated.
2669 We now use 40% of the hardware RAM if the system has 8 GB RAM or
2670 more. Otherwise we use the former value of 75%. Closes
2673 o Minor features (continuous integration):
2674 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
2675 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
2677 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2678 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
2679 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
2680 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
2681 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
2682 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
2684 o Minor features (defensive programming):
2685 - Most of the functions in Tor that free objects have been replaced
2686 with macros that free the objects and set the corresponding
2687 pointers to NULL. This change should help prevent a large class of
2688 dangling pointer bugs. Closes ticket 24337.
2689 - Where possible, the tor_free() macro now only evaluates its input
2690 once. Part of ticket 24337.
2691 - Check that microdesc ed25519 ids are non-zero in
2692 node_get_ed25519_id() before returning them. Implements ticket
2693 24001, patch by "aruna1234".
2695 o Minor features (directory authority):
2696 - When directory authorities are unable to add signatures to a
2697 pending consensus, log the reason why. Closes ticket 24849.
2699 o Minor features (embedding):
2700 - Tor can now start with a preauthenticated control connection
2701 created by the process that launched it. This feature is meant for
2702 use by programs that want to launch and manage a Tor process
2703 without allowing other programs to manage it as well. For more
2704 information, see the __OwningControllerFD option documented in
2705 control-spec.txt. Closes ticket 23900.
2706 - On most errors that would cause Tor to exit, it now tries to
2707 return from the tor_main() function, rather than calling the
2708 system exit() function. Most users won't notice a difference here,
2709 but it should be significant for programs that run Tor inside a
2710 separate thread: they should now be able to survive Tor's exit
2711 conditions rather than having Tor shut down the entire process.
2712 Closes ticket 23848.
2713 - Applications that want to embed Tor can now tell Tor not to
2714 register any of its own POSIX signal handlers, using the
2715 __DisableSignalHandlers option. Closes ticket 24588.
2717 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
2718 - Avoid selecting fallbacks that change their IP addresses too
2719 often. Select more fallbacks by ignoring the Guard flag, and
2720 allowing lower cutoffs for the Running and V2Dir flags. Also allow
2721 a lower bandwidth, and a higher number of fallbacks per operator
2722 (5% of the list). Implements ticket 24785.
2723 - Update the fallback whitelist and blacklist based on opt-ins and
2724 relay changes. Closes tickets 22321, 24678, 22527, 24135,
2727 o Minor features (fallback directory mirror configuration):
2728 - Add a nickname to each fallback in a C comment. This makes it
2729 easier for operators to find their relays, and allows stem to use
2730 nicknames to identify fallbacks. Implements ticket 24600.
2731 - Add a type and version header to the fallback directory mirror
2732 file. Also add a delimiter to the end of each fallback entry. This
2733 helps external parsers like stem and Relay Search. Implements
2735 - Add an extrainfo cache flag for each fallback in a C comment. This
2736 allows stem to use fallbacks to fetch extra-info documents, rather
2737 than using authorities. Implements ticket 22759.
2738 - Add the generateFallbackDirLine.py script for automatically
2739 generating fallback directory mirror lines from relay fingerprints.
2740 No more typos! Add the lookupFallbackDirContact.py script for
2741 automatically looking up operator contact info from relay
2742 fingerprints. Implements ticket 24706, patch by teor and atagar.
2743 - Reject any fallback directory mirror that serves an expired
2744 consensus. Implements ticket 20942, patch by "minik".
2745 - Remove commas and equals signs from external string inputs to the
2746 fallback list. This avoids format confusion attacks. Implements
2748 - Remove the "weight=10" line from fallback directory mirror
2749 entries. Ticket 24681 will maintain the current fallback weights
2750 by changing Tor's default fallback weight to 10. Implements
2752 - Stop logging excessive information about fallback netblocks.
2753 Implements ticket 24791.
2755 o Minor features (forward-compatibility):
2756 - If a relay supports some link authentication protocol that we do
2757 not recognize, then include that relay's ed25519 key when telling
2758 other relays to extend to it. Previously, we treated future
2759 versions as if they were too old to support ed25519 link
2760 authentication. Closes ticket 20895.
2762 o Minor features (geoip):
2763 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
2764 database. Closes ticket 26104.
2766 o Minor features (heartbeat):
2767 - Add onion service information to our heartbeat logs, displaying
2768 stats about the activity of configured onion services. Closes
2771 o Minor features (instrumentation, development):
2772 - Add the MainloopStats option to allow developers to get
2773 instrumentation information from the main event loop via the
2774 heartbeat messages. We hope to use this to improve Tor's behavior
2775 when it's trying to sleep. Closes ticket 24605.
2777 o Minor features (IPv6):
2778 - Make IPv6-only clients wait for microdescs for relays, even if we
2779 were previously using descriptors (or were using them as a bridge)
2780 and have a cached descriptor for them. Implements ticket 23827.
2781 - When a consensus has IPv6 ORPorts, make IPv6-only clients use
2782 them, rather than waiting to download microdescriptors. Implements
2785 o Minor features (log messages):
2786 - Improve log message in the out-of-memory handler to include
2787 information about memory usage from the different compression
2788 backends. Closes ticket 25372.
2789 - Improve a warning message that happens when we fail to re-parse an
2790 old router because of an expired certificate. Closes ticket 20020.
2791 - Make the log more quantitative when we hit MaxMemInQueues
2792 threshold exposing some values. Closes ticket 24501.
2794 o Minor features (logging):
2795 - Clarify the log messages produced when getrandom() or a related
2796 entropy-generation mechanism gives an error. Closes ticket 25120.
2797 - Added support for the Android logging subsystem. Closes
2800 o Minor features (performance):
2801 - Support predictive circuit building for onion service circuits
2802 with multiple layers of guards. Closes ticket 23101.
2803 - Use stdatomic.h where available, rather than mutexes, to implement
2804 atomic_counter_t. Closes ticket 23953.
2806 o Minor features (performance, 32-bit):
2807 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
2808 when calculating the timestamp in milliseconds for channel padding
2809 computations. Implements ticket 24613.
2810 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
2811 when timestamping cells and buffer chunks for OOM calculations.
2812 Implements ticket 24374.
2814 o Minor features (performance, OSX, iOS):
2815 - Use the mach_approximate_time() function (when available) to
2816 implement coarse monotonic time. Having a coarse time function
2817 should avoid a large number of system calls, and improve
2818 performance slightly, especially under load. Closes ticket 24427.
2820 o Minor features (performance, windows):
2821 - Improve performance on Windows Vista and Windows 7 by adjusting
2822 TCP send window size according to the recommendation from
2823 SIO_IDEAL_SEND_BACKLOG_QUERY. Closes ticket 22798. Patch
2826 o Minor features (sandbox):
2827 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
2828 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
2829 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
2831 o Minor features (storage, configuration):
2832 - Users can store cached directory documents somewhere other than
2833 the DataDirectory by using the CacheDirectory option. Similarly,
2834 the storage location for relay's keys can be overridden with the
2835 KeyDirectory option. Closes ticket 22703.
2837 o Minor features (testing):
2838 - Add a "make test-rust" target to run the rust tests only. Closes
2841 o Minor features (testing, debugging, embedding):
2842 - For development purposes, Tor now has a mode in which it runs for
2843 a few seconds, then stops, and starts again without exiting the
2844 process. This mode is meant to help us debug various issues with
2845 ticket 23847. To use this feature, compile with
2846 --enable-restart-debugging, and set the TOR_DEBUG_RESTART
2847 environment variable. This is expected to crash a lot, and is
2848 really meant for developers only. It will likely be removed in a
2849 future release. Implements ticket 24583.
2851 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust):
2852 - Fix output of autoconf checks to display success messages for Rust
2853 dependencies and a suitable rustc compiler version. Fixes bug
2854 24612; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
2855 - Don't pass the --quiet option to cargo: it seems to suppress some
2856 errors, which is not what we want to do when building. Fixes bug
2857 24518; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
2858 - Build correctly when building from outside Tor's source tree with
2859 the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES option set. Fixes bug 22768; bugfix
2862 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
2863 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
2864 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
2865 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
2867 o Minor bugfixes (channel, client):
2868 - Better identify client connection when reporting to the geoip
2869 client cache. Fixes bug 24904; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
2871 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, cannibalization):
2872 - Don't cannibalize preemptively-built circuits if we no longer
2873 recognize their first hop. This situation can happen if our Guard
2874 relay went off the consensus after the circuit was created. Fixes
2875 bug 24469; bugfix on 0.0.6.
2877 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2878 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
2879 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
2882 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2883 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
2884 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
2885 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
2887 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
2888 - Restore the correct operation of the RESOLVE command, which had
2889 been broken since we added the ability to enable/disable DNS on
2890 specific listener ports. Fixes bug 25617; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2891 - Avoid a (nonfatal) assertion failure when extending a one-hop
2892 circuit from the controller to become a multihop circuit. Fixes
2893 bug 24903; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
2895 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
2896 - Remove a nonworking, unnecessary check to see whether a circuit
2897 hop's identity digest was set when the circuit failed. Fixes bug
2898 24927; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2900 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2901 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
2902 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
2903 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
2904 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
2906 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, IPv6):
2907 - When creating a routerstatus (vote) from a routerinfo (descriptor),
2908 set the IPv6 address to the unspecified IPv6 address, and
2909 explicitly initialize the port to zero. Fixes bug 24488; bugfix
2912 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
2913 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
2914 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
2915 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
2916 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
2918 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2919 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
2920 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
2921 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
2922 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
2925 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay DNS retries):
2926 - Re-attempt timed-out DNS queries 3 times before failure, since our
2927 timeout is 5 seconds for them, but clients wait 10-15. Also allow
2928 slightly more timeouts per resolver when an exit has multiple
2929 resolvers configured. Fixes bug 21394; bugfix on 0.3.1.9.
2931 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
2932 - Make updateFallbackDirs.py search harder for python. (Some OSs
2933 don't put it in /usr/bin.) Fixes bug 24708; bugfix
2936 o Minor bugfixes (hibernation, bandwidth accounting, shutdown):
2937 - When hibernating, close connections normally and allow them to
2938 flush. Fixes bug 23571; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Also fixes
2940 - Do not attempt to launch self-reachability tests when entering
2941 hibernation. Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
2942 - Resolve several bugs related to descriptor fetching on bridge
2943 clients with bandwidth accounting enabled. (This combination is
2944 not recommended!) Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix
2946 - When hibernating, do not attempt to launch DNS checks. Fixes a
2947 case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
2948 - When hibernating, do not try to upload or download descriptors.
2949 Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
2951 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, bridges):
2952 - Tor now always sets IPv6 preferences for bridges. Fixes bug 24573;
2953 bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
2954 - Tor now sets IPv6 address in the routerstatus as well as in the
2955 router descriptors when updating addresses for a bridge. Closes
2956 ticket 24572; bugfix on 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
2958 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
2959 - When running with the sandbox enabled, reload configuration files
2960 correctly even when %include was used. Previously we would crash.
2961 Fixes bug 22605; bugfix on 0.3.1. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
2963 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2964 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
2965 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2967 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2968 - Fix a (mostly harmless) race condition when invoking
2969 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN message from a subthread while the torrc options
2970 are changing. Fixes bug 23954; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
2972 o Minor bugfixes (man page, SocksPort):
2973 - Remove dead code from the old "SocksSocket" option, and rename
2974 SocksSocketsGroupWritable to UnixSocksGroupWritable. The old
2975 option still works, but is deprecated. Fixes bug 24343; bugfix
2978 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
2979 - Avoid possible at-exit memory leaks related to use of Libevent's
2980 event_base_once() function. (This function tends to leak memory if
2981 the event_base is closed before the event fires.) Fixes bug 24584;
2982 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2983 - Fix a harmless memory leak in tor-resolve. Fixes bug 24582; bugfix
2986 o Minor bugfixes (network IPv6 test):
2987 - Tor's test scripts now check if "ping -6 ::1" works when the user
2988 runs "make test-network-all". Fixes bug 24677; bugfix on
2989 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
2991 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
2992 - string_is_valid_hostname() will not consider IP strings to be
2993 valid hostnames. Fixes bug 25055; bugfix on Tor 0.2.5.5.
2995 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
2996 - Avoid an assertion failure when the next onion service descriptor
2997 rotation type is out of sync with the consensus's valid-after
2998 time. Instead, log a warning message with extra information, so we
2999 can better hunt down the cause of this assertion. Fixes bug 25306;
3000 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3002 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3003 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
3004 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3005 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
3006 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
3007 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
3008 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3010 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
3011 - If we are configured to offer a single onion service, don't log
3012 long-term established one hop rendezvous points in the heartbeat.
3013 Fixes bug 25116; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
3015 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
3016 - Reduce the number of circuits that will be opened at once during
3017 the circuit build timeout phase. This is done by increasing the
3018 idle timeout to 3 minutes, and lowering the maximum number of
3019 concurrent learning circuits to 10. Fixes bug 24769; bugfix
3021 - Avoid calling protocol_list_supports_protocol() from inside tight
3022 loops when running with cached routerinfo_t objects. Instead,
3023 summarize the relevant protocols as flags in the routerinfo_t, as
3024 we do for routerstatus_t objects. This change simplifies our code
3025 a little, and saves a large amount of short-term memory allocation
3026 operations. Fixes bug 25008; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
3028 o Minor bugfixes (performance, timeouts):
3029 - Consider circuits for timeout as soon as they complete a hop. This
3030 is more accurate than applying the timeout in
3031 circuit_expire_building() because that function is only called
3032 once per second, which is now too slow for typical timeouts on the
3033 current network. Fixes bug 23114; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
3034 - Use onion service circuits (and other circuits longer than 3 hops)
3035 to calculate a circuit build timeout. Previously, Tor only
3036 calculated its build timeout based on circuits that planned to be
3037 exactly 3 hops long. With this change, we include measurements
3038 from all circuits at the point where they complete their third
3039 hop. Fixes bug 23100; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
3041 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3042 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
3043 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3045 o Minor bugfixes (Rust FFI):
3046 - Fix a minor memory leak which would happen whenever the C code
3047 would call the Rust implementation of
3048 protover_get_supported_protocols(). This was due to the C version
3049 returning a static string, whereas the Rust version newly allocated
3050 a CString to pass across the FFI boundary. Consequently, the C
3051 code was not expecting to need to free() what it was given. Fixes
3052 bug 25127; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3054 o Minor bugfixes (spelling):
3055 - Use the "misspell" tool to detect and fix typos throughout the
3056 source code. Fixes bug 23650; bugfix on various versions of Tor.
3057 Patch from Deepesh Pathak.
3059 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
3060 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
3061 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
3062 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
3064 - Give out Exit flags in bootstrapping networks. Fixes bug 24137;
3065 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3067 o Minor bugfixes (unit test, monotonic time):
3068 - Increase a constant (1msec to 10msec) in the monotonic time test
3069 that makes sure the nsec/usec/msec times read are synchronized.
3070 This change was needed to accommodate slow systems like armel or
3071 when the clock_gettime() is not a VDSO on the running kernel.
3072 Fixes bug 25113; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
3074 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3075 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
3076 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
3077 - Remove the old (deterministic) directory retry logic entirely:
3078 We've used exponential backoff exclusively for some time. Closes
3080 - Remove the unused nodelist_recompute_all_hsdir_indices(). Closes
3082 - Remove a series of counters used to track circuit extend attempts
3083 and connection status but that in reality we aren't using for
3084 anything other than stats logged by a SIGUSR1 signal. Closes
3086 - Remove /usr/athena from search path in configure.ac. Closes
3088 - Remove duplicate code in node_has_curve25519_onion_key() and
3089 node_get_curve25519_onion_key(), and add a check for a zero
3090 microdesc curve25519 onion key. Closes ticket 23966, patch by
3091 "aruna1234" and teor.
3092 - Rewrite channel_rsa_id_group_set_badness to reduce temporary
3093 memory allocations with large numbers of OR connections (e.g.
3094 relays). Closes ticket 24119.
3095 - Separate the function that deletes ephemeral files when Tor
3097 - Small changes to Tor's buf_t API to make it suitable for use as a
3098 general-purpose safe string constructor. Closes ticket 22342.
3099 - Switch -Wnormalized=id to -Wnormalized=nfkc in configure.ac to
3100 avoid source code identifier confusion. Closes ticket 24467.
3101 - The tor_git_revision[] constant no longer needs to be redeclared
3102 by everything that links against the rest of Tor. Done as part of
3103 ticket 23845, to simplify our external API.
3104 - We make extend_info_from_node() use node_get_curve25519_onion_key()
3105 introduced in ticket 23577 to access the curve25519 public keys
3106 rather than accessing it directly. Closes ticket 23760. Patch by
3108 - Add a function to log channels' scheduler state changes to aid
3109 debugging efforts. Closes ticket 24531.
3112 - Improved the documentation of AccountingStart parameter. Closes
3114 - Update the documentation for "Log" to include the current list of
3115 logging domains. Closes ticket 25378.
3116 - Add documentation on how to build tor with Rust dependencies
3117 without having to be online. Closes ticket 22907; bugfix
3119 - Clarify the behavior of RelayBandwidth{Rate,Burst} with client
3120 traffic. Closes ticket 24318.
3121 - Document that OutboundBindAddress doesn't apply to DNS requests.
3122 Closes ticket 22145. Patch from Aruna Maurya.
3124 o Code simplification and refactoring (channels):
3125 - Remove the incoming and outgoing channel queues. These were never
3126 used, but still took up a step in our fast path.
3127 - The majority of the channel unit tests have been rewritten and the
3128 code coverage has now been raised to 83.6% for channel.c. Closes
3130 - Remove other dead code from the channel subsystem: All together,
3131 this cleanup has removed more than 1500 lines of code overall and
3132 adding very little except for unit test.
3134 o Code simplification and refactoring (circuit rendezvous):
3135 - Split the client-side rendezvous circuit lookup into two
3136 functions: one that returns only established circuits and another
3137 that returns all kinds of circuits. Closes ticket 23459.
3139 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
3140 - Make most of the variables in networkstatus_getinfo_by_purpose()
3141 const. Implements ticket 24489.
3143 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3144 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
3145 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
3147 o Documentation (man page):
3148 - The HiddenServiceVersion torrc option accepts only one number:
3149 either version 2 or 3. Closes ticket 25026; bugfix
3152 o Documentation (manpage, denial of service):
3153 - Provide more detail about the denial-of-service options, by
3154 listing each mitigation and explaining how they relate. Closes
3158 Changes in version 0.3.1.10 - 2018-03-03
3159 Tor 0.3.1.10 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for
3162 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
3163 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
3165 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
3166 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
3168 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
3171 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
3172 released today. Relays running 0.3.1.x may wish to update to one of
3173 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
3175 Please note: according to our release calendar, Tor 0.3.1 will no
3176 longer be supported after 1 July 2018. If you will be running Tor
3177 after that date, you should make sure to plan to upgrade to the latest
3178 stable version, or downgrade to 0.2.9 (which will receive long-term
3181 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
3182 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
3183 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
3184 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
3187 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
3188 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
3189 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
3190 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
3191 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
3192 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
3193 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
3194 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
3195 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
3196 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
3197 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
3198 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
3199 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
3201 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
3202 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
3203 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
3205 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
3206 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
3207 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
3208 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
3209 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
3210 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
3211 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
3213 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
3214 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
3215 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3217 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
3218 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
3219 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
3220 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
3221 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
3222 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
3223 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3225 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
3226 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
3227 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
3228 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
3230 o Minor feature (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
3231 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
3232 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
3233 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
3235 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
3236 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
3237 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
3238 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
3239 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
3240 Closes ticket 24978.
3242 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors, backport from 0.3.2.9):
3243 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
3244 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
3245 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
3246 information. Closes ticket 24801.
3247 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
3248 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
3249 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
3250 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
3252 o Minor features (geoip):
3253 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
3256 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
3257 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
3258 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
3259 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
3260 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
3262 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
3263 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
3264 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
3265 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
3266 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
3268 o Minor bugfixes (address selection, backport from 0.3.2.9):
3269 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
3270 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
3271 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
3272 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
3275 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
3276 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
3277 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
3278 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
3279 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
3280 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
3281 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
3282 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
3283 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
3284 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
3285 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
3288 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.7-rc):
3289 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
3290 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
3292 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
3293 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
3294 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
3297 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
3298 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
3299 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
3300 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
3301 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
3302 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
3303 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
3305 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
3306 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
3307 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3308 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
3309 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
3310 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
3311 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
3312 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
3313 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
3316 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
3317 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
3318 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
3319 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
3320 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
3321 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3323 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
3324 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
3325 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
3326 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3328 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage, backport from 0.3.2.8-rc):
3329 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
3330 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
3331 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
3332 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
3335 o Minor bugfixes (network layer, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
3336 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
3337 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
3338 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
3339 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
3340 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3342 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
3343 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
3344 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
3345 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
3346 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
3347 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
3348 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
3349 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
3350 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
3351 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
3352 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
3353 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
3355 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
3356 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
3357 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
3358 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3360 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
3361 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
3362 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
3363 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
3365 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc, backport from 0.3.2.9):
3366 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
3367 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
3368 to cyptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
3371 o Minor bugfixes (relay, partial backport):
3372 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
3373 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
3374 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
3375 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
3377 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
3378 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
3380 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
3381 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
3383 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
3384 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
3385 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
3388 Changes in version 0.2.9.15 - 2018-03-03
3389 Tor 0.2.9.15 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
3392 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
3393 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
3395 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
3396 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
3398 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
3401 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
3402 released today. Relays running 0.2.9.x may wish to update to one of
3403 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
3405 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
3406 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
3407 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
3408 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
3411 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
3412 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
3413 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
3414 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
3415 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
3416 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
3417 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
3418 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
3419 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
3420 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
3421 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
3422 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
3423 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
3425 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
3426 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
3427 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
3428 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
3429 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
3430 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
3431 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
3432 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
3433 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
3435 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
3436 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
3437 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
3438 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
3439 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
3440 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
3441 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
3443 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
3444 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
3445 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
3446 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
3448 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
3449 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
3450 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
3451 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
3452 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
3453 Closes ticket 24978.
3455 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
3456 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
3457 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
3458 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
3460 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
3461 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
3462 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
3463 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
3464 information. Closes ticket 24801.
3465 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
3466 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
3467 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
3468 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
3470 o Minor features (geoip):
3471 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
3474 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
3475 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
3476 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
3478 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
3479 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
3480 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
3481 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
3482 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
3484 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
3485 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
3486 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
3487 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
3488 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
3490 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
3491 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
3492 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
3493 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
3494 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
3497 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
3498 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
3499 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
3501 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
3502 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
3503 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
3506 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
3507 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
3508 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
3509 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
3510 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
3511 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
3512 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
3514 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
3515 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
3516 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
3517 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
3518 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
3521 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
3522 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
3523 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
3524 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
3525 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
3526 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3528 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
3529 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
3530 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
3531 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
3533 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
3534 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
3535 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
3536 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
3537 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
3538 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
3539 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
3540 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
3541 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
3542 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
3543 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
3544 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
3546 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
3547 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
3548 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
3549 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
3552 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
3553 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
3554 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
3555 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
3556 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
3558 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
3559 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
3561 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
3562 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
3565 Changes in version 0.3.2.10 - 2018-03-03
3566 Tor 0.3.2.10 is the second stable release in the 0.3.2 series. It
3567 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for security
3570 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
3571 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
3573 Additionally, it backports a fix for a bug whose severity we have
3574 upgraded: Bug 24700, which was fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely
3575 triggered in order to crash relays with a use-after-free pattern. As
3576 such, we are now tracking that bug as TROVE-2018-002 and
3577 CVE-2018-0491, and backporting it to earlier releases. This bug
3578 affected versions 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as version
3581 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
3582 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
3584 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
3587 Relays running 0.3.2.x SHOULD upgrade to one of the versions released
3588 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
3589 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
3590 the DoS mitigations.)
3592 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
3593 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
3594 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
3595 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
3598 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, KIST, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
3599 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
3600 list, which could lead to remote denial-of-service use-after-free
3601 attacks against relays. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3603 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
3604 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
3605 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
3606 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
3607 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
3608 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
3609 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
3610 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
3611 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
3612 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
3613 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
3614 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
3615 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
3617 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
3618 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
3619 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
3620 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
3621 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
3622 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
3623 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
3624 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
3625 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
3626 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
3627 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3629 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
3630 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
3631 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3633 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
3634 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
3635 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
3636 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
3637 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
3638 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
3639 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3641 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
3642 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
3643 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
3644 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3646 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
3647 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
3648 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
3649 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
3651 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
3652 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
3653 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
3654 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
3655 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
3656 Closes ticket 24978.
3658 o Minor features (geoip):
3659 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
3662 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
3663 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
3664 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic
3667 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
3668 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
3669 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
3670 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
3671 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
3673 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
3674 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
3675 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
3676 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
3677 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
3678 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
3679 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
3681 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
3682 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
3683 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
3684 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
3685 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
3687 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
3688 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
3689 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
3690 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3692 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
3693 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
3694 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
3695 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
3696 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3698 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
3699 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
3700 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
3701 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3703 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
3704 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
3705 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
3706 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3708 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
3709 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
3710 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
3711 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
3713 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
3714 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
3716 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
3717 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
3719 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
3720 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
3721 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
3723 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
3724 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
3725 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
3726 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
3727 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3729 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
3730 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
3731 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
3733 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha)
3734 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
3735 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
3739 Changes in version 0.3.2.9 - 2018-01-09
3740 Tor 0.3.2.9 is the first stable release in the 0.3.2 series.
3742 The 0.3.2 series includes our long-anticipated new onion service
3743 design, with numerous security features. (For more information, see
3744 our blog post at https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest.) We also
3745 have a new circuit scheduler algorithm for improved performance on
3746 relays everywhere (see https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell),
3747 along with many smaller features and bugfixes.
3749 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
3750 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
3751 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
3752 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
3753 with the 0.2.9 series.
3755 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.1.7. For a list of all
3756 changes since 0.3.2.8-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
3758 o Directory authority changes:
3759 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
3760 Closes ticket 23910.
3761 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
3762 Closes ticket 23592.
3763 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
3764 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
3765 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
3766 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
3767 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
3770 o Major features (next-generation onion services):
3771 - Tor now supports the next-generation onion services protocol for
3772 clients and services! As part of this release, the core of
3773 proposal 224 has been implemented and is available for
3774 experimentation and testing by our users. This newer version of
3775 onion services ("v3") features many improvements over the legacy
3778 a) Better crypto (replaced SHA1/DH/RSA1024
3779 with SHA3/ed25519/curve25519)
3781 b) Improved directory protocol, leaking much less information to
3784 c) Improved directory protocol, with smaller surface for
3787 d) Better onion address security against impersonation.
3789 e) More extensible introduction/rendezvous protocol.
3791 f) A cleaner and more modular codebase.
3793 You can identify a next-generation onion address by its length:
3794 they are 56 characters long, as in
3795 "4acth47i6kxnvkewtm6q7ib2s3ufpo5sqbsnzjpbi7utijcltosqemad.onion".
3797 In the future, we will release more options and features for v3
3798 onion services, but we first need a testing period, so that the
3799 current codebase matures and becomes more robust. Planned features
3800 include: offline keys, advanced client authorization, improved
3801 guard algorithms, and statistics. For full details, see
3804 Legacy ("v2") onion services will still work for the foreseeable
3805 future, and will remain the default until this new codebase gets
3806 tested and hardened. Service operators who want to experiment with
3807 the new system can use the 'HiddenServiceVersion 3' torrc
3808 directive along with the regular onion service configuration
3809 options. For more information, see our blog post at
3810 "https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest". Enjoy!
3812 o Major feature (scheduler, channel):
3813 - Tor now uses new schedulers to decide which circuits should
3814 deliver cells first, in order to improve congestion at relays. The
3815 first type is called "KIST" ("Kernel Informed Socket Transport"),
3816 and is only available on Linux-like systems: it uses feedback from
3817 the kernel to prevent the kernel's TCP buffers from growing too
3818 full. The second new scheduler type is called "KISTLite": it
3819 behaves the same as KIST, but runs on systems without kernel
3820 support for inspecting TCP implementation details. The old
3821 scheduler is still available, under the name "Vanilla". To change
3822 the default scheduler preference order, use the new "Schedulers"
3823 option. (The default preference order is "KIST,KISTLite,Vanilla".)
3825 Matt Traudt implemented KIST, based on research by Rob Jansen,
3826 John Geddes, Christ Wacek, Micah Sherr, and Paul Syverson. For
3827 more information, see the design paper at
3828 http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf and the
3829 followup implementation paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01044.
3830 Closes ticket 12541. For more information, see our blog post at
3831 "https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell".
3833 o Major bugfixes (security, general):
3834 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
3835 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
3836 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
3837 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
3838 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
3839 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
3840 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
3842 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority):
3843 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
3844 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
3845 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
3848 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2):
3849 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
3850 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
3851 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
3852 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
3853 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
3854 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
3855 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
3856 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
3857 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
3858 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
3859 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
3862 o Major bugfixes (security, relay):
3863 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
3864 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
3865 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
3866 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
3867 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
3868 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
3869 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
3870 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
3872 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
3873 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
3874 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
3875 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
3876 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
3877 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
3878 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
3879 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
3880 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
3881 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
3882 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
3885 o Major bugfixes (circuit prediction):
3886 - Fix circuit prediction logic so that a client doesn't treat a port
3887 as being "handled" by a circuit if that circuit already has
3888 isolation settings on it. This change should make Tor clients more
3889 responsive by improving their chances of having a pre-created
3890 circuit ready for use when a request arrives. Fixes bug 18859;
3891 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
3893 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS):
3894 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
3895 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
3896 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
3897 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
3898 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
3901 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure):
3902 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
3903 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
3904 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
3906 o Major bugfixes (usability, control port):
3907 - Report trusted clock skew indications as bootstrap errors, so
3908 controllers can more easily alert users when their clocks are
3909 wrong. Fixes bug 23506; bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha.
3911 o Minor features (bridge):
3912 - Bridge relays can now set the BridgeDistribution config option to
3913 add a "bridge-distribution-request" line to their bridge
3914 descriptor, which tells BridgeDB how they'd like their bridge
3915 address to be given out. (Note that as of Oct 2017, BridgeDB does
3916 not yet implement this feature.) As a side benefit, this feature
3917 provides a way to distinguish bridge descriptors from non-bridge
3918 descriptors. Implements tickets 18329.
3919 - When handling the USERADDR command on an ExtOrPort, warn when the
3920 transports provides a USERADDR with no port. In a future version,
3921 USERADDR commands of this format may be rejected. Detects problems
3922 related to ticket 23080.
3924 o Minor features (bug detection):
3925 - Log a warning message with a stack trace for any attempt to call
3926 get_options() during option validation. This pattern has caused
3927 subtle bugs in the past. Closes ticket 22281.
3929 o Minor features (build, compilation):
3930 - The "check-changes" feature is now part of the "make check" tests;
3931 we'll use it to try to prevent misformed changes files from
3932 accumulating. Closes ticket 23564.
3933 - Tor builds should now fail if there are any mismatches between the
3934 C type representing a configuration variable and the C type the
3935 data-driven parser uses to store a value there. Previously, we
3936 needed to check these by hand, which sometimes led to mistakes.
3937 Closes ticket 23643.
3939 o Minor features (client):
3940 - You can now use Tor as a tunneled HTTP proxy: use the new
3941 HTTPTunnelPort option to open a port that accepts HTTP CONNECT
3942 requests. Closes ticket 22407.
3943 - Add an extra check to make sure that we always use the newer guard
3944 selection code for picking our guards. Closes ticket 22779.
3945 - When downloading (micro)descriptors, don't split the list into
3946 multiple requests unless we want at least 32 descriptors.
3947 Previously, we split at 4, not 32, which led to significant
3948 overhead in HTTP request size and degradation in compression
3949 performance. Closes ticket 23220.
3950 - Improve log messages when missing descriptors for primary guards.
3951 Resolves ticket 23670.
3953 o Minor features (command line):
3954 - Add a new commandline option, --key-expiration, which prints when
3955 the current signing key is going to expire. Implements ticket
3956 17639; patch by Isis Lovecruft.
3958 o Minor features (control port):
3959 - If an application tries to use the control port as an HTTP proxy,
3960 respond with a meaningful "This is the Tor control port" message,
3961 and log the event. Closes ticket 1667. Patch from Ravi
3963 - Provide better error message for GETINFO desc/(id|name) when not
3964 fetching router descriptors. Closes ticket 5847. Patch by
3966 - Add GETINFO "{desc,md}/download-enabled", to inform the controller
3967 whether Tor will try to download router descriptors and
3968 microdescriptors respectively. Closes ticket 22684.
3969 - Added new GETINFO targets "ip-to-country/{ipv4,ipv6}-available",
3970 so controllers can tell whether the geoip databases are loaded.
3971 Closes ticket 23237.
3972 - Adds a timestamp field to the CIRC_BW and STREAM_BW bandwidth
3973 events. Closes ticket 19254. Patch by "DonnchaC".
3975 o Minor features (development support):
3976 - Developers can now generate a call-graph for Tor using the
3977 "calltool" python program, which post-processes object dumps. It
3978 should work okay on many Linux and OSX platforms, and might work
3979 elsewhere too. To run it, install calltool from
3980 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/nickm/calltool.git and run
3981 "make callgraph". Closes ticket 19307.
3983 o Minor features (directory authority):
3984 - Make the "Exit" flag assignment only depend on whether the exit
3985 policy allows connections to ports 80 and 443. Previously relays
3986 would get the Exit flag if they allowed connections to one of
3987 these ports and also port 6667. Resolves ticket 23637.
3989 o Minor features (ed25519):
3990 - Add validation function to checks for torsion components in
3991 ed25519 public keys, used by prop224 client-side code. Closes
3992 ticket 22006. Math help by Ian Goldberg.
3994 o Minor features (exit relay, DNS):
3995 - Improve the clarity and safety of the log message from evdns when
3996 receiving an apparently spoofed DNS reply. Closes ticket 3056.
3998 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
3999 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
4000 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
4001 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
4002 information. Closes ticket 24801.
4003 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
4004 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
4005 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
4006 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
4008 o Minor features (geoip):
4009 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
4012 o Minor features (integration, hardening):
4013 - Add a new NoExec option to prevent Tor from running other
4014 programs. When this option is set to 1, Tor will never try to run
4015 another program, regardless of the settings of
4016 PortForwardingHelper, ClientTransportPlugin, or
4017 ServerTransportPlugin. Once NoExec is set, it cannot be disabled
4018 without restarting Tor. Closes ticket 22976.
4020 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
4021 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
4022 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
4024 o Minor features (logging):
4025 - Provide better warnings when the getrandom() syscall fails. Closes
4027 - Downgrade a pair of log messages that could occur when an exit's
4028 resolver gave us an unusual (but not forbidden) response. Closes
4030 - Improve the message we log when re-enabling circuit build timeouts
4031 after having received a consensus. Closes ticket 20963.
4032 - Log more circuit information whenever we are about to try to
4033 package a relay cell on a circuit with a nonexistent n_chan.
4034 Attempt to diagnose ticket 8185.
4035 - Improve info-level log identification of particular circuits, to
4036 help with debugging. Closes ticket 23645.
4037 - Improve the warning message for specifying a relay by nickname.
4038 The previous message implied that nickname registration was still
4039 part of the Tor network design, which it isn't. Closes
4041 - If the sandbox filter fails to load, suggest to the user that
4042 their kernel might not support seccomp2. Closes ticket 23090.
4044 o Minor features (onion service, circuit, logging):
4045 - Improve logging of many callsite in the circuit subsystem to print
4046 the circuit identifier(s).
4047 - Log when we cleanup an intro point from a service so we know when
4048 and for what reason it happened. Closes ticket 23604.
4050 o Minor features (portability):
4051 - Tor now compiles correctly on arm64 with libseccomp-dev installed.
4052 (It doesn't yet work with the sandbox enabled.) Closes
4054 - Check at configure time whether uint8_t is the same type as
4055 unsigned char. Lots of existing code already makes this
4056 assumption, and there could be strict aliasing issues if the
4057 assumption is violated. Closes ticket 22410.
4059 o Minor features (relay):
4060 - When choosing which circuits can be expired as unused, consider
4061 circuits from clients even if those clients used regular CREATE
4062 cells to make them; and do not consider circuits from relays even
4063 if they were made with CREATE_FAST. Part of ticket 22805.
4064 - Reject attempts to use relative file paths when RunAsDaemon is
4065 set. Previously, Tor would accept these, but the directory-
4066 changing step of RunAsDaemon would give strange and/or confusing
4067 results. Closes ticket 22731.
4069 o Minor features (relay statistics):
4070 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
4071 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
4072 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
4074 o Minor features (reverted deprecations):
4075 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can once again be set in
4076 non-testing Tor networks, so long as they do not use the default
4077 directory authorities. This change also removes the deprecation of
4078 this flag from 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 21031.
4080 o Minor features (robustness):
4081 - Change several fatal assertions when flushing buffers into non-
4082 fatal assertions, to prevent any recurrence of 23690.
4084 o Minor features (startup, safety):
4085 - When configured to write a PID file, Tor now exits if it is unable
4086 to do so. Previously, it would warn and continue. Closes
4089 o Minor features (static analysis):
4090 - The BUG() macro has been changed slightly so that Coverity no
4091 longer complains about dead code if the bug is impossible. Closes
4094 o Minor features (testing):
4095 - Our fuzzing tests now test the encrypted portions of v3 onion
4096 service descriptors. Implements more of 21509.
4097 - Add a unit test to make sure that our own generated platform
4098 string will be accepted by directory authorities. Closes
4100 - The default chutney network tests now include tests for the v3
4101 onion service design. Make sure you have the latest version of
4102 chutney if you want to run these. Closes ticket 22437.
4103 - Add a unit test to verify that we can parse a hardcoded v2 onion
4104 service descriptor. Closes ticket 15554.
4106 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
4107 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
4108 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
4109 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
4110 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
4113 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrapping):
4114 - When warning about state file clock skew, report the correct
4115 direction for the detected skew. Fixes bug 23606; bugfix
4118 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients, bootstrap):
4119 - Retry directory downloads when we get our first bridge descriptor
4120 during bootstrap or while reconnecting to the network. Keep
4121 retrying every time we get a bridge descriptor, until we have a
4122 reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
4123 - Stop delaying bridge descriptor fetches when we have cached bridge
4124 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when we
4125 have at least one reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367;
4126 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
4127 - Stop delaying directory fetches when we have cached bridge
4128 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when
4129 all our bridges are definitely unreachable. Fixes part of bug
4130 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
4132 o Minor bugfixes (bridge):
4133 - Overwrite the bridge address earlier in the process of retrieving
4134 its descriptor, to make sure we reach it on the configured
4135 address. Fixes bug 20532; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
4137 o Minor bugfixes (build, compilation):
4138 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
4139 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
4140 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
4141 - When searching for OpenSSL, don't accept any OpenSSL library that
4142 lacks TLSv1_1_method(): Tor doesn't build with those versions.
4143 Additionally, look in /usr/local/opt/openssl, if it's present.
4144 These changes together repair the default build on OSX systems
4145 with Homebrew installed. Fixes bug 23602; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
4146 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
4147 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
4148 - Fix a memory leak warning in one of the libevent-related
4149 configuration tests that could occur when manually specifying
4150 -fsanitize=address. Fixes bug 24279; bugfix on 0.3.0.2-alpha.
4151 Found and patched by Alex Xu.
4152 - Fix unused-variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
4153 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
4155 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
4156 - Fix a time handling bug in Tor certificates set to expire after
4157 the year 2106. Fixes bug 23055; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Found by
4158 Coverity as CID 1415728.
4160 o Minor bugfixes (client):
4161 - By default, do not enable storage of client-side DNS values. These
4162 values were unused by default previously, but they should not have
4163 been cached at all. Fixes bug 24050; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4165 o Minor bugfixes (client, usability):
4166 - Refrain from needlessly rejecting SOCKS5-with-hostnames and
4167 SOCKS4a requests that contain IP address strings, even when
4168 SafeSocks in enabled, as this prevents user from connecting to
4169 known IP addresses without relying on DNS for resolving. SafeSocks
4170 still rejects SOCKS connections that connect to IP addresses when
4171 those addresses are _not_ encoded as hostnames. Fixes bug 22461;
4172 bugfix on Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha.
4174 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
4175 - Call htons() in extend_cell_format() for encoding a 16-bit value.
4176 Previously we used ntohs(), which happens to behave the same on
4177 all the platforms we support, but which isn't really correct.
4178 Fixes bug 23106; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4179 - For defense-in-depth, make the controller's write_escaped_data()
4180 function robust to extremely long inputs. Fixes bug 19281; bugfix
4181 on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Reported by Guido Vranken.
4182 - Fix several places in our codebase where a C compiler would be
4183 likely to eliminate a check, based on assuming that undefined
4184 behavior had not happened elsewhere in the code. These cases are
4185 usually a sign of redundant checking or dubious arithmetic. Found
4186 by Georg Koppen using the "STACK" tool from Wang, Zeldovich,
4187 Kaashoek, and Solar-Lezama. Fixes bug 24423; bugfix on various
4190 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
4191 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
4192 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
4195 o Minor bugfixes (consensus expiry):
4196 - Check for adequate directory information correctly. Previously, Tor
4197 would reconsider whether it had sufficient directory information
4198 every 2 minutes. Fixes bug 23091; bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
4200 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
4201 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
4202 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
4205 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion services):
4206 - Report "FAILED" instead of "UPLOAD_FAILED" "FAILED" for the
4207 HS_DESC event when a service is not able to upload a descriptor.
4208 Fixes bug 24230; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
4210 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
4211 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
4212 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4213 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
4214 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
4215 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
4216 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
4217 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
4218 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
4221 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
4222 - On failure to download directory information, delay retry attempts
4223 by a random amount based on the "decorrelated jitter" algorithm.
4224 Our previous delay algorithm tended to produce extra-long delays
4225 too easily. Fixes bug 23816; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4227 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
4228 - Directory servers now include a "Date:" http header for response
4229 codes other than 200. Clients starting with a skewed clock and a
4230 recent consensus were getting "304 Not modified" responses from
4231 directory authorities, so without the Date header, the client
4232 would never hear about a wrong clock. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix
4234 - Make clients wait for 6 seconds before trying to download a
4235 consensus from an authority. Fixes bug 17750; bugfix
4238 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
4239 - Document better how to read gcov, and what our gcov postprocessing
4240 scripts do. Fixes bug 23739; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4241 - Fix manpage to not refer to the obsolete (and misspelled)
4242 UseEntryGuardsAsDirectoryGuards parameter in the description of
4243 NumDirectoryGuards. Fixes bug 23611; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4245 o Minor bugfixes (DoS-resistance):
4246 - If future code asks if there are any running bridges, without
4247 checking if bridges are enabled, log a BUG warning rather than
4248 crashing. Fixes bug 23524; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4250 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards):
4251 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
4252 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
4253 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
4254 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
4255 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4257 o Minor bugfixes (format strictness):
4258 - Restrict several data formats to decimal. Previously, the
4259 BuildTimeHistogram entries in the state file, the "bw=" entries in
4260 the bandwidth authority file, and the process IDs passed to the
4261 __OwningControllerProcess option could all be specified in hex or
4262 octal as well as in decimal. This was not an intentional feature.
4263 Fixes bug 22802; bugfixes on 0.2.2.1-alpha, 0.2.2.2-alpha,
4266 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
4267 - If we fail to write a heartbeat message, schedule a retry for the
4268 minimum heartbeat interval number of seconds in the future. Fixes
4269 bug 19476; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4271 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4272 - Suppress a log notice when relay descriptors arrive. We already
4273 have a bootstrap progress for this so no need to log notice
4274 everytime tor receives relay descriptors. Microdescriptors behave
4275 the same. Fixes bug 23861; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
4276 - Remove duplicate log messages regarding opening non-local
4277 SocksPorts upon parsing config and opening listeners at startup.
4278 Fixes bug 4019; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
4279 - Use a more comprehensible log message when telling the user
4280 they've excluded every running exit node. Fixes bug 7890; bugfix
4282 - When logging the number of descriptors we intend to download per
4283 directory request, do not log a number higher than then the number
4284 of descriptors we're fetching in total. Fixes bug 19648; bugfix
4286 - When warning about a directory owned by the wrong user, log the
4287 actual name of the user owning the directory. Previously, we'd log
4288 the name of the process owner twice. Fixes bug 23487; bugfix
4290 - Fix some messages on unexpected errors from the seccomp2 library.
4291 Fixes bug 22750; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
4292 - The tor specification says hop counts are 1-based, so fix two log
4293 messages that mistakenly logged 0-based hop counts. Fixes bug
4294 18982; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha and 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by teor.
4295 Credit to Xiaofan Li for reporting this issue.
4297 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance):
4298 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
4299 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
4300 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
4301 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
4302 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
4304 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, defensive programming):
4305 - Clear the target address when node_get_prim_orport() returns
4306 early. Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
4308 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
4309 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
4310 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
4311 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
4312 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
4315 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
4316 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
4317 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
4318 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
4319 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
4320 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
4322 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
4323 - The introduction circuit was being timed out too quickly while
4324 waiting for the rendezvous circuit to complete. Keep the intro
4325 circuit around longer instead of timing out and reopening new ones
4326 constantly. Fixes bug 23681; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4327 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
4328 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
4330 - When handling multiple SOCKS request for the same .onion address,
4331 only fetch the service descriptor once.
4332 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
4333 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
4334 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4335 - When reloading configured onion services, copy all information
4336 from the old service object. Previously, some data was omitted,
4337 causing delays in descriptor upload, and other bugs. Fixes bug
4338 23790; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
4340 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
4341 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
4342 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
4343 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
4344 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
4345 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
4346 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
4347 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
4348 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
4349 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
4350 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
4351 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
4353 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
4354 - Stop using the PATH_MAX variable, which is not defined on GNU
4355 Hurd. Fixes bug 23098; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4356 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
4357 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
4358 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
4361 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
4362 - When uploading our descriptor for the first time after startup,
4363 report the reason for uploading as "Tor just started" rather than
4364 leaving it blank. Fixes bug 22885; bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
4365 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
4366 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
4367 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
4368 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
4369 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
4370 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
4371 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
4372 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4374 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4375 - Fix a spurious fuzzing-only use of an uninitialized value. Found
4376 by Brian Carpenter. Fixes bug 24082; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
4377 - Test that IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors when running
4378 "make test-network-all". Requires chutney master 61c28b9 or later.
4379 Closes ticket 24109.
4380 - Prevent scripts/test/coverage from attempting to move gcov output
4381 to the root directory. Fixes bug 23741; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
4382 - Capture and detect several "Result does not fit" warnings in unit
4383 tests on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 21800; bugfix
4385 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
4386 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
4388 - Fix a bug in our fuzzing mock replacement for crypto_pk_checksig(),
4389 to correctly handle cases where a caller gives it an RSA key of
4390 under 160 bits. (This is not actually a bug in Tor itself, but
4391 rather in our fuzzing code.) Fixes bug 24247; bugfix on
4392 0.3.0.3-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz as issue 4177.
4393 - Fix a broken unit test for the OutboundAddress option: the parsing
4394 function was never returning an error on failure. Fixes bug 23366;
4395 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
4396 - Fix a signed-integer overflow in the unit tests for
4397 dir/download_status_random_backoff, which was untriggered until we
4398 fixed bug 17750. Fixes bug 22924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4400 o Minor bugfixes (usability, control port):
4401 - Stop making an unnecessary routerlist check in NETINFO clock skew
4402 detection; this was preventing clients from reporting NETINFO clock
4403 skew to controllers. Fixes bug 23532; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4405 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4406 - Remove various ways of testing circuits and connections for
4407 "clientness"; instead, favor channel_is_client(). Part of
4409 - Extract the code for handling newly-open channels into a separate
4410 function from the general code to handle channel state
4411 transitions. This change simplifies our callgraph, reducing the
4412 size of the largest strongly connected component by roughly a
4413 factor of two. Closes ticket 22608.
4414 - Remove dead code for largely unused statistics on the number of
4415 times we've attempted various public key operations. Fixes bug
4416 19871; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. Fix by Isis Lovecruft.
4417 - Remove several now-obsolete functions for asking about old
4418 variants directory authority status. Closes ticket 22311; patch
4420 - Remove some of the code that once supported "Named" and "Unnamed"
4421 routers. Authorities no longer vote for these flags. Closes
4423 - Rename the obsolete malleable hybrid_encrypt functions used in TAP
4424 and old hidden services, to indicate that they aren't suitable for
4425 new protocols or formats. Closes ticket 23026.
4426 - Replace our STRUCT_OFFSET() macro with offsetof(). Closes ticket
4427 22521. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
4428 - Split the enormous circuit_send_next_onion_skin() function into
4429 multiple subfunctions. Closes ticket 22804.
4430 - Split the portions of the buffer.c module that handle particular
4431 protocols into separate modules. Part of ticket 23149.
4432 - Use our test macros more consistently, to produce more useful
4433 error messages when our unit tests fail. Add coccinelle patches to
4434 allow us to re-check for test macro uses. Closes ticket 22497.
4436 o Deprecated features:
4437 - The ReachableDirAddresses and ClientPreferIPv6DirPort options are
4438 now deprecated; they do not apply to relays, and they have had no
4439 effect on clients since 0.2.8.x. Closes ticket 19704.
4440 - Deprecate HTTPProxy/HTTPProxyAuthenticator config options. They
4441 only applies to direct unencrypted HTTP connections to your
4442 directory server, which your Tor probably isn't using. Closes
4446 - Add notes in man page regarding OS support for the various
4447 scheduler types. Attempt to use less jargon in the scheduler
4448 section. Closes ticket 24254.
4449 - Clarify that the Address option is entirely about setting an
4450 advertised IPv4 address. Closes ticket 18891.
4451 - Clarify the manpage's use of the term "address" to clarify what
4452 kind of address is intended. Closes ticket 21405.
4453 - Document that onion service subdomains are allowed, and ignored.
4454 Closes ticket 18736.
4455 - Clarify in the manual that "Sandbox 1" is only supported on Linux
4456 kernels. Closes ticket 22677.
4457 - Document all values of PublishServerDescriptor in the manpage.
4458 Closes ticket 15645.
4459 - Improve the documentation for the directory port part of the
4460 DirAuthority line. Closes ticket 20152.
4461 - Restore documentation for the authorities' "approved-routers"
4462 file. Closes ticket 21148.
4465 - The AllowDotExit option has been removed as unsafe. It has been
4466 deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 23426.
4467 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can no longer be set on
4468 non-testing networks. It has been deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha.
4469 Closes ticket 21031.
4470 - The controller API no longer includes an AUTHDIR_NEWDESCS event:
4471 nobody was using it any longer. Closes ticket 22377.
4474 Changes in version 0.3.1.9 - 2017-12-01:
4475 Tor 0.3.1.9 backports important security and stability fixes from the
4476 0.3.2 development series. All Tor users should upgrade to this
4477 release, or to another of the releases coming out today.
4479 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
4480 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
4481 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
4482 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
4483 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
4484 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
4485 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
4486 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
4487 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
4488 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
4489 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
4491 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
4492 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
4493 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
4494 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
4495 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
4496 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
4497 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
4500 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
4501 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
4502 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
4503 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
4504 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
4506 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
4507 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
4508 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
4509 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
4510 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4511 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
4512 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
4513 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
4514 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
4516 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
4517 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
4518 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
4519 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
4520 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
4521 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
4524 o Minor features (bridge):
4525 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
4526 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
4527 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
4528 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
4531 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
4532 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
4535 o Minor features (geoip):
4536 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
4539 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
4540 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
4541 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
4542 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
4543 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
4545 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
4546 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
4547 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
4549 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
4550 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
4551 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
4552 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
4553 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
4554 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
4556 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
4557 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
4558 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
4561 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
4562 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
4563 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
4564 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
4565 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4568 Changes in version 0.3.0.13 - 2017-12-01
4569 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
4570 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
4571 to another of the releases coming out today.
4573 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
4574 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
4575 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
4577 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
4578 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
4579 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
4580 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
4581 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
4582 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
4583 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
4584 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
4585 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
4586 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
4587 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
4589 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
4590 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
4591 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
4592 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
4593 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
4594 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
4595 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
4598 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
4599 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
4600 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
4601 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
4602 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
4604 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
4605 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
4606 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
4607 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
4608 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4609 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
4610 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
4611 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
4612 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
4614 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
4615 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
4616 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
4617 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
4618 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
4619 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
4622 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
4623 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
4624 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
4625 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
4626 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
4627 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
4629 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
4630 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
4631 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
4632 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
4633 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
4636 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
4637 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
4640 o Minor features (geoip):
4641 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
4644 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
4645 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
4646 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
4647 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
4648 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
4650 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
4651 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
4652 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
4654 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
4655 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
4656 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
4657 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
4658 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
4659 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
4661 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
4662 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
4663 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
4664 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
4665 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4667 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
4668 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
4669 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
4672 Changes in version 0.2.9.14 - 2017-12-01
4673 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
4674 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
4675 to another of the releases coming out today.
4677 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
4678 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
4679 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
4680 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
4681 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
4682 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
4685 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
4686 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
4687 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
4688 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
4689 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
4690 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
4691 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
4692 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
4693 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
4694 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
4695 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
4697 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
4698 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
4699 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
4700 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
4701 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
4702 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
4703 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
4706 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
4707 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
4708 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
4709 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
4710 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
4712 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
4713 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
4714 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
4715 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
4716 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4717 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
4719 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
4720 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
4721 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
4722 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
4723 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
4726 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
4727 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
4730 o Minor features (geoip):
4731 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
4734 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
4735 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
4736 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
4737 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
4738 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
4739 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
4741 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
4742 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
4743 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
4744 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
4745 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
4747 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
4748 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
4749 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
4751 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
4752 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
4753 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
4754 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
4755 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
4756 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
4758 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
4759 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
4760 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
4761 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
4762 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4764 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
4765 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
4766 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
4769 Changes in version 0.2.8.17 - 2017-12-01
4770 Tor 0.2.8.17 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
4771 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
4772 to another of the releases coming out today.
4774 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
4775 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade with
4776 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
4778 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
4779 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
4780 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
4781 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
4782 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
4783 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
4784 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
4785 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
4786 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
4787 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
4788 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
4789 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
4790 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
4791 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
4792 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
4795 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
4796 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
4797 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
4798 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
4799 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
4801 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
4802 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path through
4803 ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the version of
4804 our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part of bug 21534;
4805 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012
4808 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
4809 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
4810 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
4811 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
4812 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
4815 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
4816 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
4819 o Minor features (geoip):
4820 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
4823 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
4824 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
4825 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
4828 Changes in version 0.2.5.16 - 2017-12-01
4829 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
4830 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
4831 to another of the releases coming out today.
4833 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
4834 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
4835 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
4837 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
4838 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
4839 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
4840 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
4841 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
4842 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
4843 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
4844 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
4845 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
4846 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
4847 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
4848 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
4849 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
4850 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
4851 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
4854 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
4855 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
4856 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
4857 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
4858 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4859 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
4861 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
4862 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
4863 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
4864 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
4865 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
4868 o Minor features (geoip):
4869 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
4873 Changes in version 0.2.5.15 - 2017-10-25
4874 Tor 0.2.5.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
4875 series. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
4877 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
4878 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
4879 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
4881 o Directory authority changes:
4882 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
4883 Closes ticket 23910.
4884 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
4885 Closes ticket 23592.
4887 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
4888 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
4889 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
4890 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
4891 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
4893 o Minor features (geoip):
4894 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
4897 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
4898 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
4899 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
4900 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
4901 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
4902 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
4903 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
4904 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
4905 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
4907 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
4908 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
4909 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
4910 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
4911 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
4912 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
4913 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
4914 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
4915 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
4918 Changes in version 0.2.8.16 - 2017-10-25
4919 Tor 0.2.8.16 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
4920 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
4921 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
4923 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
4924 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
4925 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
4927 o Directory authority changes:
4928 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
4929 Closes ticket 23910.
4930 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
4931 Closes ticket 23592.
4933 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
4934 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
4935 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
4936 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
4938 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
4939 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
4940 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
4941 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
4942 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
4944 o Minor features (geoip):
4945 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
4949 Changes in version 0.2.9.13 - 2017-10-25
4950 Tor 0.2.9.13 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
4951 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
4952 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
4954 o Directory authority changes:
4955 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
4956 Closes ticket 23910.
4957 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
4958 Closes ticket 23592.
4960 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
4961 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
4962 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
4963 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
4965 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
4966 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
4967 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
4968 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
4969 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
4971 o Minor features (geoip):
4972 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
4975 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
4976 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
4977 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
4978 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
4979 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
4980 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
4981 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
4982 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
4985 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
4986 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
4987 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
4989 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
4990 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
4991 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
4992 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
4993 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
4994 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
4995 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
4998 Changes in version 0.3.0.12 - 2017-10-25
4999 Tor 0.3.0.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
5000 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
5001 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
5003 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
5004 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
5005 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
5007 o Directory authority changes:
5008 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
5009 Closes ticket 23910.
5010 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
5011 Closes ticket 23592.
5013 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
5014 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
5015 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
5016 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
5018 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
5019 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
5020 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
5021 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
5022 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
5024 o Minor features (geoip):
5025 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5028 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
5029 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
5030 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
5031 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
5032 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
5033 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
5034 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
5035 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
5038 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
5039 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
5040 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
5041 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5043 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
5044 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
5045 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
5047 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
5048 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
5049 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
5050 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
5051 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
5052 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
5053 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
5056 Changes in version 0.3.1.8 - 2017-10-25
5057 Tor 0.3.1.8 is the second stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
5058 It includes several bugfixes, including a bugfix for a crash issue
5059 that had affected relays under memory pressure. It also adds
5060 a new directory authority, Bastet.
5062 o Directory authority changes:
5063 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
5064 Closes ticket 23910.
5065 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
5066 Closes ticket 23592.
5068 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
5069 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
5070 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
5071 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
5073 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
5074 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
5075 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
5076 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
5077 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
5079 o Minor features (geoip):
5080 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5083 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
5084 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
5085 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
5086 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
5088 o Minor bugfixes (compression, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
5089 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
5090 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
5093 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
5094 - Remove the length limit on HTTP status lines that authorities can
5095 send in their replies. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix on 0.3.1.6-rc.
5097 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
5098 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
5099 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
5100 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5102 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
5103 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
5104 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
5106 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
5107 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
5108 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
5112 Changes in version 0.2.8.15 - 2017-09-18
5113 Tor 0.2.8.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
5116 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
5117 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
5118 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
5119 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
5121 Note that Tor 0.2.8.x will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
5122 2018. We suggest that you upgrade to the latest stable release if
5123 possible. If you can't, we recommend that you upgrade at least to
5124 0.2.9, which will be supported until 2020.
5126 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
5127 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
5128 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
5129 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
5130 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
5133 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5136 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
5137 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
5138 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
5141 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
5142 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
5143 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
5144 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
5145 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
5146 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
5147 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
5148 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
5149 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
5151 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
5152 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
5153 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
5154 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
5155 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
5156 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
5157 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
5158 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
5159 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
5162 Changes in version 0.2.9.12 - 2017-09-18
5163 Tor 0.2.9.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
5166 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
5167 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
5168 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
5169 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
5171 o Major features (security, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
5172 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
5173 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
5174 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
5175 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
5176 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
5177 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
5179 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
5180 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
5181 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
5182 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
5184 o Major bugfixes (DNS, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
5185 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
5186 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
5188 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
5189 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
5190 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
5191 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
5193 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
5194 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
5195 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
5196 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
5197 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
5199 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
5200 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
5201 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
5202 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
5204 o Minor features (geoip):
5205 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5208 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
5209 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
5210 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
5211 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
5213 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
5214 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
5215 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5216 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt support
5217 on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5218 - When building with certain versions the mingw C header files, avoid
5219 float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions isfinite(),
5220 isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5222 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
5223 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for running tor_sscanf()
5224 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
5226 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
5227 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
5228 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
5231 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
5232 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
5233 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
5234 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an
5235 empty body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5237 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
5238 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
5239 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
5240 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
5241 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
5242 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5244 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
5245 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
5246 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
5247 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
5248 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
5249 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
5250 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
5251 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
5252 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
5254 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
5255 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
5256 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
5257 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5259 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
5260 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
5261 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
5263 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
5264 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
5265 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
5266 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
5267 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
5269 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
5270 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
5271 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
5274 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
5275 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
5276 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
5277 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
5278 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
5280 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
5281 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
5282 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
5283 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
5284 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
5285 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
5286 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
5287 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
5288 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
5291 Changes in version 0.3.0.11 - 2017-09-18
5292 Tor 0.3.0.11 backports a collection of bugfixes from Tor the 0.3.1
5295 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
5296 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
5297 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
5298 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
5300 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.7):
5301 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
5302 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
5303 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
5306 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5309 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
5310 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
5311 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
5313 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
5314 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
5315 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
5316 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
5317 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5319 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
5320 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
5321 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
5322 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5324 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
5325 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
5326 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
5328 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
5329 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
5330 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
5331 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
5334 Changes in version 0.3.1.7 - 2017-09-18
5335 Tor 0.3.1.7 is the first stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
5337 With the 0.3.1 series, Tor now serves and downloads directory
5338 information in more compact formats, to save on bandwidth overhead. It
5339 also contains a new padding system to resist netflow-based traffic
5340 analysis, and experimental support for building parts of Tor in Rust
5341 (though no parts of Tor are in Rust yet). There are also numerous
5342 small features, bugfixes on earlier release series, and groundwork for
5343 the hidden services revamp of 0.3.2.
5345 This release also includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a security bug
5346 that affects hidden services running with the SafeLogging option
5347 disabled. For more information, see
5348 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
5350 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
5351 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
5352 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
5353 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
5354 with the 0.2.9 series.
5356 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.0. For a list of all
5357 changes since 0.3.1.6-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
5360 - To build with zstd and lzma support, Tor now requires the
5361 pkg-config tool at build time.
5363 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden services, loggging):
5364 - Fix a bug where we could log uninitialized stack when a certain
5365 hidden service error occurred while SafeLogging was disabled.
5366 Fixes bug #23490; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5367 This is also tracked as TROVE-2017-008 and CVE-2017-0380.
5369 o Major features (build system, continuous integration):
5370 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
5371 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
5372 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
5373 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
5374 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
5375 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
5376 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
5377 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
5379 o Major features (directory protocol):
5380 - Tor relays and authorities can now serve clients an abbreviated
5381 version of the consensus document, containing only the changes
5382 since an older consensus document that the client holds. Clients
5383 now request these documents when available. When both client and
5384 server use this new protocol, they will use far less bandwidth (up
5385 to 94% less) to keep the client's consensus up-to-date. Implements
5386 proposal 140; closes ticket 13339. Based on work by Daniel Martí.
5387 - Tor can now compress directory traffic with lzma or with zstd
5388 compression algorithms, which can deliver better bandwidth
5389 performance. Because lzma is computationally expensive, it's only
5390 used for documents that can be compressed once and served many
5391 times. Support for these algorithms requires that tor is built
5392 with the libzstd and/or liblzma libraries available. Implements
5393 proposal 278; closes ticket 21662.
5394 - Relays now perform the more expensive compression operations, and
5395 consensus diff generation, in worker threads. This separation
5396 avoids delaying the main thread when a new consensus arrives.
5398 o Major features (experimental):
5399 - Tor can now build modules written in Rust. To turn this on, pass
5400 the "--enable-rust" flag to the configure script. It's not time to
5401 get excited yet: currently, there is no actual Rust functionality
5402 beyond some simple glue code, and a notice at startup to tell you
5403 that Rust is running. Still, we hope that programmers and
5404 packagers will try building Tor with Rust support, so that we can
5405 find issues and solve portability problems. Closes ticket 22106.
5407 o Major features (traffic analysis resistance):
5408 - Connections between clients and relays now send a padding cell in
5409 each direction every 1.5 to 9.5 seconds (tunable via consensus
5410 parameters). This padding will not resist specialized
5411 eavesdroppers, but it should be enough to make many ISPs' routine
5412 network flow logging less useful in traffic analysis against
5415 Padding is negotiated using Tor's link protocol, so both relays
5416 and clients must upgrade for this to take effect. Clients may
5417 still send padding despite the relay's version by setting
5418 ConnectionPadding 1 in torrc, and may disable padding by setting
5419 ConnectionPadding 0 in torrc. Padding may be minimized for mobile
5420 users with the torrc option ReducedConnectionPadding. Implements
5421 Proposal 251 and Section 2 of Proposal 254; closes ticket 16861.
5422 - Relays will publish 24 hour totals of padding and non-padding cell
5423 counts to their extra-info descriptors, unless PaddingStatistics 0
5424 is set in torrc. These 24 hour totals are also rounded to
5427 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
5428 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
5429 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
5430 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5431 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
5432 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
5433 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
5436 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security):
5437 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
5438 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
5439 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
5440 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
5441 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
5443 o Major bugfixes (connection usage):
5444 - We use NETINFO cells to try to determine if both relays involved
5445 in a connection will agree on the canonical status of that
5446 connection. We prefer the connections where this is the case for
5447 extend cells, and try to close connections where relays disagree
5448 on their canonical status early. Also, we now prefer the oldest
5449 valid connection for extend cells. These two changes should reduce
5450 the number of long-term connections that are kept open between
5451 relays. Fixes bug 17604; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
5452 - Relays now log hourly statistics (look for
5453 "channel_check_for_duplicates" lines) on the total number of
5454 connections to other relays. If the number of connections per
5455 relay is unexpectedly large, this log message is at notice level.
5456 Otherwise it is at info.
5458 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
5459 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
5460 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
5461 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5462 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
5463 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
5464 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
5466 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support):
5467 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
5468 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
5469 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
5471 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service):
5472 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
5473 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
5474 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
5475 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
5477 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake):
5478 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
5479 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
5480 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
5481 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
5482 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
5483 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
5486 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management):
5487 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
5488 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
5489 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
5490 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
5491 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
5492 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
5493 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5494 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
5495 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
5496 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
5497 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
5498 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
5501 o Minor features (security, windows):
5502 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
5503 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
5504 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
5505 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
5506 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
5508 o Minor features (bridge authority):
5509 - Add "fingerprint" lines to the networkstatus-bridges file produced
5510 by bridge authorities. Closes ticket 22207.
5512 o Minor features (code style):
5513 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
5514 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
5515 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
5517 o Minor features (config options):
5518 - Allow "%include" directives in torrc configuration files. These
5519 directives import the settings from other files, or from all the
5520 files in a directory. Closes ticket 1922. Code by Daniel Pinto.
5521 - Make SAVECONF return an error when overwriting a torrc that has
5522 includes. Using SAVECONF with the FORCE option will allow it to
5523 overwrite torrc even if includes are used. Related to ticket 1922.
5524 - Add "GETINFO config-can-saveconf" to tell controllers if SAVECONF
5525 will work without the FORCE option. Related to ticket 1922.
5527 o Minor features (controller):
5528 - Warn the first time that a controller requests data in the long-
5529 deprecated 'GETINFO network-status' format. Closes ticket 21703.
5531 o Minor features (defaults):
5532 - The default value for UseCreateFast is now 0: clients which
5533 haven't yet received a consensus document will now use a proper
5534 ntor handshake to talk to their directory servers whenever they
5535 can. Closes ticket 21407.
5536 - Onion key rotation and expiry intervals are now defined as a
5537 network consensus parameter, per proposal 274. The default
5538 lifetime of an onion key is increased from 7 to 28 days. Old onion
5539 keys will expire after 7 days by default. This change will make
5540 consensus diffs much smaller, and save significant bandwidth.
5541 Closes ticket 21641.
5543 o Minor features (defensive programming):
5544 - Create a pair of consensus parameters, nf_pad_tor2web and
5545 nf_pad_single_onion, to disable netflow padding in the consensus
5546 for non-anonymous connections in case the overhead is high. Closes
5549 o Minor features (diagnostic):
5550 - Add a stack trace to the bug warnings that can be logged when
5551 trying to send an outgoing relay cell with n_chan == 0. Diagnostic
5552 attempt for bug 23105.
5553 - Add logging messages to try to diagnose a rare bug that seems to
5554 generate RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificates dated in the 1970s. We
5555 think this is happening because of incorrect system clocks, but
5556 we'd like to know for certain. Diagnostic for bug 22466.
5557 - Avoid an assertion failure, and log a better error message, when
5558 unable to remove a file from the consensus cache on Windows.
5559 Attempts to mitigate and diagnose bug 22752.
5561 o Minor features (directory authority):
5562 - Improve the message that authorities report to relays that present
5563 RSA/Ed25519 keypairs that conflict with previously pinned keys.
5564 Closes ticket 22348.
5566 o Minor features (directory cache, consensus diff):
5567 - Add a new MaxConsensusAgeForDiffs option to allow directory cache
5568 operators with low-resource environments to adjust the number of
5569 consensuses they'll store and generate diffs from. Most cache
5570 operators should leave it unchanged. Helps to work around
5573 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
5574 - Update the fallback directory mirror whitelist and blacklist based
5575 on operator emails. Closes task 21121.
5576 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
5577 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
5578 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
5579 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
5581 o Minor features (geoip):
5582 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5585 o Minor features (hidden services, logging):
5586 - Log a message when a hidden service descriptor has fewer
5587 introduction points than specified in
5588 HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints. Closes tickets 21598.
5589 - Log a message when a hidden service reaches its introduction point
5590 circuit limit, and when that limit is reset. Follow up to ticket
5591 21594; closes ticket 21622.
5592 - Warn user if multiple entries in EntryNodes and at least one
5593 HiddenService are used together. Pinning EntryNodes along with a
5594 hidden service can be possibly harmful; for instance see ticket
5595 14917 or 21155. Closes ticket 21155.
5597 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
5598 - We now have a document storage backend compatible with the Linux
5599 seccomp2 sandbox. This backend is used for consensus documents and
5600 diffs between them; in the long term, we'd like to use it for
5601 unparseable directory material too. Closes ticket 21645
5602 - Increase the maximum allowed size passed to mprotect(PROT_WRITE)
5603 from 1MB to 16MB. This was necessary with the glibc allocator in
5604 order to allow worker threads to allocate more memory -- which in
5605 turn is necessary because of our new use of worker threads for
5606 compression. Closes ticket 22096.
5608 o Minor features (logging):
5609 - Log files are no longer created world-readable by default.
5610 (Previously, most distributors would store the logs in a non-
5611 world-readable location to prevent inappropriate access. This
5612 change is an extra precaution.) Closes ticket 21729; patch
5615 o Minor features (performance):
5616 - Our Keccak (SHA-3) implementation now accesses memory more
5617 efficiently, especially on little-endian systems. Closes
5619 - Add an O(1) implementation of channel_find_by_global_id(), to
5620 speed some controller functions.
5622 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
5623 - The MyFamily option may now be repeated as many times as desired,
5624 for relays that want to configure large families. Closes ticket
5625 4998; patch by Daniel Pinto.
5627 o Minor features (relay, performance):
5628 - Always start relays with at least two worker threads, to prevent
5629 priority inversion on slow tasks. Part of the fix for bug 22883.
5630 - Allow background work to be queued with different priorities, so
5631 that a big pile of slow low-priority jobs will not starve out
5632 higher priority jobs. This lays the groundwork for a fix for
5635 o Minor features (safety):
5636 - Add an explicit check to extrainfo_parse_entry_from_string() for
5637 NULL inputs. We don't believe this can actually happen, but it may
5638 help silence a warning from the Clang analyzer. Closes
5641 o Minor features (testing):
5642 - Add more tests for compression backend initialization. Closes
5644 - Add a "--disable-memory-sentinels" feature to help with fuzzing.
5645 When Tor is compiled with this option, we disable a number of
5646 redundant memory-safety failsafes that are intended to stop bugs
5647 from becoming security issues. This makes it easier to hunt for
5648 bugs that would be security issues without the failsafes turned
5649 on. Closes ticket 21439.
5650 - Add a general event-tracing instrumentation support to Tor. This
5651 subsystem will enable developers and researchers to add fine-
5652 grained instrumentation to their Tor instances, for use when
5653 examining Tor network performance issues. There are no trace
5654 events yet, and event-tracing is off by default unless enabled at
5655 compile time. Implements ticket 13802.
5656 - Improve our version parsing tests: add tests for typical version
5657 components, add tests for invalid versions, including numeric
5658 range and non-numeric prefixes. Unit tests 21278, 21450, and
5659 21507. Partially implements 21470.
5661 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting):
5662 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
5663 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
5664 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
5666 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
5667 - Accurately identify client connections by their lack of peer
5668 authentication. This means that we bail out earlier if asked to
5669 extend to a client. Follow-up to 21407. Fixes bug 21406; bugfix
5672 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings):
5673 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug
5674 22915; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5675 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
5676 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5677 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
5678 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
5679 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
5682 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
5683 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
5684 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
5686 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
5687 - When spooling compressed data to an output buffer, don't try to
5688 spool more data when there is no more data to spool and we are not
5689 trying to flush the input. Previously, we would sometimes launch
5690 compression requests with nothing to do, which interferes with our
5691 22672 checks. Fixes bug 22719; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
5693 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
5694 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
5695 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5697 o Minor bugfixes (connection lifespan):
5698 - Allow more control over how long TLS connections are kept open:
5699 unify CircuitIdleTimeout and PredictedPortsRelevanceTime into a
5700 single option called CircuitsAvailableTimeout. Also, allow the
5701 consensus to control the default values for both this preference
5702 and the lifespan of relay-to-relay connections. Fixes bug 17592;
5703 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
5704 - Increase the initial circuit build timeout testing frequency, to
5705 help ensure that ReducedConnectionPadding clients finish learning
5706 a timeout before their orconn would expire. The initial testing
5707 rate was set back in the days of TAP and before the Tor Browser
5708 updater, when we had to be much more careful about new clients
5709 making lots of circuits. With this change, a circuit build timeout
5710 is learned in about 15-20 minutes, instead of 100-120 minutes.
5712 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
5713 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
5714 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
5715 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
5716 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5717 - GETINFO onions/current and onions/detached no longer respond with
5718 551 on empty lists. Fixes bug 21329; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
5719 - Trigger HS descriptor events on the control port when the client
5720 fails to pick a hidden service directory for a hidden service.
5721 This can happen if all the hidden service directories are in
5722 ExcludeNodes, or they have all been queried within the last 15
5723 minutes. Fixes bug 22042; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5725 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
5726 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
5727 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
5729 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support):
5730 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
5731 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
5732 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
5733 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
5734 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5736 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming):
5737 - Detect and break out of infinite loops in our compression code. We
5738 don't think that any such loops exist now, but it's best to be
5739 safe. Closes ticket 22672.
5740 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
5741 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
5742 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
5743 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
5744 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
5745 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
5746 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
5747 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
5749 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
5750 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
5751 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
5752 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
5753 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
5754 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
5755 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
5756 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
5758 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
5759 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
5760 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5761 - Prevent the shared randomness subsystem from asserting when
5762 initialized by a bridge authority with an incomplete configuration
5763 file. Fixes bug 21586; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
5765 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting, windows):
5766 - When formatting Windows error messages, use the English format to
5767 avoid codepage issues. Fixes bug 22520; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-alpha.
5770 o Minor bugfixes (exit-side DNS):
5771 - Fix an untriggerable assertion that checked the output of a
5772 libevent DNS error, so that the assertion actually behaves as
5773 expected. Fixes bug 22244; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by Andrey
5774 Karpov using PVS-Studio.
5776 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
5777 - Make the usage example in updateFallbackDirs.py actually work, and
5778 explain what it does. Fixes bug 22270; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
5779 - Decrease the guard flag average required to be a fallback. This
5780 allows us to keep relays that have their guard flag removed when
5781 they restart. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5782 - Decrease the minimum number of fallbacks to 100. Fixes bug 20913;
5783 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5784 - Make sure fallback directory mirrors have the same address, port,
5785 and relay identity key for at least 30 days before they are
5786 selected. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5788 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx):
5789 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
5790 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
5791 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5793 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
5794 - Increase the number of circuits that a service is allowed to
5795 open over a specific period of time. The value was lower than it
5796 should be (8 vs 12) in the normal case of 3 introduction points.
5797 Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc.
5798 - Fix a BUG warning during HSv3 descriptor decoding that could be
5799 cause by a specially crafted descriptor. Fixes bug 23233; bugfix
5800 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Bug found by "haxxpop".
5801 - Stop printing a cryptic warning when a hidden service gets a
5802 request to connect to a virtual port that it hasn't configured.
5803 Fixes bug 16706; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
5804 - Simplify hidden service descriptor creation by using an existing
5805 flag to check if an introduction point is established. Fixes bug
5806 21599; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5808 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake):
5809 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
5810 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
5811 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
5812 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
5813 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
5814 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5816 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
5817 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
5818 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
5819 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
5820 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
5821 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
5822 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
5824 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5825 - When decompressing, do not warn if we fail to decompress using a
5826 compression method that we merely guessed. Fixes part of bug
5827 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
5828 - When decompressing, treat mismatch between content-encoding and
5829 actual compression type as a protocol warning. Fixes part of bug
5830 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
5831 - Downgrade "assigned_to_cpuworker failed" message to info-level
5832 severity. In every case that can reach it, either a better warning
5833 has already been logged, or no warning is warranted. Fixes bug
5834 22356; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
5835 - Log a better message when a directory authority replies to an
5836 upload with an unexpected status code. Fixes bug 11121; bugfix
5838 - Downgrade a log statement about unexpected relay cells from "bug"
5839 to "protocol warning", because there is at least one use case
5840 where it can be triggered by a buggy tor implementation. Fixes bug
5841 21293; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
5843 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
5844 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
5845 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
5847 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
5848 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
5849 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
5850 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
5852 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
5853 - Inform the geoip and rephist modules about all requests, even on
5854 relays that are only fetching microdescriptors. Fixes a bug
5855 related to 21585; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5857 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
5858 - Fix a small memory leak at exit from the backtrace handler code.
5859 Fixes bug 21788; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
5860 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
5861 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
5862 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5863 - Fix a small memory leak when validating a configuration that uses
5864 two or more AF_UNIX sockets for the same port type. Fixes bug
5865 23053; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. This is CID 1415725.
5867 o Minor bugfixes (process behavior):
5868 - When exiting because of an error, always exit with a nonzero exit
5869 status. Previously, we would fail to report an error in our exit
5870 status in cases related to __OwningControllerProcess failure,
5871 lockfile contention, and Ed25519 key initialization. Fixes bug
5872 22720; bugfix on versions 0.2.1.6-alpha, 0.2.2.28-beta, and
5873 0.2.7.2-alpha respectively. Reported by "f55jwk4f"; patch
5876 o Minor bugfixes (robustness, error handling):
5877 - Improve our handling of the cases where OpenSSL encounters a
5878 memory error while encoding keys and certificates. We haven't
5879 observed these errors in the wild, but if they do happen, we now
5880 detect and respond better. Fixes bug 19418; bugfix on all versions
5881 of Tor. Reported by Guido Vranken.
5883 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5884 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
5885 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
5886 - Use unbuffered I/O for utility functions around the
5887 process_handle_t type. This fixes unit test failures reported on
5888 OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Fixes bug 21654; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5889 - Make display of captured unit test log messages consistent. Fixes
5890 bug 21510; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5891 - Make test-network.sh always call chutney's test-network.sh.
5892 Previously, this only worked on systems which had bash installed,
5893 due to some bash-specific code in the script. Fixes bug 19699;
5894 bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc. Follow-up to ticket 21581.
5895 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
5896 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5897 - The unit tests now pass on systems where localhost is misconfigured
5898 to some IPv4 address other than 127.0.0.1. Fixes bug 6298; bugfix
5901 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency):
5902 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
5903 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
5904 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
5905 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
5907 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service):
5908 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
5909 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
5910 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
5911 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
5912 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
5913 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
5915 o Minor bugfixes (windows, relay):
5916 - Resolve "Failure from drain_fd: No error" warnings on Windows
5917 relays. Fixes bug 21540; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
5919 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5920 - Break up the 630-line function connection_dir_client_reached_eof()
5921 into a dozen smaller functions. This change should help
5922 maintainability and readability of the client directory code.
5923 - Isolate our use of the openssl headers so that they are only
5924 included from our crypto wrapper modules, and from tests that
5925 examine those modules' internals. Closes ticket 21841.
5926 - Simplify our API to launch directory requests, making it more
5927 extensible and less error-prone. Now it's easier to add extra
5928 headers to directory requests. Closes ticket 21646.
5929 - Our base64 decoding functions no longer overestimate the output
5930 space that they need when parsing unpadded inputs. Closes
5932 - Remove unused "ROUTER_ADDED_NOTIFY_GENERATOR" internal value.
5933 Resolves ticket 22213.
5934 - The logic that directory caches use to spool request to clients,
5935 serving them one part at a time so as not to allocate too much
5936 memory, has been refactored for consistency. Previously there was
5937 a separate spooling implementation per type of spoolable data. Now
5938 there is one common spooling implementation, with extensible data
5939 types. Closes ticket 21651.
5940 - Tor's compression module now supports multiple backends. Part of
5941 the implementation for proposal 278; closes ticket 21663.
5944 - Add a manpage description for the key-pinning-journal file. Closes
5946 - Correctly note that bandwidth accounting values are stored in the
5947 state file, and the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. Closes
5949 - Document more of the files in the Tor data directory, including
5950 cached-extrainfo, secret_onion_key{,_ntor}.old, hidserv-stats,
5951 approved-routers, sr-random, and diff-cache. Found while fixing
5953 - Clarify the manpage for the (deprecated) torify script. Closes
5955 - Clarify the behavior of the KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth sub-option.
5956 Closes ticket 21873.
5957 - Correct documentation about the default DataDirectory value.
5958 Closes ticket 21151.
5959 - Document the default behavior of NumEntryGuards and
5960 NumDirectoryGuards correctly. Fixes bug 21715; bugfix
5962 - Document key=value pluggable transport arguments for Bridge lines
5963 in torrc. Fixes bug 20341; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
5964 - Note that bandwidth-limiting options don't affect TCP headers or
5965 DNS. Closes ticket 17170.
5967 o Removed features (configuration options, all in ticket 22060):
5968 - These configuration options are now marked Obsolete, and no longer
5969 have any effect: AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
5970 AllowSingleHopExits, ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK,
5971 TLSECGroup, WarnUnsafeSocks. They were first marked as deprecated
5972 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and have now been removed. The previous default
5973 behavior is now always chosen; the previous (less secure) non-
5974 default behavior is now unavailable.
5975 - CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout and
5976 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout were deprecated in
5977 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. HS circuits never close
5978 on circuit build timeout; they have a longer timeout period.
5979 - {Control,DNS,Dir,Socks,Trans,NATD,OR}ListenAddress were deprecated
5980 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. Use the ORPort option
5981 (and others) to configure listen-only and advertise-only addresses.
5983 o Removed features (tools):
5984 - We've removed the tor-checkkey tool from src/tools. Long ago, we
5985 used it to help people detect RSA keys that were generated by
5986 versions of Debian affected by CVE-2008-0166. But those keys have
5987 been out of circulation for ages, and this tool is no longer
5988 required. Closes ticket 21842.
5991 Changes in version 0.3.0.10 - 2017-08-02
5992 Tor 0.3.0.10 backports a collection of small-to-medium bugfixes
5993 from the current Tor alpha series. OpenBSD users and TPROXY users
5994 should upgrade; others are probably okay sticking with 0.3.0.9.
5996 o Major features (build system, continuous integration, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
5997 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
5998 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
5999 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
6000 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
6001 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
6002 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
6003 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
6004 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
6006 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
6007 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
6008 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
6009 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
6011 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
6012 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
6013 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
6014 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
6015 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
6017 o Minor features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
6018 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6021 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
6022 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
6023 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
6024 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
6026 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
6027 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
6028 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
6029 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
6030 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6031 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
6032 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
6033 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
6036 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
6037 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
6038 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
6041 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
6042 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
6043 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
6044 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
6045 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
6046 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6048 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
6049 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
6050 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
6051 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6053 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
6054 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
6055 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6057 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha)
6058 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
6059 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6062 Changes in version 0.3.0.9 - 2017-06-29
6063 Tor 0.3.0.9 fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
6064 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
6065 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
6066 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9 or
6069 This release also backports several other bugfixes from the 0.3.1.x
6072 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
6073 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
6074 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
6075 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
6076 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
6077 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
6079 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
6080 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
6081 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
6082 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
6084 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
6085 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
6086 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
6087 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6089 o Minor features (geoip):
6090 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6093 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
6094 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
6095 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
6096 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
6097 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
6099 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
6100 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
6101 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
6102 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
6103 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6105 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
6106 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
6107 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
6108 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
6109 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
6110 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
6111 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
6112 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
6113 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
6116 Changes in version 0.3.0.8 - 2017-06-08
6117 Tor 0.3.0.8 fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
6118 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
6119 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
6120 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
6122 Tor 0.3.0.8 also includes fixes for several key management bugs
6123 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
6124 bugfixes described below.
6126 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
6127 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
6128 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
6129 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
6130 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6131 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
6132 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
6133 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
6136 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
6137 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
6138 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
6139 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
6140 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
6141 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
6142 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
6145 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
6146 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
6147 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
6148 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
6149 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
6150 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
6151 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
6152 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6153 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
6154 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
6155 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
6156 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
6157 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
6160 o Major bugfixes (hidden service v3, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
6161 - Stop rejecting v3 hidden service descriptors because their size
6162 did not match an old padding rule. Fixes bug 22447; bugfix on
6165 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
6166 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
6167 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
6168 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
6169 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
6171 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
6172 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
6173 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6175 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
6176 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
6177 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
6179 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
6180 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
6181 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
6182 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
6183 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
6184 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
6185 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6187 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport from
6189 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
6190 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
6191 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6194 Changes in version 0.2.9.11 - 2017-06-08
6195 Tor 0.2.9.11 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
6196 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
6197 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
6198 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
6199 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
6201 Tor 0.2.9.11 also backports fixes for several key management bugs
6202 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
6203 bugfixes described below.
6205 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
6206 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
6207 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
6208 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
6209 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
6212 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
6213 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
6214 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
6215 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
6216 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
6217 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
6218 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
6221 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
6222 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
6223 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
6224 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
6225 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
6227 o Minor features (future-proofing, backport from 0.3.0.7):
6228 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors if
6229 they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
6230 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
6231 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
6232 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
6233 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
6235 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.0.4-rc)
6236 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
6237 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
6238 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
6239 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
6241 o Minor features (geoip):
6242 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6245 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.0.6):
6246 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
6247 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
6248 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6250 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
6251 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
6252 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
6254 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.0.7):
6255 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
6256 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
6257 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
6258 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
6261 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport
6262 from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
6263 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
6264 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
6265 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6267 Changes in version 0.2.8.14 - 2017-06-08
6268 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
6269 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
6270 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
6271 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
6272 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
6274 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
6275 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
6276 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
6277 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
6280 o Minor features (geoip):
6281 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6284 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
6285 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
6286 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
6287 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
6288 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
6290 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
6291 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
6292 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
6294 Changes in version 0.2.7.8 - 2017-06-08
6295 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
6296 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
6297 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
6298 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
6299 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
6301 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
6302 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
6303 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
6304 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
6307 o Minor features (geoip):
6308 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6311 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
6312 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
6313 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
6316 Changes in version 0.2.6.12 - 2017-06-08
6317 Tor 0.2.6.12 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
6318 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
6319 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
6320 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
6321 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
6323 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
6324 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
6325 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
6326 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
6329 o Minor features (geoip):
6330 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6333 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
6334 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
6335 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
6337 Changes in version 0.2.5.14 - 2017-06-08
6338 Tor 0.2.5.14 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
6339 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
6340 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
6341 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
6342 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
6344 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
6345 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
6346 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
6347 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
6350 o Minor features (geoip):
6351 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6354 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
6355 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
6356 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
6358 Changes in version 0.2.4.29 - 2017-06-08
6359 Tor 0.2.4.29 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
6360 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
6361 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
6362 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
6363 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
6365 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
6366 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
6367 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
6368 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
6371 o Minor features (geoip):
6372 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6375 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
6376 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
6377 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
6380 Changes in version 0.3.0.7 - 2017-05-15
6381 Tor 0.3.0.7 fixes a medium-severity security bug in earlier versions
6382 of Tor 0.3.0.x, where an attacker could cause a Tor relay process
6383 to exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade;
6384 clients are not affected.
6386 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory, security):
6387 - Fix an assertion failure in the hidden service directory code, which
6388 could be used by an attacker to remotely cause a Tor relay process to
6389 exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade.
6390 should upgrade. This security issue is tracked as TROVE-2017-002.
6391 Fixes bug 22246; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6394 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6397 o Minor features (future-proofing):
6398 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors
6399 if they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
6400 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
6401 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
6402 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
6403 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
6405 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
6406 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
6407 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
6408 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
6409 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
6413 Changes in version 0.3.0.6 - 2017-04-26
6414 Tor 0.3.0.6 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.3.0 series.
6416 With the 0.3.0 series, clients and relays now use Ed25519 keys to
6417 authenticate their link connections to relays, rather than the old
6418 RSA1024 keys that they used before. (Circuit crypto has been
6419 Curve25519-authenticated since 0.2.4.8-alpha.) We have also replaced
6420 the guard selection and replacement algorithm to behave more robustly
6421 in the presence of unreliable networks, and to resist guard-
6424 This series also includes numerous other small features and bugfixes,
6425 along with more groundwork for the upcoming hidden-services revamp.
6427 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support the Tor 0.3.0
6428 release series for at least the next nine months, or for three months
6429 after the first stable release of the 0.3.1 series: whichever is
6430 longer. If you need a release with long-term support, we recommend
6431 that you stay with the 0.2.9 series.
6433 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.10. For a list of only the changes
6434 since 0.3.0.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
6436 o Major features (directory authority, security):
6437 - The default for AuthDirPinKeys is now 1: directory authorities
6438 will reject relays where the RSA identity key matches a previously
6439 seen value, but the Ed25519 key has changed. Closes ticket 18319.
6441 o Major features (guard selection algorithm):
6442 - Tor's guard selection algorithm has been redesigned from the
6443 ground up, to better support unreliable networks and restrictive
6444 sets of entry nodes, and to better resist guard-capture attacks by
6445 hostile local networks. Implements proposal 271; closes
6448 o Major features (next-generation hidden services):
6449 - Relays can now handle v3 ESTABLISH_INTRO cells as specified by
6450 prop224 aka "Next Generation Hidden Services". Service and clients
6451 don't use this functionality yet. Closes ticket 19043. Based on
6452 initial code by Alec Heifetz.
6453 - Relays now support the HSDir version 3 protocol, so that they can
6454 can store and serve v3 descriptors. This is part of the next-
6455 generation onion service work detailed in proposal 224. Closes
6458 o Major features (protocol, ed25519 identity keys):
6459 - Clients now support including Ed25519 identity keys in the EXTEND2
6460 cells they generate. By default, this is controlled by a consensus
6461 parameter, currently disabled. You can turn this feature on for
6462 testing by setting ExtendByEd25519ID in your configuration. This
6463 might make your traffic appear different than the traffic
6464 generated by other users, however. Implements part of ticket
6465 15056; part of proposal 220.
6466 - Relays now understand requests to extend to other relays by their
6467 Ed25519 identity keys. When an Ed25519 identity key is included in
6468 an EXTEND2 cell, the relay will only extend the circuit if the
6469 other relay can prove ownership of that identity. Implements part
6470 of ticket 15056; part of proposal 220.
6471 - Relays now use Ed25519 to prove their Ed25519 identities and to
6472 one another, and to clients. This algorithm is faster and more
6473 secure than the RSA-based handshake we've been doing until now.
6474 Implements the second big part of proposal 220; Closes
6477 o Major features (security):
6478 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
6479 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
6480 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
6481 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
6482 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
6483 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
6485 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service, also in 0.2.9.9):
6486 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
6487 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
6488 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
6489 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
6490 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
6491 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
6492 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
6493 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
6494 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
6495 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
6497 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections):
6498 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
6499 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
6500 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
6502 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
6503 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
6504 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
6505 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
6508 o Major bugfixes (DNS):
6509 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
6510 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
6512 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits):
6513 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
6514 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
6515 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
6516 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
6517 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
6518 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
6520 o Major bugfixes (parsing):
6521 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
6522 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
6523 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
6524 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
6525 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
6526 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
6527 - When parsing a malformed content-length field from an HTTP
6528 message, do not read off the end of the buffer. This bug was a
6529 potential remote denial-of-service attack against Tor clients and
6530 relays. A workaround was released in October 2016, to prevent this
6531 bug from crashing Tor. This is a fix for the underlying issue,
6532 which should no longer matter (if you applied the earlier patch).
6533 Fixes bug 20894; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Bug found by fuzzing
6534 using AFL (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).
6536 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
6537 - Actually compare circuit policies in ewma_cmp_cmux(). This bug
6538 caused the channel scheduler to behave more or less randomly,
6539 rather than preferring channels with higher-priority circuits.
6540 Fixes bug 20459; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
6542 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.9.9):
6543 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
6544 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
6545 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes--and having it
6546 on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
6547 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
6548 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6550 o Minor feature (client):
6551 - Enable IPv6 traffic on the SocksPort by default. To disable this,
6552 a user will have to specify "NoIPv6Traffic". Closes ticket 21269.
6554 o Minor feature (fallback scripts):
6555 - Add a check_existing mode to updateFallbackDirs.py, which checks
6556 if fallbacks in the hard-coded list are working. Closes ticket
6557 20174. Patch by haxxpop.
6559 o Minor feature (protocol versioning):
6560 - Add new protocol version for proposal 224. HSIntro now advertises
6561 version "3-4" and HSDir version "1-2". Fixes ticket 20656.
6563 o Minor features (ciphersuite selection):
6564 - Allow relays to accept a wider range of ciphersuites, including
6565 chacha20-poly1305 and AES-CCM. Closes the other part of 15426.
6566 - Clients now advertise a list of ciphersuites closer to the ones
6567 preferred by Firefox. Closes part of ticket 15426.
6569 o Minor features (controller):
6570 - Add "GETINFO sr/current" and "GETINFO sr/previous" keys, to expose
6571 shared-random values to the controller. Closes ticket 19925.
6572 - When HSFETCH arguments cannot be parsed, say "Invalid argument"
6573 rather than "unrecognized." Closes ticket 20389; patch from
6576 o Minor features (controller, configuration):
6577 - Each of the *Port options, such as SocksPort, ORPort, ControlPort,
6578 and so on, now comes with a __*Port variant that will not be saved
6579 to the torrc file by the controller's SAVECONF command. This
6580 change allows TorBrowser to set up a single-use domain socket for
6581 each time it launches Tor. Closes ticket 20956.
6582 - The GETCONF command can now query options that may only be
6583 meaningful in context-sensitive lists. This allows the controller
6584 to query the mixed SocksPort/__SocksPort style options introduced
6585 in feature 20956. Implements ticket 21300.
6587 o Minor features (diagnostic, directory client):
6588 - Warn when we find an unexpected inconsistency in directory
6589 download status objects. Prevents some negative consequences of
6592 o Minor features (directory authorities):
6593 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
6594 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
6596 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
6597 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
6598 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
6600 o Minor features (directory authority):
6601 - Add a new authority-only AuthDirTestEd25519LinkKeys option (on by
6602 default) to control whether authorities should try to probe relays
6603 by their Ed25519 link keys. This option will go away in a few
6604 releases--unless we encounter major trouble in our ed25519 link
6605 protocol rollout, in which case it will serve as a safety option.
6607 o Minor features (directory cache):
6608 - Relays and bridges will now refuse to serve the consensus they
6609 have if they know it is too old for a client to use. Closes
6612 o Minor features (ed25519 link handshake):
6613 - Advertise support for the ed25519 link handshake using the
6614 subprotocol-versions mechanism, so that clients can tell which
6615 relays can identity themselves by Ed25519 ID. Closes ticket 20552.
6617 o Minor features (entry guards):
6618 - Add UseEntryGuards to TEST_OPTIONS_DEFAULT_VALUES in order to not
6619 break regression tests.
6620 - Require UseEntryGuards when UseBridges is set, in order to make
6621 sure bridges aren't bypassed. Resolves ticket 20502.
6623 o Minor features (fallback directories):
6624 - Allow 3 fallback relays per operator, which is safe now that we
6625 are choosing 200 fallback relays. Closes ticket 20912.
6626 - Annotate updateFallbackDirs.py with the bandwidth and consensus
6627 weight for each candidate fallback. Closes ticket 20878.
6628 - Display the relay fingerprint when downloading consensuses from
6629 fallbacks. Closes ticket 20908.
6630 - Exclude relays affected by bug 20499 from the fallback list.
6631 Exclude relays from the fallback list if they are running versions
6632 known to be affected by bug 20499, or if in our tests they deliver
6633 a stale consensus (i.e. one that expired more than 24 hours ago).
6634 Closes ticket 20539.
6635 - Make it easier to change the output sort order of fallbacks.
6636 Closes ticket 20822.
6637 - Reduce the minimum fallback bandwidth to 1 MByte/s. Part of
6639 - Require fallback directories to have the same address and port for
6640 7 days (now that we have enough relays with this stability).
6641 Relays whose OnionOO stability timer is reset on restart by bug
6642 18050 should upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.7 or later, which has a fix for
6643 this issue. Closes ticket 20880; maintains short-term fix
6645 - Require fallbacks to have flags for 90% of the time (weighted
6646 decaying average), rather than 95%. This allows at least 73% of
6647 clients to bootstrap in the first 5 seconds without contacting an
6648 authority. Part of ticket 18828.
6649 - Select 200 fallback directories for each release. Closes
6652 o Minor features (fingerprinting resistance, authentication):
6653 - Extend the length of RSA keys used for TLS link authentication to
6654 2048 bits. (These weren't used for forward secrecy; for forward
6655 secrecy, we used P256.) Closes ticket 13752.
6657 o Minor features (geoip):
6658 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6661 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.9.9):
6662 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6665 o Minor features (infrastructure):
6666 - Implement smartlist_add_strdup() function. Replaces the use of
6667 smartlist_add(sl, tor_strdup(str)). Closes ticket 20048.
6669 o Minor features (linting):
6670 - Enhance the changes file linter to warn on Tor versions that are
6671 prefixed with "tor-". Closes ticket 21096.
6673 o Minor features (logging):
6674 - In several places, describe unset ed25519 keys as "<unset>",
6675 rather than the scary "AAAAAAAA...AAA". Closes ticket 21037.
6677 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
6678 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
6679 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
6681 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
6682 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
6684 o Minor features (relay):
6685 - We now allow separation of exit and relay traffic to different
6686 source IP addresses, using the OutboundBindAddressExit and
6687 OutboundBindAddressOR options respectively. Closes ticket 17975.
6688 Written by Michael Sonntag.
6690 o Minor features (reliability, crash):
6691 - Try better to detect problems in buffers where they might grow (or
6692 think they have grown) over 2 GB in size. Diagnostic for
6695 o Minor features (testing):
6696 - During 'make test-network-all', if tor logs any warnings, ask
6697 chutney to output them. Requires a recent version of chutney with
6698 the 21572 patch. Implements 21570.
6700 o Minor bugfix (control protocol):
6701 - The reply to a "GETINFO config/names" request via the control
6702 protocol now spells the type "Dependent" correctly. This is a
6703 breaking change in the control protocol. (The field seems to be
6704 ignored by the most common known controllers.) Fixes bug 18146;
6705 bugfix on 0.1.1.4-alpha.
6706 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
6707 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
6708 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6710 o Minor bugfix (logging):
6711 - Don't recommend the use of Tor2web in non-anonymous mode.
6712 Recommending Tor2web is a bad idea because the client loses all
6713 anonymity. Tor2web should only be used in specific cases by users
6714 who *know* and understand the issues. Fixes bug 21294; bugfix
6717 o Minor bugfixes (bug resilience):
6718 - Fix an unreachable size_t overflow in base64_decode(). Fixes bug
6719 19222; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Found by Guido Vranken; fixed by
6720 Hans Jerry Illikainen.
6722 o Minor bugfixes (build):
6723 - Replace obsolete Autoconf macros with their modern equivalent and
6724 prevent similar issues in the future. Fixes bug 20990; bugfix
6727 o Minor bugfixes (certificate expiration time):
6728 - Avoid using link certificates that don't become valid till some
6729 time in the future. Fixes bug 21420; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha
6731 o Minor bugfixes (client):
6732 - Always recover from failures in extend_info_from_node(), in an
6733 attempt to prevent any recurrence of bug 21242. Fixes bug 21372;
6734 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
6735 - When clients that use bridges start up with a cached consensus on
6736 disk, they were ignoring it and downloading a new one. Now they
6737 use the cached one. Fixes bug 20269; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
6739 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
6740 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
6741 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
6743 o Minor bugfixes (config):
6744 - Don't assert on startup when trying to get the options list and
6745 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is set to 0: we are currently parsing the
6746 options so of course they aren't ready yet. Fixes bug 21062;
6747 bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6749 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
6750 - Accept non-space whitespace characters after the severity level in
6751 the `Log` option. Fixes bug 19965; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
6752 - Support "TByte" and "TBytes" units in options given in bytes.
6753 "TB", "terabyte(s)", "TBit(s)" and "terabit(s)" were already
6754 supported. Fixes bug 20622; bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
6756 o Minor bugfixes (configure, autoconf):
6757 - Rename the configure option --enable-expensive-hardening to
6758 --enable-fragile-hardening. Expensive hardening makes the tor
6759 daemon abort when some kinds of issues are detected. Thus, it
6760 makes tor more at risk of remote crashes but safer against RCE or
6761 heartbleed bug category. We now try to explain this issue in a
6762 message from the configure script. Fixes bug 21290; bugfix
6765 o Minor bugfixes (consensus weight):
6766 - Add new consensus method that initializes bw weights to 1 instead
6767 of 0. This prevents a zero weight from making it all the way to
6768 the end (happens in small testing networks) and causing an error.
6769 Fixes bug 14881; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
6771 o Minor bugfixes (crash prevention):
6772 - Fix an (currently untriggerable, but potentially dangerous) crash
6773 bug when base32-encoding inputs whose sizes are not a multiple of
6774 5. Fixes bug 21894; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6776 o Minor bugfixes (dead code):
6777 - Remove a redundant check for PidFile changes at runtime in
6778 options_transition_allowed(): this check is already performed
6779 regardless of whether the sandbox is active. Fixes bug 21123;
6780 bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6782 o Minor bugfixes (descriptors):
6783 - Correctly recognise downloaded full descriptors as valid, even
6784 when using microdescriptors as circuits. This affects clients with
6785 FetchUselessDescriptors set, and may affect directory authorities.
6786 Fixes bug 20839; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
6788 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
6789 - Allow relays to use directory mirrors without a DirPort: these
6790 relays need to be contacted over their ORPorts using a begindir
6791 connection. Fixes one case of bug 20711; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
6792 - Clarify the message logged when a remote relay is unexpectedly
6793 missing an ORPort or DirPort: users were confusing this with a
6794 local port. Fixes another case of bug 20711; bugfix
6797 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
6798 - Bridges and relays now use microdescriptors (like clients do)
6799 rather than old-style router descriptors. Now bridges will blend
6800 in with clients in terms of the circuits they build. Fixes bug
6801 6769; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
6802 - Download all consensus flavors, descriptors, and authority
6803 certificates when FetchUselessDescriptors is set, regardless of
6804 whether tor is a directory cache or not. Fixes bug 20667; bugfix
6805 on all recent tor versions.
6807 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
6808 - Update the tor manual page to document every option that can not
6809 be changed while tor is running. Fixes bug 21122.
6811 o Minor bugfixes (ed25519 certificates):
6812 - Correctly interpret ed25519 certificates that would expire some
6813 time after 19 Jan 2038. Fixes bug 20027; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6815 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
6816 - Avoid checking fallback candidates' DirPorts if they are down in
6817 OnionOO. When a relay operator has multiple relays, this
6818 prioritizes relays that are up over relays that are down. Fixes
6819 bug 20926; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
6820 - Stop failing when OUTPUT_COMMENTS is True in updateFallbackDirs.py.
6821 Fixes bug 20877; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
6822 - Stop failing when a relay has no uptime data in
6823 updateFallbackDirs.py. Fixes bug 20945; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
6825 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
6826 - Clean up the code for expiring intro points with no associated
6827 circuits. It was causing, rarely, a service with some expiring
6828 introduction points to not open enough additional introduction
6829 points. Fixes part of bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6830 - Resolve two possible underflows which could lead to creating and
6831 closing a lot of introduction point circuits in a non-stop loop.
6832 Fixes bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6833 - Stop setting the torrc option HiddenServiceStatistics to "0" just
6834 because we're not a bridge or relay. Instead, we preserve whatever
6835 value the user set (or didn't set). Fixes bug 21150; bugfix
6838 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
6839 - Make hidden services check for failed intro point connections,
6840 even when they have exceeded their intro point creation limit.
6841 Fixes bug 21596; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
6842 - Make hidden services with 8 to 10 introduction points check for
6843 failed circuits immediately after startup. Previously, they would
6844 wait for 5 minutes before performing their first checks. Fixes bug
6845 21594; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
6846 - Stop ignoring misconfigured hidden services. Instead, refuse to
6847 start tor until the misconfigurations have been corrected. Fixes
6848 bug 20559; bugfix on multiple commits in 0.2.7.1-alpha
6851 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
6852 - Make IPv6-using clients try harder to find an IPv6 directory
6853 server. Fixes bug 20999; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
6854 - When IPv6 addresses have not been downloaded yet (microdesc
6855 consensus documents don't list relay IPv6 addresses), use hard-
6856 coded addresses for authorities, fallbacks, and configured
6857 bridges. Now IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors. Fixes bug
6858 20996; bugfix on b167e82 from 19608 in 0.2.8.5-alpha.
6860 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak at exit):
6861 - Fix a small harmless memory leak at exit of the previously unused
6862 RSA->Ed identity cross-certificate. Fixes bug 17779; bugfix
6865 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
6866 - Allow the number of introduction points to be as low as 0, rather
6867 than as low as 3. Fixes bug 21033; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6869 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
6870 - Use "OpenBSD" compiler macro instead of "OPENBSD" or "__OpenBSD__".
6871 It is supported by OpenBSD itself, and also by most OpenBSD
6872 variants (such as Bitrig). Fixes bug 20980; bugfix
6875 o Minor bugfixes (portability, also in 0.2.9.9):
6876 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
6877 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
6878 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
6880 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
6881 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6883 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
6884 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
6885 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
6887 - Honor DataDirectoryGroupReadable when tor is a relay. Previously,
6888 initializing the keys would reset the DataDirectory to 0700
6889 instead of 0750 even if DataDirectoryGroupReadable was set to 1.
6890 Fixes bug 19953; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16. Patch by "redfish".
6892 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6893 - Fix Raspbian build issues related to missing socket errno in
6894 test_util.c. Fixes bug 21116; bugfix on 0.2.8.2. Patch by "hein".
6895 - Remove undefined behavior from the backtrace generator by removing
6896 its signal handler. Fixes bug 21026; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
6897 - Use bash in src/test/test-network.sh. This ensures we reliably
6898 call chutney's newer tools/test-network.sh when available. Fixes
6899 bug 21562; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6901 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
6902 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
6903 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
6904 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
6905 Patch by "junglefowl".
6907 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
6908 - Allow the unit tests to pass even when DNS lookups of bogus
6909 addresses do not fail as expected. Fixes bug 20862 and 20863;
6910 bugfix on unit tests introduced in 0.2.8.1-alpha
6911 through 0.2.9.4-alpha.
6913 o Minor bugfixes (util):
6914 - When finishing writing a file to disk, if we were about to replace
6915 the file with the temporary file created before and we fail to
6916 replace it, remove the temporary file so it doesn't stay on disk.
6917 Fixes bug 20646; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch by fk.
6919 o Minor bugfixes (Windows services):
6920 - Be sure to initialize the monotonic time subsystem before using
6921 it, even when running as an NT service. Fixes bug 21356; bugfix
6924 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
6925 - Check for getpagesize before using it to mmap files. This fixes
6926 compilation in some MinGW environments. Fixes bug 20530; bugfix on
6927 0.1.2.1-alpha. Reported by "ice".
6929 o Code simplification and refactoring:
6930 - Abolish all global guard context in entrynodes.c; replace with new
6931 guard_selection_t structure as preparation for proposal 271.
6932 Closes ticket 19858.
6933 - Extract magic numbers in circuituse.c into defined variables.
6934 - Introduce rend_service_is_ephemeral() that tells if given onion
6935 service is ephemeral. Replace unclear NULL-checkings for service
6936 directory with this function. Closes ticket 20526.
6937 - Refactor circuit_is_available_for_use to remove unnecessary check.
6938 - Refactor circuit_predict_and_launch_new for readability and
6939 testability. Closes ticket 18873.
6940 - Refactor code to manipulate global_origin_circuit_list into
6941 separate functions. Closes ticket 20921.
6942 - Refactor large if statement in purpose_needs_anonymity to use
6943 switch statement instead. Closes part of ticket 20077.
6944 - Refactor the hashing API to return negative values for errors, as
6945 is done as throughout the codebase. Closes ticket 20717.
6946 - Remove data structures that were used to index or_connection
6947 objects by their RSA identity digests. These structures are fully
6948 redundant with the similar structures used in the
6949 channel abstraction.
6950 - Remove duplicate code in the channel_write_*cell() functions.
6951 Closes ticket 13827; patch from Pingl.
6952 - Remove redundant behavior of is_sensitive_dir_purpose, refactor to
6953 use only purpose_needs_anonymity. Closes part of ticket 20077.
6954 - The code to generate and parse EXTEND and EXTEND2 cells has been
6955 replaced with code automatically generated by the
6958 o Documentation (formatting):
6959 - Clean up formatting of tor.1 man page and HTML doc, where <pre>
6960 blocks were incorrectly appearing. Closes ticket 20885.
6962 o Documentation (man page):
6963 - Clarify many options in tor.1 and add some min/max values for
6964 HiddenService options. Closes ticket 21058.
6967 - Change '1' to 'weight_scale' in consensus bw weights calculation
6968 comments, as that is reality. Closes ticket 20273. Patch
6970 - Clarify that when ClientRejectInternalAddresses is enabled (which
6971 is the default), multicast DNS hostnames for machines on the local
6972 network (of the form *.local) are also rejected. Closes
6974 - Correct the value for AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee in the manpage, from
6975 250 KBytes to 2 MBytes. Fixes bug 20435; bugfix on 0.2.5.6-alpha.
6976 - Include the "TBits" unit in Tor's man page. Fixes part of bug
6977 20622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6978 - Small fixes to the fuzzing documentation. Closes ticket 21472.
6979 - Stop the man page from incorrectly stating that HiddenServiceDir
6980 must already exist. Fixes 20486.
6981 - Update the description of the directory server options in the
6982 manual page, to clarify that a relay no longer needs to set
6983 DirPort in order to be a directory cache. Closes ticket 21720.
6986 - The AuthDirMaxServersPerAuthAddr option no longer exists: The same
6987 limit for relays running on a single IP applies to authority IP
6988 addresses as well as to non-authority IP addresses. Closes
6990 - The UseDirectoryGuards torrc option no longer exists: all users
6991 that use entry guards will also use directory guards. Related to
6992 proposal 271; implements part of ticket 20831.
6995 - Add tests for networkstatus_compute_bw_weights_v10.
6996 - Add unit tests circuit_predict_and_launch_new.
6997 - Extract dummy_origin_circuit_new so it can be used by other
6999 - New unit tests for tor_htonll(). Closes ticket 19563. Patch
7000 from "overcaffeinated".
7001 - Perform the coding style checks when running the tests and fail
7002 when coding style violations are found. Closes ticket 5500.
7005 Changes in version 0.2.8.13 - 2017-03-03
7006 Tor 0.2.8.13 backports a security fix from later Tor
7007 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.8.12 or earlier should upgrade to this
7008 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
7009 release series, and if they build Tor with the --enable-expensive-hardening
7012 Note that support for Tor 0.2.8.x is ending next year: we will not issue
7013 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.8.x series after 1 Jan 2018. If you need
7014 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
7016 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
7017 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
7018 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
7019 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
7020 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
7021 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
7022 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
7024 o Minor features (geoip):
7025 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7029 Changes in version 0.2.7.7 - 2017-03-03
7030 Tor 0.2.7.7 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
7031 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.7.6 or earlier should upgrade to
7032 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
7035 Note that support for Tor 0.2.7.x is ending this year: we will not issue
7036 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.7.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
7037 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
7039 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
7040 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
7042 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
7043 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
7044 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
7046 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
7047 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
7048 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
7051 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
7052 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
7053 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
7054 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
7055 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
7056 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
7057 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
7058 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
7059 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
7061 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
7062 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
7063 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
7064 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
7065 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
7066 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
7067 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
7068 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
7069 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
7070 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
7071 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
7072 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
7073 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
7075 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
7076 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
7077 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
7078 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
7079 Reported by Guido Vranken.
7081 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
7082 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
7083 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
7085 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
7086 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
7087 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
7088 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
7089 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
7090 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
7091 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
7094 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
7095 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
7096 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
7097 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
7098 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
7099 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
7100 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
7102 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
7103 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
7104 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
7105 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
7108 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
7109 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
7110 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
7111 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
7113 o Minor features (geoip):
7114 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7118 Changes in version 0.2.6.11 - 2017-03-03
7119 Tor 0.2.6.11 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
7120 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.6.10 or earlier should upgrade to
7121 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
7124 Note that support for Tor 0.2.6.x is ending this year: we will not issue
7125 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.6.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
7126 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
7128 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
7129 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
7131 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
7132 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
7133 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
7135 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
7136 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
7137 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
7140 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
7141 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
7142 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
7143 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
7144 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
7145 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
7146 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
7147 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
7148 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
7150 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
7151 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
7152 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
7153 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
7154 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
7155 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
7156 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
7157 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
7158 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
7160 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
7161 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
7162 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
7163 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
7164 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
7166 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
7167 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
7168 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
7169 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
7170 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
7173 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
7174 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
7175 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
7176 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
7177 Reported by Guido Vranken.
7179 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
7180 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
7181 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
7183 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
7184 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
7185 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
7186 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
7187 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
7188 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
7191 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
7192 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
7193 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
7194 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
7195 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
7196 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
7197 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
7200 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
7201 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
7202 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
7203 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
7204 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
7205 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
7206 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
7208 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
7209 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
7210 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
7211 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
7214 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
7215 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
7216 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
7217 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
7219 o Minor features (geoip):
7220 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7223 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
7224 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
7225 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
7228 Changes in version 0.2.5.13 - 2017-03-03
7229 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
7230 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.5.13 or earlier should upgrade to
7231 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
7234 Note that support for Tor 0.2.5.x is ending next year: we will not issue
7235 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.5.x series after 1 May 2018. If you need
7236 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
7238 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
7239 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
7241 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
7242 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
7243 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
7245 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
7246 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
7247 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
7250 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
7251 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
7252 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
7253 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
7254 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
7255 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
7256 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
7257 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
7258 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
7260 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
7261 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
7262 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
7263 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
7264 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
7265 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
7266 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
7267 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
7268 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
7270 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
7271 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
7272 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
7273 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
7274 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
7276 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
7277 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
7278 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
7279 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
7280 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
7283 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
7284 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
7285 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
7286 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
7287 Reported by Guido Vranken.
7289 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
7290 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
7291 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
7293 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
7294 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
7295 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
7296 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
7297 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
7298 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
7301 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
7302 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
7303 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
7304 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
7305 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
7306 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
7307 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
7310 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
7311 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
7312 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
7313 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
7314 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
7315 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
7316 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
7318 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
7319 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
7320 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
7321 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
7324 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
7325 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
7326 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
7327 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
7329 o Minor features (geoip):
7330 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7333 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
7334 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
7335 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
7337 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, backport from 0.2.7.2-alpha):
7338 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
7339 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
7340 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
7341 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
7342 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
7344 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
7345 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
7346 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
7350 Changes in version 0.2.4.28 - 2017-03-03
7351 Tor 0.2.4.28 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
7352 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.4.27 or earlier should upgrade to
7353 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
7356 Note that support for Tor 0.2.4.x is ending soon: we will not issue
7357 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.4.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
7358 a Tor release series with long-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
7360 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
7361 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
7363 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
7364 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
7365 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
7367 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
7368 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
7369 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
7372 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
7373 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
7374 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
7375 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
7376 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
7377 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
7378 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
7379 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
7380 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
7382 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
7383 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
7384 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
7385 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
7386 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
7387 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
7388 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
7389 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
7390 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
7392 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
7393 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
7394 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
7395 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
7396 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
7399 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
7400 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
7401 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
7402 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
7403 Reported by Guido Vranken.
7405 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
7406 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
7407 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
7409 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
7410 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
7411 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
7412 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
7413 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
7414 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
7417 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
7418 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
7419 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
7420 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
7421 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
7422 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
7423 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
7426 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
7427 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
7428 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
7429 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
7430 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
7431 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
7432 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
7434 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
7435 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
7436 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
7437 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
7440 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
7441 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
7442 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
7443 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
7445 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
7446 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
7447 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
7448 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
7450 o Minor features (geoip):
7451 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7454 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
7455 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
7456 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
7458 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
7459 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
7460 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
7464 Changes in version 0.2.9.10 - 2017-03-01
7465 Tor 0.2.9.10 backports a security fix from later Tor release. It also
7466 includes fixes for some major issues affecting directory authorities,
7467 LibreSSL compatibility, and IPv6 correctness.
7469 The Tor 0.2.9.x release series is now marked as a long-term-support
7470 series. We intend to backport security fixes to 0.2.9.x until at
7471 least January of 2020.
7473 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, 0.3.0.3-alpha):
7474 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
7475 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
7476 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
7479 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
7480 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
7481 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
7482 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
7483 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
7484 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
7485 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
7487 o Major bugfixes (parsing, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
7488 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
7489 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
7490 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
7491 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
7492 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
7493 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
7495 o Minor features (directory authorities, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
7496 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
7497 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
7499 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
7500 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
7501 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
7503 o Minor features (geoip):
7504 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7507 o Minor features (portability, compilation, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
7508 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
7509 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
7511 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
7512 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
7514 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
7515 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
7516 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
7518 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
7519 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
7520 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
7521 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
7522 Patch by "junglefowl".
7525 Changes in version 0.2.9.9 - 2017-01-23
7526 Tor 0.2.9.9 fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
7527 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
7528 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
7529 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
7530 version should upgrade.
7532 This release also resolves a client-side onion service reachability
7533 bug, and resolves a pair of small portability issues.
7535 o Major bugfixes (security):
7536 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
7537 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
7538 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes -- and having
7539 it on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
7540 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
7541 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7543 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service):
7544 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
7545 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
7546 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
7547 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
7548 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
7549 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
7550 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
7551 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
7552 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
7553 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7555 o Minor features (geoip):
7556 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7559 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
7560 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
7561 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
7562 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
7564 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
7565 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7568 Changes in version 0.2.8.12 - 2016-12-19
7569 Tor 0.2.8.12 backports a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug 21018
7570 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
7571 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
7572 become available for their systems.
7574 It also includes an updated list of fallback directories, backported
7577 Now that the Tor 0.2.9 series is stable, only major bugfixes will be
7578 backported to 0.2.8 in the future.
7580 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backported from 0.2.9.8):
7581 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
7582 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
7583 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
7584 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
7585 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
7586 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
7587 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
7588 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
7590 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backported from 0.2.9.8):
7591 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
7592 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
7593 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
7594 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
7596 o Minor features (geoip, backported from 0.2.9.7-rc):
7597 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
7601 Changes in version 0.2.9.8 - 2016-12-19
7602 Tor 0.2.9.8 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.2.9 series.
7604 The Tor 0.2.9 series makes mandatory a number of security features
7605 that were formerly optional. It includes support for a new shared-
7606 randomness protocol that will form the basis for next generation
7607 hidden services, includes a single-hop hidden service mode for
7608 optimizing .onion services that don't actually want to be hidden,
7609 tries harder not to overload the directory authorities with excessive
7610 downloads, and supports a better protocol versioning scheme for
7611 improved compatibility with other implementations of the Tor protocol.
7613 And of course, there are numerous other bugfixes and improvements.
7615 This release also includes a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug
7616 21018 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
7617 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
7618 become available for their systems.
7620 Below are listed the changes since Tor 0.2.8.11. For a list of
7621 changes since 0.2.9.7-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
7623 o New system requirements:
7624 - When building with OpenSSL, Tor now requires version 1.0.1 or
7625 later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 and earlier are no longer supported by the
7626 OpenSSL team, and should not be used. Closes ticket 20303.
7627 - Tor now requires Libevent version 2.0.10-stable or later. Older
7628 versions of Libevent have less efficient backends for several
7629 platforms, and lack the DNS code that we use for our server-side
7630 DNS support. This implements ticket 19554.
7631 - Tor now requires zlib version 1.2 or later, for security,
7632 efficiency, and (eventually) gzip support. (Back when we started,
7633 zlib 1.1 and zlib 1.0 were still found in the wild. 1.2 was
7634 released in 2003. We recommend the latest version.)
7636 o Deprecated features:
7637 - A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now
7638 deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future
7639 version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS caching is a bad
7640 idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options
7641 are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache,
7642 UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache.
7643 - A number of options are deprecated for security reasons, and may
7644 be removed in a future version of Tor. The options are:
7645 AllowDotExit, AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
7646 AllowSingleHopExits, ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses,
7647 CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
7648 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
7649 ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK, TLSECGroup,
7650 UseNTorHandshake, and WarnUnsafeSocks.
7651 - The *ListenAddress options are now deprecated as unnecessary: the
7652 corresponding *Port options should be used instead. These options
7653 may someday be removed. The affected options are:
7654 ControlListenAddress, DNSListenAddress, DirListenAddress,
7655 NATDListenAddress, ORListenAddress, SocksListenAddress,
7656 and TransListenAddress.
7658 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, new since 0.2.9.7-rc):
7659 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
7660 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
7661 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
7662 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
7663 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
7664 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
7665 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
7666 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
7668 o Major features (build, hardening):
7669 - Tor now builds with -ftrapv by default on compilers that support
7670 it. This option detects signed integer overflow (which C forbids),
7671 and turns it into a hard-failure. We do not apply this option to
7672 code that needs to run in constant time to avoid side-channels;
7673 instead, we use -fwrapv in that code. Closes ticket 17983.
7674 - When --enable-expensive-hardening is selected, stop applying the
7675 clang/gcc sanitizers to code that needs to run in constant time.
7676 Although we are aware of no introduced side-channels, we are not
7677 able to prove that there are none. Related to ticket 17983.
7679 o Major features (circuit building, security):
7680 - Authorities, relays, and clients now require ntor keys in all
7681 descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol
7682 cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of
7684 - Authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for
7685 rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163.
7687 o Major features (compilation):
7688 - Our big list of extra GCC warnings is now enabled by default when
7689 building with GCC (or with anything like Clang that claims to be
7690 GCC-compatible). To make all warnings into fatal compilation
7691 errors, pass --enable-fatal-warnings to configure. Closes
7693 - Use the Autoconf macro AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to automatically
7694 turn on C and POSIX extensions. (Previously, we attempted to do
7695 this on an ad hoc basis.) Closes ticket 19139.
7697 o Major features (directory authorities, hidden services):
7698 - Directory authorities can now perform the shared randomness
7699 protocol specified by proposal 250. Using this protocol, directory
7700 authorities generate a global fresh random value every day. In the
7701 future, this value will be used by hidden services to select
7702 HSDirs. This release implements the directory authority feature;
7703 the hidden service side will be implemented in the future as part
7704 of proposal 224. Resolves ticket 16943; implements proposal 250.
7706 o Major features (downloading, random exponential backoff):
7707 - When we fail to download an object from a directory service, wait
7708 for an (exponentially increasing) randomized amount of time before
7709 retrying, rather than a fixed interval as we did before. This
7710 prevents a group of Tor instances from becoming too synchronized,
7711 or a single Tor instance from becoming too predictable, in its
7712 download schedule. Closes ticket 15942.
7714 o Major features (resource management):
7715 - Tor can now notice it is about to run out of sockets, and
7716 preemptively close connections of lower priority. (This feature is
7717 off by default for now, since the current prioritizing method is
7718 yet not mature enough. You can enable it by setting
7719 "DisableOOSCheck 0", but watch out: it might close some sockets
7720 you would rather have it keep.) Closes ticket 18640.
7722 o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services):
7723 - Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and
7724 HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1,
7725 every hidden service on that Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous
7726 Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct)
7727 connections to their introduction and rendezvous points. One-hop
7728 circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients
7729 remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing
7730 hidden service implementation, and works on the current Tor
7731 network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements
7732 proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn.
7734 o Major features (subprotocol versions):
7735 - Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended
7736 "subprotocol versions", and on a set of required subprotocol
7737 versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_
7738 subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a
7739 _recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade.
7740 This change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s)
7741 to exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with
7742 particular releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements
7743 part of proposal 264.
7745 o Major bugfixes (circuit building):
7746 - Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous-
7747 point circuits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid
7748 epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc.
7750 o Major bugfixes (download scheduling):
7751 - Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we
7752 already have another, smarter retry mechanism. Fixes bug 8625;
7753 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
7754 - If a consensus expires while we are waiting for certificates to
7755 download, stop waiting for certificates.
7756 - If we stop waiting for certificates less than a minute after we
7757 started downloading them, do not consider the certificate download
7758 failure a separate failure. Fixes bug 20533; bugfix
7760 - When using exponential backoff in test networks, use a lower
7761 exponent, so the delays do not vary as much. This helps test
7762 networks bootstrap consistently. Fixes bug 20597; bugfix on 20499.
7764 o Major bugfixes (exit policies):
7765 - Avoid disclosing exit outbound bind addresses, configured port
7766 bind addresses, and local interface addresses in relay descriptors
7767 by default under ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. Instead, only reject
7768 these (otherwise unlisted) addresses if
7769 ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces is set. Fixes bug 18456; bugfix on
7770 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
7772 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
7773 - Allow Tor clients with appropriate controllers to work with
7774 FetchHidServDescriptors set to 0. Previously, this option also
7775 disabled descriptor cache lookup, thus breaking hidden services
7776 entirely. Fixes bug 18704; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Patch by "twim".
7777 - Clients now require hidden services to include the TAP keys for
7778 their intro points in the hidden service descriptor. This prevents
7779 an inadvertent upgrade to ntor, which a malicious hidden service
7780 could use to distinguish clients by consensus version. Fixes bug
7781 20012; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
7783 o Major bugfixes (relay, resolver, logging):
7784 - For relays that don't know their own address, avoid attempting a
7785 local hostname resolve for each descriptor we download. This
7786 will cut down on the number of "Success: chose address 'x.x.x.x'"
7787 log lines, and also avoid confusing clock jumps if the resolver
7788 is slow. Fixes bugs 20423 and 20610; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7790 o Minor features (port flags):
7791 - Add new flags to the *Port options to give finer control over which
7792 requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic,
7793 and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to
7794 NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement
7795 18693; patch by "teor".
7797 o Minor features (build, hardening):
7798 - Detect and work around a libclang_rt problem that would prevent
7799 clang from finding __mulodi4() on some 32-bit platforms, and thus
7800 keep -ftrapv from linking on those systems. Closes ticket 19079.
7801 - When building on a system without runtime support for the runtime
7802 hardening options, try to log a useful warning at configuration
7803 time, rather than an incomprehensible warning at link time. If
7804 expensive hardening was requested, this warning becomes an error.
7805 Closes ticket 18895.
7807 o Minor features (client, directory):
7808 - Since authorities now omit all routers that lack the Running and
7809 Valid flags, we assume that any relay listed in the consensus must
7810 have those flags. Closes ticket 20001; implements part of
7813 o Minor features (code safety):
7814 - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that the maximum value we
7815 allow is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063;
7816 patch from "U+039b".
7818 o Minor features (compilation, portability):
7819 - Compile correctly on MacOS 10.12 (aka "Sierra"). Closes
7822 o Minor features (config):
7823 - Warn users when descriptor and port addresses are inconsistent.
7824 Mitigates bug 13953; patch by teor.
7826 o Minor features (controller):
7827 - Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on
7828 hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION controller
7829 command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special".
7830 - Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation
7831 status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685.
7832 - Implement new GETINFO queries for all downloads that use
7833 download_status_t to schedule retries. This allows controllers to
7834 examine the schedule for pending downloads. Closes ticket 19323.
7836 o Minor features (development tools, etags):
7837 - Teach the "make tags" Makefile target how to correctly find
7838 "MOCK_IMPL" function definitions. Patch from nherring; closes
7841 o Minor features (directory authority):
7842 - After voting, if the authorities decide that a relay is not
7843 "Valid", they no longer include it in the consensus at all. Closes
7844 ticket 20002; implements part of proposal 272.
7845 - Directory authorities now only give the Guard flag to a relay if
7846 they are also giving it the Stable flag. This change allows us to
7847 simplify path selection for clients. It should have minimal effect
7848 in practice, since >99% of Guards already have the Stable flag.
7849 Implements ticket 18624.
7850 - Directory authorities now write their v3-status-votes file out to
7851 disk earlier in the consensus process, so we have a record of the
7852 votes even if we abort the consensus process. Resolves
7855 o Minor features (fallback directory list, new since 0.2.9.7-rc):
7856 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
7857 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
7858 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
7859 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
7861 o Minor features (hidden service):
7862 - Stop being so strict about the payload length of "rendezvous1"
7863 cells. We used to be locked in to the "TAP" handshake length, and
7864 now we can handle better handshakes like "ntor". Resolves
7867 o Minor features (infrastructure, time):
7868 - Tor now includes an improved timer backend, so that we can
7869 efficiently support tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent
7870 timers, as will be needed for some of our planned anti-traffic-
7871 analysis work. This code is based on William Ahern's "timeout.c"
7872 project, which implements a "tickless hierarchical timing wheel".
7873 Closes ticket 18365.
7874 - Tor now uses the operating system's monotonic timers (where
7875 available) for internal fine-grained timing. Previously we would
7876 look at the system clock, and then attempt to compensate for the
7877 clock running backwards. Closes ticket 18908.
7879 o Minor features (logging):
7880 - Add a set of macros to check nonfatal assertions, for internal
7881 use. Migrating more of our checks to these should help us avoid
7882 needless crash bugs. Closes ticket 18613.
7883 - Provide a more useful warning message when configured with an
7884 invalid Nickname. Closes ticket 18300; patch from "icanhasaccount".
7885 - When dumping unparseable router descriptors, optionally store them
7886 in separate files, named by digest, up to a configurable size
7887 limit. You can change the size limit by setting the
7888 MaxUnparseableDescSizeToLog option, and disable this feature by
7889 setting that option to 0. Closes ticket 18322.
7891 o Minor features (performance):
7892 - Change the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to
7893 "on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a
7894 consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the
7895 first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option
7896 from. Changing this default saves a round-trip during startup.
7897 Closes ticket 18815.
7899 o Minor features (relay, usability):
7900 - When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor,
7901 encourage the relay operator to contact us. Many relay operators
7902 won't notice this line in their logs, but it's a win if even a few
7903 learn why we don't like what their relay was doing. Resolves
7906 o Minor features (security, TLS):
7907 - Servers no longer support clients that lack AES ciphersuites.
7908 (3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe
7909 that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required
7910 OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998.
7912 o Minor features (testing):
7913 - Disable memory protections on OpenBSD when performing our unit
7914 tests for memwipe(). The test deliberately invokes undefined
7915 behavior, and the OpenBSD protections interfere with this. Patch
7916 from "rubiate". Closes ticket 20066.
7917 - Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test-
7918 network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available.
7919 Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor.
7920 - Use the lcov convention for marking lines as unreachable, so that
7921 we don't count them when we're generating test coverage data.
7922 Update our coverage tools to understand this convention. Closes
7924 - Our link-handshake unit tests now check that when invalid
7925 handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected.
7926 - Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer
7927 prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them
7928 (by passing --debug or --info or --notice or --warn to the "test"
7929 binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log
7930 messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to
7932 - The unit tests now log all warning messages with the "BUG" flag.
7933 Previously, they only logged errors by default. This change will
7934 help us make our testing code more correct, and make sure that we
7935 only hit this code when we mean to. In the meantime, however,
7936 there will be more warnings in the unit test logs than before.
7937 This is preparatory work for ticket 19999.
7938 - The unit tests now treat any failure of a "tor_assert_nonfatal()"
7939 assertion as a test failure.
7940 - We've done significant work to make the unit tests run faster.
7942 o Minor features (testing, ipv6):
7943 - Add the hs-ipv6 chutney target to make test-network-all's IPv6
7944 tests. Remove bridges+hs, as it's somewhat redundant. This
7945 requires a recent chutney version that supports IPv6 clients,
7946 relays, and authorities. Closes ticket 20069; patch by teor.
7947 - Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to
7948 "make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version
7949 with the single onion network flavors (git c72a652 or later).
7950 Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor.
7952 o Minor features (Tor2web):
7953 - Make Tor2web clients respect ReachableAddresses. This feature was
7954 inadvertently enabled in 0.2.8.6, then removed by bugfix 19973 on
7955 0.2.8.7. Implements feature 20034. Patch by teor.
7957 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
7958 - When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort,
7959 ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in
7960 quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix
7961 domain socket paths to contain spaces. Resolves ticket 18753.
7963 o Minor features (user interface):
7964 - Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so
7965 that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously, this
7966 was done in an ad-hoc way. There is a new --list-deprecated-options
7967 command-line option to list all of the deprecated options. Closes
7970 o Minor features (virtual addresses):
7971 - Increase the maximum number of bits for the IPv6 virtual network
7972 prefix from 16 to 104. In this way, the condition for address
7973 allocation is less restrictive. Closes ticket 20151; feature
7976 o Minor bug fixes (circuits):
7977 - Use the CircuitBuildTimeout option whenever
7978 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled. Previously, we would respect
7979 the option when a user disabled it, but not when it was disabled
7980 because some other option was set. Fixes bug 20073; bugfix on
7981 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch by teor.
7983 o Minor bugfixes (build):
7984 - The current Git revision when building from a local repository is
7985 now detected correctly when using git worktrees. Fixes bug 20492;
7986 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
7988 o Minor bugfixes (relay address discovery):
7989 - Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it
7990 more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every
7991 time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027.
7992 Reported by René Mayrhofer, patch by "cypherpunks".
7994 o Minor bugfixes (memory allocation):
7995 - Change how we allocate memory for large chunks on buffers, to
7996 avoid a (currently impossible) integer overflow, and to waste less
7997 space when allocating unusually large chunks. Fixes bug 20081;
7998 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Issue identified by Guido Vranken.
8000 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
8001 - Remember the directory server we fetched the consensus or previous
8002 certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority
8003 certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance.
8004 Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8006 o Minor bugfixes (circuits):
8007 - Make sure extend_info_from_router() is only called on servers.
8008 Fixes bug 19639; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8010 o Minor bugfixes (client, fascistfirewall):
8011 - Avoid spurious warnings when ReachableAddresses or FascistFirewall
8012 is set. Fixes bug 20306; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
8014 o Minor bugfixes (client, unix domain sockets):
8015 - Disable IsolateClientAddr when using AF_UNIX backed SocksPorts as
8016 the client address is meaningless. Fixes bug 20261; bugfix
8019 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
8020 - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion
8021 tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha.
8023 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8024 - Build correctly on versions of libevent2 without support for
8025 evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes(). Fixes bug 19904; bugfix
8027 - When building with Clang, use a full set of GCC warnings.
8028 (Previously, we included only a subset, because of the way we
8029 detected them.) Fixes bug 19216; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8030 - Detect Libevent2 functions correctly on systems that provide
8031 libevent2, but where libevent1 is linked with -levent. Fixes bug
8032 19904; bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. Patch from Rubiate.
8033 - Run correctly when built on Windows build environments that
8034 require _vcsprintf(). Fixes bug 20560; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
8036 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
8037 - When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file,
8038 handle Windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on
8039 0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl".
8041 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
8042 - Authorities now sort the "package" lines in their votes, for ease
8043 of debugging. (They are already sorted in consensus documents.)
8044 Fixes bug 18840; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8045 - Die with a more useful error when the operator forgets to place
8046 the authority_signing_key file into the keys directory. This
8047 avoids an uninformative assert & traceback about having an invalid
8048 key. Fixes bug 20065; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8049 - When allowing private addresses, mark Exits that only exit to
8050 private locations as such. Fixes bug 20064; bugfix
8052 - When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of
8053 the digest algorithm instead of a hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in
8054 order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest
8055 length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
8057 o Minor bugfixes (getpass):
8058 - Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass()
8059 to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug
8060 19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch
8063 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection):
8064 - Don't mark guards as unreachable if connection_connect() fails.
8065 That function fails for local reasons, so it shouldn't reveal
8066 anything about the status of the guard. Fixes bug 14334; bugfix
8068 - Use a single entry guard even if the NumEntryGuards consensus
8069 parameter is not provided. Fixes bug 17688; bugfix
8072 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
8073 - Increase the minimum number of internal circuits we preemptively
8074 build from 2 to 3, so a circuit is available when a client
8075 connects to another onion service. Fixes bug 13239; bugfix
8077 - Allow hidden services to run on IPv6 addresses even when the
8078 IPv6Exit option is not set. Fixes bug 18357; bugfix
8080 - Stop logging intro point details to the client log on certain
8081 error conditions. Fixed as part of bug 20012; bugfix on
8082 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
8083 - When deleting an ephemeral hidden service, close its intro points
8084 even if they are not completely open. Fixes bug 18604; bugfix
8086 - When configuring hidden services, check every hidden service
8087 directory's permissions. Previously, we only checked the last
8088 hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
8090 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, testing):
8091 - Check for IPv6 correctly on Linux when running test networks.
8092 Fixes bug 19905; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc; patch by teor.
8094 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8095 - Add permission to run the sched_yield() and sigaltstack() system
8096 calls, in order to support versions of Tor compiled with asan or
8097 ubsan code that use these calls. Now "sandbox 1" and
8098 "--enable-expensive-hardening" should be compatible on more
8099 systems. Fixes bug 20063; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8101 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8102 - Downgrade a harmless log message about the
8103 pending_entry_connections list from "warn" to "info". Mitigates
8105 - Log a more accurate message when we fail to dump a microdescriptor.
8106 Fixes bug 17758; bugfix on 0.2.2.8-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
8107 - When logging a directory ownership mismatch, log the owning
8108 username correctly. Fixes bug 19578; bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta.
8109 - When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn
8110 if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist.
8111 Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from pastly.
8113 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
8114 - Fix a series of slow memory leaks related to parsing torrc files
8115 and options. Fixes bug 19466; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
8116 - Avoid a small memory leak when informing worker threads about
8117 rotated onion keys. Fixes bug 20401; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8118 - Fix a small memory leak when receiving AF_UNIX connections on a
8119 SocksPort. Fixes bug 20716; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8120 - When moving a signed descriptor object from a source to an
8121 existing destination, free the allocated memory inside that
8122 destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
8123 - Fix a memory leak and use-after-free error when removing entries
8124 from the sandbox's getaddrinfo() cache. Fixes bug 20710; bugfix on
8125 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
8126 - Fix a small, uncommon memory leak that could occur when reading a
8127 truncated ed25519 key file. Fixes bug 18956; bugfix
8130 o Minor bugfixes (option parsing):
8131 - Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans,
8132 NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behavior changes: these
8133 options are set once, and never read. Required for correct
8134 behavior in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on
8135 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
8137 o Minor bugfixes (options):
8138 - Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more
8139 reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch
8141 - Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on
8142 authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on
8143 commits 51fc6799 in 0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in 0.2.4.3-alpha.
8146 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
8147 - Ensure relays don't make multiple connections during bootstrap.
8148 Fixes bug 20591; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8149 - Do not try to parallelize workers more than 16x without the user
8150 explicitly configuring us to do so, even if we do detect more than
8151 16 CPU cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
8153 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8154 - The test-stem and test-network makefile targets now depend only on
8155 the tor binary that they are testing. Previously, they depended on
8156 "make all". Fixes bug 18240; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Based on a
8157 patch from "cypherpunks".
8158 - Allow clients to retry HSDirs much faster in test networks. Fixes
8159 bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
8160 - Avoid a unit test failure on systems with over 16 detectable CPU
8161 cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
8162 - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer:
8163 disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running
8164 test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace
8165 generation code works. Fixes bug 18934; bugfix
8166 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
8167 - Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the
8168 correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix
8170 - Stop spurious failures in the local interface address discovery
8171 unit tests. Fixes bug 20634; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by
8173 - Use ECDHE ciphers instead of ECDH in tortls tests. LibreSSL has
8174 removed the ECDH ciphers which caused the tests to fail on
8175 platforms which use it. Fixes bug 20460; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8176 - The tor_tls_server_info_callback unit test no longer crashes when
8177 debug-level logging is turned on. Fixes bug 20041; bugfix
8180 o Minor bugfixes (time):
8181 - Improve overflow checks in tv_udiff and tv_mdiff. Fixes bug 19483;
8182 bugfix on all released tor versions.
8183 - When computing the difference between two times in milliseconds,
8184 we now round to the nearest millisecond correctly. Previously, we
8185 could sometimes round in the wrong direction. Fixes bug 19428;
8186 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
8188 o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web):
8189 - Prevent Tor2web clients from running hidden services: these services
8190 are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug
8191 19678. Patch by teor.
8193 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
8194 - Display a more accurate number of suppressed messages in the log
8195 rate-limiter. Previously, there was a potential integer overflow
8196 in the counter. Now, if the number of messages hits a maximum, the
8197 rate-limiter doesn't count any further. Fixes bug 19435; bugfix
8199 - Fix a typo in the passphrase prompt for the ed25519 identity key.
8200 Fixes bug 19503; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8202 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8203 - Remove redundant declarations of the MIN macro. Closes
8205 - Rename tor_dup_addr() to tor_addr_to_str_dup() to avoid confusion.
8206 Closes ticket 18462; patch from "icanhasaccount".
8207 - Split the 600-line directory_handle_command_get function into
8208 separate functions for different URL types. Closes ticket 16698.
8211 - Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that
8212 previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket 20385.
8213 - Correct the IPv6 syntax in our documentation for the
8214 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6 torrc option. Closes ticket 19743.
8215 - Correct the minimum bandwidth value in torrc.sample, and queue a
8216 corresponding change for torrc.minimal. Closes ticket 20085.
8217 - Fix spelling of "--enable-tor2web-mode" in the manpage. Closes
8218 ticket 19153. Patch from "U+039b".
8219 - Module-level documentation for several more modules. Closes
8220 tickets 19287 and 19290.
8221 - Document the --passphrase-fd option in the tor manpage. Fixes bug
8222 19504; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
8223 - Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used
8224 by clients when the directory authorities don't set
8225 min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
8226 Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V.
8227 - Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID.
8228 Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have
8230 - Fix the description of the --passphrase-fd option in the
8231 tor-gencert manpage. The option is used to pass the number of a
8232 file descriptor to read the passphrase from, not to read the file
8233 descriptor from. Fixes bug 19505; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-alpha.
8236 - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in
8237 Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from "U+039b".
8240 - Remove support for "GET /tor/bytes.txt" DirPort request, and
8241 "GETINFO dir-usage" controller request, which were only available
8242 via a compile-time option in Tor anyway. Feature was added in
8243 0.2.2.1-alpha. Resolves ticket 19035.
8244 - There is no longer a compile-time option to disable support for
8245 TransPort. (If you don't want TransPort, just don't use it.) Patch
8246 from "U+039b". Closes ticket 19449.
8249 - Run more workqueue tests as part of "make check". These had
8250 previously been implemented, but you needed to know special
8251 command-line options to enable them.
8252 - We now have unit tests for our code to reject zlib "compression
8253 bombs". (Fortunately, the code works fine.)
8256 Changes in version 0.2.8.11 - 2016-12-08
8257 Tor 0.2.8.11 backports fixes for additional portability issues that
8258 could prevent Tor from building correctly on OSX Sierra, or with
8259 OpenSSL 1.1. Affected users should upgrade; others can safely stay
8262 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
8263 - Avoid compilation errors when building on OSX Sierra. Sierra began
8264 to support the getentropy() and clock_gettime() APIs, but created
8265 a few problems in doing so. Tor 0.2.9 has a more thorough set of
8266 workarounds; in 0.2.8, we are just using the /dev/urandom and mach
8267 monotonic time interfaces. Fixes bug 20865. Bugfix
8270 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
8271 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
8272 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
8275 Changes in version 0.2.8.10 - 2016-12-02
8276 Tor 0.2.8.10 backports a fix for a bug that would sometimes make clients
8277 unusable after they left standby mode. It also backports fixes for
8278 a few portability issues and a small but problematic memory leak.
8280 o Major bugfixes (client reliability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
8281 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
8282 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
8283 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
8286 o Major bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
8287 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
8288 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
8289 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
8292 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.6-rc):
8293 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
8294 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
8297 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
8298 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
8299 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
8301 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
8302 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
8303 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
8305 o Minor features (geoip):
8306 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
8310 Changes in version 0.2.8.9 - 2016-10-17
8311 Tor 0.2.8.9 backports a fix for a security hole in previous versions
8312 of Tor that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client,
8313 hidden service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to
8314 this version, or to 0.2.9.4-alpha. Patches will be released for older
8317 o Major features (security fixes, also in 0.2.9.4-alpha):
8318 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
8319 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
8320 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
8321 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
8322 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
8323 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
8324 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
8325 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
8327 o Minor features (geoip):
8328 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
8332 Changes in version 0.2.8.8 - 2016-09-23
8333 Tor 0.2.8.8 fixes two crash bugs present in previous versions of the
8334 0.2.8.x series. Relays running 0.2.8.x should upgrade, as should users
8335 who select public relays as their bridges.
8337 o Major bugfixes (crash):
8338 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
8339 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
8340 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
8341 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
8342 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
8344 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler):
8345 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
8346 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
8347 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
8348 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
8351 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
8352 - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory
8353 list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
8355 o Minor features (geoip):
8356 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
8360 Changes in version 0.2.8.7 - 2016-08-24
8361 Tor 0.2.8.7 fixes an important bug related to the ReachableAddresses
8362 option in 0.2.8.6, and replaces a retiring bridge authority. Everyone
8363 who sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
8364 encouraged to upgrade.
8366 o Directory authority changes:
8367 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
8368 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
8370 o Major bugfixes (client, security):
8371 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
8372 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
8373 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
8374 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
8375 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
8377 o Minor features (geoip):
8378 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
8381 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8382 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
8383 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
8386 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
8387 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
8388 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
8389 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
8392 Changes in version 0.2.8.6 - 2016-08-02
8394 Tor 0.2.8.6 is the first stable version of the Tor 0.2.8 series.
8396 The Tor 0.2.8 series improves client bootstrapping performance,
8397 completes the authority-side implementation of improved identity
8398 keys for relays, and includes numerous bugfixes and performance
8399 improvements throughout the program. This release continues to
8400 improve the coverage of Tor's test suite. For a full list of
8401 changes since Tor 0.2.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
8403 Below is a list of the changes since Tor 0.2.7.
8405 o New system requirements:
8406 - Tor no longer attempts to support platforms where the "time_t"
8407 type is unsigned. (To the best of our knowledge, only OpenVMS does
8408 this, and Tor has never actually built on OpenVMS.) Closes
8410 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL with a broken
8411 implementation of counter mode. (This bug was present in OpenSSL
8412 1.0.0, and was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a.) Tor still detects, but no
8413 longer runs with, these versions.
8414 - Tor now uses Autoconf version 2.63 or later, and Automake 1.11 or
8415 later (released in 2008 and 2009 respectively). If you are
8416 building Tor from the git repository instead of from the source
8417 distribution, and your tools are older than this, you will need to
8418 upgrade. Closes ticket 17732.
8420 o Directory authority changes:
8421 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
8422 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
8424 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
8426 o Major features (directory system):
8427 - Include a trial list of default fallback directories, based on an
8428 opt-in survey of suitable relays. Doing this should make clients
8429 bootstrap more quickly and reliably, and reduce the load on the
8430 directory authorities. Closes ticket 15775. Patch by teor.
8431 Candidates identified using an OnionOO script by weasel, teor,
8432 gsathya, and karsten.
8433 - Previously only relays that explicitly opened a directory port
8434 (DirPort) accepted directory requests from clients. Now all
8435 relays, with and without a DirPort, accept and serve tunneled
8436 directory requests that they receive through their ORPort. You can
8437 disable this behavior using the new DirCache option. Closes
8439 - When bootstrapping multiple consensus downloads at a time, use the
8440 first one that starts downloading, and close the rest. This
8441 reduces failures when authorities or fallback directories are slow
8442 or down. Together with the code for feature 15775, this feature
8443 should reduces failures due to fallback churn. Implements ticket
8444 4483. Patch by teor. Implements IPv4 portions of proposal 210 by
8447 o Major features (security, Linux):
8448 - When Tor starts as root on Linux and is told to switch user ID, it
8449 can now retain the capability to bind to low ports. By default,
8450 Tor will do this only when it's switching user ID and some low
8451 ports have been configured. You can change this behavior with the
8452 new option KeepBindCapabilities. Closes ticket 8195.
8454 o Major bugfixes (client, bootstrapping):
8455 - Check if bootstrap consensus downloads are still needed when the
8456 linked connection attaches. This prevents tor making unnecessary
8457 begindir-style connections, which are the only directory
8458 connections tor clients make since the fix for 18483 was merged.
8459 - Fix some edge cases where consensus download connections may not
8460 have been closed, even though they were not needed. Related to fix
8462 - Make relays retry consensus downloads the correct number of times,
8463 rather than the more aggressive client retry count. Fixes part of
8466 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash):
8467 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
8468 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
8470 o Major bugfixes (ed25519, voting):
8471 - Actually enable support for authorities to match routers by their
8472 Ed25519 identities. Previously, the code had been written, but
8473 some debugging code that had accidentally been left in the
8474 codebase made it stay turned off. Fixes bug 17702; bugfix
8476 - When collating votes by Ed25519 identities, authorities now
8477 include a "NoEdConsensus" flag if the ed25519 value (or lack
8478 thereof) for a server does not reflect the majority consensus.
8479 Related to bug 17668; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8480 - When generating a vote with keypinning disabled, never include two
8481 entries for the same ed25519 identity. This bug was causing
8482 authorities to generate votes that they could not parse when a
8483 router violated key pinning by changing its RSA identity but
8484 keeping its Ed25519 identity. Fixes bug 17668; fixes part of bug
8485 18318. Bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8487 o Major bugfixes (key management):
8488 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
8489 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
8490 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
8491 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
8492 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
8493 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
8496 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy):
8497 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
8498 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
8499 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
8500 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
8502 o Major bugfixes (security, compilation):
8503 - Correctly detect compiler flags on systems where _FORTIFY_SOURCE
8504 is predefined. Previously, our use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE would
8505 cause a compiler warning, thereby making other checks fail, and
8506 needlessly disabling compiler-hardening support. Fixes one case of
8507 bug 18841; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. Patch from "trudokal".
8508 - Repair hardened builds under the clang compiler. Previously, our
8509 use of _FORTIFY_SOURCE would conflict with clang's address
8510 sanitizer. Fixes bug 14821; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
8512 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers):
8513 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
8514 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
8515 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
8516 Reported by Guido Vranken.
8518 o Major bugfixes (testing):
8519 - Fix a bug that would block 'make test-network-all' on systems where
8520 IPv6 packets were lost. Fixes bug 19008; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
8522 o Major bugfixes (user interface):
8523 - Correctly give a warning in the cases where a relay is specified
8524 by nickname, and one such relay is found, but it is not officially
8525 Named. Fixes bug 19203; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
8527 o Minor features (accounting):
8528 - Added two modes to the AccountingRule option: One for limiting
8529 only the number of bytes sent ("AccountingRule out"), and one for
8530 limiting only the number of bytes received ("AccountingRule in").
8531 Closes ticket 15989; patch from "unixninja92".
8533 o Minor features (bug-resistance):
8534 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
8535 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
8536 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
8537 - Use tor_snprintf() and tor_vsnprintf() even in external and low-
8538 level code, to harden against accidental failures to NUL-
8539 terminate. Part of ticket 17852. Patch from jsturgix. Found
8542 o Minor features (build):
8543 - Detect systems with FreeBSD-derived kernels (such as GNU/kFreeBSD)
8544 as having possible IPFW support. Closes ticket 18448. Patch from
8546 - Since our build process now uses "make distcheck", we no longer
8547 force "make dist" to depend on "make check". Closes ticket 17893;
8548 patch from "cypherpunks".
8549 - Tor now builds once again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
8550 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre5 and 1.1.0-pre6-dev). We have been
8551 tracking OpenSSL 1.1 development as it has progressed, and fixing
8552 numerous compatibility issues as they arose. See tickets
8553 17549, 17921, 17984, 19499, and 18286.
8554 - When building manual pages, set the timezone to "UTC", so that the
8555 output is reproducible. Fixes bug 19558; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
8556 Patch from intrigeri.
8558 o Minor features (clients):
8559 - Make clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an
8560 encrypted begindir connection for directory requests. Resolves
8561 ticket 18483. Patch by teor.
8563 o Minor features (controller):
8564 - Add 'GETINFO exit-policy/reject-private/[default,relay]', so
8565 controllers can examine the the reject rules added by
8566 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. This makes it easier for stem to display
8568 - Adds the FallbackDir entries to 'GETINFO config/defaults'. Closes
8569 tickets 16774 and 17817. Patch by George Tankersley.
8570 - New 'GETINFO hs/service/desc/id/' command to retrieve a hidden
8571 service descriptor from a service's local hidden service
8572 descriptor cache. Closes ticket 14846.
8574 o Minor features (crypto):
8575 - Add SHA3 and SHAKE support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17783.
8576 - Add SHA512 support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17663; patch from
8578 - Improve performance when hashing non-multiple of 8 sized buffers,
8579 based on Andrew Moon's public domain SipHash-2-4 implementation.
8580 Fixes bug 17544; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
8581 - Validate the hard-coded Diffie-Hellman parameters and ensure that
8582 p is a safe prime, and g is a suitable generator. Closes
8584 - When allocating a digest state object, allocate no more space than
8585 we actually need. Previously, we would allocate as much space as
8586 the state for the largest algorithm would need. This change saves
8587 up to 672 bytes per circuit. Closes ticket 17796.
8589 o Minor features (directory downloads):
8590 - Add UseDefaultFallbackDirs, which enables any hard-coded fallback
8591 directory mirrors. The default is 1; set it to 0 to disable
8592 fallbacks. Implements ticket 17576. Patch by teor.
8593 - Wait for busy authorities and fallback directories to become non-
8594 busy when bootstrapping. (A similar change was made in 6c443e987d
8595 for directory caches chosen from the consensus.) Closes ticket
8596 17864; patch by teor.
8598 o Minor features (geoip):
8599 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
8602 o Minor features (hidden service directory):
8603 - Streamline relay-side hsdir handling: when relays consider whether
8604 to accept an uploaded hidden service descriptor, they no longer
8605 check whether they are one of the relays in the network that is
8606 "supposed" to handle that descriptor. Implements ticket 18332.
8608 o Minor features (IPv6):
8609 - Add ClientPreferIPv6DirPort, which is set to 0 by default. If set
8610 to 1, tor prefers IPv6 directory addresses.
8611 - Add ClientUseIPv4, which is set to 1 by default. If set to 0, tor
8612 avoids using IPv4 for client OR and directory connections.
8613 - Add address policy assume_action support for IPv6 addresses.
8614 - Add an argument 'ipv6=address:orport' to the DirAuthority and
8615 FallbackDir torrc options, to specify an IPv6 address for an
8616 authority or fallback directory. Add hard-coded ipv6 addresses for
8617 directory authorities that have them. Closes ticket 17327; patch
8618 from Nick Mathewson and teor.
8619 - Allow users to configure directory authorities and fallback
8620 directory servers with IPv6 addresses and ORPorts. Resolves
8622 - Limit IPv6 mask bits to 128.
8623 - Make tor_ersatz_socketpair work on IPv6-only systems. Fixes bug
8624 17638; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Patch by teor.
8625 - Try harder to obey the IP version restrictions "ClientUseIPv4 0",
8626 "ClientUseIPv6 0", "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort", and
8627 "ClientPreferIPv6DirPort". Closes ticket 17840; patch by teor.
8628 - Warn when comparing against an AF_UNSPEC address in a policy, it's
8629 almost always a bug. Closes ticket 17863; patch by teor.
8630 - routerset_parse now accepts IPv6 literal addresses. Fixes bug
8631 17060; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
8633 o Minor features (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8634 - Reject attempts to change our Address with "Sandbox 1" enabled.
8635 Changing Address with Sandbox turned on would never actually work,
8636 but previously it would fail in strange and confusing ways. Found
8639 o Minor features (logging):
8640 - When logging to syslog, allow a tag to be added to the syslog
8641 identity (the string prepended to every log message). The tag can
8642 be configured with SyslogIdentityTag and defaults to none. Setting
8643 it to "foo" will cause logs to be tagged as "Tor-foo". Closes
8646 o Minor features (portability):
8647 - Use timingsafe_memcmp() where available. Closes ticket 17944;
8648 patch from <logan@hackers.mu>.
8650 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
8651 - Add a family argument to get_interface_addresses_raw() and
8652 subfunctions to make network interface address interogation more
8653 efficient. Now Tor can specifically ask for IPv4, IPv6 or both
8654 types of interfaces from the operating system. Resolves
8656 - When get_interface_address6_list(.,AF_UNSPEC,.) is called and
8657 fails to enumerate interface addresses using the platform-specific
8658 API, have it rely on the UDP socket fallback technique to try and
8659 find out what IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6) our machine has.
8660 Resolves ticket 17951.
8662 o Minor features (replay cache):
8663 - The replay cache now uses SHA256 instead of SHA1. Implements
8664 feature 8961. Patch by teor, issue reported by rransom.
8666 o Minor features (robustness):
8667 - Exit immediately with an error message if the code attempts to use
8668 Libevent without having initialized it. This should resolve some
8669 frequently-made mistakes in our unit tests. Closes ticket 18241.
8671 o Minor features (security, clock):
8672 - Warn when the system clock appears to move back in time (when the
8673 state file was last written in the future). Tor doesn't know that
8674 consensuses have expired if the clock is in the past. Patch by
8675 teor. Implements ticket 17188.
8677 o Minor features (security, exit policies):
8678 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now rejects more private addresses by
8679 default. Specifically, it now rejects the relay's outbound bind
8680 addresses (if configured), and the relay's configured port
8681 addresses (such as ORPort and DirPort). Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on
8682 0.2.0.11-alpha. Patch by teor.
8684 o Minor features (security, memory erasure):
8685 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
8686 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
8687 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
8689 - Set the unused entries in a smartlist to NULL. This helped catch
8690 a (harmless) bug, and shouldn't affect performance too much.
8691 Implements ticket 17026.
8692 - Use SecureMemoryWipe() function to securely clean memory on
8693 Windows. Previously we'd use OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function.
8694 Implements feature 17986.
8695 - Use explicit_bzero or memset_s when present. Previously, we'd use
8696 OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function. Closes ticket 7419; patches
8697 from <logan@hackers.mu> and <selven@hackers.mu>.
8699 o Minor features (security, RNG):
8700 - Adjust Tor's use of OpenSSL's RNG APIs so that they absolutely,
8701 positively are not allowed to fail. Previously we depended on
8702 internal details of OpenSSL's behavior. Closes ticket 17686.
8703 - Never use the system entropy output directly for anything besides
8704 seeding the PRNG. When we want to generate important keys, instead
8705 of using system entropy directly, we now hash it with the PRNG
8706 stream. This may help resist certain attacks based on broken OS
8707 entropy implementations. Closes part of ticket 17694.
8708 - Use modern system calls (like getentropy() or getrandom()) to
8709 generate strong entropy on platforms that have them. Closes
8712 o Minor features (security, win32):
8713 - Set SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Win32 to avoid a local port-stealing
8714 attack. Fixes bug 18123; bugfix on all tor versions. Patch
8717 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
8718 - Add a new per-socket option, RelaxDirModeCheck, to allow creating
8719 Unix domain sockets without checking the permissions on the parent
8720 directory. (Tor checks permissions by default because some
8721 operating systems only check permissions on the parent directory.
8722 However, some operating systems do look at permissions on the
8723 socket, and tor's default check is unneeded.) Closes ticket 18458.
8726 o Minor features (unix file permissions):
8727 - Defer creation of Unix sockets until after setuid. This avoids
8728 needing CAP_CHOWN and CAP_FOWNER when using systemd's
8729 CapabilityBoundingSet, or chown and fowner when using SELinux.
8730 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
8731 - If any directory created by Tor is marked as group readable, the
8732 filesystem group is allowed to be either the default GID or the
8733 root user. Allowing root to read the DataDirectory prevents the
8734 need for CAP_READ_SEARCH when using systemd's
8735 CapabilityBoundingSet, or dac_read_search when using SELinux.
8736 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
8737 - Introduce a new DataDirectoryGroupReadable option. If it is set to
8738 1, the DataDirectory will be made readable by the default GID.
8739 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
8741 o Minor bugfixes (accounting):
8742 - The max bandwidth when using 'AccountRule sum' is now correctly
8743 logged. Fixes bug 18024; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch
8746 o Minor bugfixes (assert, portability):
8747 - Fix an assertion failure in memarea.c on systems where "long" is
8748 shorter than the size of a pointer. Fixes bug 18716; bugfix
8751 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
8752 - Consistently use the consensus download schedule for authority
8753 certificates. Fixes bug 18816; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
8755 o Minor bugfixes (build):
8756 - Avoid spurious failures from configure files related to calling
8757 exit(0) in TOR_SEARCH_LIBRARY. Fixes bug 18626; bugfix on
8758 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
8759 - Do not link the unit tests against both the testing and non-
8760 testing versions of the static libraries. Fixes bug 18490; bugfix
8762 - Resolve warnings when building on systems that are concerned with
8763 signed char. Fixes bug 18728; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha
8765 - Silence spurious clang-scan warnings in the ed25519_donna code by
8766 explicitly initializing some objects. Fixes bug 18384; bugfix on
8767 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
8768 - When libscrypt.h is found, but no libscrypt library can be linked,
8769 treat libscrypt as absent. Fixes bug 19161; bugfix
8771 - Cause the unit tests to compile correctly on mingw64 versions that
8772 lack sscanf. Fixes bug 19213; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
8773 - Don't try to use the pthread_condattr_setclock() function unless
8774 it actually exists. Fixes compilation on NetBSD-6.x. Fixes bug
8775 17819; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8776 - Fix backtrace compilation on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 17827; bugfix
8778 - Fix search for libevent libraries on OpenBSD (and other systems
8779 that install libevent 1 and libevent 2 in parallel). Fixes bug
8780 16651; bugfix on 0.1.0.7-rc. Patch from "rubiate".
8781 - Isolate environment variables meant for tests from the rest of the
8782 build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
8783 - Mark all object files that include micro-revision.i as depending
8784 on it, so as to make parallel builds more reliable. Fixes bug
8785 17826; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8786 - Remove config.log only from make distclean, not from make clean.
8787 Fixes bug 17924; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
8788 - Replace usage of 'INLINE' with 'inline'. Fixes bug 17804; bugfix
8790 - Remove an #endif from configure.ac so that we correctly detect the
8791 presence of in6_addr.s6_addr32. Fixes bug 17923; bugfix
8794 o Minor bugfixes (client, bootstrap):
8795 - Count receipt of new microdescriptors as progress towards
8796 bootstrapping. Previously, with EntryNodes set, Tor might not
8797 successfully repopulate the guard set on bootstrapping. Fixes bug
8798 16825; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
8800 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
8801 - Fix a bad memory handling bug that would occur if we had queued a
8802 cell on a channel's incoming queue. Fortunately, we can't actually
8803 queue a cell like that as our code is constructed today, but it's
8804 best to avoid this kind of error, even if there isn't any code
8805 that triggers it today. Fixes bug 18570; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
8806 - Assert that allocated memory held by the reputation code is freed
8807 according to its internal counters. Fixes bug 17753; bugfix
8809 - Assert when the TLS contexts fail to initialize. Fixes bug 17683;
8811 - Update to the latest version of Trunnel, which tries harder to
8812 avoid generating code that can invoke memcpy(p,NULL,0). Bug found
8813 by clang address sanitizer. Fixes bug 18373; bugfix
8815 - When closing an entry connection, generate a warning if we should
8816 have sent an end cell for it but we haven't. Fixes bug 17876;
8817 bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
8819 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
8820 - Fix a tiny memory leak when parsing a port configuration ending in
8821 ":auto". Fixes bug 18374; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
8823 o Minor bugfixes (containers):
8824 - If we somehow attempt to construct a heap with more than
8825 1073741822 elements, avoid an integer overflow when maintaining
8826 the heap property. Fixes bug 18296; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
8828 o Minor bugfixes (controller, microdescriptors):
8829 - Make GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus conform to the
8830 control specification by returning "551 Could not open cached
8831 consensus..." when not caching consensuses. Fixes bug 18920;
8832 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
8834 o Minor bugfixes (crypto):
8835 - Check the return value of HMAC() and assert on failure. Fixes bug
8836 17658; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by teor.
8838 o Minor bugfixes (directories):
8839 - When fetching extrainfo documents, compare their SHA256 digests
8840 and Ed25519 signing key certificates with the routerinfo that led
8841 us to fetch them, rather than with the most recent routerinfo.
8842 Otherwise we generate many spurious warnings about mismatches.
8843 Fixes bug 17150; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8844 - When generating a URL for a directory server on an IPv6 address,
8845 wrap the IPv6 address in square brackets. Fixes bug 18051; bugfix
8846 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Malek.
8848 o Minor bugfixes (downloading):
8849 - Predict more correctly whether we'll be downloading over HTTP when
8850 we determine the maximum length of a URL. This should avoid a
8851 "BUG" warning about the Squid HTTP proxy and its URL limits. Fixes
8854 o Minor bugfixes (exit policies, security):
8855 - Refresh an exit relay's exit policy when interface addresses
8856 change. Previously, tor only refreshed the exit policy when the
8857 configured external address changed. Fixes bug 18208; bugfix on
8858 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
8860 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
8861 - Mark fallbacks as "too busy" when they return a 503 response,
8862 rather than just marking authorities. Fixes bug 17572; bugfix on
8863 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by teor.
8864 - When requesting extrainfo descriptors from a trusted directory
8865 server, check whether it is an authority or a fallback directory
8866 which supports extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 18489; bugfix on
8867 0.2.4.7-alpha. Reported by atagar, patch by teor.
8869 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, client):
8870 - Handle the case where the user makes several fast consecutive
8871 requests to the same .onion address. Previously, the first six
8872 requests would each trigger a descriptor fetch, each picking a
8873 directory (there are 6 overall) and the seventh one would fail
8874 because no directories were left, thereby triggering a close on
8875 all current directory connections asking for the hidden service.
8876 The solution here is to not close the connections if we have
8877 pending directory fetches. Fixes bug 15937; bugfix
8880 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, control port):
8881 - Add the onion address to the HS_DESC event for the UPLOADED action
8882 both on success or failure. It was previously hardcoded with
8883 UNKNOWN. Fixes bug 16023; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8885 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, directory):
8886 - Bridges now refuse "rendezvous2" (hidden service descriptor)
8887 publish attempts. Suggested by ticket 18332.
8889 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
8890 - Update the limits in max_dl_per_request for IPv6 address length.
8891 Fixes bug 17573; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
8893 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8894 - Allow more syscalls when running with "Sandbox 1" enabled:
8895 sysinfo, getsockopt(SO_SNDBUF), and setsockopt(SO_SNDBUFFORCE). On
8896 some systems, these are required for Tor to start. Fixes bug
8897 18397; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
8898 - Allow IPPROTO_UDP datagram sockets when running with "Sandbox 1",
8899 so that get_interface_address6_via_udp_socket_hack() can work.
8900 Fixes bug 19660; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8901 - Allow the setrlimit syscall, and the prlimit and prlimit64
8902 syscalls, which some libc implementations use under the hood.
8903 Fixes bug 15221; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8904 - Avoid a 10-second delay when starting as a client with "Sandbox 1"
8905 enabled and no DNS resolvers configured. This should help TAILS
8906 start up faster. Fixes bug 18548; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8907 - Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux
8908 seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
8909 - Allow statistics to be written to disk when "Sandbox 1" is
8910 enabled. Fixes bugs 19556 and 19957; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
8911 0.2.6.1-alpha respectively.
8913 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8914 - In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__
8915 instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. In GCC, these are synonymous, but
8916 with clang __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ has extra information we don't
8917 need. Fixes bug 16563; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Fix by Tom van
8919 - Remove needless quotes from a log message about unparseable
8920 addresses. Fixes bug 17843; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
8921 - Scrub service name in "unrecognized service ID" log messages.
8922 Fixes bug 18600; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha.
8923 - When logging information about an unparsable networkstatus vote or
8924 consensus, do not say "vote" when we mean consensus. Fixes bug
8925 18368; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
8926 - When we can't generate a signing key because OfflineMasterKey is
8927 set, do not imply that we should have been able to load it. Fixes
8928 bug 18133; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8929 - When logging a malformed hostname received through socks4, scrub
8930 it if SafeLogging says we should. Fixes bug 17419; bugfix
8933 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety):
8934 - Avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer when opening a socket fails
8935 in get_interface_addresses_ioctl(). Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on
8936 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by toralf and "cypherpunks", patch
8938 - Fix a memory leak in "tor --list-fingerprint". Fixes part of bug
8939 18672; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8940 - Fix a memory leak in tor-gencert. Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix
8943 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
8944 - Avoid reporting a spurious error when we decide that we don't need
8945 to terminate a pluggable transport because it has already exited.
8946 Fixes bug 18686; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
8948 o Minor bugfixes (pointer arithmetic):
8949 - Fix a bug in memarea_alloc() that could have resulted in remote
8950 heap write access, if Tor had ever passed an unchecked size to
8951 memarea_alloc(). Fortunately, all the sizes we pass to
8952 memarea_alloc() are pre-checked to be less than 128 kilobytes.
8953 Fixes bug 19150; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. Bug found by
8956 o Minor bugfixes (private directory):
8957 - Prevent a race condition when creating private directories. Fixes
8958 part of bug 17852; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13. Part of ticket 17852.
8959 Patch from jsturgix. Found with Flawfinder.
8961 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
8962 - Check that both the ORPort and DirPort (if present) are reachable
8963 before publishing a relay descriptor. Otherwise, relays publish a
8964 descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes
8965 longer than the ORPort reachability test. Fixes bug 18050; bugfix
8966 on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "starlight", patch by teor.
8967 - Resolve some edge cases where we might launch an ORPort
8968 reachability check even when DisableNetwork is set. Noticed while
8969 fixing bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
8971 o Minor bugfixes (relays, hidden services):
8972 - Refuse connection requests to private OR addresses unless
8973 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set. Previously, tor would connect,
8974 then refuse to send any cells to a private address. Fixes bugs
8975 17674 and 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by teor.
8977 o Minor bugfixes (security, hidden services):
8978 - Prevent hidden services connecting to client-supplied rendezvous
8979 addresses that are reserved as internal or multicast. Fixes bug
8980 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by dgoulet and teor.
8982 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
8983 - Consistently check for overflow in round_*_to_next_multiple_of
8984 functions, and add unit tests with additional and maximal values.
8985 Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
8986 - Handle edge cases in the laplace functions: avoid division by
8987 zero, avoid taking the log of zero, and silence clang type
8988 conversion warnings using round and trunc. Add unit tests for edge
8989 cases with maximal values. Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix
8991 - We now include consensus downloads via IPv6 in our directory-
8992 request statistics. Fixes bug 18460; bugfix on 0.2.3.14-alpha.
8994 o Minor bugfixes (test networks, IPv6):
8995 - Allow internal IPv6 addresses in descriptors in test networks.
8996 Fixes bug 17153; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Patch by teor, reported
8999 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9000 - Check the full results of SHA256 and SHA512 digests in the unit
9001 tests. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. Patch by teor.
9002 - Fix a memory leak in the ntor test. Fixes bug 17778; bugfix
9004 - Fix a small memory leak that would occur when the
9005 TestingEnableCellStatsEvent option was turned on. Fixes bug 18673;
9006 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9007 - Make unit tests pass on IPv6-only systems, and systems without
9008 localhost addresses (like some FreeBSD jails). Fixes bug 17632;
9009 bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
9010 - The test for log_heartbeat was incorrectly failing in timezones
9011 with non-integer offsets. Instead of comparing the end of the time
9012 string against a constant, compare it to the output of
9013 format_local_iso_time when given the correct input. Fixes bug
9014 18039; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
9015 - We no longer disable assertions in the unit tests when coverage is
9016 enabled. Instead, we require you to say --disable-asserts-in-tests
9017 to the configure script if you need assertions disabled in the
9018 unit tests (for example, if you want to perform branch coverage).
9019 Fixes bug 18242; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
9021 o Minor bugfixes (time handling):
9022 - When correcting a corrupt 'struct tm' value, fill in the tm_wday
9023 field. Otherwise, our unit tests crash on Windows. Fixes bug
9024 18977; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
9025 - Avoid overflow in tor_timegm when parsing dates in and after 2038
9026 on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 18479; bugfix on
9027 0.0.2pre14. Patch by teor.
9029 o Minor bugfixes (tor-gencert):
9030 - Correctly handle the case where an authority operator enters a
9031 passphrase but sends an EOF before sending a newline. Fixes bug
9032 17443; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by junglefowl.
9034 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9035 - Clean up a little duplicated code in
9036 crypto_expand_key_material_TAP(). Closes ticket 17587; patch
9038 - Decouple the list of streams waiting to be attached to circuits
9039 from the overall connection list. This change makes it possible to
9040 attach streams quickly while simplifying Tor's callgraph and
9041 avoiding O(N) scans of the entire connection list. Closes
9043 - Extract the more complicated parts of circuit_mark_for_close()
9044 into a new function that we run periodically before circuits are
9045 freed. This change removes more than half of the functions
9046 currently in the "blob". Closes ticket 17218.
9047 - Move logging of redundant policy entries in
9048 policies_parse_exit_policy_internal into its own function. Closes
9049 ticket 17608; patch from "juce".
9050 - Quote all the string interpolations in configure.ac -- even those
9051 which we are pretty sure can't contain spaces. Closes ticket
9052 17744. Patch from zerosion.
9053 - Remove code for configuring OpenSSL dynamic locks; OpenSSL doesn't
9054 use them. Closes ticket 17926.
9055 - Remove specialized code for non-inplace AES_CTR. 99% of our AES is
9056 inplace, so there's no need to have a separate implementation for
9057 the non-inplace code. Closes ticket 18258. Patch from Malek.
9058 - Simplify return types for some crypto functions that can't
9059 actually fail. Patch from Hassan Alsibyani. Closes ticket 18259.
9060 - When a direct directory request fails immediately on launch,
9061 instead of relaunching that request from inside the code that
9062 launches it, instead mark the connection for teardown. This change
9063 simplifies Tor's callback and prevents the directory-request
9064 launching code from invoking itself recursively. Closes
9068 - Add a description of the correct use of the '--keygen' command-
9069 line option. Closes ticket 17583; based on text by 's7r'.
9070 - Change build messages to refer to "Fedora" instead of "Fedora
9071 Core", and "dnf" instead of "yum". Closes tickets 18459 and 18426.
9072 Patches from "icanhasaccount" and "cypherpunks".
9073 - Document the contents of the 'datadir/keys' subdirectory in the
9074 manual page. Closes ticket 17621.
9075 - Document the minimum HeartbeatPeriod value. Closes ticket 15638.
9076 - Explain actual minima for BandwidthRate. Closes ticket 16382.
9077 - Fix a minor formatting typo in the manpage. Closes ticket 17791.
9078 - Mention torspec URL in the manpage and point the reader to it
9079 whenever we mention a document that belongs in torspce. Fixes
9081 - Stop recommending use of nicknames to identify relays in our
9082 MapAddress documentation. Closes ticket 18312.
9085 - Remove client-side support for connecting to Tor relays running
9086 versions of Tor before 0.2.3.6-alpha. These relays didn't support
9087 the v3 TLS handshake protocol, and are no longer allowed on the
9088 Tor network. Implements the client side of ticket 11150. Based on
9089 patches by Tom van der Woerdt.
9090 - We no longer maintain an internal freelist in memarea.c.
9091 Allocators should be good enough to make this code unnecessary,
9092 and it's doubtful that it ever had any performance benefit.
9095 - Add unit tests to check for common RNG failure modes, such as
9096 returning all zeroes, identical values, or incrementing values
9097 (OpenSSL's rand_predictable feature). Patch by teor.
9098 - Always test both ed25519 backends, so that we can be sure that our
9099 batch-open replacement code works. Part of ticket 16794.
9100 - Cover dns_resolve_impl() in dns.c with unit tests. Implements a
9101 portion of ticket 16831.
9102 - Fix several warnings from clang's address sanitizer produced in
9104 - Log more information when the backtrace tests fail. Closes ticket
9105 17892. Patch from "cypherpunks."
9106 - More unit tests for compat_libevent.c, procmon.c, tortls.c,
9107 util_format.c, directory.c, and options_validate.c. Closes tickets
9108 17075, 17082, 17084, 17003, and 17076 respectively. Patches from
9110 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on FreeBSD until we
9111 solve bug 17808. Closes ticket 18204.
9112 - Unit tests for directory_handle_command_get. Closes ticket 17004.
9113 Patch from Reinaldo de Souza Jr.
9116 Changes in version 0.2.7.6 - 2015-12-10
9117 Tor version 0.2.7.6 fixes a major bug in entry guard selection, as
9118 well as a minor bug in hidden service reliability.
9120 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
9121 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
9122 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
9123 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
9124 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
9125 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
9128 o Minor features (geoip):
9129 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
9132 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9133 - When checking for net/pfvar.h, include netinet/in.h if possible.
9134 This fixes transparent proxy detection on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
9135 17551; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Patch from "rubiate".
9136 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
9137 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
9139 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
9140 - When displaying an IPv6 exit policy, include the mask bits
9141 correctly even when the number is greater than 31. Fixes bug
9142 16056; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch from "gturner".
9143 - The wrong list was used when looking up expired intro points in a
9144 rend service object, causing what we think could be reachability
9145 issues for hidden services, and triggering a BUG log. Fixes bug
9146 16702; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9147 - Fix undefined behavior in the tor_cert_checksig function. Fixes
9148 bug 17722; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9151 Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
9152 The Tor 0.2.7 release series is dedicated to the memory of Tor user
9153 and privacy advocate Caspar Bowden (1961-2015). Caspar worked
9154 tirelessly to advocate human rights regardless of national borders,
9155 and oppose the encroachments of mass surveillance. He opposed national
9156 exceptionalism, he brought clarity to legal and policy debates, he
9157 understood and predicted the impact of mass surveillance on the world,
9158 and he laid the groundwork for resisting it. While serving on the Tor
9159 Project's board of directors, he brought us his uncompromising focus
9160 on technical excellence in the service of humankind. Caspar was an
9161 inimitable force for good and a wonderful friend. He was kind,
9162 humorous, generous, gallant, and believed we should protect one
9163 another without exception. We honor him here for his ideals, his
9164 efforts, and his accomplishments. Please honor his memory with works
9165 that would make him proud.
9167 Tor 0.2.7.5 is the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.7 series.
9169 The 0.2.7 series adds a more secure identity key type for relays,
9170 improves cryptography performance, resolves several longstanding
9171 hidden-service performance issues, improves controller support for
9172 hidden services, and includes small bugfixes and performance
9173 improvements throughout the program. This release series also includes
9174 more tests than before, and significant simplifications to which parts
9175 of Tor invoke which others. For a full list of changes, see below.
9177 o New system requirements:
9178 - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions
9179 before 1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes
9181 - Tor no longer supports copies of OpenSSL that are missing support
9182 for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (We began using ECC when
9183 available in 0.2.4.8-alpha, for more safe and efficient key
9184 negotiation.) In particular, support for at least one of P256 or
9185 P224 is now required, with manual configuration needed if only
9186 P224 is available. Resolves ticket 16140.
9187 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL before 1.0. (If you are
9188 on an operating system that has not upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0 or
9189 later, and you compile Tor from source, you will need to install a
9190 more recent OpenSSL to link Tor against.) These versions of
9191 OpenSSL are still supported by the OpenSSL, but the numerous
9192 cryptographic improvements in later OpenSSL releases makes them a
9193 clear choice. Resolves ticket 16034.
9195 o Major features (controller):
9196 - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
9197 and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
9199 - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached"
9200 commands to get information about hidden services created via the
9201 controller. Part of ticket 6411.
9202 - New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
9203 descriptor. Closes ticket 14847.
9204 - New HSPOST command to upload a hidden service descriptor. Closes
9205 ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
9207 o Major features (Ed25519 identity keys, Proposal 220):
9208 - Add support for offline encrypted Ed25519 master keys. To use this
9209 feature on your tor relay, run "tor --keygen" to make a new master
9210 key (or to make a new signing key if you already have a master
9211 key). Closes ticket 13642.
9212 - All relays now maintain a stronger identity key, using the Ed25519
9213 elliptic curve signature format. This master key is designed so
9214 that it can be kept offline. Relays also generate an online
9215 signing key, and a set of other Ed25519 keys and certificates.
9216 These are all automatically regenerated and rotated as needed.
9217 Implements part of ticket 12498.
9218 - Directory authorities now vote on Ed25519 identity keys along with
9219 RSA1024 keys. Implements part of ticket 12498.
9220 - Directory authorities track which Ed25519 identity keys have been
9221 used with which RSA1024 identity keys, and do not allow them to
9222 vary freely. Implements part of ticket 12498.
9223 - Microdescriptors now include Ed25519 identity keys. Implements
9224 part of ticket 12498.
9225 - Add a --newpass option to allow changing or removing the
9226 passphrase of an encrypted key with tor --keygen. Implements part
9228 - Add a new OfflineMasterKey option to tell Tor never to try loading
9229 or generating a secret Ed25519 identity key. You can use this in
9230 combination with tor --keygen to manage offline and/or encrypted
9231 Ed25519 keys. Implements ticket 16944.
9232 - On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519
9233 signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790.
9234 - Significant usability improvements for Ed25519 key management. Log
9235 messages are better, and the code can recover from far more
9236 failure conditions. Thanks to "s7r" for reporting and diagnosing
9239 o Major features (ECC performance):
9240 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 signature verification by
9241 using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support. Implements
9243 - Improve the speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519 keypair
9244 generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with SSE2
9245 available. Implements ticket 16535.
9246 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations by using the
9247 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry").
9248 Implements ticket 16467.
9249 - Improve the runtime speed of the ntor handshake by using an
9250 optimized curve25519 basepoint scalarmult implementation from the
9251 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"), based on
9252 ideas by Adam Langley. Implements ticket 9663.
9254 o Major features (Hidden services):
9255 - Hidden services, if using the EntryNodes option, are required to
9256 use more than one EntryNode, in order to avoid a guard discovery
9257 attack. (This would only affect people who had configured hidden
9258 services and manually specified the EntryNodes option with a
9259 single entry-node. The impact was that it would be easy to
9260 remotely identify the guard node used by such a hidden service.
9261 See ticket for more information.) Fixes ticket 14917.
9262 - Add the torrc option HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints, to
9263 specify a fixed number of introduction points. Its maximum value
9264 is 10 and default is 3. Using this option can increase a hidden
9265 service's reliability under load, at the cost of making it more
9266 visible that the hidden service is facing extra load. Closes
9268 - Remove the adaptive algorithm for choosing the number of
9269 introduction points, which used to change the number of
9270 introduction points (poorly) depending on the number of
9271 connections the HS sees. Closes ticket 4862.
9273 o Major features (onion key cross-certification):
9274 - Relay descriptors now include signatures of their own identity
9275 keys, made using the TAP and ntor onion keys. These signatures
9276 allow relays to prove ownership of their own onion keys. Because
9277 of this change, microdescriptors will no longer need to include
9278 RSA identity keys. Implements proposal 228; closes ticket 12499.
9280 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy, also in 0.2.6.9):
9281 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
9282 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group
9283 was being overwritten by a default value when the listener
9284 connection was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on
9285 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by "jojelino".
9287 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
9288 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
9289 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
9290 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
9291 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
9292 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
9293 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
9294 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
9297 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
9298 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
9299 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
9300 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
9302 - When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always
9303 extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit).
9304 Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which
9305 changed the original choice of introduction point, and could cause
9306 the hidden service to skip excluded introduction points or
9307 reconnect to a skipped introduction point. Fixes bug 16260; bugfix
9310 o Major bugfixes (memory leaks):
9311 - Fix a memory leak in ed25519 batch signature checking. Fixes bug
9312 17398; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
9314 o Major bugfixes (open file limit):
9315 - The open file limit wasn't checked before calling
9316 tor_accept_socket_nonblocking(), which would make Tor exceed the
9317 limit. Now, before opening a new socket, Tor validates the open
9318 file limit just before, and if the max has been reached, return an
9319 error. Fixes bug 16288; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
9321 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness):
9322 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
9323 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
9324 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
9325 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
9328 o Major bugfixes (stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
9329 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
9330 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
9331 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
9332 by "cypherpunks_backup".
9333 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
9334 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
9335 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
9338 o Minor features (client, SOCKS):
9339 - Add GroupWritable and WorldWritable options to unix-socket based
9340 SocksPort and ControlPort options. These options apply to a single
9341 socket, and override {Control,Socks}SocketsGroupWritable. Closes
9343 - Relax the validation done to hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, and
9344 allow a single trailing '.' to cope with clients that pass FQDNs
9345 using that syntax to explicitly indicate that the domain name is
9346 fully-qualified. Fixes bug 16674; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
9347 - Relax the validation of hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, allowing the
9348 character '_' to appear, in order to cope with domains observed in
9349 the wild that are serving non-RFC compliant records. Resolves
9352 o Minor features (client-side privacy):
9353 - New KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option to indefinitely extend circuit
9354 lifespan when IsolateSOCKSAuth and streams with SOCKS
9355 authentication are attached to the circuit. This allows
9356 applications like TorBrowser to manage circuit lifetime on their
9357 own. Implements feature 15482.
9358 - When logging malformed hostnames from SOCKS5 requests, respect
9359 SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
9361 o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
9362 - Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
9363 happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
9364 hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
9365 fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
9367 o Minor features (command-line interface):
9368 - Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
9369 Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
9370 - Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
9371 as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
9373 o Minor features (compilation):
9374 - Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an
9375 unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901.
9376 - Use C99 variadic macros when the compiler is not GCC. This avoids
9377 failing compilations on MSVC, and fixes a log-file-based race
9378 condition in our old workarounds. Original patch from Gisle Vanem.
9380 o Minor features (control protocol):
9381 - Support network-liveness GETINFO key and NETWORK_LIVENESS event in
9382 the control protocol. Resolves ticket 15358.
9384 o Minor features (controller):
9385 - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the
9386 output of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
9387 present. Implements ticket 14840.
9388 - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to
9389 retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache.
9390 Closes ticket 14845.
9391 - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-
9392 descs" to fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on
9393 demand just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
9395 o Minor features (directory authorities):
9396 - Directory authorities no longer vote against the "Fast", "Stable",
9397 and "HSDir" flags just because they were going to vote against
9398 "Running": if the consensus turns out to be that the router was
9399 running, then the authority's vote should count. Patch from Peter
9400 Retzlaff; closes issue 8712.
9402 o Minor features (directory authorities, security, also in 0.2.6.9):
9403 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
9404 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
9405 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
9406 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable to
9407 require at the very least 7 days, while maintaining the 96 hours
9408 uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
9410 o Minor features (DoS-resistance):
9411 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
9412 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
9413 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
9415 o Minor features (geoip):
9416 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
9419 o Minor features (hidden services):
9420 - Add the new options "HiddenServiceMaxStreams" and
9421 "HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit" to allow hidden services to
9422 limit the maximum number of simultaneous streams per circuit, and
9423 optionally tear down the circuit when the limit is exceeded. Part
9425 - Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when
9426 to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache. Previously, failures
9427 were recorded implicitly, but not explicitly remembered. Closes
9429 - Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this
9430 is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14%
9431 drop. This change should make some attacks against the hidden
9432 service directory system harder. Fixes ticket 15963.
9433 - Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc
9434 option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. (This keeps
9435 track only of the fraction of traffic used by hidden services, and
9436 the total number of hidden services in existence.) Closes
9438 - To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
9439 when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
9440 cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
9441 making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
9442 clients that have used the introduction point for a specific HS.
9443 Closes ticket 15745.
9445 o Minor features (logging):
9446 - Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people
9447 tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements
9450 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
9451 - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
9452 attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
9453 pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
9455 - When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open
9456 stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has
9457 terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" environment variable
9458 can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior.
9459 Resolves ticket 15435.
9461 o Minor bugfixes (torrc exit policies):
9462 - In each instance above, usage advice is provided to avoid the
9463 message. Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug
9464 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
9465 - In torrc, "accept6 *" and "reject6 *" ExitPolicy lines now only
9466 produce IPv6 wildcard addresses. Previously they would produce
9467 both IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Patch by "teor". Fixes part
9468 of bug 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
9469 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now issue an info-level
9470 message when expanding an "accept/reject *" line to include both
9471 IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Related to ticket 16069.
9472 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now warn for a number of cases
9473 where the user's intent is likely to differ from Tor's actual
9474 behavior. These include: using an IPv4 address with an accept6 or
9475 reject6 line; using "private" on an accept6 or reject6 line; and
9476 including any ExitPolicy lines after accept *:* or reject *:*.
9477 Related to ticket 16069.
9479 o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface):
9480 - When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not
9481 write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix
9483 - When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use
9485 - Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without
9486 an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording
9487 and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix
9490 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9491 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
9492 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
9493 - Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha)
9494 vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237.
9496 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.6.9):
9497 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
9498 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
9499 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
9501 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests):
9502 - Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities,
9503 AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options
9504 are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is
9505 currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behavior when it
9506 has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for
9507 consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on
9508 90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
9510 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
9511 - Add the descriptor ID in each HS_DESC control event. It was
9512 missing, but specified in control-spec.txt. Fixes bug 15881;
9513 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9515 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
9516 - For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
9517 handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix
9519 - Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
9520 because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
9521 unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36,
9523 - When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove()
9524 while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit
9525 17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was
9526 incorrectly removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
9528 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, also in 0.2.6.10):
9529 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
9530 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
9531 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
9532 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
9533 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
9535 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
9536 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
9537 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
9539 - Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden
9540 service descriptors. Fixes bug 15296; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
9542 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9543 - Use the sandbox in tor_open_cloexec whether or not O_CLOEXEC is
9544 defined. Patch by "teor". Fixes bug 16515; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
9545 - Allow bridge authorities to run correctly under the seccomp2
9546 sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9547 - Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
9548 HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
9549 bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
9551 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10):
9552 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
9553 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
9554 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
9556 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.9):
9557 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
9558 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
9560 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay, by allowing the
9561 renaming of secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex
9562 syscalls. Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by
9565 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
9566 - When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of
9567 parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug
9568 15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with
9569 recent enough Clang.
9571 o Minor bugfixes (network):
9572 - When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface
9573 lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are
9574 unsuitable for public communications.
9576 o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
9577 - Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
9578 limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug
9579 16274; bugfix on tor- 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
9581 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
9582 - Check correctly for Windows socket errors in the workqueue
9583 backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9584 - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
9585 standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
9587 - Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD to enable backtrace support. Fixes part
9588 of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Marcin Cieślak.
9590 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
9591 - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
9592 shutdown is indicated. This fix doesn't currently affect the
9593 behavior of Tor, because Tor workers never indicates fatal error
9594 or shutdown except in the unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix
9596 - Fix a rarely-encountered memory leak when failing to initialize
9597 the thread pool. Fixes bug 16631; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
9599 - Unblock threads before releasing the work queue mutex to ensure
9600 predictable scheduling behavior. Fixes bug 16644; bugfix
9603 o Minor bugfixes (security, exit policies):
9604 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now also rejects the relay's published
9605 IPv6 address (if any), and any publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6
9606 addresses on any local interfaces. ticket 17027. Patch by "teor".
9607 Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 0.2.0.11-alpha.
9609 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
9610 - Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
9611 not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
9612 being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
9613 when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay.
9614 Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
9616 o Minor bugfixes (systemd):
9617 - Tor's systemd unit file no longer contains extraneous spaces.
9618 These spaces would sometimes confuse tools like deb-systemd-
9619 helper. Fixes bug 16162; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
9621 o Minor bugfixes (test networks):
9622 - When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to
9623 determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The
9624 previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
9625 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configurations
9626 where ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is
9627 not. Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor",
9628 issue discovered by CJ Ess.
9630 o Minor bugfixes (tests, also in 0.2.6.9):
9631 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
9632 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
9634 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9635 - Change the function that's called when we need to retry all
9636 downloads so that it only reschedules the downloads to happen
9637 immediately, rather than launching them all at once itself. This
9638 further simplifies Tor's callgraph.
9639 - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order
9640 to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere.
9641 - Move some format-parsing functions out of crypto.c and
9642 crypto_curve25519.c into crypto_format.c and/or util_format.c.
9643 - Move the client-only parts of init_keys() into a separate
9644 function. Closes ticket 16763.
9645 - Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into
9646 separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
9648 - Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently
9649 report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases
9650 involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391.
9651 - Remove some vestigial workarounds for the MSVC6 compiler. We
9652 haven't supported that in ages.
9653 - Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup().
9654 - Simplify the microdesc_free() implementation so that it no longer
9655 appears (to code analysis tools) to potentially invoke a huge
9656 suite of other microdesc functions.
9657 - Simply the control graph further by deferring the inner body of
9658 directory_all_unreachable() into a callback. Closes ticket 16762.
9659 - The link authentication code has been refactored for better
9660 testability and reliability. It now uses code generated with the
9661 "trunnel" binary encoding generator, to reduce the risk of bugs
9662 due to programmer error. Done as part of ticket 12498.
9663 - Treat the loss of an owning controller as equivalent to a SIGTERM
9664 signal. This removes a tiny amount of duplicated code, and
9665 simplifies our callgraph. Closes ticket 16788.
9666 - Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more
9667 control over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
9668 - When generating an event to send to the controller, we no longer
9669 put the event over the network immediately. Instead, we queue
9670 these events, and use a Libevent callback to deliver them. This
9671 change simplifies Tor's callgraph by reducing the number of
9672 functions from which all other Tor functions are reachable. Closes
9674 - Wrap Windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools
9675 that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that
9679 - Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609.
9680 - Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in
9681 the manpage to describe rationale and possible uses cases. Fixes
9683 - Improve the layout and formatting of ./configure --help messages.
9684 Closes ticket 15024. Patch from "cypherpunks".
9685 - Include a specific and (hopefully) accurate documentation of the
9686 torrc file's meta-format in doc/torrc_format.txt. This is mainly
9687 of interest to people writing programs to parse or generate torrc
9688 files. This document is not a commitment to long-term
9689 compatibility; some aspects of the current format are a bit
9690 ridiculous. Closes ticket 2325.
9691 - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
9692 to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
9694 - Note that HiddenServicePorts can take a unix domain socket. Closes
9696 - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
9697 than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
9698 - Standardize on the term "server descriptor" in the manual page.
9699 Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor",
9700 and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987.
9701 - Advise users on how to configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 exit
9702 policies in the manpage and sample torrcs. Related to ticket 16069.
9703 - Fix an error in the manual page and comments for
9704 TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir
9705 required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no
9706 way unique to the HSDir flag. Of all the flags, only HSDirs need a
9707 DirPort configured in order for the authorities to assign that
9708 particular flag. Patch by "teor". Fixed as part of 14882; bugfix
9710 - Fix the usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
9711 the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
9714 - Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
9715 and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
9716 has been part of tor since 0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
9717 be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
9718 - Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
9719 Closes ticket 14922.
9720 - Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller
9721 connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in
9722 0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding
9723 their limits. But there is no longer a maximum output buffer size,
9724 and flushing data in this way caused some undesirable recursions
9725 in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480.
9726 - The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor
9727 distribution, in favor of the pure-Go clone available from
9728 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/ . The libraries
9729 used by the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very
9730 confidence- inspiring in their secure-programming techniques.
9731 Closes ticket 13338.
9734 - Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti-
9735 fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward-
9736 secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736.
9737 - Remove the HidServDirectoryV2 option. Now all relays offer to
9738 store hidden service descriptors. Related to 16543.
9739 - Remove the VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 option, since all
9740 authorities have long set it to 1. Closes ticket 16543.
9741 - Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It
9742 complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on
9743 multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
9744 including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742.
9745 - Tor no longer contains checks for ancient directory cache versions
9746 that didn't know about microdescriptors.
9747 - Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by
9748 super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly.
9751 - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing.
9752 Requires corresponding chutney performance testing changes. Patch
9753 by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
9754 - Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to
9755 produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which
9756 other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify
9757 our code structure by identifying illogical dependencies.
9758 - Add new 'test-full' and 'test-full-online' targets to run all
9759 tests, including integration tests with stem and chutney.
9760 - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and Tor sources are side-
9761 by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
9763 - Document use of coverity, clang static analyzer, and clang dynamic
9764 undefined behavior and address sanitizers in doc/HACKING. Include
9765 detailed usage instructions in the blacklist. Patch by "teor".
9766 Closes ticket 15817.
9767 - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
9768 tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
9769 to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
9770 test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor) and 16946
9771 (chutney). Patches by "teor".
9772 - Make the test-workqueue test work on Windows by initializing the
9773 network before we begin.
9774 - New make target (make test-network-all) to run multiple applicable
9775 chutney test cases. Patch from Teor; closes 16953.
9776 - Now that OpenSSL has its own scrypt implementation, add an unit
9777 test that checks for interoperability between libscrypt_scrypt()
9778 and OpenSSL's EVP_PBE_scrypt() so that we could not use libscrypt
9779 and rely on EVP_PBE_scrypt() whenever possible. Resolves
9781 - The link authentication protocol code now has extensive tests.
9782 - The relay descriptor signature testing code now has
9784 - The test_workqueue program now runs faster, and is enabled by
9785 default as a part of "make check".
9786 - Unit test dns_resolve(), dns_clip_ttl() and dns_get_expiry_ttl()
9787 functions in dns.c. Implements a portion of ticket 16831.
9788 - Use environment variables rather than autoconf substitutions to
9789 send variables from the build system to the test scripts. This
9790 change should be easier to maintain, and cause 'make distcheck' to
9791 work better than before. Fixes bug 17148.
9792 - When building Tor with testing coverage enabled, run Chutney tests
9793 (if any) using the 'tor-cov' coverage binary.
9794 - When running test-network or test-stem, check for the absence of
9795 stem/chutney before doing any build operations.
9796 - Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our
9797 memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377.
9798 - Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes
9799 files. Closes ticket 15180.
9800 - Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile-
9801 time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity
9802 of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for
9803 bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor".
9804 - Command-line argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806.
9805 - Integrate the ntor, backtrace, and zero-length keys tests into the
9806 automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344.
9807 - Remove assertions during builds to determine Tor's test coverage.
9808 We don't want to trigger these even in assertions, so including
9809 them artificially makes our branch coverage look worse than it is.
9810 This patch provides the new test-stem-full and coverage-html-full
9811 configure options. Implements ticket 15400.
9812 - New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags to
9813 explicitly manage consensus flags in testing networks. Patch by
9814 "robgjansen", modified by "teor". Implements part of ticket 14882.
9815 - Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes
9816 bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
9818 - Set the severity correctly when testing
9819 get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and
9820 get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
9821 instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
9822 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
9824 Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12
9825 Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden
9826 service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and
9827 fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of
9828 Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version
9829 of 0.2.6, should upgrade.
9831 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability):
9832 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
9833 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
9834 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
9835 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
9836 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
9837 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
9838 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
9841 o Major bugfixes (stability):
9842 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
9843 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
9844 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
9845 by "cypherpunks_backup".
9846 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
9847 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
9848 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
9851 o Minor features (geoip):
9852 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
9853 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
9855 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling):
9856 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
9857 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
9858 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
9859 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
9860 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
9862 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9863 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
9864 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
9865 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
9868 Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11
9869 Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the
9870 requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small
9871 bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation
9872 should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade.
9874 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
9875 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
9876 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was
9877 being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection
9878 was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
9881 o Minor feature (directory authorities, security):
9882 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
9883 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
9884 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
9885 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which
9886 takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96
9887 hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
9889 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9890 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
9891 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
9892 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
9894 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9895 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of
9896 secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes
9897 bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader.
9898 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
9899 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
9902 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
9903 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
9904 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
9907 Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
9908 Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
9909 fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
9910 authorities should upgrade.
9912 o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
9913 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
9914 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
9915 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
9918 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
9919 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
9920 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
9923 o Minor features (geoip):
9924 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
9925 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
9929 Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06
9930 Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an
9931 attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden
9932 services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients
9933 should upgrade whenever packages become available.
9935 This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden
9936 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
9938 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
9939 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
9940 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
9941 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
9942 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
9943 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
9944 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
9946 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
9947 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
9948 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
9949 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
9950 Resolves ticket 15515.
9951 - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs
9952 when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational
9953 cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves
9957 Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06
9958 Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
9959 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
9960 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
9961 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
9963 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
9964 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
9966 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
9967 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
9968 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
9969 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
9970 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
9971 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
9972 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
9974 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
9975 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
9976 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
9977 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
9978 Resolves ticket 15515.
9981 Changes in version 0.2.4.27 - 2015-04-06
9982 Tor 0.2.4.27 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
9983 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
9984 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
9985 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
9987 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
9988 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
9990 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
9991 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
9992 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
9993 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
9994 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
9995 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
9996 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
9998 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
9999 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
10000 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
10001 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
10002 Resolves ticket 15515.
10005 Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24
10006 Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series.
10008 It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance
10009 improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of
10010 sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is
10011 improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much
10012 higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is
10013 improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports
10014 should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance
10015 bugs should be addressed.
10017 o New compiler and system requirements:
10018 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
10019 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
10020 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
10021 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
10023 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
10024 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
10025 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
10026 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
10027 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
10028 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
10029 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
10030 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
10031 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
10033 o Deprecated versions and removed support:
10034 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
10035 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
10036 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
10037 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
10038 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
10039 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
10041 o Directory authority changes:
10042 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
10043 closes ticket 14487.
10044 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
10045 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
10046 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
10048 o Major features (bridges):
10049 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
10050 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
10051 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
10054 o Major features (changed defaults):
10055 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
10056 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
10057 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
10058 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
10059 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
10060 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
10062 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
10063 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
10064 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
10065 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
10068 o Major features (directory system):
10069 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
10070 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
10071 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
10072 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
10073 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
10074 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
10075 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
10076 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
10077 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
10078 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
10079 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
10080 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
10081 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
10082 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
10083 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
10084 227. Closes ticket 10395.
10086 o Major features (guards):
10087 - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
10088 guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
10089 guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
10090 a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
10091 months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
10093 o Major features (hidden services):
10094 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
10095 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
10096 Closes ticket 13667.
10097 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
10098 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
10099 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
10100 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
10101 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
10102 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
10103 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
10104 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
10105 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
10106 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
10107 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
10109 o Major features (performance):
10110 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
10111 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
10112 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
10113 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
10114 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
10115 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
10116 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
10117 Implements ticket 9682.
10119 o Major features (relay):
10120 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
10121 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
10122 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
10123 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
10124 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
10125 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
10126 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
10127 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
10129 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
10130 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
10131 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
10132 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
10133 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
10134 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
10135 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
10138 o Major features (sample torrc):
10139 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
10140 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
10141 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
10142 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
10143 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
10144 generally useful "sample torrc".
10146 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
10147 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
10148 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
10149 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
10150 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
10151 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
10153 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
10154 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
10155 Implements ticket 11485.
10157 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
10158 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
10159 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
10160 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
10161 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
10162 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
10165 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
10166 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
10167 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
10170 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
10171 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
10172 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
10174 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
10175 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
10176 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
10177 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
10178 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
10180 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
10181 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
10182 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
10183 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
10185 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
10186 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
10187 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
10190 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
10191 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
10192 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
10193 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
10194 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
10195 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
10197 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10198 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
10199 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
10200 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
10202 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
10203 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
10204 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
10205 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
10206 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
10207 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
10208 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
10210 o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
10211 - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
10212 launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
10213 that occurred when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
10214 authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
10215 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10217 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
10218 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
10219 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
10220 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
10221 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
10222 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
10223 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
10224 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
10226 o Minor features (build):
10227 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
10228 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
10229 Resolves ticket 13037.
10231 o Minor features (client):
10232 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
10233 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
10234 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
10235 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
10237 o Minor features (client):
10238 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
10239 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
10240 Resolves ticket 13315.
10242 o Minor features (controller):
10243 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
10244 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
10246 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
10247 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
10249 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
10250 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
10251 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
10252 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
10253 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
10254 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
10255 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
10256 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
10257 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
10259 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
10260 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
10261 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
10262 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
10263 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
10264 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
10265 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
10266 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
10267 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
10268 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
10270 o Minor features (directory authorities):
10271 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
10272 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
10273 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
10274 argument more than once.
10275 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
10276 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
10277 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
10278 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
10279 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
10280 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
10282 o Minor features (geoip):
10283 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
10284 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
10287 o Minor features (guard nodes):
10288 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
10289 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
10290 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
10292 o Minor features (heartbeat):
10293 - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
10294 version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
10295 know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
10296 protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
10298 o Minor features (hidden service):
10299 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
10300 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
10301 hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
10302 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
10303 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
10304 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
10305 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
10306 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
10307 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
10308 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
10309 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
10310 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
10311 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
10312 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
10314 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
10315 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
10316 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
10318 o Minor features (interface):
10319 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
10320 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
10321 the file system. Implements feature 13865.
10323 o Minor features (logging):
10324 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
10325 Resolves ticket 6852.
10326 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
10327 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
10328 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
10330 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
10331 INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
10332 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
10333 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
10334 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
10335 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
10336 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
10337 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
10338 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
10339 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
10340 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
10341 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
10344 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
10345 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
10346 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
10347 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
10349 o Minor features (relay):
10350 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
10351 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
10352 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
10354 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
10355 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
10356 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
10357 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
10358 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
10359 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
10360 document. Implements feature 10427.
10362 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
10363 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
10364 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
10365 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
10367 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
10368 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
10369 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
10370 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
10371 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
10372 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
10374 o Minor features (stability):
10375 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
10376 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
10379 o Minor features (systemd):
10380 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
10381 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
10382 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
10383 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
10384 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
10385 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
10387 o Minor features (testing networks):
10388 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
10389 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
10390 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
10391 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
10392 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
10394 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
10395 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
10396 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
10397 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
10398 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
10399 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
10401 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
10402 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
10403 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
10404 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
10405 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
10407 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
10408 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
10409 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
10410 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
10411 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
10413 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
10414 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
10415 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
10416 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
10417 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
10420 o Minor features (validation):
10421 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
10422 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
10423 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
10424 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
10425 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
10426 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
10427 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
10428 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
10429 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
10430 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
10431 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
10434 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
10435 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
10436 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
10437 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
10439 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
10440 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
10441 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
10442 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
10444 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
10445 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
10446 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
10448 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
10449 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
10450 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
10452 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
10453 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
10454 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
10455 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
10456 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
10457 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
10458 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
10460 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
10461 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
10462 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
10463 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10464 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
10465 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
10466 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
10467 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
10468 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
10470 o Minor bugfixes (client):
10471 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
10472 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
10473 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
10474 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
10475 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
10476 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
10477 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
10478 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
10480 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
10481 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
10482 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
10483 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
10484 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
10485 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
10486 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
10487 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
10489 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
10490 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
10491 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
10494 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
10495 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
10496 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
10497 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
10498 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
10500 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNS):
10501 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
10502 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
10503 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
10504 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
10505 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
10506 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
10507 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10509 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
10510 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
10511 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
10512 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
10513 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
10515 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
10516 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
10517 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
10518 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
10519 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
10521 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
10522 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
10523 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
10525 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
10526 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
10527 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
10528 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
10529 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
10531 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
10532 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
10533 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
10535 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10536 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
10538 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
10539 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
10540 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
10541 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
10543 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
10544 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
10546 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
10547 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
10548 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
10549 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
10550 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
10551 Addresses ticket 14188.
10552 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
10553 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
10554 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
10555 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
10556 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
10557 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
10558 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
10559 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10560 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
10561 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
10562 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
10565 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
10566 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
10567 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
10568 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
10569 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
10570 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
10572 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
10573 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
10574 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
10575 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
10576 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
10578 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
10579 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
10580 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
10581 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
10582 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
10583 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
10584 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
10585 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10586 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
10587 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10588 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
10589 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
10590 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
10591 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
10592 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
10593 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10595 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
10596 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
10597 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
10598 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10599 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
10600 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
10601 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
10602 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
10605 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
10606 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
10607 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
10608 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
10609 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
10610 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
10611 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
10612 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
10613 state, and key files.
10614 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
10615 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
10618 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
10619 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
10620 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
10621 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
10622 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
10623 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
10624 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
10625 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
10626 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
10627 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
10628 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
10629 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
10630 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
10631 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
10632 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
10633 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
10634 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
10635 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
10638 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10639 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
10640 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
10641 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
10642 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
10643 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
10644 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
10645 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
10646 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
10647 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10649 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
10650 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
10651 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
10652 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
10653 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
10654 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
10656 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
10657 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
10659 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
10660 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
10661 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
10662 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
10663 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
10665 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
10666 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
10667 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
10668 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
10669 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
10670 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
10672 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
10673 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
10674 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
10676 - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent
10677 compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436;
10678 bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
10680 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
10681 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
10682 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
10683 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
10684 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
10686 - Clear all memory targeted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
10687 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
10688 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
10691 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
10692 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
10693 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
10694 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
10695 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
10698 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
10699 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
10700 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
10701 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
10704 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
10705 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
10706 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
10709 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
10710 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
10711 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
10713 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
10714 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
10715 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
10716 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
10717 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
10720 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
10721 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
10722 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10723 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
10724 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
10725 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
10727 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
10728 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
10729 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
10730 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
10731 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
10732 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
10734 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
10735 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
10736 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
10737 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
10738 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
10739 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
10740 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
10741 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
10742 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
10743 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
10744 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
10745 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
10746 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
10747 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
10748 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
10749 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
10750 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
10751 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
10752 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
10753 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
10754 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
10755 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
10756 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
10757 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
10758 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
10759 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
10760 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
10761 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
10762 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
10763 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
10764 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
10765 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
10767 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
10768 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
10769 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
10770 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
10771 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
10773 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10774 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
10775 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
10776 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
10777 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
10778 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
10779 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
10780 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
10781 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
10783 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
10784 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
10785 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
10787 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
10788 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
10789 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
10792 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
10793 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
10794 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
10795 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
10798 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
10799 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
10800 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
10802 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10803 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
10804 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
10806 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
10807 Resolves ticket 12205.
10808 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
10809 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
10810 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
10811 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
10813 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
10814 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
10815 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
10817 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
10818 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
10820 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
10821 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
10822 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
10823 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
10824 or_options_t structure.
10825 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
10826 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
10827 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
10828 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
10829 the past. Closes ticket 8546.
10830 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
10831 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
10832 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
10834 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
10835 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
10837 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
10839 - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
10840 easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
10841 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
10842 with a function instead.
10843 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
10844 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
10845 Closes ticket 13172.
10846 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
10847 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
10848 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
10849 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
10850 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
10851 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
10852 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
10853 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
10854 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
10855 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
10856 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
10857 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
10861 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
10862 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
10863 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
10864 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
10866 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
10867 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
10868 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
10869 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
10870 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
10871 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
10872 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
10873 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
10874 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
10875 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
10876 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
10877 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
10878 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
10879 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
10880 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
10881 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
10882 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
10883 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
10885 o Distribution (systemd):
10886 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
10887 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
10888 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
10889 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
10890 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
10892 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
10893 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
10895 o Downgraded warnings:
10896 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
10897 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
10900 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
10901 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
10902 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
10905 o Removed features (directory authorities):
10906 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
10907 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
10908 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
10909 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
10910 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
10911 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
10912 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
10913 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
10914 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
10916 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
10917 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
10918 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
10919 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
10922 o Removed features:
10923 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
10924 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
10925 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
10926 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
10927 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
10929 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
10930 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
10931 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
10932 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
10933 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
10934 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
10935 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
10936 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
10937 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
10939 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
10940 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
10942 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
10943 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
10944 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
10945 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
10946 anymore, and ignore it.
10948 o Removed platform support:
10949 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
10950 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
10951 Closes ticket 11446.
10953 o Testing (test-network.sh):
10954 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
10955 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
10957 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
10959 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
10960 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
10961 Partially implements ticket 13161.
10964 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
10965 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
10966 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
10967 (existing behavior).
10968 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
10969 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
10970 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
10971 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
10972 Closes ticket 14107.
10973 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
10974 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
10975 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
10976 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
10978 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
10979 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
10980 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
10981 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
10982 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
10983 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
10985 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
10987 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
10988 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
10989 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
10990 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
10991 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
10992 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
10993 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
10994 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
10995 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
10996 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
10997 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
10998 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
11000 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
11001 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
11002 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
11004 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
11005 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
11007 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
11008 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
11009 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
11011 o Directory authority changes:
11012 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
11013 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
11014 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
11015 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
11016 closes ticket 14487.
11018 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
11019 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
11020 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
11023 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
11024 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
11025 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
11026 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
11027 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
11028 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
11029 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
11030 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
11032 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
11033 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
11034 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
11035 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
11037 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11038 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
11039 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
11040 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
11042 o Minor features (controller):
11043 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
11044 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
11045 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
11047 o Minor features (geoip):
11048 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
11049 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
11052 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
11053 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
11054 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
11055 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
11056 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
11057 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
11059 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11060 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
11061 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
11062 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
11064 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
11065 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
11066 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
11067 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
11068 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
11069 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
11070 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
11071 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
11073 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
11074 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
11075 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
11077 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
11078 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
11079 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
11080 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
11081 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
11085 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
11086 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
11087 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
11090 o Directory authority changes:
11091 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
11092 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
11093 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
11094 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
11095 closes ticket 14487.
11097 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
11098 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
11099 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
11100 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
11102 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
11103 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
11104 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
11105 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
11106 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
11107 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
11108 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
11109 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
11111 o Minor features (geoip):
11112 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
11113 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
11116 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
11117 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
11119 It adds several new security features, including improved
11120 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
11121 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
11122 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
11123 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
11124 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
11125 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
11126 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
11127 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
11128 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
11129 and features mentioned below.
11131 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
11132 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
11134 o Major features (security):
11135 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
11136 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
11137 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
11138 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
11139 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
11140 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
11141 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
11142 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
11143 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
11144 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
11146 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
11147 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
11148 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
11149 streams attached to each circuit.
11151 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
11152 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
11153 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
11154 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
11155 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
11156 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
11157 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
11158 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
11159 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
11160 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
11161 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
11162 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
11163 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
11165 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
11166 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
11167 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
11168 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
11170 o Major features (bridges and pluggable transports):
11171 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
11172 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
11173 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
11174 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
11175 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
11177 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
11178 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
11179 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
11180 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
11181 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
11182 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
11183 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
11184 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
11187 o Major features (controller):
11188 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
11189 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
11190 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
11191 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
11192 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
11193 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
11195 o Major features (relay performance):
11196 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
11197 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
11198 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
11199 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
11200 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
11201 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
11202 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
11203 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
11204 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
11205 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
11207 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
11208 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
11209 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
11210 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
11211 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
11212 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
11213 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
11214 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
11215 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
11216 Google Summer of Code. Resolves tickets 11351 and 11465.
11218 o Major features (testing networks):
11219 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
11220 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
11221 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
11222 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
11223 Implements ticket 8530.
11225 o Major features (other):
11226 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
11227 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
11228 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
11229 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
11230 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
11231 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
11233 o Deprecated versions:
11234 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
11235 attention for some while.
11237 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
11238 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
11239 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
11241 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
11242 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
11243 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
11244 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
11245 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
11246 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
11247 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
11248 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
11249 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
11250 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
11251 router's identity is not forgeable.
11253 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
11254 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
11255 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes
11256 bug 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
11258 o Major bugfixes (client):
11259 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
11260 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
11261 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
11262 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
11263 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
11264 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
11265 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
11266 to build circuits".
11268 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
11269 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
11270 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
11271 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
11274 o Major bugfixes (relay denial of service):
11275 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
11276 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
11277 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
11278 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
11279 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
11280 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11282 o Major bugfixes (relay):
11283 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
11284 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
11285 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
11286 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
11287 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
11288 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
11289 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
11290 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
11291 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
11292 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
11293 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11294 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
11295 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
11296 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
11297 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
11298 bugfix on every version of Tor.
11300 o Minor features (security):
11301 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
11302 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
11303 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
11304 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
11306 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
11307 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
11308 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
11309 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
11310 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
11311 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
11312 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
11314 o Minor features (security, memory management):
11315 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
11316 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
11317 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
11318 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
11319 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
11320 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
11322 o Minor features (bridge client):
11323 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
11324 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
11325 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
11327 o Minor features (bridge):
11328 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
11329 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
11331 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
11332 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
11333 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
11334 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
11335 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
11336 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
11337 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
11338 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
11339 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
11340 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
11341 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
11342 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
11343 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
11344 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
11345 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
11347 o Minor features (build):
11348 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
11349 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
11350 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
11351 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
11352 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
11353 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
11354 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
11355 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
11356 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
11357 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
11358 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
11359 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
11360 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
11361 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
11362 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
11365 o Minor features (client):
11366 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
11367 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
11368 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
11369 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
11371 o Minor features (config options and command line):
11372 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
11373 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
11374 Implements ticket 10060.
11375 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
11376 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
11377 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
11379 o Minor features (config options):
11380 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
11381 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
11382 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
11383 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
11384 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
11385 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
11386 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
11387 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
11388 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
11389 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
11390 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
11391 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
11392 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
11393 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
11394 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
11395 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
11396 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
11399 o Minor features (controller):
11400 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
11401 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
11403 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
11404 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
11405 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
11406 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
11407 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
11408 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
11409 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
11410 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
11412 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
11413 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
11414 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
11416 o Minor features (diagnostic):
11417 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
11418 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
11419 help diagnose bug 7164.
11420 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
11421 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
11422 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
11423 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
11424 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
11426 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
11427 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
11428 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
11429 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
11430 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
11431 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
11432 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
11433 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
11434 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
11435 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
11436 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
11437 still referenced by a live node_t object.
11438 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
11439 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
11440 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
11442 o Minor features (geoip):
11443 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
11446 o Minor features (interface):
11447 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
11448 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
11449 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
11450 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
11452 o Minor features (kernel API usage):
11453 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
11454 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
11456 o Minor features (log messages):
11457 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
11458 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
11459 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
11460 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
11461 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
11462 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
11463 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
11464 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
11466 o Minor features (log verbosity):
11467 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
11468 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
11469 Resolves ticket 5286.
11470 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
11471 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
11472 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
11473 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
11474 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
11475 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
11477 o Minor features (performance):
11478 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
11479 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
11480 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
11481 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
11482 Closes ticket 8109.
11484 o Minor features (relay):
11485 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
11486 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
11487 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
11489 o Minor features (testing):
11490 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
11491 the unit test scripts.
11492 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
11493 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
11494 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
11495 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
11497 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
11498 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
11499 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
11500 10267; patch from "yurivict".
11501 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
11502 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
11503 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
11504 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
11505 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
11506 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
11508 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
11509 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
11510 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
11511 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11513 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
11514 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
11515 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
11516 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
11517 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
11518 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
11519 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
11520 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
11521 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
11522 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
11524 o Minor bugfixes (build, auxiliary programs):
11525 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
11526 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
11528 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
11529 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
11530 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
11531 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
11532 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11534 o Minor bugfixes (client):
11535 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
11536 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
11537 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
11538 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
11539 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
11540 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
11541 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
11542 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
11543 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
11544 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
11545 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
11547 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
11548 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
11549 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
11550 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
11551 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
11552 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
11553 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
11554 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
11555 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
11556 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
11557 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
11558 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
11560 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
11561 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
11562 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
11563 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
11565 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
11566 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
11567 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
11568 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
11571 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
11572 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
11573 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
11574 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
11575 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
11576 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
11579 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
11580 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
11581 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
11582 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
11583 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
11585 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
11586 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
11587 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
11590 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
11591 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
11592 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
11593 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
11594 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
11595 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
11596 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
11597 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
11598 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
11599 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
11601 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
11602 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
11603 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
11604 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
11605 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
11607 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
11608 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11610 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11611 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
11612 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
11613 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
11614 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
11615 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
11616 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
11617 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
11618 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
11619 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
11620 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
11621 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
11622 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
11624 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
11625 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
11626 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
11627 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
11628 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
11629 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
11630 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
11631 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
11632 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
11633 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
11634 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
11635 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
11636 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
11638 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
11639 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
11640 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
11642 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
11643 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
11644 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
11645 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
11646 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
11647 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
11649 o Minor bugfixes (directory server):
11650 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
11651 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
11652 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
11653 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
11654 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
11655 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
11656 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
11657 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
11658 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
11660 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
11661 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
11662 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
11664 o Minor bugfixes (interface):
11665 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
11666 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
11667 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
11668 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
11670 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
11671 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
11672 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
11673 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
11674 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
11675 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
11676 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
11677 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
11678 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
11679 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
11680 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
11681 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
11682 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
11683 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
11685 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11686 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
11687 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
11688 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
11689 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
11690 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
11691 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
11692 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
11693 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
11695 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
11696 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
11697 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
11698 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
11699 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
11700 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
11701 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
11703 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
11704 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
11706 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
11707 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
11708 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
11709 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
11711 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
11712 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
11713 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
11714 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
11715 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
11716 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
11717 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
11718 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
11719 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
11720 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
11721 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
11722 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
11723 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
11724 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
11725 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
11726 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
11727 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
11729 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
11730 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
11731 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
11732 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
11733 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
11734 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
11735 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
11736 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
11739 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
11740 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
11741 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
11742 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
11743 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
11744 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
11745 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
11746 Reported by "mr-4".
11747 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
11748 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
11749 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
11750 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
11752 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
11753 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
11754 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
11755 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
11756 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
11757 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
11758 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
11759 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
11760 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
11761 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
11762 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
11763 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
11765 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
11766 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
11767 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
11769 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
11770 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
11771 early. Fixes bug 10081.
11773 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
11774 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
11775 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
11776 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
11779 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
11780 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
11781 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
11782 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
11785 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
11786 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
11787 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
11788 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
11790 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
11791 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
11792 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
11794 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
11795 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
11796 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
11797 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
11798 versions. Found by "skruffy".
11799 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
11800 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
11801 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
11804 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
11805 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
11806 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
11807 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
11808 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
11809 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
11810 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
11811 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
11812 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
11813 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
11814 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
11816 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11817 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
11818 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
11819 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
11820 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
11822 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
11823 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
11824 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
11825 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
11828 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
11829 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
11830 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
11831 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
11832 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
11833 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
11834 should never have affected anyone in practice.
11836 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11837 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
11838 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
11839 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
11840 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
11841 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
11842 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
11843 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
11844 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
11845 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
11846 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
11847 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
11848 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
11849 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
11850 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
11851 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
11852 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
11853 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
11854 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
11855 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
11856 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
11857 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
11858 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
11859 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
11861 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
11862 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
11863 embarrassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
11864 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
11865 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
11866 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
11867 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
11868 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
11869 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
11871 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
11872 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
11875 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
11876 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
11878 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
11880 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
11881 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
11882 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
11883 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
11884 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
11885 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
11887 - Correct the documentation so that it lists the correct directory
11888 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
11890 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
11891 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
11892 caches don't get confused.
11893 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
11894 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
11895 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
11896 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
11897 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
11898 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
11899 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
11900 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
11901 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
11902 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
11903 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
11904 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
11905 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
11906 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
11907 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
11908 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
11909 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
11910 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
11913 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
11914 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
11915 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
11916 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
11917 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
11919 o Removed code and features:
11920 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
11921 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
11922 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
11923 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
11924 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
11925 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
11927 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
11928 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
11929 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
11930 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
11931 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
11932 part of a fix for bug 10841.
11933 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
11934 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes bug 11742.
11935 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
11936 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
11937 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
11938 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
11940 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
11941 Resolves ticket 11070.
11942 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
11943 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
11944 the rest of bug 10841.
11945 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
11946 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
11947 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
11948 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
11950 o Test infrastructure:
11951 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
11952 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
11953 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
11954 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
11955 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
11956 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
11957 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
11958 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
11959 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
11960 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
11962 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
11963 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
11964 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
11965 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
11966 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
11967 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
11968 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
11969 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
11970 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
11971 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
11972 invoking the other functions it calls.
11975 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
11976 Patch from Dana Koch.
11977 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
11978 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
11979 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
11980 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
11982 o Distribution (systemd):
11983 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
11984 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
11985 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
11986 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
11987 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
11988 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
11989 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
11990 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
11991 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
11992 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
11993 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
11994 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
11995 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
11999 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
12000 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
12001 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
12002 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
12003 (which does affect Tor).
12005 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
12006 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
12007 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
12008 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
12010 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
12011 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
12012 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
12013 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
12016 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
12017 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
12018 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
12019 the directory authorities.
12022 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
12023 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
12024 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
12025 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
12026 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
12027 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
12028 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
12029 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
12030 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
12031 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
12032 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
12033 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
12035 o Directory authority changes:
12036 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
12038 o Minor features (geoip):
12039 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
12043 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
12044 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
12045 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
12046 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
12049 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
12050 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
12051 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
12052 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
12053 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
12054 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
12055 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
12056 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
12057 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
12058 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
12061 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
12062 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
12063 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
12064 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
12065 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
12066 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
12067 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
12068 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
12072 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
12073 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
12074 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
12075 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
12076 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
12077 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
12078 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
12079 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
12080 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
12081 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
12082 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
12083 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
12084 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
12087 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
12091 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
12092 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
12093 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
12094 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
12095 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
12096 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
12097 of RAM, and several others.
12099 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
12100 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
12101 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
12102 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
12103 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
12105 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
12106 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
12107 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
12108 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
12111 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
12112 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
12113 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
12114 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
12115 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
12116 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
12117 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
12118 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
12119 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
12120 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
12121 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
12122 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
12123 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
12124 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
12125 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
12126 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
12127 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
12128 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
12129 Resolves ticket 11438.
12131 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
12132 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
12133 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
12134 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
12135 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
12136 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
12138 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
12139 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
12140 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
12142 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
12143 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
12144 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
12146 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
12147 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
12148 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
12149 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12151 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
12152 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
12153 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
12155 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
12156 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
12157 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
12160 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
12161 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
12162 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
12163 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
12166 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
12167 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
12168 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
12169 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
12171 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
12172 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
12173 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
12174 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
12176 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
12177 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
12178 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
12182 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
12183 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
12184 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
12185 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
12187 o Major features (client security):
12188 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
12189 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
12190 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
12191 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
12192 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
12193 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
12196 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
12197 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
12198 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
12199 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
12201 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12202 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
12203 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
12204 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
12205 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
12208 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
12209 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
12211 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
12212 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
12213 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
12214 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
12215 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
12216 GeoLite2 Country database.
12219 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
12220 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
12221 bugfix on every released Tor.
12222 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
12223 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
12224 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
12225 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
12226 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
12227 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
12228 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
12229 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
12230 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
12231 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
12232 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
12233 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
12234 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
12235 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
12236 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
12238 o Documentation fixes:
12239 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
12240 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
12243 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
12244 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
12245 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
12246 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
12247 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
12248 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
12249 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
12251 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
12252 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
12255 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
12256 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
12257 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
12258 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
12259 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
12260 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
12261 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
12262 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
12264 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
12265 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
12266 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
12267 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
12268 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
12269 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
12272 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
12273 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
12274 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
12275 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
12276 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
12279 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
12280 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
12281 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
12282 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
12283 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
12284 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
12285 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
12286 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
12288 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
12289 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
12290 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
12291 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
12292 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
12293 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
12294 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
12295 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
12296 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
12297 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
12298 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
12299 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
12300 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
12301 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
12302 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
12303 security, and privacy fixes.
12305 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
12306 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
12307 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
12308 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
12309 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
12310 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
12311 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
12312 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
12313 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
12314 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
12315 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
12317 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
12318 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
12319 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
12321 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
12323 o Major features (better link encryption):
12324 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
12325 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
12326 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
12327 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
12328 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
12329 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
12332 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
12333 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
12334 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
12335 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
12337 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
12339 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
12340 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
12341 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
12342 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
12343 them to solve bug 6033.)
12345 o Major features (relay performance):
12346 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
12347 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
12348 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
12349 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
12350 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
12351 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
12352 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
12353 - Relays process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
12354 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
12355 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
12356 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
12357 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
12358 Implements ticket 9574.
12360 o Major features (client bootstrapping resilience):
12361 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
12362 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
12363 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
12364 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
12365 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
12366 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
12367 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
12368 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
12369 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
12370 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
12371 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
12372 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
12373 95th-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
12374 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
12375 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
12377 o Major features (use of guards):
12378 - Support directory guards (proposal 207): when possible, clients now
12379 use their entry guards for non-anonymous directory requests. This
12380 can help prevent client enumeration. Note that this behavior only
12381 works when we have a usable consensus directory, and when options
12382 about what to download are more or less standard. In the future we
12383 should re-bootstrap from our guards, rather than re-bootstrapping
12384 from the preconfigured list of directory sources that ships with
12385 Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
12386 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
12387 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
12388 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
12389 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
12390 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
12391 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
12393 o Major features (bridges with pluggable transports):
12394 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
12395 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
12396 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
12398 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
12399 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
12402 o Major features (geoip database):
12403 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
12404 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
12405 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
12406 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
12407 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
12408 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
12410 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
12412 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
12414 o Major features (IPv6):
12415 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
12416 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
12417 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
12418 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
12419 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
12420 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
12421 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
12422 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
12423 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
12424 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait for enough
12425 exits to support IPv6, apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort,
12426 and use Socks5. Closes ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as
12427 revised in proposal 208.
12428 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
12429 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
12430 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports. Implements ticket 6363.
12432 o Major features (directory authorities):
12433 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
12434 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
12436 - Directory authorities that vote measured bandwidths about more
12437 than a threshold number of relays now treat relays with
12438 unmeasured bandwidths as having bandwidth 0 when computing their
12439 flags. Resolves ticket 8435.
12440 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
12441 where they cap the published bandwidth of relays for which
12442 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
12443 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
12444 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
12445 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
12446 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
12448 o Major features (build and portability):
12449 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
12450 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
12451 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
12452 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
12453 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
12454 fixes by Jim Meyering.
12455 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
12456 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
12457 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
12458 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
12459 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
12460 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
12462 o Security features:
12463 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
12464 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
12465 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
12466 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
12467 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
12468 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
12469 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
12470 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
12471 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
12474 o Major bugfixes (relay denial of service):
12475 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
12476 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits that have the oldest
12477 queued cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for
12478 us running low on memory. This prevents us from running out of
12479 memory as a relay if circuits fill up faster than they can be
12480 drained. Fixes bugs 9063 and 9093; bugfix on the 54th commit of
12481 Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was
12482 merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
12483 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
12484 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
12485 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
12486 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
12487 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
12488 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
12489 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
12490 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
12491 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
12493 o Major bugfixes (asserts, crashes, leaks):
12494 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
12495 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
12496 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
12498 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
12499 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
12500 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
12502 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
12503 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
12504 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
12505 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
12506 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
12507 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
12508 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
12509 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
12510 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
12512 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
12513 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
12515 o Major bugfixes (relay rate limiting):
12516 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
12517 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
12518 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug 7708;
12519 bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
12520 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
12521 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
12522 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
12523 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
12524 last time we raised it).
12525 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
12526 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
12527 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
12529 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
12530 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
12531 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
12532 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
12533 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
12534 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
12535 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
12536 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
12537 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
12538 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
12539 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
12540 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
12541 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
12543 o Major bugfixes (stream isolation):
12544 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
12545 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
12546 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
12547 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
12548 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
12549 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
12550 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
12551 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
12552 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
12553 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
12554 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
12555 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
12557 o Major bugfixes (client circuit building):
12558 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
12559 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
12560 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
12561 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
12562 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
12563 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
12564 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
12565 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
12567 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
12568 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
12569 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
12570 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
12571 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
12572 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
12573 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
12574 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
12575 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
12576 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
12577 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
12578 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
12579 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
12580 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
12581 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
12582 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
12583 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
12586 o Major bugfixes (hidden service privacy):
12587 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
12588 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
12589 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
12591 o Major bugfixes (directory fetching):
12592 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
12593 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
12594 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
12596 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
12597 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
12598 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
12599 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
12600 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
12601 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
12604 o Major bugfixes (bridge reachability):
12605 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
12606 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
12607 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
12608 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
12609 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
12610 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
12612 o Major bugfixes (control interface):
12613 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
12614 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
12615 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
12617 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
12618 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
12619 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
12620 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
12621 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
12622 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
12623 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
12624 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
12626 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
12627 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
12628 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
12630 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
12631 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
12632 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12634 o Internal abstraction features:
12635 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
12636 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
12637 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
12638 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
12639 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
12640 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
12641 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
12642 - Make a channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it to the
12643 existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
12644 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
12645 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
12646 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
12647 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
12648 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
12649 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
12650 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
12651 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
12653 o New build requirements:
12654 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
12655 strongly recommended.
12656 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
12657 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
12658 from a source distribution.)
12660 o Minor features (protocol):
12661 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
12662 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
12664 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
12665 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
12666 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
12667 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
12668 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
12669 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
12670 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
12671 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
12672 closes ticket 7199.
12673 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
12674 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
12676 o Minor features (security):
12677 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
12678 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
12679 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
12680 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
12681 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
12682 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
12683 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
12684 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
12685 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
12687 o Minor features (control protocol):
12688 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
12690 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
12691 Implements ticket 4971.
12692 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
12693 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
12694 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
12695 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
12696 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
12698 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
12699 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
12701 o Minor features (path selection):
12702 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
12703 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
12704 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
12705 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
12706 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
12707 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
12708 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
12709 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
12710 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
12711 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
12712 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
12713 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
12714 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
12715 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
12717 o Minor features (hidden services):
12718 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
12719 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
12720 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
12721 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
12722 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
12723 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
12724 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
12725 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
12726 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
12727 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
12728 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
12729 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
12730 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
12732 o Minor features (clients):
12733 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2.x bridges when making
12734 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
12735 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
12736 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
12737 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
12738 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
12739 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
12740 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
12741 the ORPort and the DirPort.
12743 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
12744 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
12745 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
12746 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
12747 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
12748 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
12749 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
12750 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
12751 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
12752 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
12753 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
12754 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
12755 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
12756 Implements part of proposal 222.
12758 o Minor features (bridges):
12759 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
12760 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
12761 bugs 1913 and 1992.
12762 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
12763 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
12764 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
12765 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
12766 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
12767 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
12768 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
12769 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
12770 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
12771 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
12772 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
12774 o Minor features (relays):
12775 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
12776 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
12778 o Minor features (IPv6, client side):
12779 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
12780 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
12781 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
12782 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
12783 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
12784 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
12785 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
12786 connect to the wrong addresses.
12787 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
12788 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
12789 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
12790 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
12793 o Minor features (IPv6, relay/authority side):
12794 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
12795 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
12796 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
12797 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
12798 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
12800 o Minor features (directory authorities):
12801 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
12802 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
12803 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
12805 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
12806 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
12807 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
12808 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
12809 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
12810 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
12812 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
12813 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
12814 Implements ticket 8151.
12815 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
12816 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
12817 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
12818 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
12820 o Minor features (path bias detection):
12821 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
12822 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
12823 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
12824 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
12825 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
12826 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
12827 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
12828 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
12829 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
12830 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
12831 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
12832 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
12833 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
12834 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
12835 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
12836 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
12837 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
12838 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
12839 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
12840 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
12841 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
12842 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
12843 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
12844 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
12845 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
12846 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
12847 detection capability loss.
12849 o Minor features (build):
12850 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
12851 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
12852 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
12854 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
12855 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
12856 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
12858 o Build improvements (autotools):
12859 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
12860 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
12861 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
12863 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
12864 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
12865 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
12866 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
12868 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
12869 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
12870 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
12871 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
12872 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
12873 than to perform erroneously.
12874 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
12876 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
12877 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
12878 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
12880 o Minor features (log messages, warnings):
12881 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
12882 one we compiled with. This conflict has occasionally given people
12883 hard-to-track-down errors.
12884 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
12885 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
12886 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
12887 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
12888 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
12889 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
12890 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
12891 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
12892 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
12893 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
12894 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
12896 o Minor features (log messages, notices):
12897 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
12898 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
12899 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
12900 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
12901 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
12902 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
12903 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
12904 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
12905 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
12907 o Minor features (log messages, diagnostics):
12908 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
12909 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
12910 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
12911 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
12912 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
12913 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
12914 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
12915 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
12916 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
12917 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
12918 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
12919 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
12921 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
12922 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
12923 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
12924 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
12925 or at least make it more diagnosable.
12926 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
12927 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
12928 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
12929 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
12931 o Minor features (log messages, quieter bootstrapping):
12932 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
12933 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
12934 part of ticket 6736.
12935 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
12936 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
12937 Resolves ticket 6758.
12938 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
12939 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
12940 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
12941 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
12942 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
12943 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
12944 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
12946 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
12947 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
12948 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
12949 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
12951 o Minor features (testing):
12952 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
12953 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
12955 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
12956 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
12957 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
12960 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
12961 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
12963 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
12964 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
12965 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
12966 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
12967 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
12968 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
12969 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
12970 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
12971 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
12972 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
12973 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
12974 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
12975 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
12976 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
12977 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
12978 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
12979 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy".
12981 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls and disk interaction):
12982 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
12983 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
12984 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
12985 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
12986 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
12987 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
12988 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
12989 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
12990 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
12991 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors that
12992 include an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on
12993 0.2.0.1-alpha. Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
12994 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
12995 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
12996 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
12997 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
12998 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
12999 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
13000 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
13003 o Minor fixes (config options):
13004 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
13005 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
13006 or we just won't work.)
13007 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
13008 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
13009 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
13010 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
13011 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
13012 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
13013 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
13014 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13015 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
13016 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
13017 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
13018 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13019 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
13020 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
13021 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
13022 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
13023 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
13024 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
13025 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
13027 o Minor bugfixes (control protocol):
13028 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
13029 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
13031 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
13032 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
13033 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
13034 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha.
13036 o Minor bugfixes (clients / edges):
13037 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
13038 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
13039 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
13040 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
13041 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
13042 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
13043 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
13044 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
13045 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
13046 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
13047 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
13048 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
13049 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
13050 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
13051 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
13054 o Minor bugfixes (path bias detection):
13055 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
13056 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
13057 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
13058 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
13059 Should help resolve bug 8235.
13060 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
13061 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
13062 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
13063 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
13064 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
13065 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
13066 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
13067 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
13068 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
13069 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
13070 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
13072 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
13073 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
13074 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
13075 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
13076 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
13077 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
13078 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
13079 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
13081 o Minor bugfixes (blocking resistance):
13082 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
13083 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
13084 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
13086 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
13087 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
13088 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
13089 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
13090 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
13092 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
13093 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
13094 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
13095 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13096 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
13097 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
13099 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
13100 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
13101 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
13102 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
13103 on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 7816.
13104 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
13105 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha; fixes bug 7816.
13106 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
13107 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
13109 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
13110 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
13111 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
13112 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
13113 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13114 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
13115 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
13116 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
13117 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
13118 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
13119 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
13120 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
13122 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
13123 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
13124 this is CID 718634.
13125 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
13126 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
13127 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
13128 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
13130 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
13131 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
13133 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
13134 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
13135 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
13136 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
13137 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
13138 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
13139 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
13140 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13141 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
13142 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
13143 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
13144 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
13145 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
13146 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
13147 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
13148 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
13149 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
13150 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
13152 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, warnings):
13153 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
13154 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
13155 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
13156 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
13157 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
13158 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
13159 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
13160 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
13161 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
13162 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
13163 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
13164 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
13167 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, other):
13168 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
13169 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
13170 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
13171 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
13173 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
13174 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
13175 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
13176 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
13177 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
13178 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13179 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
13180 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
13181 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
13184 o Minor bugfixes (build):
13185 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
13186 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
13187 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13189 o Documentation fixes:
13190 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
13191 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
13192 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
13193 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
13194 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
13195 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
13196 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
13198 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
13199 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
13200 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
13201 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
13202 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
13203 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
13204 message is logged at notice, not at info.
13205 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
13206 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
13207 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
13208 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
13209 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
13210 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
13212 o Removed features:
13213 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
13214 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
13215 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
13217 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
13218 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer; warning
13219 the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket 6826.
13220 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
13221 need to work around their missing features. Remove a bunch of
13222 compatibility code.
13225 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
13226 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
13228 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
13229 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
13231 o Code simplification:
13232 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
13233 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
13234 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
13235 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
13237 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
13238 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
13240 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
13241 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
13242 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
13243 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
13244 present the same extensions.)
13245 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
13247 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
13248 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
13249 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
13250 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
13252 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
13253 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
13254 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
13255 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
13258 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
13260 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
13261 and the different handshakes it supports.
13262 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
13263 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
13264 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
13265 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
13267 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
13268 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
13269 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
13270 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
13271 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
13272 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
13273 testable, and a little less fragile too.
13274 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
13275 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
13276 Implements ticket 5529.
13277 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
13278 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
13279 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
13282 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
13283 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
13284 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
13285 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
13286 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
13287 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13288 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
13289 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
13290 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
13291 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
13292 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
13293 any encoding is overkill.
13294 - Remove the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
13295 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
13296 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
13297 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
13298 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
13299 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
13300 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
13301 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
13302 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
13305 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
13306 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
13307 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
13308 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
13309 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
13310 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
13311 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
13312 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
13314 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
13315 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
13316 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
13317 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
13318 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
13319 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
13320 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
13321 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
13322 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
13323 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
13324 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
13326 Major features (v3 directory protocol):
13327 - Clients now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
13328 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
13329 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change very
13330 rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is designed
13331 to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
13332 connections. Use "UseMicrodescriptors 0" to disable it.
13333 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors, as well
13334 as multiple "flavors" of the consensus, including a flavor that
13335 describes microdescriptors.
13337 o Major features (build hardening):
13338 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
13340 o Major features (relay scaling):
13341 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
13342 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
13343 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
13344 much faster than other AES implementations.
13345 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
13346 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
13347 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
13348 Resolves ticket 4526.
13349 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
13350 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
13352 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
13353 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
13354 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
13355 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
13357 o Major features (blocking resistance):
13358 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
13360 - Remove support for clients falsely claiming to support standard
13361 ciphersuites that they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL
13362 versions, it's not necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite,
13363 and doing so prevents us from using better ciphersuites in the
13364 future, since servers can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite
13365 is really supported or not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very
13366 old versions of OpenSSL or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC
13367 disabled -- will stand out because of this change; TBB users should
13368 not be affected. Implements the client side of proposal 198.
13369 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
13370 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
13371 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
13372 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
13373 - Allow variable-length padding cells, to disguise the length of
13374 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
13375 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
13376 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
13377 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
13378 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
13380 o Major features (pluggable transports):
13381 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
13382 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
13383 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins.
13384 Implements proposal 180 (tickets 2841 and 3472).
13386 o Major features (DoS resistance):
13387 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
13388 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
13389 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
13390 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
13391 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
13392 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
13393 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
13394 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
13395 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
13396 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
13397 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0.
13399 o Major features (hidden services):
13400 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
13401 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
13402 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
13404 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
13405 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
13406 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
13407 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
13408 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
13409 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
13411 o Major features (IPv6):
13412 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
13413 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
13414 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
13415 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
13416 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
13418 o Major features (directory authorities):
13419 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
13420 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
13421 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
13422 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
13423 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
13424 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
13425 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
13426 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
13427 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
13428 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
13430 o Major features (performance):
13431 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
13432 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the
13433 stream was connected, which slowed down all connections. This
13434 change will enable clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams
13435 and send data without having to wait for a confirmation that the
13436 stream has opened. Patch from Ian Goldberg; implements the server
13437 side of Proposal 174.
13438 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
13439 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
13440 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
13441 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
13442 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
13443 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
13444 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
13445 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
13446 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
13447 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
13448 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
13449 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
13451 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
13452 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
13453 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
13454 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
13455 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
13458 o Major features (relays):
13459 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
13460 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
13461 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
13462 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
13463 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
13464 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
13465 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
13467 o Major features (stream isolation):
13468 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
13469 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
13470 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
13471 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
13472 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
13473 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
13474 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
13475 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
13476 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
13477 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
13478 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
13479 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
13480 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
13481 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
13483 o Major features (bufferevents):
13484 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
13485 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
13486 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
13487 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
13488 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
13489 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
13490 zero-copy transports where available.
13491 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
13492 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
13493 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
13494 no effect unless Tor has been built with bufferevents enabled,
13495 you're running on Windows, and you've set "DisableIOCP 0". In the
13496 long run, this may help solve or mitigate bug 98.
13498 o Major features (path selection):
13499 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
13500 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these
13501 options because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up
13502 to date. Addresses ticket 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved
13505 o Major features (port forwarding):
13506 - Add support for automatic port mapping on the many home routers
13507 that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. To build the support code, you'll
13508 need to have the libnatpnp library and/or the libminiupnpc library,
13509 and you'll need to enable the feature specifically by passing
13510 "--enable-upnp" and/or "--enable-natpnp" to ./configure. To turn
13511 it on, use the new PortForwarding option.
13513 o Major features (logging):
13514 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
13515 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
13516 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
13517 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
13518 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
13519 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
13520 Implements enhancement 1668.
13522 o Major features (other):
13523 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
13524 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
13525 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
13526 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
13527 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
13528 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
13529 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
13530 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
13531 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
13532 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
13533 software warned about binding to UDP sockets regardless of
13534 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
13535 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
13536 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
13537 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
13538 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
13539 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
13540 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
13541 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
13542 reloads both files. Implements task 4552.
13544 o New directory authorities:
13545 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
13546 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
13548 o Security/privacy fixes:
13549 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
13550 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
13551 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13552 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
13553 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
13554 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
13555 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
13556 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the TLS
13557 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
13558 - The advertised platform of a relay now includes only its operating
13559 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not
13560 its service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture
13561 (for Unix). Also drop the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Packagers
13562 can insert an extra string in the platform line by setting the
13563 preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG. Resolves bug 2988.
13564 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
13565 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
13566 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
13567 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
13568 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
13569 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
13570 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
13571 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
13572 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
13573 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
13574 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
13575 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
13576 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
13577 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
13578 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
13579 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
13581 o Major bugfixes (crashes and asserts):
13582 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
13583 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
13584 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
13585 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
13586 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
13587 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
13588 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13589 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
13590 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
13591 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
13592 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
13593 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
13594 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
13597 o Major bugfixes (clients):
13598 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
13599 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
13600 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
13601 which introduced predicted ports.
13602 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
13603 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
13604 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
13605 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
13606 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
13607 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
13608 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
13609 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
13610 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
13612 o Major bugfixes (directory voting):
13613 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
13614 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
13615 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
13616 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
13617 but would let it pass otherwise. Partially fixes bug 5786; bugfix
13619 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
13620 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
13621 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
13622 value; now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Fixes the
13623 rest of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
13624 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
13625 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
13626 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
13627 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
13628 documents entirely.
13630 o Major bugfixes (relays):
13631 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
13632 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
13633 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
13634 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
13635 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
13636 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
13637 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
13638 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
13639 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by Bryon Eldridge, who also helped
13640 immensely in tracking this bug down.
13641 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
13642 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
13643 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
13644 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
13645 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
13646 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
13647 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
13649 o Major bugfixes (blocking resistance):
13650 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
13651 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
13652 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
13653 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
13654 cells were introduced.
13655 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
13656 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
13657 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
13658 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
13660 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
13661 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
13662 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
13663 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
13664 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
13665 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
13666 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
13667 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
13668 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
13669 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
13670 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
13671 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
13672 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
13673 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
13674 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
13675 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
13676 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
13677 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
13678 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
13679 Fixes part of bug 3825.
13681 o Changes to default torrc file:
13682 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
13683 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
13685 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
13686 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
13687 - Document unit of bandwidth-related options in sample torrc.
13689 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
13690 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
13691 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
13693 o Minor features (directory authorities):
13694 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
13695 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
13696 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
13697 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
13698 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
13699 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
13700 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
13701 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
13702 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
13703 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
13704 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
13705 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
13706 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
13707 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
13708 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
13711 o Minor features (bridges / bridge authorities):
13712 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
13713 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
13714 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
13715 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
13716 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
13717 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
13718 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
13719 sure. Closes bug 5139.
13720 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
13721 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
13722 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
13723 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
13724 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
13726 o Minor features (IPv6):
13727 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
13728 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
13729 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
13730 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
13731 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
13732 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
13734 o Minor features (hidden services):
13735 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
13736 Required by fix for bug 3460.
13737 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
13738 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
13739 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
13740 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
13741 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
13742 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
13743 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
13744 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
13745 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
13747 o Minor features (relays):
13748 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
13749 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
13750 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
13751 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
13752 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
13753 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
13754 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
13755 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
13756 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
13757 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
13758 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
13761 o Minor features (new config options):
13762 - New config option "DynamicDHGroups" (disabled by default) provides
13763 each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus to be used during
13764 SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help against censors
13765 who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static identifier for
13766 bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
13767 - New config option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
13768 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
13769 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
13770 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
13771 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
13772 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
13773 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
13775 o Minor features (different behavior for old config options):
13776 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
13777 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
13778 Implements issue 933.
13779 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
13780 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
13781 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
13782 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
13783 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
13784 implements ticket 3439.
13785 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
13786 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
13787 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
13788 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
13789 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
13790 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
13791 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
13792 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
13794 o Minor features (new command-line config behavior):
13795 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
13796 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
13797 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
13798 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
13799 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
13800 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
13801 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
13802 appending to the list.
13803 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
13804 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
13805 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
13806 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
13809 o Minor features (controller, new events):
13810 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
13811 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
13812 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
13813 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
13814 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
13815 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
13817 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
13818 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
13819 circuit-status' control-port command.
13820 - Add a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
13821 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
13822 user. Implements ticket 1692.
13823 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
13824 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
13825 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
13827 o Minor features (controller, new getinfo options):
13828 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
13829 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
13830 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
13831 it's dormant (bug 4718). Resolves ticket 5954.
13832 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
13833 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
13834 - Implement new GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
13835 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
13837 o Minor features (controller, other):
13838 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
13839 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
13840 part of ticket 3457.
13841 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
13842 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
13843 file. Resolves bug 1101.
13844 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
13845 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
13847 o Minor features (log messages):
13848 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
13849 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
13850 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
13851 please let us know about it.
13852 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
13853 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
13854 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
13855 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
13856 Resolves ticket 2474.
13857 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
13858 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
13860 o Minor features (other):
13861 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
13862 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
13863 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
13864 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
13866 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
13867 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
13868 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
13869 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
13870 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
13871 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
13872 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
13874 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
13875 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
13876 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
13877 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
13878 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
13880 o Minor bugfixes (code security):
13881 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
13882 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
13883 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
13884 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
13885 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
13886 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
13887 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
13888 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
13889 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
13890 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
13891 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
13892 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
13893 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
13894 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
13895 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
13898 o Minor bugfixes (wrapper functions):
13899 - Abort if tor_vasprintf() fails in connection_printf_to_buf() (a
13900 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
13901 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
13902 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
13903 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
13904 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
13905 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
13906 tor_inet_ntop(). Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
13908 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
13909 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
13910 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
13911 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
13912 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
13913 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
13914 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
13915 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
13916 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
13917 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
13919 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
13920 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
13921 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13922 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
13923 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
13924 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
13925 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
13926 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
13927 nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes bug 5916; bugfix on Tor
13929 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
13930 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
13931 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
13932 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
13933 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
13934 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
13935 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
13936 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
13937 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
13939 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
13940 - Allow one-hop directory-fetching circuits the full "circuit build
13941 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
13942 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
13943 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
13944 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
13945 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
13947 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
13948 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
13949 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
13950 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
13952 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
13953 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
13954 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
13955 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
13956 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
13957 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
13958 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
13959 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
13960 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
13961 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
13962 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
13963 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
13966 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority / mirrors):
13967 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
13968 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13969 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
13970 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
13971 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
13973 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
13974 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
13975 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
13976 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
13977 and relays all have an uptime of zero, so the private Tor network
13978 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
13979 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
13980 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
13981 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
13982 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
13983 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
13984 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
13985 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
13986 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
13987 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
13989 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services, client-side):
13990 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
13991 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
13992 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
13993 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
13994 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
13996 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
13997 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
13998 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
13999 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
14000 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
14001 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
14002 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
14003 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
14004 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
14005 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
14006 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
14007 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
14008 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
14009 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
14010 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
14012 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services, service-side):
14013 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
14014 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
14015 be disabled using the new
14016 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
14017 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
14018 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
14019 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
14020 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
14021 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
14022 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
14024 o Minor bugfixes (config option behavior):
14025 - If the user tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
14026 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
14027 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
14028 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
14029 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
14030 the absence of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
14032 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
14033 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
14034 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
14035 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
14036 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
14037 - Make "LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0" work more reliably. Specifically,
14038 don't depend on the consensus parameters or compute adaptive
14039 timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049; bugfix on
14041 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
14042 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
14043 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
14044 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
14045 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
14046 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
14047 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
14048 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
14050 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
14051 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
14052 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
14053 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
14054 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
14055 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
14056 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
14057 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
14059 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
14060 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
14061 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
14062 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
14064 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
14065 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
14066 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
14068 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
14069 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36.
14071 o Minor bugfixes (network reading/writing):
14072 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
14073 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
14074 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
14075 case for flushing marked connections.
14076 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
14077 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
14078 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
14079 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
14080 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
14081 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
14082 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
14083 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
14084 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
14085 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
14087 o Minor bugfixes (other):
14088 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
14089 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
14090 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
14091 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
14092 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
14093 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
14094 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
14095 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
14096 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
14097 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
14099 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
14100 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
14101 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
14102 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
14103 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
14105 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, path selection):
14106 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
14107 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
14108 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
14109 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
14110 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
14111 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
14112 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
14113 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
14114 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
14115 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
14116 - Issue a log message if a guard completes less than 40% of your
14117 circuits. Threshold is configurable by torrc option
14118 PathBiasNoticeRate and consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is
14119 additional, off-by-default code to disable guards which fail too
14120 many circuits. Addresses ticket 5458.
14122 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, client):
14123 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
14124 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
14125 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
14126 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
14127 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
14128 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
14129 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
14130 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
14131 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
14132 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
14133 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
14134 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
14135 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
14136 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
14137 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
14138 Implements ticket 3264.
14139 - We now log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements
14141 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
14142 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
14143 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
14144 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
14145 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
14146 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
14148 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, non-client):
14149 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
14150 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
14151 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
14152 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
14153 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
14154 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
14155 them from the other auths.
14156 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
14157 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
14158 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
14159 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14160 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
14161 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
14162 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
14163 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
14167 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
14168 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
14169 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
14171 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
14172 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
14173 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
14174 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
14175 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
14176 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal() function.
14177 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
14178 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
14180 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
14181 ./src/test/bench binary.
14182 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
14183 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
14184 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
14185 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
14188 o Build improvements:
14189 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
14190 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
14191 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
14192 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
14193 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
14194 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
14195 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
14196 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
14197 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
14198 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
14199 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
14200 - Our autogen.sh script now uses autoreconf to launch autoconf,
14201 automake, and so on. This is more robust against some of the failure
14202 modes associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
14203 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
14204 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
14205 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
14206 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
14207 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
14208 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
14209 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
14211 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
14213 o Build requirements:
14214 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
14215 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
14216 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
14217 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
14218 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
14219 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
14220 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
14221 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
14222 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
14223 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
14224 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
14225 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
14226 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
14228 o Build fixes (compile/link):
14229 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
14230 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
14232 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
14233 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
14234 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
14235 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
14236 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
14237 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
14238 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
14239 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
14240 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
14242 o Build fixes (other):
14243 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
14244 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
14246 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
14247 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
14248 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
14249 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14250 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
14251 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
14252 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
14253 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
14255 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
14256 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
14259 o Packaging (RPM) changes:
14260 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
14261 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
14262 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
14263 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
14264 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
14265 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it
14266 is not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
14268 o Code refactoring (safety):
14269 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
14270 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
14271 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
14272 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
14273 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
14274 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
14275 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
14276 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
14277 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
14278 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
14279 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
14280 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
14282 o Code refactoring (consolidate):
14283 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
14284 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
14285 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
14286 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
14287 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
14288 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
14289 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
14290 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
14291 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
14292 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
14293 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
14294 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
14295 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
14296 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
14297 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
14298 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
14299 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
14301 o Code refactoring (separate):
14302 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
14303 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
14304 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
14306 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
14307 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
14310 o Code refactoring (name changes):
14311 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
14312 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
14313 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
14314 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
14315 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
14316 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
14317 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
14319 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
14320 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
14321 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
14322 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
14323 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
14324 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
14325 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
14326 invalid value, rather than just -1.
14327 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
14328 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
14329 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
14331 o Code refactoring (other):
14332 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
14333 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
14335 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
14336 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
14337 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
14338 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
14339 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
14340 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
14341 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
14342 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
14343 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
14344 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
14345 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
14346 our library structure used to force them to link it.
14348 o Removed features and files:
14349 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
14350 it would be a bad idea to start.
14351 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
14353 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
14354 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
14355 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
14356 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
14357 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
14358 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
14359 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
14360 are no longer in use as relays.
14361 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
14362 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
14363 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
14364 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
14365 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
14366 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
14370 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
14371 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
14372 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
14374 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new semantics for
14375 overriding, extending, and clearing lists of options. Closes
14377 - Add missing man page documentation for consensus and microdesc
14378 files. Resolves ticket 6732.
14379 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
14381 o Documentation fixes:
14382 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
14383 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
14384 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
14385 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
14386 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
14387 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
14388 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
14389 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
14392 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
14393 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
14397 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
14398 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
14399 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
14400 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
14401 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
14402 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
14403 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
14407 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
14408 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
14409 attack that could in theory leak path information.
14412 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
14413 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
14414 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
14415 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
14416 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
14417 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
14418 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
14419 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
14420 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
14421 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
14422 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
14423 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
14424 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
14425 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
14428 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
14429 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
14430 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
14434 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
14435 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
14436 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
14437 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
14438 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
14439 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
14440 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
14441 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
14442 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
14443 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
14444 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14447 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
14448 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
14451 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
14452 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
14455 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
14456 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
14457 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
14458 and fixes several crash bugs.
14460 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
14461 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
14462 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
14463 those packages and upgrade anyway.
14465 o Directory authority changes:
14466 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
14467 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
14471 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
14472 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
14473 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
14474 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
14475 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
14476 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
14477 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
14478 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
14479 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
14480 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
14481 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
14482 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
14483 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
14484 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
14485 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
14486 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
14487 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
14488 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
14489 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
14490 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
14491 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
14492 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
14493 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
14494 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
14495 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
14496 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
14497 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
14500 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
14501 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
14502 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
14503 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
14505 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
14506 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
14508 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
14509 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
14510 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
14511 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
14512 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
14513 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
14514 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
14515 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
14518 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
14519 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
14520 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
14521 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
14522 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
14523 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
14524 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
14525 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
14526 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
14527 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
14528 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
14529 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
14530 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
14531 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
14532 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
14533 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
14534 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
14535 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
14536 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
14537 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
14538 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
14539 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
14540 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
14541 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
14542 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
14543 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
14544 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
14545 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
14546 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
14547 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
14548 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
14549 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
14550 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
14551 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
14552 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
14553 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
14554 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
14555 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
14556 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
14557 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
14558 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
14559 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
14560 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
14561 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
14562 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
14563 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
14565 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
14566 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
14567 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
14568 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
14569 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
14570 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
14571 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
14572 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
14573 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
14574 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
14575 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14576 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
14577 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
14578 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
14579 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
14582 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
14583 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
14584 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
14585 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
14587 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
14590 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
14591 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
14592 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
14593 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
14594 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
14595 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
14596 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
14599 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
14600 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
14601 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
14603 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
14604 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
14605 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
14606 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
14607 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
14608 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
14609 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
14610 (which Tor does not do by default).
14612 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
14613 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
14614 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
14615 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
14616 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
14618 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
14619 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
14620 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
14623 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
14624 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
14625 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
14626 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
14627 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
14629 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
14630 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
14633 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
14634 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
14635 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
14636 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
14637 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
14638 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
14639 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
14640 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
14642 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
14643 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
14644 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
14645 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
14646 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
14647 close based on processing a cell on it.
14648 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
14649 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
14650 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
14651 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
14652 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
14653 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
14654 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
14655 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
14656 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
14657 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
14658 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
14659 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
14660 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
14661 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
14662 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
14665 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
14666 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
14667 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
14668 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
14669 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
14670 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
14671 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
14673 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
14674 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
14675 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
14676 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
14677 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
14678 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
14679 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
14680 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
14681 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14682 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
14683 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
14684 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
14685 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
14686 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
14687 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
14688 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
14689 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
14690 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
14691 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
14692 Reported by "troll_un".
14693 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
14694 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
14695 Reported by "troll_un".
14696 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
14697 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
14698 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
14699 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
14702 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
14703 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
14704 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
14705 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
14706 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
14707 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
14708 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
14709 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
14710 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
14711 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
14712 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
14714 o Packaging changes:
14715 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
14716 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
14719 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
14720 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
14721 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
14722 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
14723 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
14725 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
14726 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
14728 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
14729 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
14730 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
14731 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
14732 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
14733 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
14734 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
14735 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
14736 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
14739 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
14742 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
14743 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
14744 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
14746 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
14747 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
14748 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
14749 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
14750 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
14751 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
14752 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
14753 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
14754 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
14755 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
14756 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
14757 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
14758 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
14760 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
14761 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
14762 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
14763 currently connected to them.
14765 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
14766 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
14767 remain; see for example proposal 188.
14769 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
14770 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
14771 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
14772 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
14773 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
14774 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
14775 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
14776 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
14777 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
14778 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
14779 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
14780 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
14781 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
14782 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
14783 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
14784 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
14785 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
14786 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
14789 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
14790 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
14791 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
14792 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
14793 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
14794 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
14795 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
14796 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
14797 when bridges were introduced.
14798 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
14799 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
14800 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
14801 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
14802 Found by "frosty_un".
14805 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
14806 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
14808 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
14809 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
14810 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
14811 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
14812 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
14813 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
14814 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
14817 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
14818 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
14819 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
14820 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
14821 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
14822 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
14823 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
14824 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
14825 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
14826 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
14827 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
14828 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
14829 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
14830 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
14831 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
14832 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
14833 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
14834 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
14836 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
14837 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
14838 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
14839 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
14840 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
14841 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
14842 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
14843 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
14844 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
14845 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
14846 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
14847 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
14850 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
14851 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
14852 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
14853 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
14856 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
14857 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
14858 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
14859 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
14860 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
14862 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
14863 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
14864 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
14865 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
14866 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
14867 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
14868 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
14869 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
14870 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
14871 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
14873 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
14874 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
14875 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
14876 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
14877 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
14878 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
14879 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
14880 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
14881 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
14882 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
14883 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
14884 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
14885 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
14886 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
14887 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
14888 Found by "frosty_un".
14889 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
14890 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
14891 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
14892 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
14893 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
14894 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
14895 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
14896 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
14897 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
14898 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
14899 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
14900 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
14901 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
14902 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
14903 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
14904 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
14905 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
14906 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
14907 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
14909 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
14910 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
14911 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
14912 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
14913 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
14914 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
14915 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
14916 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
14918 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
14919 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
14920 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
14921 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
14922 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
14923 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
14924 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
14925 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
14926 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
14927 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
14928 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
14929 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
14931 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
14932 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14933 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
14934 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14935 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
14936 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14937 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
14938 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
14939 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
14941 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
14943 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
14944 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
14945 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
14946 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
14947 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
14948 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
14949 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
14950 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
14952 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
14953 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
14954 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
14955 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
14956 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
14958 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
14959 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
14960 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
14961 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
14962 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
14965 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
14966 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
14967 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
14968 reachable from Iran again.
14971 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
14972 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
14973 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
14975 o Minor features (security):
14976 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
14977 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
14978 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
14979 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
14980 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
14981 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
14982 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
14983 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
14984 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
14985 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
14988 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
14989 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
14990 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
14991 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
14992 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
14993 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
14994 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
14995 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
14996 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
14998 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
14999 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
15000 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
15001 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
15002 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
15003 raised by bug 3898.
15004 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
15005 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
15006 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
15007 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
15008 fixes part of bug 2442.
15009 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
15010 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
15011 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
15013 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
15014 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
15015 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
15016 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
15017 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
15020 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
15021 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
15022 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
15023 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
15024 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
15025 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
15028 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
15029 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
15030 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
15031 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
15032 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
15033 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
15034 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
15035 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
15036 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
15037 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
15039 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
15040 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
15041 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
15042 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
15043 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
15044 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
15045 many many other features and bugfixes.
15047 o Major features (client performance):
15048 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays now favor circuits
15049 that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency for
15050 low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
15051 feature based on a setting in the consensus. They can override
15052 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
15053 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
15055 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
15056 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
15057 and no flag. Clients use these weightings to distribute network load
15058 more evenly across these different relay types. The weightings are
15059 in the consensus so we can change them globally in the future. Extra
15060 thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty security bugs in
15061 the first implementation of this feature.
15063 o Major features (client performance, circuit build timeout):
15064 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
15065 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
15066 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
15067 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
15068 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
15069 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
15070 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
15071 - Circuit build timeout constants can be controlled by consensus
15072 parameters. We set good defaults for these parameters based on
15073 experimentation on broadband and simulated high-latency links.
15074 - Circuit build time learning can be disabled via consensus parameter
15075 or by the client via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. We
15076 also automatically disable circuit build time calculation if either
15077 AuthoritativeDirectory is set, or if we fail to write our state
15078 file. Implements ticket 1296.
15080 o Major features (relays use their capacity better):
15081 - Set SO_REUSEADDR socket option on all sockets, not just
15082 listeners. This should help busy exit nodes avoid running out of
15083 useable ports just because all the ports have been used in the
15084 near past. Resolves issue 2850.
15085 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
15086 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved),
15087 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
15088 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
15089 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
15090 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
15091 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
15092 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
15093 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
15094 they first get the Guard flag.
15095 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
15096 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
15097 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
15098 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
15099 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
15100 change would take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
15101 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
15102 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
15104 o Major features (relays control their load better):
15105 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
15106 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
15107 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
15108 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
15109 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751;
15110 based on a variant of proposal 163.
15111 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
15112 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
15113 but never per-conn write limits.
15114 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
15115 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
15116 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
15117 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
15119 o Major features (controllers):
15120 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
15121 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
15122 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
15123 contributions to the network.
15124 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
15125 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
15126 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
15128 o Major features (directory authorities):
15129 - Directory authorities now create, vote on, and serve multiple
15130 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
15131 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
15133 - Directory authorities now agree on and publish small summaries
15134 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
15135 server descriptors. This transition will allow Tor 0.2.3 clients
15136 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
15137 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
15138 download consensus + microdescriptors".
15139 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
15140 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
15141 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
15142 hash algorithm in the future.
15143 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitrary integer values as
15144 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
15145 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
15147 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
15148 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
15149 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and Strict*Nodes
15150 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
15151 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
15152 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
15153 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
15154 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
15155 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
15156 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
15157 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
15158 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
15159 connections to directory servers.
15160 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
15161 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
15162 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
15163 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
15164 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
15165 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
15166 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
15167 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
15168 information, or fetch directory information.
15169 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
15170 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
15171 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
15172 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
15173 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
15175 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
15176 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
15177 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
15178 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
15179 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
15180 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
15181 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
15182 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
15183 the network changes.
15184 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
15185 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
15187 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
15188 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
15189 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
15190 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
15191 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
15192 unless you really want your Tor to break.
15193 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
15194 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
15195 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
15196 - When StrictNodes is 1:
15197 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
15198 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
15199 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
15200 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
15201 reachability self-tests.
15202 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
15203 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
15204 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
15205 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
15206 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
15208 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
15209 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
15210 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
15212 o Major features (misc):
15213 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
15214 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
15215 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
15216 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
15217 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
15218 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
15219 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
15220 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
15221 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
15222 part of ticket 3076.
15223 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
15224 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
15225 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
15227 o Code security improvements:
15228 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
15229 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
15230 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
15231 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
15232 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
15233 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
15234 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
15235 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
15236 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
15237 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
15238 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
15239 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
15240 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
15241 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
15242 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
15243 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
15244 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
15245 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
15246 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
15247 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
15248 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
15249 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
15250 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
15251 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
15252 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
15253 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
15254 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
15255 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
15257 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
15258 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
15259 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
15260 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
15261 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
15262 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
15263 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
15264 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
15265 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
15266 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
15267 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
15268 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
15269 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
15271 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
15272 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
15273 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
15275 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
15276 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
15278 o Major bugfixes (stability):
15279 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
15280 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
15281 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
15282 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
15283 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15284 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
15285 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
15286 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
15287 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
15288 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
15289 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
15290 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
15291 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
15292 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
15293 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
15294 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
15296 o Privacy fixes (relays/bridges):
15297 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
15298 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
15300 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
15301 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
15302 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
15303 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
15304 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
15305 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
15306 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
15307 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
15308 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
15309 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
15310 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
15311 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
15312 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
15313 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
15314 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
15315 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
15316 requests for "all descriptors". It used to include bridge
15317 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
15318 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
15320 o Privacy fixes (clients):
15321 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
15322 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
15323 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
15324 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
15325 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
15326 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
15327 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
15328 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
15329 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
15331 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
15332 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
15333 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
15334 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
15335 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
15336 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
15337 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
15338 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
15339 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
15340 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
15342 o Privacy fixes (newnym):
15343 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
15344 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
15345 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
15346 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
15347 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
15348 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
15349 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
15350 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
15351 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
15352 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
15353 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
15354 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
15356 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth accounting):
15357 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
15358 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
15359 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
15360 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
15361 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
15362 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
15363 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
15364 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
15365 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
15367 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
15368 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
15369 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Fixes bug 1113.
15370 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
15371 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
15372 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
15373 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
15375 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
15376 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
15377 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it
15378 should be able to advertise those addresses independently and
15379 any non-blocked addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor
15380 0.2.0.3-alpha. Fixes bug 2510.
15381 - If you configure Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
15382 configure Tor to use bridge B instead (or if you change Tor
15383 to use bridge B via the controller), it would happily continue
15384 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
15385 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
15386 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
15387 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
15388 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
15389 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
15391 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
15392 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
15393 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
15394 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
15395 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
15396 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
15397 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
15399 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
15400 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
15401 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
15402 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
15403 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
15404 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
15405 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
15406 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
15408 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
15409 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
15410 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
15411 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
15412 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
15413 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
15414 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
15415 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
15416 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
15417 the longest-lived bug prize.
15418 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
15419 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
15420 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
15421 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
15422 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
15423 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
15424 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
15425 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
15426 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
15427 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
15429 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
15430 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
15431 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
15432 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
15433 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
15434 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
15437 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
15438 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
15439 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
15440 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
15441 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
15442 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
15443 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
15444 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
15445 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
15446 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
15447 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
15448 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15449 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
15450 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
15451 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
15452 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
15453 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
15454 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
15455 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
15456 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
15457 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
15458 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
15459 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
15460 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
15461 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
15462 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
15464 o Major bugfixes (misc):
15465 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
15466 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
15467 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
15468 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
15469 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
15470 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
15471 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
15472 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
15474 o Minor features (relays):
15475 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
15476 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
15477 - When bandwidth accounting is enabled, be more generous with how
15478 much bandwidth we'll use up before entering "soft hibernation".
15479 Previously, we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd
15480 used up 95% of our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment,
15481 AND make sure that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of
15482 expected traffic, whichever is lower) remaining before we enter
15484 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
15485 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
15486 Resolves ticket 3252.
15487 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
15488 accepting new connections (e.g. due to hibernating). Resolves
15490 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
15491 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
15492 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
15493 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
15494 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
15496 o Minor features (network statistics):
15497 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
15498 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
15499 "--enable-geoip-stats" ./configure flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few
15500 improvements: 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours;
15501 2) estimated shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean
15502 values, not at the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved
15503 requests are listed with country code '??'; 4) directories also
15504 measure download times.
15505 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
15506 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
15508 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
15509 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
15510 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
15511 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
15513 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
15514 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
15515 their extra-info documents. Implements proposal 166.
15517 o Minor features (GeoIP and statistics):
15518 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
15519 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
15520 Implements ticket 2432.
15521 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
15522 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
15523 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
15524 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
15525 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
15526 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
15527 Implements enhancement 1790.
15528 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
15529 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
15531 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
15532 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
15533 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
15534 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
15535 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
15536 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
15537 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes
15539 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
15541 o Minor features (clients):
15542 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
15543 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
15544 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
15545 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
15547 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
15548 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
15549 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
15550 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
15551 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
15552 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
15553 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
15554 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
15556 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
15557 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
15558 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
15559 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
15560 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
15561 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
15562 SSL handshake issues.
15564 o Minor features (directory authorities):
15565 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
15566 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
15567 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
15568 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
15569 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
15570 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
15571 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
15572 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
15573 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
15574 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
15575 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
15576 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
15577 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
15578 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
15579 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
15580 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
15581 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
15582 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
15583 hour of their uptime.
15584 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
15585 networkstatus vote, so we can track failures better.
15586 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
15587 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
15589 o Minor features (hidden services):
15590 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
15591 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
15592 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
15593 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
15594 Required by fix for bug 3000.
15595 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
15596 by fix for bug 3000.
15597 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
15598 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
15599 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
15600 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
15601 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
15603 o Minor features (controller interface):
15604 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
15605 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
15606 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
15607 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
15608 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
15609 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
15610 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
15611 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
15612 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
15613 over our stored history.
15614 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
15615 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
15616 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
15618 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
15619 to the circuit build timeout.
15620 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
15621 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
15622 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
15624 o Minor features (controller protocol):
15625 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
15626 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
15627 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
15629 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
15630 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
15631 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
15632 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
15633 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
15634 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
15635 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
15636 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
15637 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
15638 arguments we do not recognize.
15640 o Minor features (more useful logging):
15641 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
15642 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
15643 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
15644 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
15645 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
15646 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
15647 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
15648 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
15649 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
15650 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
15651 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
15652 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
15653 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
15654 got suppressed since the last warning.
15655 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
15656 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
15657 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
15658 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
15659 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
15660 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
15661 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
15663 o Minor features (log domains):
15664 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
15665 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
15666 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
15668 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
15669 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
15671 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
15672 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
15673 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
15675 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
15676 during the TLS handshake.
15678 o Minor features (build process):
15679 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
15680 "--enable-gcc-warnings" by removing two warning options that clang
15681 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Resolves
15683 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
15684 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
15685 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
15687 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
15688 "--enable-static-zlib", to go with our support for statically
15689 linking openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
15690 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
15691 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
15692 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
15694 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
15695 source files Tor was built with.
15696 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
15697 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
15698 produce nicer HTML. The build process fails if asciidoc cannot
15699 be found and building with asciidoc isn't disabled (via the
15700 "--disable-asciidoc" argument to ./configure. Skipping the manpage
15701 speeds up the build considerably.
15703 o Minor features (options / torrc):
15704 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
15705 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
15706 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
15707 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
15708 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
15709 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
15710 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
15711 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
15712 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
15713 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
15714 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
15715 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
15716 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
15717 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
15718 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
15719 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
15720 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
15721 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
15722 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
15723 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
15724 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
15725 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
15726 generated while acting as a relay. Specify "SafeLogging relay" if
15727 you want to ensure that only messages known to originate from
15728 client use of the Tor process will be logged unsafely.
15729 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
15730 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
15732 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
15733 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
15734 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
15737 o Minor features (unit tests):
15738 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
15739 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
15740 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
15741 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
15742 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
15743 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
15745 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
15746 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch
15749 o Minor features (misc):
15750 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
15751 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
15752 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
15753 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
15755 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
15756 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
15757 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
15758 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
15759 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
15761 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
15762 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
15763 open() without checking it.
15764 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
15765 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
15766 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
15767 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
15769 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
15770 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
15771 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
15772 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
15773 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
15774 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
15775 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
15776 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
15777 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
15778 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
15779 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
15780 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
15781 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
15782 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
15783 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
15784 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
15785 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
15786 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
15787 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
15788 based on the time during which we were active and not in
15789 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
15790 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
15791 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
15792 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
15793 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
15794 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
15795 someone tries to talk to their ORPort. It is not the operator's
15796 fault, nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
15798 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
15799 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
15800 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
15801 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
15803 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
15804 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
15805 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
15806 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
15807 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
15809 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
15810 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
15811 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
15812 - Users couldn't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It
15813 didn't work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
15814 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
15815 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
15816 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
15817 0.1.1.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1776.
15818 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
15819 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
15820 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
15821 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
15823 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
15824 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
15825 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
15826 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
15827 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
15828 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
15829 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
15830 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
15831 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
15832 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
15833 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
15834 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
15835 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
15836 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
15837 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
15838 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
15839 two-hop circuits are actually created.
15840 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
15841 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
15842 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
15843 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
15845 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
15846 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
15847 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
15848 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
15849 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
15850 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
15851 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
15852 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
15853 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
15855 - Directory authorities will now attempt to download consensuses
15856 if their own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This
15857 change means authorities that restart will fetch a valid
15858 consensus, and it means authorities that didn't agree with the
15859 current consensus will still fetch and serve it if it has enough
15860 signatures. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
15861 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
15862 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
15863 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
15864 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
15865 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
15866 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
15867 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
15870 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
15871 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
15872 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
15873 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
15874 info-level messages. Fixes bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15875 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
15876 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
15877 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
15878 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
15879 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
15880 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
15882 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
15883 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
15885 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
15886 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
15887 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
15888 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
15889 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
15890 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
15891 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
15892 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
15894 o Minor bugfixes (controllers):
15895 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
15896 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
15897 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15898 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
15899 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
15900 discovered by katmagic.
15901 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
15902 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
15904 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP controller command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
15905 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
15906 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
15907 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
15908 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
15909 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
15910 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
15911 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
15912 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
15914 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
15915 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
15917 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
15918 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
15920 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
15921 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
15923 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
15924 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
15925 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
15926 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
15927 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
15928 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
15929 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
15930 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
15931 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
15932 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
15933 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
15934 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
15935 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
15936 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
15937 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
15939 o Minor bugfixes (config options):
15940 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
15941 Change the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
15942 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
15943 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
15944 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
15945 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
15946 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
15947 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
15949 o Minor bugfixes (log subsystem fixes):
15950 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
15951 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
15953 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
15954 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
15955 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
15956 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
15958 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
15959 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
15960 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
15961 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
15962 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
15963 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
15964 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
15966 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
15967 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
15968 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
15969 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
15970 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
15971 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
15973 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
15974 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
15975 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
15976 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
15977 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
15978 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
15979 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
15980 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15981 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
15983 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
15984 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
15985 "parakeep". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
15986 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
15987 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
15988 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
15989 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
15990 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
15991 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
15992 control-spec.txt said they were.
15994 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
15995 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
15996 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
15998 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
15999 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16000 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
16001 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
16002 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
16004 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
16005 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
16007 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
16008 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
16009 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
16010 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
16011 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
16012 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
16013 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
16015 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
16016 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
16017 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
16018 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16019 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produce during
16020 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
16021 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
16022 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
16025 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
16026 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
16027 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
16028 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
16029 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
16030 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
16031 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
16032 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
16033 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
16034 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
16035 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
16036 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16037 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
16038 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
16039 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows.
16041 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
16042 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on 0.2.1.23,
16043 where we introduced the "--with-static-libevent" configure option.
16044 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
16045 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
16046 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
16047 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
16049 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
16050 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
16053 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
16054 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
16055 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
16056 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
16057 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
16058 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
16059 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
16060 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
16061 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
16062 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
16063 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
16064 fixes part of bug 3407.
16065 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
16066 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
16067 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
16068 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
16069 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
16070 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
16071 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
16072 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
16073 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
16074 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
16076 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
16077 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
16078 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
16079 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
16080 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
16081 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
16082 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
16083 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
16084 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
16085 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
16086 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
16087 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
16088 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
16089 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
16090 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
16091 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
16092 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
16094 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
16095 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
16096 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
16097 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
16098 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
16099 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
16100 Tor 0.1.1.11-alpha.
16101 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
16102 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
16103 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
16104 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
16105 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
16107 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
16108 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
16109 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
16110 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
16111 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
16113 o Minor bugfixes (code improvements):
16114 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
16115 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
16116 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
16118 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
16119 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
16120 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
16121 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
16122 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
16123 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
16124 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
16125 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
16126 structures and defines in or.h for now.
16127 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
16129 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
16130 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
16131 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
16132 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
16133 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
16134 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
16135 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
16136 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
16138 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
16139 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
16140 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
16142 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
16143 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
16144 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
16145 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
16146 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
16147 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
16148 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
16149 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
16150 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
16151 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
16153 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
16155 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
16156 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
16157 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
16158 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
16159 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
16160 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
16161 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
16162 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
16163 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
16164 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
16166 o Documentation changes:
16167 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
16168 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
16170 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
16171 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
16172 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
16173 what should go in a patch.
16174 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
16176 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
16177 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
16178 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
16179 projects directory in svn.
16181 o Deprecated and removed features (config):
16182 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
16183 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
16184 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
16185 service authorities could use to track statistics of overall v0
16186 hidden service usage.
16187 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
16188 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
16189 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
16190 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
16191 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
16194 o Deprecated and removed features (controller):
16195 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
16196 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
16197 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
16198 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
16201 o Deprecated and removed features (misc):
16202 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
16203 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
16204 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
16205 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
16206 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
16207 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
16208 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
16209 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
16210 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
16211 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
16212 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
16213 via application-level web tricks.
16214 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
16215 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
16216 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
16217 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
16218 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
16219 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
16220 send a body too). Since only server versions before
16221 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
16222 keep the workaround in place.
16223 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
16224 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
16225 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
16226 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
16227 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
16228 want to do it differently.
16229 - Remove the "--enable-iphone" option to ./configure. According to
16230 reports from Marco Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special
16231 tweaking on recent iPhone SDK versions.
16234 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
16235 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
16236 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
16237 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
16238 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
16239 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
16242 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
16243 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
16244 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
16245 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
16246 the rest of bug 1074.
16247 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
16248 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
16249 Found by "piebeer".
16250 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
16251 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
16252 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
16253 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
16254 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
16255 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
16256 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16259 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
16261 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
16264 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
16265 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
16266 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
16267 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
16268 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
16269 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
16270 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
16271 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
16272 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
16273 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
16274 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
16276 o Packaging changes:
16277 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
16278 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
16279 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
16280 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
16281 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
16282 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
16285 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
16286 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
16287 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
16288 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
16289 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
16291 o Major bugfixes (security):
16292 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
16293 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
16294 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
16296 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
16297 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
16298 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
16299 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
16300 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
16301 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
16302 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
16303 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
16305 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
16306 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
16307 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
16308 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
16309 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
16310 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
16311 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
16312 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
16313 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
16314 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
16315 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
16316 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
16317 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
16318 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
16321 o Minor bugfixes (other):
16322 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
16323 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
16324 bug reported by doorss.
16325 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
16326 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
16327 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
16328 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
16329 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
16331 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
16332 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
16333 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
16334 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
16335 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
16338 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
16339 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
16342 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
16343 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
16344 Automake 1.7 or later.
16345 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
16346 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
16347 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
16348 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
16351 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
16352 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
16353 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
16354 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
16358 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
16359 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
16360 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
16361 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
16363 o Directory authority changes:
16364 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
16367 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
16370 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
16371 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
16372 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
16373 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
16374 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
16377 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
16378 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
16379 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
16380 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
16381 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
16382 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
16383 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
16384 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
16385 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
16386 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
16387 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
16388 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
16389 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
16390 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
16391 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
16392 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
16393 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
16394 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
16395 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
16396 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
16397 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
16398 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
16399 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
16402 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
16403 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
16404 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
16405 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
16407 o New directory authorities:
16408 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
16412 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
16413 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
16414 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
16416 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
16417 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
16418 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
16419 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
16420 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
16421 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
16423 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
16424 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
16425 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
16428 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
16429 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
16430 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
16431 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
16432 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
16433 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
16434 Patch from mingw-san.
16437 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
16438 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
16439 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
16440 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
16441 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
16442 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
16445 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
16446 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
16447 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
16448 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
16449 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
16451 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
16452 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
16455 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
16456 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
16457 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
16458 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
16459 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
16460 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
16461 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
16462 their directory fetches over TLS).
16463 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
16464 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
16465 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
16466 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
16467 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
16468 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
16469 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
16470 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
16473 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
16474 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
16478 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
16479 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
16480 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
16481 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
16482 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
16483 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
16484 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16487 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
16488 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
16489 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
16490 several minor potential security bugs.
16493 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
16494 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
16495 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
16496 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
16497 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
16498 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
16499 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
16502 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
16503 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
16505 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
16506 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
16507 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
16508 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
16511 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
16512 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
16516 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
16517 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
16518 customized patches to run/build.
16521 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
16522 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
16523 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
16526 o Major bugfixes (performance):
16527 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
16528 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
16529 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
16530 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
16531 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
16532 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
16533 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
16536 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
16537 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
16538 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
16539 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
16540 libraries in a security patch.
16541 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
16542 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
16543 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
16544 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
16548 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
16549 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
16552 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
16553 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
16554 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
16555 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
16556 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
16559 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
16560 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
16561 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
16562 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
16563 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
16565 o Directory authority changes:
16566 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
16570 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
16571 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
16572 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
16575 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
16576 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
16577 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
16578 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
16579 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
16582 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
16583 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
16584 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
16585 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
16586 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
16587 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
16588 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
16591 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
16592 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
16593 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16594 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
16595 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
16596 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
16598 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
16599 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
16602 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
16603 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
16604 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
16605 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
16607 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
16608 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
16610 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
16611 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
16612 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
16613 in the Vidalia Settings window.
16616 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
16617 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
16618 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
16619 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
16620 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
16622 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
16623 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
16625 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
16626 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
16627 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
16630 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
16631 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
16632 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
16634 o New directory authorities:
16635 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
16637 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
16640 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
16641 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
16643 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
16644 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
16645 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
16646 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
16647 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
16648 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
16649 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
16650 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
16651 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
16652 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
16653 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
16654 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
16655 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
16656 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
16657 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
16658 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
16659 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
16661 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
16662 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
16663 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
16665 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
16666 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
16670 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
16671 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
16672 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
16673 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
16674 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
16677 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
16678 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
16682 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
16683 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
16684 part of patch provided by "optimist".
16687 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
16688 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
16689 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
16690 and confuse fewer users.
16693 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
16694 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
16695 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
16696 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
16697 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
16698 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
16699 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
16702 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
16703 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
16704 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
16705 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
16706 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
16707 other features and bug fixes.
16709 o Major features (clients):
16710 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
16711 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
16712 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
16713 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
16715 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
16716 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
16717 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
16718 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
16719 - Network status consensus documents and votes now contain bandwidth
16720 information for each relay. Clients use the bandwidth values
16721 in the consensus, rather than the bandwidth values in each
16722 relay descriptor. This approach opens the door to more accurate
16723 bandwidth estimates once the directory authorities start doing
16724 active measurements. Implements part of proposal 141.
16726 o Major features (relays):
16727 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
16728 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
16729 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Also,
16730 disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
16731 data. Found by Jacob.
16732 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
16733 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
16734 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
16735 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
16737 o Major features (hidden services):
16738 - Make it possible to build hidden services that only certain clients
16739 are allowed to connect to. This is enforced at several points,
16740 so that unauthorized clients are unable to send INTRODUCE cells
16741 to the service, or even (depending on the type of authentication)
16742 to learn introduction points. This feature raises the bar for
16743 certain kinds of active attacks against hidden services. Design
16744 and code by Karsten Loesing. Implements proposal 121.
16745 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
16746 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
16747 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
16748 lookups more reliable.
16750 o Major features (path selection):
16751 - ExitNodes and Exclude*Nodes config options now allow you to restrict
16752 by country code ("{US}") or IP address or address pattern
16753 ("255.128.0.0/16"). Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
16754 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
16755 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
16757 o Major features (misc):
16758 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
16759 This cuts down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements proposal
16761 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
16762 previously constant values that could slow bootstrapping. Implements
16763 proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
16764 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
16765 IPv6 addresses. Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol
16766 elements. Make resolver code handle nameservers located at IPv6
16768 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
16769 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
16770 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
16771 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
16773 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
16776 o Security fixes (anonymity/entropy):
16777 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
16778 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
16779 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
16780 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
16781 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
16782 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
16783 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
16784 certain kinds of denial-of-service attack by requiring that EXTEND
16785 commands must be sent using an "early" cell.
16786 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
16787 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
16788 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
16789 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
16790 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
16791 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
16792 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
16793 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
16794 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
16795 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
16796 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
16797 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
16798 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
16799 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
16800 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
16801 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
16802 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
16803 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
16804 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
16805 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
16806 Implements proposal 148.
16808 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
16809 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
16810 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
16811 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
16812 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
16813 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
16815 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
16816 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
16817 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
16818 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
16819 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
16820 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
16821 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
16822 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
16823 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
16825 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
16826 a lot and end up filling up the disk. Resolves bug 748.
16827 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
16828 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
16830 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
16831 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
16832 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
16833 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
16834 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
16835 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
16836 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
16837 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
16838 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16840 o Major bugfixes (clients):
16841 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
16842 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
16843 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion keys
16844 in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Fixes bug 887.
16845 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
16846 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
16847 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
16848 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
16849 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
16850 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
16851 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
16852 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
16853 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
16854 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
16855 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
16858 o Major bugfixes (relays):
16859 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
16860 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
16861 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
16862 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
16863 if BandwidthRate or BandwidthBurst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
16864 patch by Sebastian.
16865 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
16866 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
16867 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
16868 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
16869 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
16870 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
16871 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
16872 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu" and
16873 "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable flags
16874 wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and 969. Bugfix
16877 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
16878 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
16879 originate from cannibalized circuits were completely ignored
16880 and not included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might
16881 have been another reason for delay in making a hidden service
16882 available. Bugfix from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
16884 o Major bugfixes (memory and resource management):
16885 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
16886 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
16887 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
16888 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
16889 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
16890 on a typical directory cache.
16891 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
16892 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
16893 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
16894 and may reduce fragmentation.
16896 o New/changed config options:
16897 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
16898 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
16899 Suggested by Lucky Green.
16900 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
16901 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
16902 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
16903 locked down these days.
16904 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
16905 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
16906 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
16907 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
16908 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
16909 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
16910 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
16911 output to messages of warning and error severity.
16912 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
16913 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
16914 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
16915 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
16916 directory requests we should expect to see.
16917 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
16918 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
16919 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
16920 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
16921 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
16922 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
16923 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
16925 o Minor features (relays):
16926 - Raise the minimum rate limiting to be a relay from 20000 bytes
16927 to 20480 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also
16928 update directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag
16929 to relays with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't
16930 suddenly find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets
16932 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
16933 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
16934 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
16935 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
16936 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
16937 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
16938 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
16939 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
16940 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
16941 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
16942 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
16943 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
16944 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
16946 o Minor features (directory authorities):
16947 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
16948 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
16949 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
16950 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
16951 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate. Start
16952 serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
16953 pairs. Implements proposal 157.
16954 - When a directory authority downloads a descriptor that it then
16955 immediately rejects, do not retry downloading it right away. Should
16956 save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug 888. Patch by
16958 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
16959 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
16960 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
16961 fingerprints with or without space.
16963 o Minor features (directory mirrors):
16964 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
16965 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
16966 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
16967 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
16968 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
16969 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
16970 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
16971 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
16973 o Minor features (bridges):
16974 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
16975 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
16977 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
16978 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
16981 o Minor features (hidden services):
16982 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
16983 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
16984 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
16985 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
16986 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
16987 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
16988 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
16989 faster after restart.
16990 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
16991 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
16993 o Minor features (build and packaging):
16994 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the User
16996 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
16997 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
16999 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
17000 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
17001 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
17002 entirely. Patch from coderman.
17003 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later that
17004 are built without support for deprecated functions.
17005 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
17006 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
17007 system to do it for us.
17008 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
17009 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
17010 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
17011 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
17012 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
17013 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
17014 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
17015 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
17016 the letter of C99's alias rules.
17017 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
17018 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
17019 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
17020 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
17021 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
17022 with log.h on Android.
17023 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
17024 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
17026 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
17027 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
17028 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
17029 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
17031 o Minor features (controllers):
17032 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
17033 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
17034 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
17035 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
17036 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
17037 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
17038 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
17039 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
17040 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
17041 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
17043 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
17044 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
17045 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
17046 been fetched and validated.
17047 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
17048 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the configuration.
17050 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status.
17052 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
17053 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
17054 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
17055 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
17056 partway through and wants to catch up.
17057 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
17059 o Minor features (tools):
17060 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
17061 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
17062 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
17063 people find host:port too confusing.
17064 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
17065 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
17067 o Minor bugfixes (memory and resource management):
17068 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
17069 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
17070 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
17071 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
17072 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
17073 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
17074 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
17075 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
17077 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
17078 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
17079 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
17080 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
17081 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
17083 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
17084 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
17085 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
17087 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
17088 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17089 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
17090 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
17091 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
17092 have already been marked for close.
17093 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
17094 memory performance during directory parsing.
17096 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
17097 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
17098 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
17099 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
17100 done that for a long time.
17101 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
17102 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
17103 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
17104 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
17105 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
17106 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
17107 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
17108 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
17109 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
17110 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
17111 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
17112 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
17113 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
17114 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
17115 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
17116 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
17117 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
17118 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
17119 because of a pending download.
17120 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
17121 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
17122 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
17123 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
17124 bug 820, reported by seeess.
17126 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
17127 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
17128 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
17129 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
17130 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
17131 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
17132 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
17133 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
17134 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
17136 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
17137 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
17139 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
17140 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
17141 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
17142 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
17143 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
17144 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
17145 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
17146 of 0. Suggested by lark.
17147 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
17148 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
17149 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
17150 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
17151 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
17153 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
17154 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
17155 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
17157 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
17158 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
17160 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
17161 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
17162 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
17163 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
17164 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
17165 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
17166 rest, and don't automatically fail.
17167 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
17168 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
17169 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
17170 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
17171 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
17172 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
17174 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
17175 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
17176 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
17177 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
17178 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
17179 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
17180 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
17182 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
17183 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17185 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
17186 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
17187 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
17188 Workaround for bug 1024.
17189 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
17190 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
17191 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
17192 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
17193 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
17194 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
17195 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
17196 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
17199 o Minor bugfixes (tools):
17200 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
17203 o Minor bugfixes (controllers):
17204 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
17205 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
17206 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
17207 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
17208 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
17209 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
17211 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
17212 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
17213 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
17214 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fix a spurious
17215 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
17216 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
17217 by Marcus Griep. Fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
17218 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
17221 o Deprecated and removed features:
17222 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
17223 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
17224 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
17226 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
17228 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
17229 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
17230 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
17231 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
17232 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
17233 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
17234 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
17235 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
17236 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
17237 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
17238 and nobody seems to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
17239 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
17240 - Remove all backward-compatibility code for relays running
17241 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
17244 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
17245 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
17246 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
17247 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
17248 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
17250 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
17251 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
17252 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
17253 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
17254 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
17255 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
17256 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
17257 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
17258 actual mistakes we're making here.
17259 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
17260 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
17261 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
17262 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
17263 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
17264 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
17265 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
17266 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
17267 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
17268 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
17269 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
17270 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
17271 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
17272 or for every cell. On systems like Windows where time() is a
17273 slow syscall, this fix will be slightly helpful.
17276 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
17278 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
17279 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
17280 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
17281 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
17282 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
17285 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
17286 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
17287 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
17288 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
17289 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
17290 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
17291 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
17292 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
17293 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
17294 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
17297 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
17298 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
17299 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
17300 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
17301 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
17302 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
17303 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
17304 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
17307 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
17308 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
17309 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
17310 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
17311 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
17313 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
17314 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
17315 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
17316 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
17319 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
17320 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
17321 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
17322 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
17323 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
17324 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
17325 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
17326 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
17329 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
17330 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
17331 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
17332 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
17335 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
17336 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
17337 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
17338 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
17340 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
17341 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
17342 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
17345 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
17346 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
17349 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
17350 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
17351 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
17352 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
17353 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
17354 reported by "wood".
17355 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
17356 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
17357 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
17358 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
17359 identify a connection.
17360 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
17361 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
17362 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
17363 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
17364 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
17365 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
17366 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
17367 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
17368 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
17369 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
17371 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
17372 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
17373 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
17374 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
17375 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
17376 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
17377 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
17380 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
17381 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
17383 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
17384 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
17385 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
17386 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
17387 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
17388 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
17389 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
17390 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
17392 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
17393 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
17394 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
17395 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
17396 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
17397 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
17398 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
17399 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
17400 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
17401 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
17402 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
17403 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
17404 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
17405 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
17406 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
17407 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
17408 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
17409 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
17410 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
17411 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
17412 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
17413 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
17414 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
17415 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
17416 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
17417 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
17418 840. Patch from rovv.
17419 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
17420 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
17421 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
17423 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
17424 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
17425 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
17426 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
17427 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
17428 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
17429 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
17431 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
17432 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
17433 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
17436 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
17437 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
17439 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
17440 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
17441 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
17442 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
17443 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
17444 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
17445 ServerDNSRamdomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
17446 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
17447 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
17449 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
17451 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
17452 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
17456 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
17457 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
17458 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
17459 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
17460 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
17461 variety of other issues.
17464 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
17465 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
17466 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
17467 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
17468 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
17469 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
17470 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
17471 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
17472 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
17473 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
17474 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
17475 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
17478 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
17479 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
17481 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
17482 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
17483 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
17484 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
17485 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
17486 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
17487 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17488 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
17489 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
17490 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
17491 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
17492 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
17493 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
17494 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
17495 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
17499 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
17500 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
17501 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
17502 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
17503 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
17504 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
17505 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
17506 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
17507 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
17508 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
17509 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
17510 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
17511 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
17512 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
17513 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
17514 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
17515 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
17516 list. It has been gone for many months.
17517 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
17518 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
17519 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
17522 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
17523 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
17524 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
17527 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
17528 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
17529 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
17530 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
17533 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
17534 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
17535 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
17536 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
17537 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
17538 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
17540 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
17541 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
17542 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
17543 pointed out by rovv.
17546 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
17547 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17548 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
17549 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
17550 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
17551 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
17552 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
17553 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
17554 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
17555 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17556 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
17557 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
17558 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
17559 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
17560 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
17561 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
17562 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
17563 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
17564 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
17565 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
17566 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
17569 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
17570 This new stable release switches to a more efficient directory
17571 distribution design, adds features to make connections to the Tor
17572 network harder to block, allows Tor to act as a DNS proxy, adds separate
17573 rate limiting for relayed traffic to make it easier for clients to
17574 become relays, fixes a variety of potential anonymity problems, and
17575 includes the usual huge pile of other features and bug fixes.
17577 o New v3 directory design:
17578 - Tor now uses a new way to learn about and distribute information
17579 about the network: the directory authorities vote on a common
17580 network status document rather than each publishing their own
17581 opinion. Now clients and caches download only one networkstatus
17582 document to bootstrap, rather than downloading one for each
17583 authority. Clients only download router descriptors listed in
17584 the consensus. Implements proposal 101; see doc/spec/dir-spec.txt
17586 - Set up moria1, tor26, and dizum as v3 directory authorities
17587 in addition to being v2 authorities. Also add three new ones:
17588 ides (run by Mike Perry), gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing), and
17589 dannenberg (run by CCC).
17590 - Switch to multi-level keys for directory authorities: now their
17591 long-term identity key can be kept offline, and they periodically
17592 generate a new signing key. Clients fetch the "key certificates"
17593 to keep up to date on the right keys. Add a standalone tool
17594 "tor-gencert" to generate key certificates. Implements proposal 103.
17595 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey config option to make it easier for
17596 v3 authorities to change their identity keys if another bug like
17597 Debian's OpenSSL RNG flaw appears.
17598 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
17599 less often, now that v3 is recommended.
17601 o Make Tor connections stand out less on the wire:
17602 - Use an improved TLS handshake designed by Steven Murdoch in proposal
17603 124, as revised in proposal 130. The new handshake is meant to
17604 be harder for censors to fingerprint, and it adds the ability
17605 to detect certain kinds of man-in-the-middle traffic analysis
17606 attacks. The new handshake format includes version negotiation for
17607 OR connections as described in proposal 105, which will allow us
17608 to improve Tor's link protocol more safely in the future.
17609 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
17610 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
17611 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
17612 certain censored countries by default again.
17613 - Stop including recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
17614 Tor's x509 certificates.
17616 o Implement bridge relays:
17617 - Bridge relays (or "bridges" for short) are Tor relays that aren't
17618 listed in the main Tor directory. Since there is no complete public
17619 list of them, even an ISP that is filtering connections to all the
17620 known Tor relays probably won't be able to block all the bridges.
17621 See doc/design-paper/blocking.pdf and proposal 125 for details.
17622 - New config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to be a
17623 bridge relay rather than a normal relay. When BridgeRelay is set
17624 to 1, then a) you cache dir info even if your DirPort ins't on,
17625 and b) the default for PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge"
17626 rather than "v2,v3".
17627 - New config option "UseBridges 1" for clients that want to use bridge
17628 relays instead of ordinary entry guards. Clients then specify
17629 bridge relays by adding "Bridge" lines to their config file. Users
17630 can learn about a bridge relay either manually through word of
17631 mouth, or by one of our rate-limited mechanisms for giving out
17632 bridge addresses without letting an attacker easily enumerate them
17633 all. See https://www.torproject.org/bridges for details.
17634 - Bridge relays behave like clients with respect to time intervals
17635 for downloading new v3 consensus documents -- otherwise they
17636 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
17637 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
17639 o Implement bridge directory authorities:
17640 - Bridge authorities are like normal directory authorities, except
17641 they don't serve a list of known bridges. Therefore users that know
17642 a bridge's fingerprint can fetch a relay descriptor for that bridge,
17643 including fetching updates e.g. if the bridge changes IP address,
17644 yet an attacker can't just fetch a list of all the bridges.
17645 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
17646 - Bridge authorities refuse to serve bridge descriptors or other
17647 bridge information over unencrypted connections (that is, when
17648 responding to direct DirPort requests rather than begin_dir cells.)
17649 - Bridge directory authorities do reachability testing on the
17650 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
17651 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
17652 to a file periodically, so we can keep internal stats about which
17653 bridges are functioning.
17654 - If bridge users set the UpdateBridgesFromAuthority config option,
17655 but the digest they ask for is a 404 on the bridge authority,
17656 they fall back to contacting the bridge directly.
17657 - Bridges always use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
17658 the bridge authority using an anonymous encrypted tunnel.
17659 - Early work on a "bridge community" design: if bridge authorities set
17660 the BridgePassword config option, they will serve a snapshot of
17661 known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to anybody who
17662 knows that password. Unset by default.
17663 - Tor now includes an IP-to-country GeoIP file, so bridge relays can
17664 report sanitized aggregated summaries in their extra-info documents
17665 privately to the bridge authority, listing which countries are
17666 able to reach them. We hope this mechanism will let us learn when
17667 certain countries start trying to block bridges.
17668 - Bridge authorities write bridge descriptors to disk, so they can
17669 reload them after a reboot. They can also export the descriptors
17670 to other programs, so we can distribute them to blocked users via
17671 the BridgeDB interface, e.g. via https://bridges.torproject.org/
17672 and bridges@torproject.org.
17674 o Tor can be a DNS proxy:
17675 - The new client-side DNS proxy feature replaces the need for
17676 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
17677 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
17678 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
17679 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
17680 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
17681 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
17682 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
17683 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
17684 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
17685 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
17686 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
17687 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
17688 longer a completely silly thing to do.
17690 o Major features (relay usability):
17691 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
17692 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
17693 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
17694 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them. See
17695 proposal 111 for details.
17696 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
17697 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
17698 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
17699 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
17701 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
17702 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
17703 on "vserver" accounts. Patch from coderman.
17705 o Major features (directory authorities):
17706 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime and weighted
17707 mean-time-between failures for relays. WFU is suitable for deciding
17708 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
17709 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
17710 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
17711 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
17712 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
17713 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
17714 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
17715 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
17716 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
17717 to advertise as Stable: when we have 4 or more days of data, use
17718 median measured MTBF rather than median declared uptime. Implements
17720 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
17721 routers. Routers now publish their bandwidth-history lines in the
17722 extra-info docs rather than the main descriptor. This step saves
17723 60% (!) on compressed router descriptor downloads. Servers upload
17724 extra-info docs to any authority that accepts them; directory
17725 authorities now allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
17726 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. Authorities, and
17727 caches that have been configured to download extra-info documents,
17728 download them as needed. Implements proposal 104.
17729 - Authorities now list relays who have the same nickname as
17730 a different named relay, but list them with a new flag:
17731 "Unnamed". Now we can make use of relays that happen to pick the
17732 same nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
17733 disappeared. Implements proposal 122.
17734 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
17735 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
17736 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
17737 annotations along with descriptors, to record the time we received
17738 each descriptor, its source, and its purpose: currently one of
17739 general, controller, or bridge.
17741 o Major features (other):
17742 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
17743 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
17744 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
17745 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any. Based on proposal 129
17746 by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
17747 - Integrate Karsten Loesing's Google Summer of Code project to publish
17748 hidden service descriptors on a set of redundant relays that are a
17749 function of the hidden service address. Now we don't have to rely
17750 on three central hidden service authorities for publishing and
17751 fetching every hidden service descriptor. Implements proposal 114.
17752 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
17753 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
17754 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
17755 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
17758 o Major bugfixes (crashes and assert failures):
17759 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
17760 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
17762 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
17763 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set.
17764 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
17765 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
17766 list as it's being freed. Fixes the very rare bug 575, which is
17767 kind of the revenge of bug 222.
17768 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
17769 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
17770 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
17771 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
17772 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
17774 o Major bugfixes (code security fixes):
17775 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
17777 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
17778 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup.
17779 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
17780 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
17782 o Major bugfixes (anonymity fixes):
17783 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
17784 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
17785 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
17786 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
17788 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
17789 address maps to an internal address space.
17790 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
17791 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
17792 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
17793 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
17794 complements proposal 107.
17795 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 2 servers per IP as
17796 Valid and Running (or 5 on addresses shared by authorities).
17797 Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
17798 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
17799 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
17800 reported by taranis and lodger.
17801 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
17802 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
17803 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
17804 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
17805 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
17806 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
17807 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
17808 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
17809 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
17810 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
17811 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
17812 enough directory information. This was causing us to discard all our
17813 guards on startup if we hadn't been running for a few weeks. Fixes
17815 - When our directory information has been expired for a while, stop
17816 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401.
17818 o Major bugfixes (peace of mind for relay operators)
17819 - Non-exit relays no longer answer "resolve" relay cells, so they
17820 can't be induced to do arbitrary DNS requests. (Tor clients already
17821 avoid using non-exit relays for resolve cells, but now servers
17822 enforce this too.) Fixes bug 619. Patch from lodger.
17823 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
17824 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
17826 o Major bugfixes (other):
17827 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
17828 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
17829 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
17831 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
17832 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
17833 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
17834 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
17835 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
17836 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
17837 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
17838 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
17839 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
17840 IP address X. Otherwise this would screw up our address detection.
17841 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
17842 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
17843 clog everything up. Suggested by Aljosha Judmayer.
17844 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
17845 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
17846 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
17847 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
17848 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
17849 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
17851 o Rate limiting and load balancing improvements:
17852 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
17853 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
17854 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
17855 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
17856 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
17857 eat all of our bandwidth.
17858 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
17859 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
17860 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
17861 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
17862 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
17863 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
17864 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
17865 bug 688, reported by mfr.
17866 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few seconds.
17867 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
17868 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
17869 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
17871 o Bootstrapping faster and building circuits more intelligently:
17872 - Fix bug 660 that was preventing us from knowing that we should
17873 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
17874 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
17875 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
17876 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
17877 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
17878 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
17879 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
17880 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
17881 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
17882 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
17884 o Performance improvements (memory):
17885 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from "phk" as an optional malloc
17886 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly with
17887 Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass --enable-openbsd-malloc to
17888 ./configure to get the replacement malloc code.
17889 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
17890 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
17891 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
17892 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
17893 memory fragmentation.
17894 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
17895 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
17896 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
17897 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
17898 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
17900 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
17901 of them were actually distinct.
17902 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
17904 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
17905 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
17906 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
17907 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
17908 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
17909 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
17910 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
17911 performance-intensive.
17912 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it exists.
17913 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
17914 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
17915 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
17916 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for non-system
17919 o Performance improvements (socket management):
17920 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number of
17921 active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
17922 our allocated connection limit.
17923 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
17924 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
17925 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
17926 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
17927 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
17929 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
17930 cached-descriptors file. Patch by "freddy77".
17932 o Performance improvements (CPU use):
17933 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log target
17934 is interested in a given message.
17935 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
17936 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
17937 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
17938 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
17939 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
17941 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
17942 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
17943 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
17945 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
17946 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
17947 network-order and host-order counters on big-endian hosts (where
17948 they are the same).
17949 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
17950 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
17951 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
17952 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
17955 o Performance improvements (bandwidth use):
17956 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
17957 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
17958 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
17959 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
17960 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
17961 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
17963 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
17964 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
17965 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
17966 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
17967 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
17968 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
17969 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
17970 directories, running-routers documents, and v2 and v3 networkstatus
17971 documents. (There's no need to support it for router descriptors,
17972 since those are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
17973 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
17974 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
17975 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
17978 o Changed config option behavior (features):
17979 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
17980 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
17981 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
17982 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
17983 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
17984 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
17985 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
17986 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
17987 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
17988 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
17989 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
17990 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
17991 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
17992 and are reaching it.
17993 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
17994 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
17995 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
17996 stop using it. Fixes bug 437.
17998 o Changed config option behavior (bugfixes):
17999 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
18000 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
18001 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
18002 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
18003 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
18004 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
18005 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
18006 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bug reported by tup
18008 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
18009 BandwidthRate or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth were below a threshold. Now
18010 they look only at BandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthRate.
18011 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
18012 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
18013 - Make "TrackHostExits ." actually work. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
18014 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
18015 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
18017 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
18018 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
18020 o New config options:
18021 - New configuration options AuthDirMaxServersPerAddr and
18022 AuthDirMaxServersperAuthAddr to override default maximum number
18023 of servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
18024 running a test network on a single host.
18025 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
18026 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
18027 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
18028 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
18029 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
18030 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
18031 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
18032 the approved-routers file.
18033 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all v2 directory
18034 authorities must set. This lets v3 authorities choose not to serve
18035 v2 directory information.
18037 o Minor features (other):
18038 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
18039 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
18040 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
18041 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
18042 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
18043 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial steps for
18045 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
18046 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
18047 we can start out knowing some directory caches. We don't ship with
18048 a fallback consensus by default though, because it was making
18049 bootstrapping take too long while we tried many down relays.
18050 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
18051 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
18053 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
18054 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
18055 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
18057 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
18058 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
18059 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
18060 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
18061 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
18063 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
18064 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
18065 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
18066 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
18067 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
18068 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
18069 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
18071 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
18072 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
18073 logging information that would be as useful to an attacker.
18074 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
18075 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
18076 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
18077 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
18078 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
18079 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
18082 o Minor bugfixes (other):
18083 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
18084 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
18086 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
18087 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
18088 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
18089 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
18090 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
18091 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
18093 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
18094 bandwidthburst values.
18095 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
18096 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
18097 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
18098 to mark all our entry points down.
18099 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
18100 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
18101 supposed to tolerate these servers now.
18102 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
18103 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
18105 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
18106 more often than they are allowed to appear.
18107 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
18108 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
18109 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
18110 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
18111 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
18112 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
18113 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
18115 o Controller features:
18116 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
18117 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
18118 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
18119 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
18120 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
18121 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
18123 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
18124 multiple controller passwords.
18125 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
18126 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
18127 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
18128 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
18130 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
18131 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
18132 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
18133 cookie authentication file, and config option
18134 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
18135 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
18136 match requests to applications. Patch from Robert Hogan.
18137 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. Original patch
18139 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
18140 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. Patch from Tup.
18141 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
18142 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
18143 support them. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
18144 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
18145 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
18147 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
18148 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
18150 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
18151 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
18152 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
18153 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
18154 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
18155 are good, and how many authorities agree. Patch from "shibz".
18156 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
18157 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
18158 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
18159 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
18160 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
18161 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
18162 report the value as a "minimum skew."
18164 o Controller bugfixes:
18165 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
18166 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
18167 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length, so rogue
18168 processes can't run us out of memory.
18169 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
18170 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
18171 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
18173 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
18174 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
18175 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
18176 "OBSOLETE" in both cases.
18177 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
18178 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
18179 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
18180 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
18181 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
18182 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
18183 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
18184 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
18185 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
18186 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
18187 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
18189 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
18190 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
18192 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
18193 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
18194 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
18195 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
18196 WARN-severity events.
18198 o Portability / building / compiling:
18199 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
18200 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
18201 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
18202 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
18203 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
18204 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
18205 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
18206 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
18207 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
18208 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
18209 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
18210 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
18211 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
18213 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
18214 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
18215 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
18216 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
18217 Use this version consistently in log messages.
18218 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
18219 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
18220 partial results on small file reads.
18221 - Build without verbose warnings even on gcc 4.2 and 4.3.
18222 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
18223 a directory. Fix from lodger.
18224 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
18225 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
18226 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
18228 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
18229 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
18230 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
18231 logging for the unit tests.
18232 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
18233 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
18235 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
18236 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
18238 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
18239 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
18240 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
18241 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
18244 o Logging improvements:
18245 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
18246 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors.
18247 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
18248 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
18249 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
18250 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
18251 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
18253 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
18254 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
18255 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
18256 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
18257 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
18258 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
18259 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
18260 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
18261 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
18262 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
18263 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
18264 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
18265 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
18266 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
18267 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
18268 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
18269 Good in combination with --hash-password.
18270 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
18271 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
18273 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
18274 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533.
18275 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
18276 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
18278 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
18279 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
18280 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
18281 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
18282 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
18284 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
18285 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
18286 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
18287 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
18288 makes the log messages nicer.
18289 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
18290 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
18292 o Contributed scripts and tools:
18293 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
18294 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
18296 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
18297 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
18298 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
18299 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
18300 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
18301 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
18302 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
18303 connections to that address. Resolves bug 405.
18304 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
18305 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
18307 o Newly deprecated features:
18308 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
18309 GETINFO controller options are no longer useful in the v3 directory
18310 protocol: treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
18311 - The RedirectExits config option is now deprecated.
18313 o Removed features:
18314 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
18315 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
18316 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
18317 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
18318 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers are using the new
18320 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
18321 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
18322 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
18323 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
18324 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
18325 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
18326 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
18327 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
18329 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
18330 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
18331 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
18332 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
18333 - Remove the tor_strpartition() function: its logic was confused,
18334 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
18336 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
18337 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
18338 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
18339 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
18340 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
18341 patch from Karsten Loesing.
18342 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
18343 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
18344 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
18345 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
18346 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
18347 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
18348 code), this assumption no longer holds.
18349 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
18353 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
18354 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
18355 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
18356 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
18359 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
18360 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
18361 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
18362 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
18363 on network address.
18366 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
18367 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
18368 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
18369 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
18370 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
18371 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
18372 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
18373 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
18374 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
18375 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
18376 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
18377 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
18380 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
18381 rebuild our server descriptor.
18382 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
18383 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
18384 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
18385 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
18386 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
18387 nonstandard integer types.
18388 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
18389 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
18390 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
18391 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
18392 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
18394 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
18395 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
18396 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
18397 when they receive them.
18398 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
18399 This includes some 64-bit systems.
18400 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
18401 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
18402 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
18403 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
18404 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
18405 router_get_by_hexdigest().
18406 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
18407 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
18411 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
18412 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
18413 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
18414 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
18415 lists for a few hours each day.
18417 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
18418 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
18419 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
18420 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
18421 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
18422 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
18423 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
18424 rend_process_relay_cell().
18426 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
18427 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
18428 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
18429 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
18430 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
18431 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
18432 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
18433 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
18435 o Major bugfixes (other):
18436 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
18437 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
18438 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
18439 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
18440 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
18441 circuit cannibalization).
18442 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
18443 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
18444 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
18445 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
18446 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
18447 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
18450 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
18451 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
18453 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
18454 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
18455 absent. Resolves bug 467.
18456 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
18457 a way to trigger this remotely.)
18458 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
18459 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
18460 were reporting the dir port.)
18461 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
18462 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
18463 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
18464 the future. Fixes bug 434.
18465 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
18467 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
18468 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
18469 the onion key from getting rotated.
18470 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
18471 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
18472 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
18473 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
18474 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
18475 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
18476 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
18479 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
18480 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
18481 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
18482 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
18483 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
18486 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
18487 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
18490 o Major bugfixes (security):
18491 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
18492 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
18493 become more of a headache than it's worth.
18495 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
18496 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
18497 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
18499 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
18500 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
18501 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
18502 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
18503 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
18504 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
18506 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
18507 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
18508 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
18509 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
18510 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
18512 o Minor features (controller):
18513 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
18514 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
18515 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
18516 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
18518 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
18519 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
18520 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
18521 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
18522 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
18523 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
18524 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
18525 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
18527 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
18528 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
18529 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
18530 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
18531 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
18532 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
18533 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
18534 if we ran off the end of the list.
18535 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
18536 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
18537 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
18538 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
18539 every time we change any piece of our config.
18540 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
18541 encourage people using them to stop.
18542 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
18544 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
18545 servers to choose a circuit.
18546 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
18547 unparseable piece of it.
18550 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
18551 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
18552 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
18553 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
18554 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
18555 TorK, etc. Or worse.
18557 o Major security fixes:
18558 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
18559 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
18562 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
18563 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
18564 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
18565 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
18567 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
18568 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
18570 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
18571 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
18572 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
18573 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
18574 routerlist while inserting a new router.
18575 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
18576 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
18578 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
18579 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
18580 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
18582 o Major bugfixes (security):
18583 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
18585 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
18586 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
18587 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
18588 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
18589 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
18590 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
18591 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
18592 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
18593 guard list unless we need to.
18595 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
18596 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
18597 don't get overused as guards.
18599 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
18600 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
18601 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
18602 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
18603 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
18605 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
18606 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
18607 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
18610 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
18611 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
18612 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
18613 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
18614 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
18615 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
18616 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
18617 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
18620 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
18621 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
18622 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
18623 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
18625 o Directory authority changes:
18626 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
18627 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
18628 or use hidden services.
18630 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
18631 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
18632 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
18633 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
18634 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
18635 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
18636 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
18637 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
18638 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
18641 o Major bugfixes (security):
18642 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
18643 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
18644 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
18646 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
18647 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
18648 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
18649 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
18650 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
18651 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
18652 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
18653 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
18654 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
18655 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
18658 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
18659 purpose=controller.
18660 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
18661 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
18663 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
18664 having a hard time downloading.
18665 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
18666 partial results on small file reads.
18667 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
18668 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
18669 the gaps in the store get very large.
18672 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
18673 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
18675 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
18676 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
18679 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
18680 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
18681 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
18682 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
18683 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
18684 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
18686 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
18687 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
18688 free speech on the Internet.
18690 o Major features, client performance:
18691 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
18692 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
18693 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
18694 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
18695 - Stop overloading exit nodes -- avoid choosing them for entry or
18696 middle hops when the total bandwidth available from non-exit nodes
18697 is much higher than the total bandwidth available from exit nodes.
18698 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
18699 application connections, we wait only 10 seconds for the first,
18700 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
18701 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
18702 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
18703 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
18704 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
18705 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
18707 o Major features, client functionality:
18708 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to a directory
18709 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
18710 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
18711 config options if you like. For now, this feature only works if
18712 you already have a descriptor for the destination dirserver.
18713 - Add support for transparent application connections: this basically
18714 bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor into the Tor
18715 mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter implementations
18716 can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor without diverting
18717 through SOCKS. (Based on patch from tup.)
18718 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
18719 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
18720 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
18722 o Major features, servers:
18723 - Setting up a dyndns name for your server is now optional: servers
18724 with no hostname or IP address will learn their IP address by
18725 asking the directory authorities. This code only kicks in when you
18726 would normally have exited with a "no address" error. Nothing's
18727 authenticated, so use with care.
18728 - Directory servers now spool server descriptors, v1 directories,
18729 and v2 networkstatus objects to buffers as needed rather than en
18730 masse. They also mmap the cached-routers files. These steps save
18732 - Stop requiring clients to have well-formed certificates, and stop
18733 checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients have certificates so
18734 that they can look like Tor servers, but in the future we might want
18735 to allow them to look like regular TLS clients instead. Nicknames
18736 in certificates serve no purpose other than making our protocol
18737 easier to recognize on the wire.) Implements proposal 106.
18739 o Improvements on DNS support:
18740 - Add "eventdns" asynchronous dns library originally based on code
18741 from Adam Langley. Now we can discard the old rickety dnsworker
18742 concept, and support a wider variety of DNS functions. Allows
18743 multithreaded builds on NetBSD and OpenBSD again.
18744 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
18745 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
18746 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
18747 now announce in their descriptors if they don't support eventdns.
18748 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
18749 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
18750 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
18751 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
18752 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
18753 lets you turn it off.
18754 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
18755 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
18756 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
18757 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
18758 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
18759 useful to the network.
18760 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
18761 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
18762 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
18763 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt). Also cache them.
18764 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
18765 our tests for DNS hijacking.
18767 o Improvements on reachability testing:
18768 - Servers send out a burst of long-range padding cells once they've
18769 established that they're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits,
18770 so hopefully a few will be fast. This exercises bandwidth and
18771 bootstraps them into the directory more quickly.
18772 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
18773 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
18774 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
18775 if their identity keys are as expected.
18776 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
18777 chews through many circuits before giving up.
18778 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
18779 to test via a server that's on the same /24 network as us.
18780 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
18781 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
18782 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
18783 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
18784 - Routers no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
18785 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
18786 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
18787 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
18788 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
18789 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
18791 o Improvements on rate limiting:
18792 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
18793 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
18794 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
18795 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
18796 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
18798 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
18799 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
18800 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
18801 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
18802 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
18803 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
18804 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
18805 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
18807 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
18808 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
18810 o Major features, NT services:
18811 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
18812 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
18813 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
18814 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
18815 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
18816 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the "hardwire the user's appdata
18817 directory" trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
18819 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
18820 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
18821 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
18823 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
18824 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
18825 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the
18827 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
18828 stop. (Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.)
18830 o Directory authority improvements:
18831 - Stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect uptime and
18833 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
18834 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
18835 too much load to the exit nodes.
18836 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
18837 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
18838 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
18839 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
18840 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
18841 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
18842 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
18843 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
18844 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
18845 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
18846 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
18847 broken. Not used yet.
18848 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits in their
18849 approved-routers file by fingerprint or by address. If most
18850 authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients don't think
18851 of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider authorities
18852 that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
18853 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
18854 non-versioning dirservers.
18855 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
18856 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
18857 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
18859 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
18860 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
18861 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
18862 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
18864 o Directory mirrors and clients:
18865 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
18866 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
18867 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
18868 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
18869 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
18870 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we no
18871 longer count the failure against the total number of failures
18872 allowed for the object we're trying to download.
18873 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
18874 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
18875 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
18876 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
18877 routers for even longer.
18878 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
18879 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
18880 caching HTTP proxies.
18881 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
18882 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. (This currently
18883 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
18884 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.)
18886 o Major fixes, crashes:
18887 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
18888 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
18889 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when we run
18890 out of DNS worker processes, if we're not using eventdns. (Resolves
18892 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
18893 cleared EntryNodes. (Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.)
18894 - Avoid crash when telling controller about stream-status and a
18895 stream is detached.
18896 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
18897 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
18898 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
18899 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
18900 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
18901 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
18902 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
18903 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
18904 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
18905 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
18907 o Major fixes, anonymity/security:
18908 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
18909 /16 network when constructing a circuit. Add an
18910 "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to let people disable it if they
18911 want to operate private test networks on a single subnet.
18912 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
18913 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
18914 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
18915 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
18916 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
18917 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
18918 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
18919 could return an unnamed server instead.
18920 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
18921 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
18922 a more attractive target for compromise.)
18923 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
18924 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
18925 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
18926 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
18928 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
18929 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
18931 o Major fixes, other:
18932 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
18933 uptime in the descriptor.
18934 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
18935 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
18936 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
18937 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
18938 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
18939 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
18940 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
18941 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
18942 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
18943 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
18944 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
18945 our DirPort now, etc.
18946 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
18947 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
18948 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
18950 o New config options or behaviors:
18951 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
18952 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
18953 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
18954 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
18955 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
18956 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
18957 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
18958 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
18959 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
18960 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
18961 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
18962 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
18964 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
18965 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
18966 - Make PIDFile work on Windows.
18967 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
18968 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
18970 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
18971 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
18972 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
18973 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
18974 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
18975 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
18976 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well,
18977 and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can override this by
18978 setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
18979 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
18980 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
18981 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
18982 to set log options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as obsolete.
18983 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
18984 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
18985 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
18986 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
18987 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
18988 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
18989 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
18990 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
18991 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
18992 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
18993 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
18994 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
18995 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
18996 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
18997 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
18998 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
18999 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
19001 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
19002 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
19003 your ORPort is set.
19006 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
19007 new ChangeLog file now includes the notes for all development
19009 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
19010 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
19011 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
19012 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
19014 o Packaging, porting, and contrib
19015 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
19016 whether the config options are bad or good.
19017 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
19018 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
19019 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
19020 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
19021 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
19022 result more than once.
19023 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
19024 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
19025 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
19026 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
19027 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
19028 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
19029 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
19030 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
19031 before we check for libevent.
19032 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.2.
19033 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
19034 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
19035 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
19036 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
19037 recommendation system saner.)
19038 - Build with recent (1.3+) libevents on platforms that do not
19039 define the nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
19040 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
19041 now universal binaries.
19042 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
19043 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
19045 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi
19047 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
19048 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
19049 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
19050 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
19051 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable
19052 bandwidth to INT32_MAX.
19054 o Minor features, controller:
19055 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
19056 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
19057 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
19059 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
19060 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
19061 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
19062 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
19063 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
19064 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
19065 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
19067 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
19068 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
19069 connected or resolved cell.
19070 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
19071 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
19072 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
19073 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
19074 - Specify and implement some of the controller status events.
19075 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
19076 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
19078 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
19079 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
19080 entry guard status as it changes.
19081 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
19082 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
19083 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
19084 watching for STREAM events.
19085 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
19086 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
19087 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
19088 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
19090 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
19091 controller why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
19092 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
19093 working much like those for circuit events.
19094 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
19095 about the current status of a router.
19096 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
19097 a router's status has changed.
19098 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
19099 can tell which events and features are supported.
19100 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
19101 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
19102 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
19103 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
19104 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
19105 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
19106 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
19107 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
19108 for more information.
19109 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
19110 best guess to the user.
19111 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
19112 descriptor has changed.
19113 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
19114 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
19115 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
19117 o Minor bugfixes, controller:
19118 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
19119 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
19120 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
19121 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'. Reported by daejees.
19122 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
19123 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
19124 ask for GUARDS too. Reported by daejees.
19125 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
19126 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
19127 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. (Resolves part
19129 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
19130 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
19132 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
19133 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
19134 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
19136 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
19137 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
19138 the controller from learning about current events.
19139 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
19140 reported by Mike Perry.
19141 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
19142 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
19143 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
19144 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
19145 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
19146 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
19147 long nicknames where appropriate.
19148 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
19149 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
19151 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
19152 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
19153 - Respond to SIGNAL command before we execute the signal, in case
19154 the signal shuts us down. Suggested by Karsten Loesing.
19155 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
19157 o Minor features, code performance:
19158 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
19159 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
19160 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
19162 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
19163 some profiles, but not others.)
19164 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
19165 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
19166 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
19167 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
19168 operations, for profiling.
19169 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
19170 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
19171 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
19172 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
19173 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
19174 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
19175 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
19176 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
19178 o Minor features, descriptors and descriptor handling:
19179 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
19180 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
19181 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
19182 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
19183 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
19184 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
19185 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
19186 family lists conveniently.
19188 o Minor fixes, confusing/misleading log messages:
19189 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
19190 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
19191 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
19192 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate.
19193 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
19194 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
19195 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
19196 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
19197 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
19198 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
19199 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
19200 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
19201 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
19202 of it), is not therefore "up".
19204 o Minor fixes, old/obsolete behavior:
19205 - Start assuming we can use a create_fast cell if we don't know
19206 what version a router is running.
19207 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
19208 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
19209 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
19210 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
19212 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
19213 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
19214 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
19215 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
19216 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
19219 o Minor fixes, misc client-side behavior:
19220 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
19221 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
19223 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
19224 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
19226 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
19227 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
19228 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
19229 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
19230 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
19231 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
19232 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
19233 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
19234 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
19235 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
19237 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
19238 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
19239 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by us
19240 but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
19241 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
19242 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
19243 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
19244 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
19245 get one we don't recognize.
19248 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
19249 o Security bugfixes:
19250 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
19251 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
19252 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
19253 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
19257 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
19258 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
19259 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
19262 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
19264 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
19265 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
19266 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
19267 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
19268 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
19269 its circuits on demand.
19270 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
19271 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
19272 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
19273 connections more stable on average.
19274 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
19275 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
19276 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
19278 o Security bugfixes:
19279 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
19280 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
19283 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
19285 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
19286 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
19287 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
19288 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
19289 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
19290 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
19291 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
19292 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
19295 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
19297 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
19298 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
19299 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
19300 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
19301 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
19302 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
19303 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
19304 it can't resolve its hostname.
19305 - When a client asks us to resolve (not connect to) an address,
19306 and we have a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
19307 Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
19310 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
19311 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
19312 "extendcircuit" request.
19313 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
19314 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
19315 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
19316 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
19318 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
19319 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
19320 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
19322 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
19323 methods: these are known to be buggy.
19324 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
19325 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
19326 we don't recognize.
19329 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
19331 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
19332 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
19333 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
19334 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
19335 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
19336 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
19337 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
19338 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
19339 test reachability, so you won't publish.
19342 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
19343 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
19344 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
19345 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
19346 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
19348 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
19349 own server descriptor yet.
19352 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
19354 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
19355 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
19356 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
19357 make sure to test via one of these.
19358 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
19359 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
19360 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
19361 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
19362 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
19364 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
19365 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
19366 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
19369 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
19370 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
19371 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
19372 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
19373 directory authority.
19374 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
19375 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
19376 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
19377 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
19380 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
19381 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
19382 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
19384 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
19385 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
19386 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
19387 current guards when picking a new guard.
19388 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
19389 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
19390 when we had more than one pending.
19391 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
19392 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
19393 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
19394 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
19395 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
19396 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
19397 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
19398 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
19399 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
19400 debug the reachability problems better.
19402 o Log / documentation fixes:
19403 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
19404 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
19405 about protocol violations by others.
19406 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
19407 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
19408 about what happened to our old torrc.
19411 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
19412 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.0.17:
19413 - Fix assert bug in close_logs() on exit: when we close and delete
19414 logs, remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
19415 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
19416 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by Peter
19418 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
19419 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
19420 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed".
19421 - Setconf SocksListenAddress kills Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
19422 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
19423 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
19424 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you then
19425 HUP, it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
19426 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc when using -f.
19427 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
19428 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
19429 on malicious huge inputs.
19431 o Security fixes, major:
19432 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
19433 non-printable characters. Now we're safer against shell escape
19434 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool users into
19435 misreading their logs.
19436 - Implement entry guards: automatically choose a handful of entry
19437 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
19438 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
19439 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
19440 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
19441 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
19442 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
19443 Fixes CVE-2006-0414.
19444 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
19445 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
19446 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
19447 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
19448 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
19449 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
19451 - Obey our firewall options more faithfully:
19452 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
19453 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
19454 firewall options forbid.
19455 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
19456 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
19457 can only proxy to certain destinations.
19458 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
19459 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
19460 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
19462 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
19463 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
19464 each new connection. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
19465 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
19466 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
19467 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
19468 already present earlier in the circuit. Now we are.
19469 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
19470 are no longer allowed. This also fixes potential vulnerabilities
19471 to servers providing hostnames as their address and then
19472 preferentially resolving them so they can partition users.
19473 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
19474 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for invalid routers.
19476 o Security fixes, minor:
19477 - Adjust tor-spec.txt to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now
19478 Ian Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
19480 - Make directory authorities generate a separate "guard" flag to
19481 mean "would make a good entry guard". Clients now honor the
19482 is_guard flag rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
19483 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
19484 if we've not heard of a server.
19485 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
19486 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
19487 startup. And add entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
19488 - Refuse server descriptors where the fingerprint line doesn't match
19489 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
19490 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
19491 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
19492 don't recognize. Now we just drop that cell.
19493 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
19494 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
19495 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
19496 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
19497 aids some statistical attacks.
19498 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
19499 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
19500 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
19501 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
19502 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
19503 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
19504 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
19505 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
19508 o Packaging improvements:
19509 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Improve
19510 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
19511 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Deal better when
19512 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
19513 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
19514 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. Solaris's cc), use "-g -O" instead of
19516 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
19517 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
19518 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
19519 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
19520 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
19521 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
19523 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
19524 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
19525 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
19527 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
19528 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
19529 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html, INSTALL, and README in the tarball.
19530 They are useless now.
19531 - Add Peter Palfrader's contributed check-tor script. It lets you
19532 easily check whether a given server (referenced by nickname)
19533 is reachable by you.
19534 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
19537 o Directory improvements -- new directory protocol:
19538 - See tor/doc/dir-spec.txt for all the juicy details. Key points:
19539 - Authorities and caches publish individual descriptors (by
19540 digest, by fingerprint, by "all", and by "tell me yours").
19541 - Clients don't download or use the old directory anymore. Now they
19542 download network-statuses from the directory authorities, and
19543 fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
19544 - Clients don't download descriptors of non-running servers.
19545 - Download descriptors by digest, not by fingerprint. Caches try to
19546 download all listed digests from authorities; clients try to
19547 download "best" digests from caches. This avoids partitioning
19548 and isolating attacks better.
19549 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
19550 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
19551 - Directory authorities silently throw away new descriptors that
19552 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
19553 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
19554 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
19555 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
19556 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
19557 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
19558 to bootstrap the first set of descriptors.
19559 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
19561 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
19562 can answer v2 directory requests too.
19563 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
19564 docs, so new directory authorities will be cached too.
19565 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
19566 mirrors still cache and serve it).
19567 - Clients consider a threshold of "versioning" directory authorities
19568 before deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
19569 - Authorities publish separate sorted lists of recommended versions
19570 for clients and for servers.
19571 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
19572 - Put nicknames on the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
19573 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
19574 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
19575 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
19576 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
19577 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This
19578 reduces its bulk by about 1/3, and reduces load on mirrors.
19579 - Mirrors no longer cache the v1 directory as often.
19580 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
19581 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
19583 o Other directory improvements:
19584 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu and tor.dizum.com as fourth and
19585 fifth authoritative directory servers.
19586 - Directory authorities no longer require an open connection from
19587 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
19588 when we add new directory authorities, old servers won't know not
19589 to hang up on them.
19590 - Dir authorities now do their own external reachability testing
19591 of each server, and only list as running the ones they found to
19592 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
19593 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
19594 - Spread the directory authorities' reachability testing over the
19595 entire testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once
19597 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
19598 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
19599 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
19600 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
19601 connections more reliable.
19602 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
19603 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
19604 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
19605 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
19606 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
19607 we fail to connect).
19608 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
19610 o Controller protocol improvements:
19611 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
19612 than binary: tor/doc/control-spec.txt. Add supporting libraries
19613 in python and java and c# so you can use the controller from your
19614 applications without caring how our protocol works.
19615 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
19616 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
19617 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
19618 many bytes we've used in this time period.
19619 - Add a "resetconf" command so you can set config options like
19620 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
19621 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
19622 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
19623 - Add a "getinfo config-file" to tell us where torrc is. Also
19624 expose guard nodes, config options/names.
19625 - Add a "quit" command (when when using the controller manually).
19626 - Add a new signal "newnym" to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to
19627 stop using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we
19628 don't link new actions to old actions. This also occurs on HUP
19629 or "signal reload".
19630 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
19631 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
19632 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
19633 - Add a new controller event type "authdir_newdescs" that allows
19634 controllers to get all server descriptors that were uploaded to
19635 a router in its role as directory authority.
19636 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
19637 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
19638 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
19639 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
19640 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
19641 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
19642 - Permit transitioning from ORPort==0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from
19643 the controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
19644 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
19645 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
19646 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
19647 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the "extendcircuit"
19648 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're starting
19649 a new circuit. Add a new "setcircuitpurpose" controller command to
19650 let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been created.
19651 - Let the controller ask for "getinfo dir/server/foo" so it can ask
19652 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. "getinfo
19653 dir/status/foo" also works, but currently only if your DirPort
19655 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
19656 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
19657 "setrouterpurpose" and modify "+postdescriptor" to do this.
19658 - If the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
19659 message in a string and hand it back to the controller -- don't
19660 just tell them to go read their logs.
19662 o Scalability, resource management, and performance:
19663 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robin reading in 16 KB
19664 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
19665 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
19666 try to be a bit more fair.
19667 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
19668 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
19669 and either a) we could hibernate ever or b) our capacity is low
19670 and we're using a default DirPort.
19671 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
19672 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
19673 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
19674 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
19675 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
19676 services faster on the service end.
19677 - Compress exit policies even more: look for duplicate lines and
19679 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
19680 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
19681 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
19682 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
19683 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
19684 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
19685 of fields. Replace balanced trees with hash tables. Inline
19686 bottleneck smartlist functions. Add a "Map from digest to void*"
19687 abstraction so we can do less hex encoding/decoding, and use it
19688 in router_get_by_digest(). Many other CPU and memory improvements.
19689 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
19690 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
19691 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
19692 purpose is DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
19693 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
19694 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
19695 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
19696 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
19697 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
19698 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
19699 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
19700 - Do round-robin writes for TLS of at most 16 kB per write. This
19701 might be more fair on loaded Tor servers.
19702 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
19703 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
19705 o Other bugfixes and improvements:
19706 - Start storing useful information to $DATADIR/state, so we can
19707 remember things across invocations of Tor. Retain unrecognized
19708 lines so we can be forward-compatible, and write a TorVersion line
19709 so we can be backward-compatible.
19710 - If ORPort is set, Address is not explicitly set, and our hostname
19711 resolves to a private IP address, try to use an interface address
19712 if it has a public address. Now Windows machines that think of
19713 themselves as localhost can guess their address.
19714 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
19715 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
19716 This was causing some Tor servers to keep publishing the same
19717 initial descriptor forever.
19718 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
19719 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
19720 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
19721 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
19722 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
19723 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
19724 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
19725 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
19726 servers and authorities bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
19727 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
19728 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
19729 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
19730 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
19731 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
19732 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
19733 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
19734 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
19735 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
19736 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
19737 socket, we now close it before refusing, rather than just
19738 leaking it. (Thanks to Peter Palfrader for finding.)
19739 - Fix a file descriptor leak in start_daemon().
19740 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
19741 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
19742 ports that have changed.
19743 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies that refuse GET
19744 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0". Reported by Adrian.
19745 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
19746 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
19747 connections once a week.
19748 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
19749 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
19750 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
19751 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
19752 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
19753 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
19754 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
19755 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
19756 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
19757 able to discover them.
19758 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when they
19759 want to make it an NT service.
19760 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
19761 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
19762 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changed IPs.
19763 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
19764 memory leaks better.
19765 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
19766 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
19767 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These
19768 statistics are now uint64_t's.
19769 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
19770 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
19771 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
19772 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
19773 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
19774 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
19775 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
19776 default ulimit -n is 1024.
19777 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
19778 and its existence is confusing some users.
19780 o Config option fixes:
19781 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults
19782 to on. Now all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
19783 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
19784 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB.
19785 - Add new ReachableORAddresses and ReachableDirAddresses options
19786 that understand address policies. FascistFirewall is now a synonym
19787 for "ReachableORAddresses *:443", "ReachableDirAddresses *:80".
19788 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
19789 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
19791 - If the user gave Tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
19792 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
19793 This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
19794 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.
19795 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
19796 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
19797 it would silently ignore the 6668.
19798 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc,
19799 e.g. ExitPolicy, and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
19800 silently resetting it to its default.
19801 - Setconf was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
19802 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section, so operators
19803 will be more likely to learn that it exists.
19804 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
19805 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
19806 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
19807 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
19808 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
19809 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
19810 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
19811 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
19812 - Let directory authorities start even if they don't specify an
19813 Address config option.
19814 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
19815 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
19817 o Config option features:
19818 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
19819 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
19820 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
19821 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
19822 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
19824 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
19825 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
19826 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
19827 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
19828 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
19829 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
19830 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
19831 - Add "HardwareAccel" config option: support for crypto hardware
19832 accelerators via OpenSSL. Off by default, until we find somebody
19833 smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce seg faults
19834 in at least some cases.)
19835 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for directory authorities
19836 as a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
19837 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
19838 - Directory authorities can now reject/invalidate by key and IP,
19839 with the config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject", or
19840 by marking a fingerprint as "!reject" or "!invalid" (as its
19841 nickname) in the approved-routers file. This is useful since
19842 currently we automatically list servers as running and usable
19843 even if we know they're jerks.
19844 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see whether their
19845 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
19846 socks5-with-fqdn. This way they don't have to keep mucking
19847 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
19848 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
19849 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
19850 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
19851 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
19852 because older Tors do not understand it.
19853 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
19854 moria1, moria2, and tor26 have set.
19855 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
19856 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
19857 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
19858 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
19859 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
19860 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
19861 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
19862 unattached before we fail it?
19863 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
19864 at least this many seconds ago.
19865 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
19866 at least this many seconds ago.
19867 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
19868 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
19870 o Improved and clearer log messages:
19871 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
19872 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
19873 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
19875 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
19876 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
19877 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
19878 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
19879 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
19880 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer manually;
19881 move it out of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
19882 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
19883 temporarily unreachable.
19884 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
19885 Windows-style errno back.
19886 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
19887 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
19889 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
19890 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
19891 even when it's an IP address in the "virtual" range we designed
19892 exactly for this case.
19893 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
19894 warn when we're calling a non-named server by its nickname;
19895 don't warn twice about the same name.
19896 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
19898 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
19899 it was self-testing that told us so.
19900 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
19901 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
19902 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
19903 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
19904 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
19905 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
19906 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
19907 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
19908 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
19909 circuit. This will make startup on dir authorities less noisy.
19910 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
19911 established a circuit.
19912 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
19913 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. We suspect a
19914 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
19915 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
19916 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
19917 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
19918 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
19919 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
19920 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
19921 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
19922 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
19923 - Directory authorities now stop whining so loudly about bad
19924 descriptors that they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's
19925 a log complaint, it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
19926 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
19927 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
19928 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
19929 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
19930 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
19931 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
19932 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
19933 testing for reachability.
19934 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
19935 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
19937 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages on Win32.
19940 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
19941 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
19942 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
19943 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
19945 o Other important bugfixes:
19946 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
19947 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
19948 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
19949 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
19951 o Backported features:
19952 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
19953 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
19954 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
19955 without getting overloaded.
19956 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
19957 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
19958 503's whenever they feel busy.
19959 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
19960 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
19961 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
19962 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
19963 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
19966 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
19967 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
19968 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
19969 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
19970 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
19971 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
19972 too -- so detect and avoid this.
19973 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
19975 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
19976 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
19977 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
19978 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
19979 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
19980 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
19981 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
19982 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
19983 rendezvous circuits.
19984 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
19986 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
19987 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
19988 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
19989 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
19990 advertising it because of hibernation.
19991 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
19992 - One of the dirservers (tor26) changed its IP address.
19993 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
19994 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
19995 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
19996 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
19997 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
19998 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
19999 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
20000 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
20001 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
20002 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
20003 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
20004 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
20005 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
20008 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
20009 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
20010 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
20011 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
20012 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
20013 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
20014 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
20015 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
20016 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
20017 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
20018 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
20019 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
20020 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
20021 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
20022 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
20025 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
20026 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
20027 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
20029 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
20030 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
20033 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
20034 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
20035 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
20036 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
20037 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
20038 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
20039 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
20041 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
20042 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
20046 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
20047 o New directory servers:
20048 - tor26 has changed IP address.
20050 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
20051 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
20052 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
20053 pthreads libraries.
20054 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
20055 claims its dirport is 0.
20056 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
20057 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
20061 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
20062 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
20063 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
20064 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
20065 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
20066 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
20067 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
20068 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
20071 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
20073 - Make NT services work and start on startup on Win32 (based on
20074 patch by Matt Edman). See the FAQ entry for details.
20075 - Make 'platform' string in descriptor more accurate for Win32
20076 servers, so it's not just "unknown platform".
20077 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
20078 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on Win32
20079 means you can bind to the port _even when somebody else already
20080 has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
20081 - Clean up the log messages when starting on Win32 with no config
20083 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
20084 Administrator. If seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
20086 o Assert / crash bugs:
20087 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
20088 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
20089 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
20091 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
20092 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
20093 TLS errors better in other situations too.
20094 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert when we have a
20095 pending create cell and an OR connection attempt fails.
20098 - Use pthreads for worker processes rather than forking. This was
20099 forced because when we forked, we ended up wasting a lot of
20100 duplicate ram over time.
20101 - Also switch to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow
20102 reentry and threadsafeness.
20103 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
20104 netbsd and openbsd by default, because they have no reentrant
20105 resolver functions (!), and on solaris since it has other
20107 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
20108 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
20109 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
20110 point at your Tor server.
20111 - Fix possible memory leak in tor_lookup_hostname(). (Thanks to
20113 - Add ./configure --with-dmalloc option, to track memory leaks.
20114 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
20117 o Protocol correctness:
20118 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
20119 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
20120 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
20121 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells
20122 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
20123 to abandon partially built circuits.
20124 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
20125 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
20126 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
20127 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
20128 descriptors we just dropped.
20129 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
20130 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending 'misc',
20131 and to take errno into account where possible.
20132 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
20133 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
20134 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
20135 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
20137 o Robustness improvements:
20138 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
20139 - Annotate circuits with whether they aim to contain high uptime
20140 nodes and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
20142 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
20143 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
20144 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
20145 that will want high uptime circuits.
20146 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
20147 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
20148 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
20149 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
20150 - Reset published uptime when we wake up from hibernation.
20151 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
20152 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
20153 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
20154 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
20155 - New circuit pooling algorithm: keep track of what destination ports
20156 we've used recently (start out assuming we'll want to use 80), and
20157 make sure to have enough circs around to satisfy these ports. Also
20158 make sure to have 2 internal circs around if we've required internal
20159 circs lately (and with high uptime if we've seen that lately too).
20160 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
20161 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
20162 for google.com" problem.
20163 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
20164 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
20165 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
20166 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
20167 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
20170 o Reachability testing.
20171 - Your Tor server will automatically try to see if its ORPort and
20172 DirPort are reachable from the outside, and it won't upload its
20173 descriptor until it decides at least ORPort is reachable (when
20174 DirPort is not yet found reachable, publish it as zero).
20175 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
20176 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
20177 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
20178 - Authdirservers don't do ORPort reachability detection, since
20179 they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a server not
20180 already connected to them.
20181 - Authdirservers now automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc
20185 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
20186 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
20187 nickname+key are allowed.
20188 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
20189 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
20190 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
20191 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
20192 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
20193 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
20194 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
20195 have quite wrong clocks).
20196 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
20197 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
20198 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
20199 their descriptors are being rejected.
20201 o Efficiency improvements:
20202 - Use libevent. Now we can use faster async cores (like epoll, kpoll,
20203 and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better on Windows too.
20204 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue API, and using
20205 kqueue on 10.3.9 causes kernel panics. Don't use kqueue on OS X.
20206 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
20207 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
20208 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
20209 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
20210 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
20211 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
20213 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
20214 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
20215 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
20216 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
20217 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
20218 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
20219 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
20220 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
20221 of CPU time plus memory.
20222 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
20223 directory every time you regenerate it.
20224 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
20225 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
20226 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
20227 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
20228 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
20229 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
20230 lowercase when you first see them.
20233 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
20234 hidden services better.
20235 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
20236 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
20237 when we try to launch one.
20238 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds
20239 after fetching the descriptor, rather than for n (where n=3)
20240 attempts to build a circuit.
20241 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
20242 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
20243 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
20244 normal web requests.
20247 - More Tor controller support. See
20248 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
20249 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
20250 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
20251 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
20252 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
20253 to make it easier to write controllers.
20254 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
20255 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
20256 Matt Edman). Disable debug-level logs while delivering a debug-level
20257 log to the controller, to prevent loop. Update TorControl to handle
20258 new log event types.
20260 o New config options/defaults:
20261 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
20262 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
20263 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
20264 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
20265 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
20267 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
20269 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator and HttpsProxyAuthenticator support
20270 based on patch from Adam Langley (basic auth only).
20271 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
20272 the fast servers that have been joining lately. (Clients are now
20273 willing to load balance over up to 2 MB of advertised bandwidth
20275 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
20276 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
20277 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
20278 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
20279 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
20280 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
20281 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
20282 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
20283 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
20284 required exit node for certain sites.
20285 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
20286 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
20287 your exit keeps changing (based on patch from Mike Perry).
20288 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
20289 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
20290 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
20291 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
20292 - Change compiled-in SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to
20293 a config option "ShutdownWaitLength" (when using kill -INT on
20295 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options: if they say "--"
20296 on the commandline, it's not a config option (thanks weasel).
20297 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
20298 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
20299 private-IP addresses.
20300 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
20301 smart" default value: low for servers and high for clients.
20302 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
20303 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
20304 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
20305 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
20306 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
20307 is valid without actually launching Tor.
20309 o Logging improvements:
20310 - When dirservers refuse a server descriptor, we now log its
20311 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
20312 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist()
20313 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
20315 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
20316 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
20317 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
20318 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
20319 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
20320 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
20321 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
20322 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
20323 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
20325 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
20327 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
20328 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
20329 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
20330 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
20331 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
20332 pretend that getting these occasionally is normal and fine.
20334 o New contrib scripts:
20335 - New experimental script tor/contrib/exitlist: a simple python
20336 script to parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
20338 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
20339 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
20340 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
20341 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
20342 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
20343 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
20345 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
20346 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
20347 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
20348 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
20352 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
20353 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
20354 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
20355 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
20356 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
20357 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
20358 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
20360 - Fix a bug in the RPM package: set home directory for _tor to
20361 something more reasonable when first installing.
20362 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
20363 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
20364 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
20365 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
20367 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
20368 artificially capped at 500kB.
20369 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
20371 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
20372 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
20373 they could use instead.
20374 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
20375 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in certain
20376 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
20377 the user asks you to.
20380 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "externalIP.serifos.exit"
20381 rather than just rejecting it.
20382 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
20383 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
20384 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
20385 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
20386 rather than just "success" or "failure".
20387 - A more sane version numbering system. See
20388 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
20389 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
20390 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
20391 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
20392 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
20393 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
20395 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
20396 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
20397 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
20398 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
20400 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
20401 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
20403 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
20404 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
20405 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
20406 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
20408 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
20409 whether the server is hibernating.
20412 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
20413 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
20414 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
20415 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
20416 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
20420 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
20421 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
20422 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
20423 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
20424 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
20427 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
20428 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
20429 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
20430 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
20431 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
20432 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
20433 busy for more than 100 seconds.
20436 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
20437 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
20438 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
20439 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
20440 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
20441 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
20442 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
20443 creating actual system users.
20444 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
20445 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
20449 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
20450 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
20451 - Add new end stream reasons to maintenance branch. Fix bug where
20452 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
20453 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
20454 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
20455 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
20456 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
20457 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
20458 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
20459 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
20460 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
20461 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
20462 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
20463 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
20465 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
20466 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
20467 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
20468 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
20469 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
20470 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
20471 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
20472 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
20473 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
20474 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
20475 existing torrc files.
20476 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
20479 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
20480 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
20481 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
20482 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
20483 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
20484 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
20485 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
20486 the win32 SYSTEM account.
20487 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
20488 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
20489 file descriptors available.
20490 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
20491 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
20492 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
20495 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
20496 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
20497 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
20498 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
20500 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
20501 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
20502 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
20503 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
20504 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
20506 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
20507 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
20508 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
20509 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
20510 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
20511 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
20512 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
20513 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
20514 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
20515 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
20516 800kB/s of capacity.
20517 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
20520 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
20521 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
20522 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
20523 need as much processor time.
20524 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
20525 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
20526 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
20527 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
20528 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
20529 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
20530 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
20531 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
20532 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
20533 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
20534 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
20535 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
20537 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
20538 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
20539 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
20540 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
20541 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
20542 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
20543 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
20546 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
20547 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
20548 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
20550 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
20551 style address, then we'd crash.
20552 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
20553 a dirserver is broken.
20554 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
20556 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
20557 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
20558 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
20560 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
20561 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
20562 name out of the warning/assert messages.
20563 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
20564 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
20565 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
20567 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
20568 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
20569 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
20571 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
20573 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
20574 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
20575 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
20576 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
20577 values at once couldn't work.
20578 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
20579 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
20580 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
20581 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
20582 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
20583 they can handle any number of routers.
20584 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
20585 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
20586 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
20587 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
20588 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
20589 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
20590 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
20591 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
20592 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
20595 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
20596 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
20597 - Make hibernation actually work.
20598 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
20599 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
20600 don't use the stream status code.
20603 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
20604 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Crashes and asserts):
20605 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
20606 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
20607 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
20608 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
20609 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
20610 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
20611 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
20612 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
20613 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
20614 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
20617 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Win32):
20618 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
20619 win32 socket errors better.
20620 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
20621 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
20622 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
20623 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
20625 - Make unit tests work on win32.
20627 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Path selection and streams):
20628 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
20629 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
20630 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
20631 right after sending the begin cell.
20632 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
20633 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
20634 exit nodes too. Oops.
20635 - When read() failed on a stream, we would close it without sending
20636 back an end. So 'connection refused' would simply be ignored and
20637 the user would get no response.
20638 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
20639 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
20640 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
20642 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
20643 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
20644 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
20645 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
20646 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
20648 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Circuits):
20649 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
20650 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
20651 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
20652 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
20653 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
20654 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
20655 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
20656 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
20657 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
20658 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
20660 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Other):
20661 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
20662 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
20663 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
20664 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
20665 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
20666 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
20667 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
20668 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
20669 so we don't see those messages days later.
20670 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
20671 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
20673 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
20674 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
20675 they ran out of file descriptors.
20676 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
20677 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
20678 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
20679 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
20681 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
20682 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
20683 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
20684 the ones we find in directories.)
20685 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
20686 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
20687 if you don't want it open.
20688 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
20689 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
20690 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
20691 - If a verified OR connects to us before he's uploaded his descriptor,
20692 or we verify him and hup but he still has the original TLS
20693 connection, then conn->nickname is still set like he's unverified.
20695 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
20696 - tor_snprintf wrapper over snprintf with consistent (though not C99)
20698 - Replace sprintf with tor_snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
20700 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
20701 - Avoid strcat; use tor_snprintf or strlcat instead.
20703 o Features (circuits and streams):
20704 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
20705 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
20706 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
20707 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
20708 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
20709 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
20710 the user knows which one it's talking about.
20711 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
20712 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
20713 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
20714 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
20715 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
20716 from Geoff Goodell.
20717 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
20719 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
20720 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
20721 to fill the last cell completely.
20722 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
20723 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
20725 o Features (bandwidth):
20726 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMax" lets you
20727 set how many bytes per month (in each direction) you want to
20728 allow your server to consume. Rather than spreading those
20729 bytes out evenly over the month, we instead hibernate for some
20730 of the month and pop up at a deterministic time, work until
20731 the bytes are consumed, then hibernate again. Config option
20732 "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you specify which day of the month
20733 your billing cycle starts on.
20734 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
20735 hibernation properties by
20736 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
20737 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
20738 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
20739 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
20740 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
20742 o Features (directories):
20743 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
20744 nickname to its identity key.
20745 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
20746 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
20747 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
20748 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
20749 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
20751 - Clients and servers now fetch running-routers; cache
20752 running-routers; compress running-routers; serve compressed
20754 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
20755 will be able to get a directory.
20756 - Http proxy support
20757 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
20758 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
20759 be routed through this host.
20760 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
20761 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
20762 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
20763 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
20764 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
20765 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
20767 o Features (packages and install):
20768 - Add NSI installer contributed by J Doe.
20769 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
20770 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
20771 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
20772 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
20773 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
20774 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
20775 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
20776 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
20777 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
20780 o Features (ui controller):
20781 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
20782 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
20783 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
20784 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
20785 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
20786 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
20787 with the control port.
20788 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
20789 use in authenticating to the control interface.
20790 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
20791 configuration to torrc.
20792 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
20793 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
20794 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
20796 o Features (config and command-line):
20797 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
20798 not on the command line.
20799 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
20801 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
20802 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
20803 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
20804 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
20805 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
20806 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
20807 - New log format in config:
20808 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
20809 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
20810 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
20811 from their dirserver.
20812 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
20814 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
20815 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
20816 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
20817 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
20818 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
20819 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
20820 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
20821 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
20822 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
20823 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
20824 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
20825 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
20826 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
20827 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
20828 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
20829 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
20830 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
20831 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
20832 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
20833 than once per minute.
20835 o Features (other):
20836 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
20837 get back to normal.)
20838 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
20839 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
20840 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
20841 log more informatively.
20842 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
20843 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
20844 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
20845 from each other, to hinder linkability.
20846 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
20847 them act more like real nodes.
20848 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
20849 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
20850 1024) file descriptors.
20851 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
20854 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
20856 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
20857 clients/servers with an open dirport.
20858 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
20859 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
20860 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
20861 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
20862 intermittent connections.
20863 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
20864 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
20866 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
20867 in reporting stats locally.
20868 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
20869 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
20870 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
20873 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
20875 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
20876 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
20877 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
20878 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
20879 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
20880 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
20881 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
20882 list to decide who's running.
20883 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
20884 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
20885 - Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
20886 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
20887 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
20888 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
20889 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
20890 for pointing out this bug.)
20891 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
20893 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
20894 don't put it into the client dns cache.
20895 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP
20896 address should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy
20897 reject *:* until we get our next directory.
20899 o Protocol changes:
20900 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
20901 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
20902 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
20903 hadn't heard of before.
20906 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
20907 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
20908 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
20909 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
20910 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
20911 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
20912 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
20913 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
20914 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
20915 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
20916 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
20917 - When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
20918 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
20919 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
20920 - Directory caching.
20921 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
20922 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
20923 directory they've pulled down.
20924 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
20925 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
20926 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
20927 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
20928 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
20929 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
20930 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
20932 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
20933 This isn't used yet.
20934 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
20935 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
20936 clients don't use this yet.)
20937 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
20938 - Clients avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
20939 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't just replace
20940 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
20941 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
20942 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
20943 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
20944 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
20945 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
20946 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
20947 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
20948 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
20949 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
20950 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
20951 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
20952 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
20953 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
20954 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
20955 - File and name management:
20956 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
20957 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
20959 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
20960 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
20961 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
20962 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
20963 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
20964 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
20965 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
20967 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
20968 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
20969 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
20971 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
20972 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
20973 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
20974 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
20975 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
20976 - New docs in the tarball:
20978 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
20979 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
20980 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
20981 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
20982 know you might want to get it verified.
20983 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
20984 kazaa, gnutella ports.
20985 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
20986 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
20987 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
20988 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
20989 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
20990 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
20991 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
20993 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
20995 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
20996 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
20998 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
20999 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
21000 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
21003 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
21004 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
21005 ask them to resolve the host "".
21008 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
21009 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
21010 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
21013 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
21014 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
21015 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
21018 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
21019 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
21020 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
21021 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
21023 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
21024 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
21025 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
21027 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
21028 hidden service per 15-minute period.
21029 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
21030 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
21031 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
21032 o Fixes for security bugs:
21033 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
21034 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
21035 a trusted dirserver.
21037 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
21038 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
21039 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
21040 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
21041 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
21042 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
21043 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
21044 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
21045 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
21046 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
21048 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
21049 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
21050 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
21051 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
21052 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
21053 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
21055 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
21058 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
21059 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
21060 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
21061 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
21062 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
21063 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
21064 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
21065 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
21066 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
21067 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
21068 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
21069 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
21070 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
21071 - Updated the man page to reflect these features.
21074 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
21075 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
21076 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
21077 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
21080 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
21081 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
21082 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
21083 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
21084 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
21085 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
21086 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
21090 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
21092 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
21093 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
21094 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
21095 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
21096 - We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
21097 - CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
21098 if you decrypted them correctly.
21099 - Retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
21100 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address.
21101 - When we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
21102 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
21103 in-memory directories too.
21104 - Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
21105 - Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
21106 - Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
21107 - Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
21108 just close the circ.
21109 - Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
21110 - Better debugging for tls errors
21111 - Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
21112 - Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
21114 - Fix an assert trigger for exit nodes that's been plaguing us since
21115 the days of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
21116 - Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
21117 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
21118 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
21119 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
21120 it tells you about the first error.
21121 - Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
21122 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
21123 - Don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit.
21124 - Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
21125 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
21126 - Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
21127 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
21128 o Win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
21129 o Win32's close can't close a socket.
21130 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
21132 - check for <sys/limits.h> so we build on FreeBSD again, and
21133 <machine/limits.h> for NetBSD.
21136 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
21137 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
21139 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
21140 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
21141 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
21142 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
21143 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
21144 expect it to have a nickname.
21145 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
21146 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
21147 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
21148 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
21149 the dns farm to do it.
21150 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
21151 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
21153 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
21154 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
21155 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
21156 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
21157 but that aren't warnings
21160 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
21161 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
21165 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
21166 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
21167 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
21168 - include missing header fcntl.h
21169 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
21170 - deal with hardware word alignment
21171 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
21172 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
21173 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
21174 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
21175 by kill -USR1 currently.
21176 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
21177 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
21178 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
21181 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
21182 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
21183 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
21186 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
21188 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
21189 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
21190 - And fix a few endian issues.
21193 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
21195 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
21196 try that circuit again: try a new one.
21197 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
21198 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
21199 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
21200 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
21201 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
21202 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
21204 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
21205 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
21206 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
21208 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
21210 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
21211 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
21212 side isn't reading right then.
21213 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
21214 RecommendedVersions
21215 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
21216 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
21217 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
21220 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
21222 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
21223 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
21226 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
21230 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
21232 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
21233 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
21234 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
21235 connection is finished.
21236 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
21237 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
21238 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
21239 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
21240 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
21241 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
21242 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
21243 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
21244 rather than warn and continue.
21245 - Make --version work
21246 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
21249 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
21251 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
21252 knows it's working.
21253 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
21254 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
21256 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
21257 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
21258 so you can collect coredumps there.
21260 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
21261 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
21262 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
21263 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
21264 dns cache actually gets populated.
21265 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
21266 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
21267 end cell down it first.
21268 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
21269 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
21272 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
21274 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
21275 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
21277 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
21278 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
21279 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
21280 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
21281 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
21282 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
21284 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
21286 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
21287 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
21288 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
21289 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
21290 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
21291 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
21293 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
21294 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
21297 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
21299 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
21300 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
21301 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
21302 tor. It even has a man page.
21303 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
21304 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
21305 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
21306 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
21308 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
21310 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
21313 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
21315 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
21316 it, apt-getters. :)
21317 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
21318 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
21319 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
21320 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
21321 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
21322 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
21323 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
21324 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
21325 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
21326 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
21327 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
21329 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
21330 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
21333 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
21335 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
21336 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
21339 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
21341 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
21342 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
21343 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
21344 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
21345 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
21346 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
21347 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
21348 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
21349 logfile so you know it's working.
21350 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
21351 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
21354 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
21356 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
21357 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
21358 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
21361 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
21363 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
21364 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
21365 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
21368 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
21369 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
21370 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
21372 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
21373 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
21375 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
21376 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
21377 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
21379 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
21380 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
21384 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
21386 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
21387 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
21388 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
21391 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
21392 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
21393 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
21394 - Add port ranges to exit policies
21395 - Add a conservative default exit policy
21396 - Warn if you're running tor as root
21397 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
21398 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
21399 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
21400 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
21402 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
21405 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
21406 o Robustness and bugfixes:
21407 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
21408 really screw things up.
21409 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
21411 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
21412 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
21414 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
21415 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
21416 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
21417 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
21418 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
21419 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
21422 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
21425 - Change default loglevel to warn.
21426 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
21427 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
21429 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
21432 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
21433 o Robustness and bugfixes:
21434 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
21435 - to get ownership/permissions right
21436 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
21437 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
21438 pull down a directory again
21439 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
21440 causing server crashes
21441 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
21442 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
21443 - exit if bind() fails
21444 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
21445 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
21446 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
21447 - fix minor bias in PRNG
21448 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
21451 - Wrote the design document (woo)
21453 o Circuit building and exit policies:
21454 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
21456 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
21457 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
21458 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
21459 exists, rather than failing
21460 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
21461 which AP connections are standing by
21462 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
21463 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
21464 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
21466 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
21467 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
21470 - APPort is now called SocksPort
21471 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
21473 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
21474 hardcoded (for dirservers)
21475 - Reloads config on HUP
21476 - Usage info on -h or --help
21477 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
21479 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
21480 o General stability:
21481 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
21482 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
21483 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
21484 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
21485 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
21486 to take down the network when I approve a new router
21487 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
21490 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
21491 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
21493 o Autoconf improvements:
21494 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
21495 - Make install now works
21496 - create var/lib/tor on make install
21497 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
21498 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
21500 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
21501 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
21502 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
21503 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup