1 Changes in version 0.2.3.22-rc - 2012-09-11
2 Tor 0.2.3.22-rc fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
6 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
7 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
8 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
11 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
12 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
16 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
17 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
21 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
22 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
23 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
24 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
25 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
26 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
27 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
31 Changes in version 0.2.3.21-rc - 2012-09-05
32 Tor 0.2.3.21-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
33 series. It fixes a trio of potential security bugs, fixes a bug where
34 we were leaving some of the fast relays out of the microdescriptor
35 consensus, resumes interpreting "ORPort 0" and "DirPort 0" correctly,
36 and cleans up other smaller issues.
38 o Major bugfixes (security):
39 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
40 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
41 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
42 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
43 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
44 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0. We had committed
45 this patch previously, but we had to revert it because of bug 6271.
46 Now that 6271 is fixed, this patch appears to work.
47 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
48 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
49 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
50 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
51 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
52 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
53 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
54 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
58 - Remove the upper bound on microdescriptor length. We were hitting
59 the limit for routers with complex exit policies or family
60 declarations, causing clients to not use them. Fixes the first
61 piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
62 - Detect "ORPort 0" as meaning, uniformly, that we're not running
63 as a relay. Previously, some of our code would treat the presence
64 of any ORPort line as meaning that we should act like a relay,
65 even though our new listener code would correctly not open any
66 ORPorts for ORPort 0. Similar bugs in other Port options are also
67 fixed. Fixes the first half of bug 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
70 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
71 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
72 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
73 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
74 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
75 - Allow one-hop directory fetching circuits the full "circuit build
76 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
77 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
78 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
79 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
80 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
82 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
83 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
84 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
86 - Detect and reject attempts to specify both "FooPort" and
87 "FooPort 0" in the same configuration domain. (It's still okay
88 to have a FooPort in your configuration file, and use "FooPort 0"
89 on the command line to disable it.) Fixes the second half of bug
90 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
91 - Make wildcarded addresses (that is, ones beginning with "*.") work
92 when provided via the controller's MapAddress command. Previously,
93 they were accepted, but we never actually noticed that they were
94 wildcards. Fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
95 - Avoid crashing on a malformed state file where EntryGuardPathBias
96 precedes EntryGuard. Fixes bug 6774; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
97 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
98 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
99 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
102 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
103 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
104 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
105 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
106 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
107 - Downgrade path-bias warning messages to "info". We'll try to get
108 them working better in 0.2.4. Add internal circuit construction
109 state to protect against the noisy warn message "Unexpectedly high
110 circuit_successes". Also add some additional rate-limited notice
111 messages to help determine the root cause of the warn. Fixes bug
112 6475. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
113 - Move log message when unable to find a microdesc in a routerstatus
114 entry to parse time. Previously we'd spam this warning every time
115 we tried to figure out which microdescriptors to download. Fixes
116 the third piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
119 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
120 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
121 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
122 - Add missing documentation for consensus and microdesc files.
123 Resolves ticket 6732.
126 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
127 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
128 attack that could in theory leak path information.
131 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
132 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
133 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
134 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
135 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
136 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
137 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
138 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
139 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
140 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
141 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
142 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
143 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
144 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
147 Changes in version 0.2.3.20-rc - 2012-08-05
148 Tor 0.2.3.20-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
149 series. It fixes a pair of code security bugs and a potential anonymity
150 issue, updates our RPM spec files, and cleans up other smaller issues.
153 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
154 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
155 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
156 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
157 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
158 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
159 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
160 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
161 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
162 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
163 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
164 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
165 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
166 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
167 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
168 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
169 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
172 - Try to make the warning when giving an obsolete SOCKSListenAddress
173 a little more useful.
174 - Terminate active server managed proxies if Tor stops being a
175 relay. Addresses parts of bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
176 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
177 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
178 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
179 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
180 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
183 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
184 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
185 - Ignore ServerTransportPlugin lines when Tor is not configured as
186 a relay. Fixes bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
187 - When disabling guards for having too high a proportion of failed
188 circuits, make sure to look at each guard. Fixes bug 6397; bugfix
192 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
193 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
194 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
195 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
196 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
199 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
200 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
201 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
204 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
206 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
208 o Code simplification and refactoring:
209 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
210 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
211 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
212 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
215 Changes in version 0.2.3.19-rc - 2012-07-06
216 Tor 0.2.3.19-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
217 series. It fixes the compile on Windows, reverts to a GeoIP database
218 that isn't as broken, and fixes a flow control bug that has been around
219 since the beginning of Tor.
222 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
223 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
224 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
225 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
226 - Revert to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. In the
227 June 2012 database, Maxmind marked many Tor relays as country "A1",
228 which will cause risky behavior for clients that set EntryNodes
229 or ExitNodes. Addresses bug 6334; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
230 - Instead of ENOBUFS on Windows, say WSAENOBUFS. Fixes compilation
231 on Windows. Fixes bug 6296; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
234 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
235 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
238 Changes in version 0.2.3.18-rc - 2012-06-28
239 Tor 0.2.3.18-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
240 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
241 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
244 - Allow wildcarded mapaddress targets to be specified on the
245 controlport. Partially fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
246 - Make our linker option detection code more robust against linkers
247 such as on FreeBSD 8, where a bad combination of options completes
248 successfully but makes an unrunnable binary. Fixes bug 6173;
249 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
251 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
252 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
253 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
254 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
255 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
256 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
257 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
258 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
259 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
260 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
261 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
262 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
263 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
264 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
265 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
266 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
267 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
268 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
269 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
271 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
272 - Make format_helper_exit_status() avoid unnecessary space padding
273 and stop confusing log_from_pipe(). Fixes ticket 5557; bugfix
275 - Downgrade a message about cleaning the microdescriptor cache to
276 "info" from "notice". Fixes bug 6238; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
277 - Log a BUG message at severity INFO if we have a networkstatus with
278 a missing entry for some microdescriptor. Continues on a patch
280 - Improve the log message when a managed proxy fails to launch. Fixes
281 bug 5099; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
282 - Don't do DNS lookups when parsing corrupted managed proxy protocol
283 messages. Fixes bug 6226; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
284 - When formatting wildcarded address mappings for the controller,
285 be sure to include "*." as appropriate. Partially fixes bug 6244;
286 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
287 - Avoid a warning caused by using strcspn() from glibc with clang 3.0.
288 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
289 - Stop logging messages about running with circuit timeout learning
290 enabled at severity LD_BUG. Fixes bug 6169; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
291 - Disable a spurious warning about reading on a marked and flushing
292 connection. We shouldn't be doing that, but apparently we
293 sometimes do. Fixes bug 6203; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
294 - Fix a bug that stopped AllowDotExit from working on addresses
295 that had an entry in the DNS cache. Fixes bug 6211; bugfix on
298 o Code simplification, refactoring, unit tests:
299 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
300 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
301 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
302 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal function.
305 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new (in 0.2.3)
306 semantics for overriding, extending, and clearing lists of
307 options. Closes bug 4748.
310 Changes in version 0.2.3.17-beta - 2012-06-15
311 Tor 0.2.3.17-beta enables compiler and linker hardening by default,
312 gets our TLS handshake back on track for being able to blend in with
313 Firefox, fixes a big bug in 0.2.3.16-alpha that broke Tor's interaction
314 with Vidalia, and otherwise continues to get us closer to a release
318 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
319 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
321 - Implement the client side of proposal 198: remove support for
322 clients falsely claiming to support standard ciphersuites that
323 they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL versions, it's not
324 necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite, and doing so prevents
325 us from using better ciphersuites in the future, since servers
326 can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite is really supported or
327 not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very old versions of OpenSSL
328 or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC disabled -- will stand
329 out because of this change; TBB users should not be affected.
332 - Change the default value for DynamicDHGroups (introduced in
333 0.2.3.9-alpha) to 0. This feature can make Tor relays less
334 identifiable by their use of the mod_ssl DH group, but at
335 the cost of some usability (#4721) and bridge tracing (#6087)
336 regressions. Resolves ticket 5598.
337 - Send a CRLF at the end of each STATUS_* control protocol event. This
338 bug tickled a bug in Vidalia which would make it freeze. Fixes
339 bug 6094; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
342 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
343 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
344 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
345 case for flushing marked connections.
346 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
347 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
348 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
349 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
350 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
351 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
352 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
353 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
354 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
355 - Make sure circuitbuild.c checks LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in all the
356 right places and never depends on the consensus parameters or
357 computes adaptive timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049;
358 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
359 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
360 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
361 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
362 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
363 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
364 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
365 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
366 and relays all have an uptime of zero, where the private Tor network
367 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
368 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
369 - Correct the manpage's descriptions for the default values of
370 DirReqStatistics and ExtraInfoStatistics. Fixes bug 2865; bugfix
372 - Fix the documentation for the --hush and --quiet command line
373 options, which changed their behavior back in 0.2.3.3-alpha.
374 - Fix compilation warning with clang 3.1. Fixes bug 6141; bugfix on
378 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
379 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
380 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
381 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
382 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
383 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
384 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
385 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
386 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
387 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
388 - Issue a notice if a guard completes less than 40% of your circuits.
389 Threshold is configurable by torrc option PathBiasNoticeRate and
390 consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is additional, off-by-
391 default code to disable guards which fail too many circuits.
392 Addresses ticket 5458.
393 - Update to the June 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
395 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
396 - Remove validate_pluggable_transports_config(): its warning
397 message is now handled by connection_or_connect().
400 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
401 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
402 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
406 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
407 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
408 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
409 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
410 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
411 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
412 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
413 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
414 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
415 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
416 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
419 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
420 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
423 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
424 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
427 Changes in version 0.2.3.16-alpha - 2012-06-05
428 Tor 0.2.3.16-alpha introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
429 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
430 currently). It also fixes a variety of smaller bugs and other cleanups
431 that get us closer to a release candidate.
433 o Major bugfixes (general):
434 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
435 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
436 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
437 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
438 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
439 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
440 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
441 - Pass correct OR address to managed proxies (like obfsproxy),
442 even when ORListenAddress is used. Fixes bug 4865; bugfix on
444 - The advertised platform of a router now includes only its operating
445 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not its
446 service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture (for Unix).
447 We also no longer include the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Resolves
450 o Major bugfixes (clients):
451 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
452 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
453 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
454 which introduced predicted ports.
455 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
456 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
457 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
458 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
459 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
460 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
461 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
462 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
463 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
464 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
465 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
466 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
467 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
469 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
470 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
471 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
472 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
473 value: now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Partial
474 fix for 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
475 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
476 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
477 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
478 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
479 but would let it pass otherwise. Partial fix for bug 5786; bugfix
483 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
484 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
485 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
486 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
487 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
488 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
489 - Allow packagers to insert an extra string in server descriptor
490 platform lines by setting the preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG.
491 Resolves the rest of ticket 2988.
492 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
493 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
494 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
495 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
496 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
498 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the
499 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
500 - Improve log messages about managed transports. Resolves ticket 5070.
501 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
502 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
503 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
504 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
505 sure. Closes bug 5139.
506 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
507 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
508 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
509 it's dormant (bug 4718). Fixes bug 5954.
510 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
511 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
512 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
514 o Minor bugfixes (already included in 0.2.2.36):
515 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
516 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
517 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
518 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
519 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
520 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
521 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
522 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
523 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
524 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
525 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
526 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
527 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
528 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
529 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
530 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
531 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
532 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
533 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
535 o Minor bugfixes (coding cleanup, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
536 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
537 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
538 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
539 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
540 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
541 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
542 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
543 network is disabled or the nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes
544 bug 5916; bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha (for the unconfigurable
545 nameserver case) and on 0.2.3.9-alpha (for the DisableNetwork case).
546 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
547 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
549 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
550 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
551 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
552 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
554 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
555 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
556 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
557 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed
558 SETCIRCUITPURPOSE command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796;
559 bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
560 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
561 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
562 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
563 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
565 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
566 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
567 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
569 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
570 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
571 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
572 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
573 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
574 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
575 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
576 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
577 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
578 - If the configuration tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
579 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
580 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
581 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
582 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
583 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
584 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
585 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
586 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
587 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
588 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
590 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
591 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
592 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
593 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
594 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
595 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
597 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
598 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
599 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
601 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
602 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
603 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
604 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
605 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
606 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36 and 0.2.3.13-alpha.
608 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
609 - Turn an assertion (that the number of handshakes received as a
610 server is not < 1) into a warning. Fixes bug 4873; bugfix on
612 - Format IPv4 addresses correctly in ADDRMAP events. (Previously,
613 we had reversed them when the answer was cached.) Fixes bug
614 5723; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
615 - Work correctly on Linux systems with accept4 support advertised in
616 their headers, but without accept4 support in the kernel. Fix
617 by murb. Fixes bug 5762; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
618 - When told to add a bridge with the same addr:port as a preexisting
619 bridge but a different transport, change the transport as
620 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
621 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
622 - Avoid a "double-reply" warning when replying to a SOCKS request
623 with a parse error. Patch from Fabian Keil. Fixes bug 4108;
624 bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
625 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes if it has seen no
626 directory requests when it's time to write statistics to disk.
627 Fixes bug 5891; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Also fixes bug 5508 in
629 - Don't try to open non-control listeners when DisableNetwork is set.
630 Previously, we'd open all listeners, then immediately close them.
631 Fixes bug 5604; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
632 - Don't abort the managed proxy protocol if the managed proxy
633 sends us an unrecognized line; ignore it instead. Fixes bug
634 5910; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
635 - Fix a compile warning in crypto.c when compiling with clang 3.1.
636 Fixes bug 5969, bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
637 - Fix a compilation issue on GNU Hurd, which doesn't have PATH_MAX.
638 Fixes bug 5355; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
639 - Remove bogus definition of "_WIN32" from src/win32/orconfig.h, to
640 unbreak the MSVC build. Fixes bug 5858; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
641 - Resolve numerous small warnings and build issues with MSVC. Resolves
644 o Documentation fixes:
645 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
646 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
647 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
648 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
649 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
650 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
653 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
654 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
658 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
659 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
660 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
661 and fixes several crash bugs.
663 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
664 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
665 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
666 those packages and upgrade anyway.
668 o Directory authority changes:
669 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
670 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
674 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
675 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
676 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
677 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
678 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
679 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
680 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
681 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
682 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
683 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
684 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
685 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
686 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
687 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
688 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
689 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
690 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
691 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
692 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
693 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
694 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
695 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
696 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
697 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
698 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
699 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
700 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
703 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
704 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
705 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
706 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
708 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
709 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
711 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
712 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
713 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
714 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
715 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
716 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
717 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
718 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
721 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
722 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
723 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
724 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
725 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
726 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
727 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
728 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
729 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
730 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
731 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
732 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
733 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
734 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
735 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
736 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
737 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
738 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
739 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
740 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
741 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
742 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
743 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
744 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
745 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
746 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
747 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
748 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
749 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
750 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
751 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
752 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
753 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
754 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
755 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
756 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
757 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
758 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
759 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
760 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
761 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
762 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
763 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
764 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
765 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
766 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
768 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
769 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
770 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
771 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
772 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
773 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
774 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
775 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
776 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
777 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
778 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
779 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
780 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
781 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
782 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
785 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
786 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
787 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
788 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
790 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
793 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
794 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
795 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
796 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
797 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
798 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
799 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
802 Changes in version 0.2.3.15-alpha - 2012-04-30
803 Tor 0.2.3.15-alpha fixes a variety of smaller bugs, including making
804 the development branch build on Windows again.
806 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
807 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
808 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
809 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
810 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
811 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
812 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
813 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
814 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
815 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
816 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
817 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
818 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
819 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
820 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
822 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
823 - When Tor is built with kernel headers from a recent (last few
824 years) Linux kernel, do not fail to run on older (pre-2.6.28
825 Linux kernels). Fixes bug 5112; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
826 - Fix cross-compilation issues with mingw. Bugfixes on 0.2.3.6-alpha
828 - Fix compilation with miniupnpc version 1.6; patch from
829 Anthony G. Basile. Fixes bug 5434; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
830 - Fix compilation with MSVC, which had defined MS_WINDOWS. Bugfix
831 on 0.2.3.13-alpha; found and fixed by Gisle Vanem.
832 - Fix compilation on platforms without unistd.h, or where environ
833 is defined in stdlib.h. Fixes bug 5704; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
836 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
837 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
838 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
839 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
840 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
841 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
842 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
843 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
844 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
847 - Remove the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays option;
848 authorities needed to use it for a while to keep the network working
849 as people upgraded to 0.2.1.31, 0.2.2.34, or 0.2.3.6-alpha, but
850 that was six months ago. As of now, it should no longer be needed
854 Changes in version 0.2.3.14-alpha - 2012-04-23
855 Tor 0.2.3.14-alpha fixes yet more bugs to get us closer to a release
856 candidate. It also dramatically speeds up AES: fast relays should
857 consider switching to the newer OpenSSL library.
859 o Directory authority changes:
860 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
864 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
865 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
866 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
867 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
869 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
870 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
871 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
872 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
874 - When we start a Tor client with a normal consensus already cached,
875 be willing to download a microdescriptor consensus. Fixes bug 4011;
876 fix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
878 o Major features (performance):
879 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
880 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
881 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
882 much faster than other AES implementations.
884 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.2.x and earlier):
885 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
886 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
887 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
888 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
889 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
890 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
891 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
892 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
893 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
894 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
895 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
896 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
897 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
898 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
899 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
900 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
901 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
903 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.3.x):
904 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes (on a failed assert)
905 if it has seen no directory requests when it's time to write
906 statistics to disk. Fixes bug 5508. Bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
907 - Fix bug stomping on ORPort option NoListen and ignoring option
908 NoAdvertise. Fixes bug 5151; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
909 - In the testsuite, provide a large enough buffer in the tor_sscanf
910 unit test. Otherwise we'd overrun that buffer and crash during
911 the unit tests. Found by weasel. Fixes bug 5449; bugfix on
913 - Make sure we create the keys directory if it doesn't exist and we're
914 about to store the dynamic Diffie-Hellman parameters. Fixes bug
915 5572; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
916 - Fix a small memory leak when trying to decode incorrect base16
917 authenticator during SAFECOOKIE authentication. Found by
918 Coverity Scan. Fixes CID 507. Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
921 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
922 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
923 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
924 please let us know about it.
925 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
926 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
927 - Resolve IPv6 addresses in bridge and entry statistics to country
928 code "??" which means we at least count them. Resolves ticket 5053;
929 improves on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
930 - Update to the April 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
931 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
932 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
934 o Default torrc changes:
935 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
936 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
938 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
939 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
940 - Document unit of bandwidth related options in sample torrc.
944 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
945 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
946 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
947 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
950 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
951 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
952 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
953 it would be a bad idea to start.
956 Changes in version 0.2.3.13-alpha - 2012-03-26
957 Tor 0.2.3.13-alpha fixes a variety of stability and correctness bugs
958 in managed pluggable transports, as well as providing other cleanups
959 that get us closer to a release candidate.
961 o Directory authority changes:
962 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
965 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
966 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
967 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
968 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
969 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
970 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
971 this attack. Fixes bug 5185, implements proposal 193.
972 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
973 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
974 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
975 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
976 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
977 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
978 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
979 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
980 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
982 o Major bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
983 - Avoid an assert when managed proxies like obfsproxy are configured,
984 and we receive HUP signals or setconf attempts too rapidly. This
985 situation happens most commonly when Vidalia tries to attach to
986 Tor or tries to configure the Tor it's attached to. Fixes bug 5084;
987 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
988 - Fix a relay-side pluggable transports bug where managed proxies were
989 unreachable from the Internet, because Tor asked them to bind on
990 localhost. Fixes bug 4725; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
991 - Stop discarding command-line arguments when TestingTorNetwork
992 is set. Discovered by Kevin Bauer. Fixes bug 5373; bugfix on
993 0.2.3.9-alpha, where task 4552 added support for two layers of
995 - Resume allowing the unit tests to run in gdb. This was accidentally
996 made impossible when the DisableDebuggerAttachment option was
997 introduced. Fixes bug 5448; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
998 - Resume building with nat-pmp support. Fixes bug 4955; bugfix on
999 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
1001 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
1002 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
1003 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
1004 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
1005 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
1006 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
1007 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
1008 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
1009 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
1010 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
1011 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
1012 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
1013 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
1014 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
1015 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
1016 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
1017 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
1018 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
1019 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
1020 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
1021 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
1022 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
1025 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
1026 - On a failed pipe() call, don't leak file descriptors. Fixes bug
1027 4296; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1028 - Spec conformance: on a v3 handshake, do not send a NETINFO cell
1029 until after we have received a CERTS cell. Fixes bug 4361; bugfix
1030 on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "frosty".
1031 - When binding to an IPv6 address, set the IPV6_V6ONLY socket
1032 option, so that the IP stack doesn't decide to use it for IPv4
1033 too. Fixes bug 4760; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1034 - Ensure that variables set in Tor's environment cannot override
1035 environment variables that Tor passes to a managed
1036 pluggable-transport proxy. Previously, Tor would pass every
1037 variable in its environment to managed proxies along with the new
1038 ones, in such a way that on many operating systems, the inherited
1039 environment variables would override those which Tor tried to
1040 explicitly set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha for most Unixoid systems;
1041 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha for Windows.
1044 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
1045 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
1046 - Update to the March 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
1049 Changes in version 0.2.3.12-alpha - 2012-02-13
1050 Tor 0.2.3.12-alpha lets fast exit relays scale better, allows clients
1051 to use bridges that run Tor 0.2.2.x, and resolves several big bugs
1052 when Tor is configured to use a pluggable transport like obfsproxy.
1055 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
1056 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
1058 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
1059 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
1060 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
1061 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
1062 - Allow 0.2.3.x clients to use 0.2.2.x bridges. Previously the client
1063 would ask the bridge for microdescriptors, which are only supported
1064 in 0.2.3.x, and then fail to bootstrap when it didn't get the
1065 answers it wanted. Fixes bug 4013; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
1066 - Properly set up obfsproxy's environment when in managed mode. The
1067 Tor Browser Bundle needs LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be passed to obfsproxy,
1068 and when you run your Tor as a daemon, there's no HOME. Fixes bugs
1069 5076 and 5082; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
1072 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
1073 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
1074 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
1075 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
1076 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
1077 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
1078 - Update to the February 7 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
1081 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
1082 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
1083 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
1084 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1085 - Don't put "TOR_PT_EXTENDED_SERVER_PORT=127.0.0.1:4200" in a
1086 managed pluggable transport server proxy's environment.
1087 Previously, we would put it there, even though Tor doesn't
1088 implement an 'extended server port' yet, and even though Tor
1089 almost certainly isn't listening at that address. For now, we set
1090 it to an empty string to avoid crashing older obfsproxies. Bugfix
1092 - Log the heartbeat message every HeartbeatPeriod seconds, not every
1093 HeartbeatPeriod + 1 seconds. Fixes bug 4942; bugfix on
1094 0.2.3.1-alpha. Bug reported by Scott Bennett.
1095 - Calculate absolute paths correctly on Windows. Fixes bug 4973;
1096 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
1097 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
1098 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
1099 - Use the correct CVE number for CVE-2011-4576 in our comments and
1100 log messages. Found by "fermenthor". Resolves bug 5066; bugfix on
1103 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
1104 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
1105 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
1109 Changes in version 0.2.3.11-alpha - 2012-01-22
1110 Tor 0.2.3.11-alpha marks feature-freeze for the 0.2.3 tree. It deploys
1111 the last step of the plan to limit maximum circuit length, includes
1112 a wide variety of hidden service performance and correctness fixes,
1113 works around an OpenSSL security flaw if your distro is too stubborn
1114 to upgrade, and fixes a bunch of smaller issues.
1117 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
1118 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
1119 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
1120 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
1121 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
1122 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
1123 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
1124 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
1126 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
1127 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
1128 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
1129 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
1130 software warned about binding to UDP sockets, regardless of
1131 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
1132 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
1133 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
1135 o Major security workaround:
1136 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
1137 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
1138 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
1139 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
1140 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
1141 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
1142 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
1143 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
1144 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
1145 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
1146 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
1149 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
1150 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
1151 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
1152 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
1153 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
1154 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
1155 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
1156 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha and 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1157 - Do not use OpenSSL 1.0.0's counter mode: it has a critical bug
1158 that was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a. We test for the counter mode
1159 bug at runtime, not compile time, because some distributions hack
1160 their OpenSSL to mis-report its version. Fixes bug 4779; bugfix
1161 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by Pascal.
1163 o Minor features (controller):
1164 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
1165 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
1166 file. Resolves bug 1101.
1167 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
1168 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
1169 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
1170 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
1171 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
1172 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
1174 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
1175 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
1176 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
1177 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
1178 part of ticket 3457.
1179 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
1180 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
1181 circuit-status' control-port command.
1183 o Minor features (directory authorities):
1184 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
1185 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
1186 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
1187 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
1189 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
1190 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
1191 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
1192 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
1193 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
1194 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
1195 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies.
1196 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
1197 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
1199 o Minor features (other):
1200 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
1201 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
1202 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
1203 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
1204 - Prepend an informative header to generated dynamic_dh_params files.
1205 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
1206 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
1207 - Log more useful messages when we fail to disable debugger
1209 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
1210 them from the other auths.
1211 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
1212 - Add missing documentation for the MaxClientCircuitsPending,
1213 UseMicrodescriptors, UserspaceIOCPBuffers, and
1214 _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents options, all introduced during
1216 - Update to the January 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
1218 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
1219 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
1220 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
1221 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
1222 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
1223 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
1224 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
1225 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
1226 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
1227 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
1228 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
1229 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
1230 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behaviour change can
1231 be disabled using the new
1232 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
1233 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
1234 - Make sure we never mark the wrong rendezvous circuit as having
1235 had its introduction cell acknowleged by the introduction-point
1236 relay. Previously, when we received an INTRODUCE_ACK cell on a
1237 client-side hidden-service introduction circuit, we might have
1238 marked a rendezvous circuit other than the one we specified in
1239 the INTRODUCE1 cell as INTRO_ACKED, which would have produced
1240 a warning message and interfered with the hidden service
1241 connection-establishment process. Fixes bug 4759; bugfix on
1242 0.2.3.3-alpha, when we added the stream-isolation feature which
1243 might cause Tor to open multiple rendezvous circuits for the same
1245 - Don't trigger an assertion failure when we mark a new client-side
1246 hidden-service introduction circuit for close during the process
1247 of creating it. Fixes bug 4796; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported
1250 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
1251 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
1252 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta and
1254 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
1255 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
1256 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
1257 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
1258 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
1259 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
1260 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
1262 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
1263 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
1264 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
1265 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
1266 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
1267 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
1268 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
1269 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
1271 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
1272 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
1273 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
1274 - Preprocessor directives should not be put inside the arguments
1275 of a macro. This would break compilation with GCC releases prior
1276 to version 3.3. We would never recommend such an old GCC version,
1277 but it is apparently required for binary compatibility on some
1278 platforms (namely, certain builds of Haiku). Fixes the other part
1279 of bug 4727; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin
1282 o Minor bugfixes (other):
1283 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
1284 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
1285 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
1286 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
1287 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
1288 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
1289 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
1290 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
1291 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un". This was
1292 erroneously listed as fixed in 0.2.3.9-alpha, but the fix had
1293 accidentally been reverted.
1294 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
1295 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
1296 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
1297 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
1298 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
1299 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
1300 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
1301 - Fix an assertion failure when, while running with bufferevents, a
1302 connection finishes connecting after it is marked for close, but
1303 before it is closed. Fixes bug 4697; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1304 - test_util_spawn_background_ok() hardcoded the expected value
1305 for ENOENT to 2. This isn't portable as error numbers are
1306 platform specific, and particularly the hurd has ENOENT at
1307 0x40000002. Construct expected string at runtime, using the correct
1308 value for ENOENT. Fixes bug 4733; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1309 - Reject attempts to disable DisableDebuggerAttachment while Tor is
1310 running. Fixes bug 4650; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1311 - Use an appropriate-width type for sockets in tor-fw-helper on
1312 win64. Fixes bug 1983 at last. Bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1315 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
1316 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
1317 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
1318 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
1319 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
1320 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
1321 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
1323 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
1324 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
1325 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
1326 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
1327 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
1328 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
1329 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
1331 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
1332 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
1333 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
1334 invalid value, rather than just -1.
1335 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
1336 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
1337 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
1338 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
1339 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
1340 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
1341 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
1345 Changes in version 0.2.3.10-alpha - 2011-12-16
1346 Tor 0.2.3.10-alpha fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in
1347 Tor's buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
1349 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
1350 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
1351 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
1352 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
1353 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
1354 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
1355 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
1356 (which Tor does not do by default).
1358 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
1359 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
1360 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
1361 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
1362 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
1364 This release also contains a few minor bugfixes for issues discovered
1368 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
1369 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
1370 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
1371 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
1374 - If we can't attach streams to a rendezvous circuit when we
1375 finish connecting to a hidden service, clear the rendezvous
1376 circuit's stream-isolation state and try to attach streams
1377 again. Previously, we cleared rendezvous circuits' isolation
1378 state either too early (if they were freshly built) or not at all
1379 (if they had been built earlier and were cannibalized). Bugfix on
1380 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 4655.
1381 - Fix compilation of the libnatpmp helper on non-Windows. Bugfix on
1382 0.2.3.9-alpha; fixes bug 4691. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
1383 - Fix an assertion failure when a relay with accounting enabled
1384 starts up while dormant. Fixes bug 4702; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1387 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
1390 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
1391 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
1392 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
1394 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
1395 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
1396 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
1397 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
1398 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
1399 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
1400 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
1401 (which Tor does not do by default).
1403 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
1404 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
1405 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
1406 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
1407 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
1409 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
1410 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
1411 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
1414 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
1415 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
1416 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
1417 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
1418 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
1420 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
1421 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
1424 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
1425 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
1426 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
1427 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
1428 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
1429 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
1430 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
1431 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
1433 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
1434 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
1435 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
1436 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
1437 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
1438 close based on processing a cell on it.
1439 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
1440 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
1441 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
1442 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
1443 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
1444 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
1445 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
1446 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
1447 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
1448 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
1449 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
1450 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
1451 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
1452 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
1453 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
1456 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
1457 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
1458 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
1459 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
1460 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
1461 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
1462 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
1464 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
1465 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
1466 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
1467 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
1468 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
1469 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
1470 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
1471 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
1472 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1473 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
1474 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
1475 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
1476 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
1477 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
1478 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
1479 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
1480 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
1481 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
1482 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
1483 Reported by "troll_un".
1484 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
1485 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
1486 Reported by "troll_un".
1487 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
1488 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
1489 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
1490 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
1493 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
1494 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
1495 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
1496 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
1497 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
1498 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
1499 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
1500 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
1501 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
1502 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
1503 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
1505 o Packaging changes:
1506 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
1507 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
1510 Changes in version 0.2.3.9-alpha - 2011-12-08
1511 Tor 0.2.3.9-alpha introduces initial IPv6 support for bridges, adds
1512 a "DisableNetwork" security feature that bundles can use to avoid
1513 touching the network until bridges are configured, moves forward on
1514 the pluggable transport design, fixes a flaw in the hidden service
1515 design that unnecessarily prevented clients with wrong clocks from
1516 reaching hidden services, and fixes a wide variety of other issues.
1519 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
1520 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
1521 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
1522 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
1523 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
1524 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
1525 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
1526 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
1527 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
1528 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
1529 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
1530 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
1531 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
1532 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins. It
1533 implements the "managed proxy" part of proposal 180 (ticket 3472).
1534 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
1535 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
1536 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
1537 Resolves ticket 4526.
1538 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
1539 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
1540 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
1541 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
1542 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
1543 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
1544 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
1545 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
1546 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
1547 no effect unless Tor has been built with support for bufferevents,
1548 is running on Windows, and has enabled IOCP. This may, in the long
1549 run, help solve or mitigate bug 98.
1550 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
1551 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
1552 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
1553 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
1556 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
1557 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
1558 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
1559 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
1560 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
1561 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
1562 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
1563 - Only use the EVP interface when AES acceleration is enabled,
1564 to avoid a 5-7% performance regression. Resolves issue 4525;
1565 bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
1567 o Privacy/anonymity features (bridge detection):
1568 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
1569 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
1570 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
1571 - Introduce a new config option "DynamicDHGroups", enabled by
1572 default, which provides each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus
1573 to be used during SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help
1574 against censors who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static
1575 identifier for bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
1577 o Minor features (new/different config options):
1578 - New configuration option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
1579 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
1580 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
1581 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
1582 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
1583 Implements issue 933.
1584 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
1585 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
1586 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
1587 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
1588 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
1589 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
1590 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
1591 appending to the list.
1592 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
1593 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
1594 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
1595 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
1597 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
1598 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
1599 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
1600 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
1601 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
1602 reloads both files. (Note: This is an experimental feature; its
1603 behavior will probably be refined in future 0.2.3.x-alpha versions
1604 to better meet packagers' needs.) Implements task 4552.
1607 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
1608 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
1609 Resolves ticket 2474.
1610 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
1611 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
1612 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
1613 Required by fix for bug 3460.
1614 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
1615 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
1616 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
1617 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
1618 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
1619 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
1620 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
1621 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
1622 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
1624 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier):
1625 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
1626 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
1628 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
1630 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
1631 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
1633 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
1634 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
1635 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
1636 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
1637 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
1638 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
1639 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
1641 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str() on an address of
1642 unknown type, we would have done a strdup() on an uninitialized
1643 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
1644 Reported by "troll_un".
1645 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
1646 tor_addr_lookup(). Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
1647 Reported by "troll_un".
1648 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
1649 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
1650 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
1651 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
1653 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
1654 - Fix a compile warning in tor_inet_pton(). Bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha;
1656 - Don't send two ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cells when opening a new
1657 circuit for use as a hidden service client's rendezvous point.
1658 Fixes bugs 4641 and 4171; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Diagnosed
1659 with help from wanoskarnet.
1660 - Restore behavior of overriding SocksPort, ORPort, and similar
1661 options from the command line. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
1664 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
1665 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
1666 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
1667 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1669 o Code simplifications, cleanups, and refactorings:
1670 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
1671 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
1672 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
1673 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
1674 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
1675 - Remove some dead code spotted by coverity. Fixes cid 432.
1676 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha, closes bug 4637.
1679 Changes in version 0.2.3.8-alpha - 2011-11-22
1680 Tor 0.2.3.8-alpha fixes some crash and assert bugs, including a
1681 socketpair-related bug that has been bothering Windows users. It adds
1682 support to serve microdescriptors to controllers, so Vidalia's network
1683 map can resume listing relays (once Vidalia implements its side),
1684 and adds better support for hardware AES acceleration. Finally, it
1685 starts the process of adjusting the bandwidth cutoff for getting the
1686 "Fast" flag from 20KB to (currently) 32KB -- preliminary results show
1687 that tiny relays harm performance more than they help network capacity.
1690 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
1691 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
1692 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
1693 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
1695 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
1696 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
1697 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
1698 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
1699 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
1700 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
1701 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
1702 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
1703 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
1704 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
1705 - Fix a rare assertion failure when checking whether a v0 hidden
1706 service descriptor has any usable introduction points left, and
1707 we don't have enough information to build a circuit to the first
1708 intro point named in the descriptor. The HS client code in
1709 0.2.3.x no longer uses v0 HS descriptors, but this assertion can
1710 trigger on (and crash) v0 HS authorities. Fixes bug 4411.
1711 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha; diagnosed by frosty_un.
1712 - Make bridge authorities not crash when they are asked for their own
1713 descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.3.7-alpha, reported by Lucky Green.
1714 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
1715 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
1716 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
1717 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
1718 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34 and 0.2.3.7-alpha.
1721 - Allow Tor controllers like Vidalia to obtain the microdescriptor
1722 for a relay by identity digest or nickname. Previously,
1723 microdescriptors were only available by their own digests, so a
1724 controller would have to ask for and parse the whole microdescriptor
1725 consensus in order to look up a single relay's microdesc. Fixes
1726 bug 3832; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1727 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
1728 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
1731 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
1732 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
1733 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
1734 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
1735 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
1736 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
1737 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
1738 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
1739 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
1740 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
1741 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
1742 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
1743 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
1744 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
1745 tor_inet_ntop. Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
1747 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
1748 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
1749 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
1750 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
1751 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
1752 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
1753 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
1754 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1755 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
1756 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
1757 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
1758 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
1759 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
1760 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
1761 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
1762 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
1763 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
1765 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
1766 - Make util unit tests build correctly with MSVC. Bugfix on
1767 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Gisle Vanem.
1768 - Successfully detect AUTH_CHALLENGE cells with no recognized
1769 authentication type listed. Fixes bug 4367; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
1771 - If a relay receives an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell it can't answer,
1772 it should still send a NETINFO cell to allow the connection to
1773 become open. Fixes bug 4368; fix on 0.2.3.6-alpha; bug found by
1775 - Log less loudly when we get an invalid authentication certificate
1776 from a source other than a directory authority: it's not unusual
1777 to see invalid certs because of clock skew. Fixes bug 4370; bugfix
1779 - Tolerate servers with more clock skew in their authentication
1780 certificates than previously. Fixes bug 4371; bugfix on
1782 - Fix a couple of compile warnings on Windows. Fixes bug 4469; bugfix
1783 on 0.2.3.4-alpha and 0.2.3.6-alpha.
1786 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
1787 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
1788 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
1789 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
1790 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
1791 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
1792 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
1793 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
1794 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
1795 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
1796 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
1797 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
1798 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
1799 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
1801 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
1802 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
1803 - Update to the November 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
1805 o Packaging changes:
1806 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
1807 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
1809 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
1810 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
1811 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
1812 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
1813 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
1814 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
1815 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
1816 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
1817 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
1820 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
1822 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
1823 ./src/test/bench binary.
1824 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
1825 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
1828 Changes in version 0.2.3.7-alpha - 2011-10-30
1829 Tor 0.2.3.7-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.3.6-alpha introduced by
1830 the new v3 handshake. It also resolves yet another bridge address
1834 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
1835 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
1836 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
1837 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
1838 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
1839 close based on processing a cell on it.
1840 - Fix a double-free bug that would occur when we received an invalid
1841 certificate in a CERT cell in the new v3 handshake. Fixes bug 4343;
1842 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
1843 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
1844 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
1845 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
1846 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
1847 cells were introduced.
1850 - Fixed a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
1851 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
1854 Changes in version 0.2.3.6-alpha - 2011-10-26
1855 Tor 0.2.3.6-alpha includes the fix from 0.2.2.34 for a critical
1856 anonymity vulnerability where an attacker can deanonymize Tor
1857 users. Everybody should upgrade.
1859 This release also features support for a new v3 connection handshake
1860 protocol, and fixes to make hidden service connections more robust.
1863 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
1864 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
1865 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
1866 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
1867 - Allow variable-length padding cells to disguise the length of
1868 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
1870 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
1871 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
1872 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
1873 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
1874 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
1875 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
1876 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
1877 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
1878 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
1879 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
1880 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
1881 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
1882 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
1883 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
1884 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
1885 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
1886 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
1887 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
1890 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
1891 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
1892 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
1893 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
1894 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
1895 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
1896 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
1897 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
1898 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
1899 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
1900 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
1901 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
1902 Partly fixes bug 3825.
1903 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
1904 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
1905 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
1906 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
1907 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
1908 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
1909 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
1911 o Major bugfixes (other):
1912 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
1913 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
1914 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
1915 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1916 Found by "frosty_un".
1917 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
1918 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
1919 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
1920 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
1921 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by BryonEldridge, who also helped
1922 immensely in tracking this bug down.
1923 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
1924 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
1927 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
1928 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
1929 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
1930 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
1931 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
1932 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
1933 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
1934 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
1935 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
1936 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
1937 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
1938 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
1939 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
1940 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
1941 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
1942 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
1943 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
1944 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
1945 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
1946 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
1947 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
1949 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
1950 - Fix a bug in configure.in that kept it from building a configure
1951 script with autoconf versions earlier than 2.61. Fixes bug 2430;
1952 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1953 - Don't warn users that they are exposing a client port to the
1954 Internet if they have specified an RFC1918 address. Previously,
1955 we would warn if the user had specified any non-loopback
1956 address. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Fixes bug 4018; reported by Tas.
1957 - Fix memory leaks in the failing cases of the new SocksPort and
1958 ControlPort code. Found by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha;
1959 fixes coverity CIDs 485, 486, and 487.
1962 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
1963 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
1964 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
1965 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
1966 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
1967 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
1968 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
1969 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
1970 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
1971 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
1972 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
1973 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
1974 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
1975 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
1977 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
1978 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
1979 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
1980 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
1981 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
1982 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
1983 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
1984 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
1987 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
1988 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
1989 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
1991 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
1992 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
1993 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
1994 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
1995 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
1996 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
1997 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
1998 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
1999 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
2000 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
2001 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
2002 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
2003 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
2005 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
2006 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
2007 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
2008 currently connected to them.
2010 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
2011 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
2012 remain; see for example proposal 188.
2014 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
2015 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
2016 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
2017 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
2018 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
2019 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
2020 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
2021 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
2022 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
2023 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
2024 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
2025 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
2026 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
2027 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
2028 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
2029 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
2030 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
2031 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
2034 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
2035 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
2036 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
2037 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
2038 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
2039 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
2040 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
2041 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
2042 when bridges were introduced.
2043 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
2044 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
2045 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
2046 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
2047 Found by "frosty_un".
2050 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
2051 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
2053 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
2054 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
2055 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
2056 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
2057 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
2058 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
2059 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
2062 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
2063 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
2064 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
2065 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
2066 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
2067 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
2068 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
2069 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
2070 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
2071 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
2072 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
2073 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
2074 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
2075 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
2076 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
2077 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
2078 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
2079 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
2081 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
2082 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
2083 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
2084 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
2085 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
2086 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
2087 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
2088 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
2089 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
2090 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
2091 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
2092 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
2095 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
2096 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
2097 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
2098 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2101 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
2102 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
2103 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
2104 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
2105 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
2107 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
2108 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
2109 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
2110 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
2111 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
2112 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
2113 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
2114 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
2115 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
2116 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
2118 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
2119 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
2120 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
2121 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
2122 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
2123 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
2124 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
2125 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
2126 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
2127 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
2128 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
2129 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
2130 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
2131 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
2132 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
2133 Found by "frosty_un".
2134 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
2135 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
2136 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
2137 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
2138 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
2139 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
2140 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
2141 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
2142 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
2143 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
2144 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
2145 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
2146 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
2147 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
2148 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
2149 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
2150 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
2151 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
2152 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
2154 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
2155 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
2156 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
2157 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
2158 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
2159 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
2160 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
2161 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
2163 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
2164 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
2165 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
2166 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
2167 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
2168 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
2169 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
2170 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
2171 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
2172 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
2173 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
2174 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
2176 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
2177 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2178 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
2179 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2180 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
2181 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2182 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
2183 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
2184 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
2186 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
2188 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
2189 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
2190 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
2191 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
2192 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
2193 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
2194 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
2195 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
2197 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
2198 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
2199 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
2200 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
2201 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
2203 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
2204 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
2205 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
2206 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
2207 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2210 Changes in version 0.2.3.5-alpha - 2011-09-28
2211 Tor 0.2.3.5-alpha fixes two bugs that make it possible to enumerate
2212 bridge relays; fixes an assertion error that many users started hitting
2213 today; and adds the ability to refill token buckets more often than
2214 once per second, allowing significant performance improvements.
2217 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
2218 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
2219 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
2220 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
2221 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
2222 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
2223 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
2224 when bridges were introduced.
2227 - Fix an "Assertion md->held_by_node == 1 failed" error that could
2228 occur when the same microdescriptor was referenced by two node_t
2229 objects at once. Fix for bug 4118; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2231 o Major features (networking):
2232 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
2233 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
2234 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
2235 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
2236 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
2240 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
2241 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
2242 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
2244 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
2245 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
2246 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
2247 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
2248 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
2250 o Minor features (diagnostics):
2251 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
2252 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
2255 Changes in version 0.2.3.4-alpha - 2011-09-13
2256 Tor 0.2.3.4-alpha includes the fixes from 0.2.2.33, including a slight
2257 tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run
2258 this new version reachable from Iran again. It also fixes a few new
2259 bugs in 0.2.3.x, and teaches relays to recognize when they're not
2260 listed in the network consensus and republish.
2262 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
2263 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
2264 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
2265 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
2267 o Minor features (security, also part of 0.2.2.33):
2268 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
2269 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
2270 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
2271 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
2272 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
2273 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
2274 that these attacks is infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
2275 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
2276 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
2277 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
2279 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.33):
2280 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
2281 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
2282 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
2283 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
2284 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
2285 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
2286 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
2287 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
2288 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2290 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
2291 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
2292 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
2293 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
2294 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
2295 fixes part of bug 2442.
2296 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
2297 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
2298 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
2300 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
2301 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
2302 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
2303 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
2304 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
2306 o Build fixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
2307 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
2308 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
2309 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
2310 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
2313 - Fix a bug where the SocksPort option (for example) would get
2314 ignored and replaced by the default if a SocksListenAddress
2315 option was set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 3936. Fix by
2319 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
2320 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
2321 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
2322 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
2323 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
2324 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
2325 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
2328 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
2329 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
2330 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
2331 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
2332 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
2333 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
2334 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
2337 - Abort if tor_vasprintf fails in connection_printf_to_buf (a
2338 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
2339 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
2340 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
2341 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
2342 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
2343 - Make 'FetchUselessDescriptors' cause all descriptor types and
2344 all consensus types (including microdescriptors) to get fetched.
2345 Fixes bug 3851; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2348 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
2349 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
2352 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
2353 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
2354 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
2355 reachable from Iran again.
2358 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
2359 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
2360 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
2362 o Minor features (security):
2363 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
2364 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
2365 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
2366 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
2367 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
2368 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
2369 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
2370 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
2371 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
2372 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
2375 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
2376 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
2377 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
2378 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
2379 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
2380 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
2381 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
2382 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
2383 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2385 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
2386 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
2387 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
2388 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
2389 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
2391 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
2392 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
2393 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
2394 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
2395 fixes part of bug 2442.
2396 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
2397 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
2398 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
2400 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
2401 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
2402 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
2403 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
2404 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
2407 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
2408 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
2409 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
2410 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
2411 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
2412 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
2415 Changes in version 0.2.3.3-alpha - 2011-09-01
2416 Tor 0.2.3.3-alpha adds a new "stream isolation" feature to improve Tor's
2417 security, and provides client-side support for the microdescriptor
2418 and optimistic data features introduced earlier in the 0.2.3.x
2419 series. It also includes numerous critical bugfixes in the (optional)
2420 bufferevent-based networking backend.
2422 o Major features (stream isolation):
2423 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
2424 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
2425 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
2426 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
2427 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
2428 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
2429 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
2430 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
2431 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
2432 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
2433 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
2434 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
2435 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
2436 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
2438 o Major features (other):
2439 - Enable microdescriptor fetching by default for clients. This allows
2440 clients to download a much smaller amount of directory information.
2441 To disable it (and go back to the old-style consensus and
2442 descriptors), set "UseMicrodescriptors 0" in your torrc file.
2443 - Tor's firewall-helper feature, introduced in 0.2.3.1-alpha (see the
2444 "PortForwarding" config option), now supports Windows.
2445 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
2446 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
2447 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
2448 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
2449 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
2450 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
2451 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
2453 o Major bugfixes (bufferevents, fixes on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
2454 - When using IOCP on Windows, we need to enable Libevent windows
2456 - The IOCP backend now works even when the user has not specified
2457 the (internal, debugging-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option.
2458 Fixes part of bug 3752.
2459 - Correctly record the bytes we've read and written when using
2460 bufferevents, so that we can include them in our bandwidth history
2461 and advertised bandwidth. Fixes bug 3803.
2462 - Apply rate-limiting only at the bottom of a chain of filtering
2463 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal read
2464 buffers and violating rate-limits when filtering bufferevents
2465 are enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
2466 - Add high-watermarks to the output buffers for filtered
2467 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal write
2468 buffers and wasting CPU cycles when filtering bufferevents are
2469 enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
2470 - Correctly notice when data has been written from a bufferevent
2471 without flushing it completely. Fixes bug 3805.
2472 - Fix a bug where server-side tunneled bufferevent-based directory
2473 streams would get closed prematurely. Fixes bug 3814.
2474 - Fix a use-after-free error with per-connection rate-limiting
2475 buckets. Fixes bug 3888.
2477 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
2478 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
2479 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
2480 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
2481 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
2482 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
2485 - Added a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
2486 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
2487 user. Implements ticket 1692.
2488 - Use evbuffer_copyout() in inspect_evbuffer(). This fixes a memory
2489 leak when using bufferevents, and lets Libevent worry about how to
2490 best copy data out of a buffer.
2491 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
2492 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
2493 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
2495 o Minor features (build compatibility):
2496 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
2497 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
2498 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
2500 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
2501 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2503 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x-alpha):
2504 - Fix a spurious warning when parsing SOCKS requests with
2505 bufferevents enabled. Fixes bug 3615; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
2506 - Get rid of a harmless warning that could happen on relays running
2507 with bufferevents. The warning was caused by someone doing an http
2508 request to a relay's orport. Also don't warn for a few related
2509 non-errors. Fixes bug 3700; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2511 o Minor bugfixes (on 2.2.x and earlier):
2512 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
2513 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
2514 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
2515 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
2517 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
2518 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
2519 the absense of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
2522 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
2523 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
2524 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
2525 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
2526 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
2527 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
2528 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
2529 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
2530 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
2531 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
2532 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
2533 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2534 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
2535 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
2536 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
2537 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
2538 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
2539 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
2540 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
2543 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
2544 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
2545 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
2549 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
2550 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
2551 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
2552 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
2553 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
2554 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
2557 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
2558 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
2559 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
2560 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
2561 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
2562 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
2563 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
2564 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
2565 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
2566 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
2568 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
2569 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
2570 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
2571 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
2572 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
2573 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
2574 many many other features and bugfixes.
2577 Changes in version 0.2.2.31-rc - 2011-08-17
2578 Tor 0.2.2.31-rc is the second and hopefully final release candidate
2579 for the Tor 0.2.2.x series.
2582 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
2583 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
2584 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
2585 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
2586 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
2587 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
2588 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
2589 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
2592 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2595 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
2596 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
2597 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2598 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
2599 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
2600 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
2601 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
2602 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
2603 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
2604 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
2605 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
2606 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
2607 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
2608 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2609 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
2610 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
2611 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
2612 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
2616 Changes in version 0.2.3.2-alpha - 2011-07-18
2617 Tor 0.2.3.2-alpha introduces two new experimental features:
2618 microdescriptors and pluggable transports. It also continues cleaning
2619 up a variety of recently introduced features.
2622 - Clients can now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
2623 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
2624 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change
2625 very rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is
2626 designed to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
2627 connections. It's off by default for now, since nearly no caches
2628 support it, but it will be on-by-default for clients in a future
2629 version. You can use the UseMicrodescriptors option to turn it on.
2630 - Tor clients using bridges can now be configured to use a separate
2631 'transport' proxy for each bridge. This approach helps to resist
2632 censorship by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation
2633 plugins. It implements part of proposal 180. Implements ticket 2841.
2634 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
2635 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
2636 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
2637 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
2639 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
2640 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes (as with
2641 'EntryNodes {cc}' or 'EntryNodes 1.1.1.1/16'), choose only a
2642 random subset to be guards, and choose them in random
2643 order. Fixes bug 2798.
2644 - Tor could crash when remembering a consensus in a non-used consensus
2645 flavor without having a current consensus set. Fixes bug 3361.
2646 - Comparing an unknown address to a microdescriptor's shortened exit
2647 policy would always give a "rejected" result. Fixes bug 3599.
2648 - Using microdescriptors as a client no longer prevents Tor from
2649 uploading and downloading hidden service descriptors. Fixes
2653 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
2654 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
2655 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
2656 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
2658 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
2659 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
2660 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
2661 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
2662 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
2663 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
2664 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
2665 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
2666 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
2667 Implements ticket 3264.
2668 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
2669 implements ticket 3439.
2671 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
2672 - Do not free all general-purpose regular descriptors just
2673 because microdescriptor use is enabled. Fixes bug 3113.
2674 - Correctly link libevent_openssl when --enable-static-libevent
2675 is passed to configure. Fixes bug 3118.
2676 - Bridges should not complain during their heartbeat log messages that
2677 they are unlisted in the consensus: that's more or less the point
2678 of being a bridge. Fixes bug 3183.
2679 - Report a SIGNAL event to controllers when acting on a delayed
2680 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Previously, we would report a SIGNAL
2681 event to the controller if we acted on a SIGNAL NEWNYM command
2682 immediately, and otherwise not report a SIGNAL event for the
2683 command at all. Fixes bug 3349.
2684 - Fix a crash when handling the SIGNAL controller command or
2685 reporting ERR-level status events with bufferevents enabled. Found
2686 by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 3367.
2687 - Always ship the tor-fw-helper manpage in our release tarballs.
2688 Fixes bug 3389. Reported by Stephen Walker.
2689 - Fix a class of double-mark-for-close bugs when bufferevents
2690 are enabled. Fixes bug 3403.
2691 - Update tor-fw-helper to support libnatpmp-20110618. Fixes bug 3434.
2692 - Add SIGNAL to the list returned by the 'GETINFO events/names'
2693 control-port command. Fixes part of bug 3465.
2694 - Prevent using negative indices during unit test runs when read_all()
2695 fails. Spotted by coverity.
2696 - Fix a rare memory leak when checking the nodelist without it being
2697 present. Found by coverity.
2698 - Only try to download a microdescriptor-flavored consensus from
2699 a directory cache that provides them.
2701 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
2702 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
2703 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
2704 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
2705 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
2706 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
2708 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
2709 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
2710 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
2711 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
2712 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
2713 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2714 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
2715 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
2717 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2718 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
2719 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
2720 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
2721 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
2722 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
2723 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
2725 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
2729 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
2730 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
2731 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
2734 Changes in version 0.2.2.30-rc - 2011-07-07
2735 Tor 0.2.2.30-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.2.x
2736 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
2737 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
2740 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
2741 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
2742 discovered by katmagic.
2743 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
2744 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
2745 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
2746 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
2747 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
2748 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
2749 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
2750 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
2751 - Add BUILDTIMEOUT_SET to the list returned by the 'GETINFO
2752 events/names' control-port command. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha;
2753 fixes part of bug 3465.
2754 - Fix a memory leak when receiving a descriptor for a hidden
2755 service we didn't ask for. Found by Coverity; CID #30. Bugfix
2759 - Update to the July 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2762 Changes in version 0.2.2.29-beta - 2011-06-20
2763 Tor 0.2.2.29-beta reverts an accidental behavior change for users who
2764 have bridge lines in their torrc but don't want to use them; gets
2765 us closer to having the control socket feature working on Debian;
2766 and fixes a variety of smaller bugs.
2769 - Revert the UseBridges option to its behavior before 0.2.2.28-beta.
2770 When we changed the default behavior to "use bridges if any
2771 are listed in the torrc", we surprised users who had bridges
2772 in their torrc files but who didn't actually want to use them.
2773 Partial resolution for bug 3354.
2776 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
2777 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
2778 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
2779 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
2780 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
2781 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
2784 - Fix a bug when using ControlSocketsGroupWritable with User. The
2785 directory's group would be checked against the current group, not
2786 the configured group. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio. Fixes bug 3393;
2787 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
2788 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behaviour sane. Its callers
2789 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
2790 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
2791 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
2792 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
2793 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
2794 fixes part of bug 3407.
2795 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behaviour sane. Its callers
2796 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
2797 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
2798 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
2799 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
2800 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
2801 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
2802 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
2803 - Avoid a segfault when reading a malformed circuit build state
2804 with more than INT_MAX entries. Found by wanoskarnet. Bugfix on
2806 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
2807 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
2808 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
2809 - Fix a rare memory leak during stats writing. Found by coverity.
2812 - Update to the June 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2814 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
2815 - Remove some dead code as indicated by coverity.
2816 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
2818 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
2820 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
2823 Changes in version 0.2.2.28-beta - 2011-06-04
2824 Tor 0.2.2.28-beta makes great progress towards a new stable release: we
2825 fixed a big bug in whether relays stay in the consensus consistently,
2826 we moved closer to handling bridges and hidden services correctly,
2827 and we started the process of better handling the dreaded "my Vidalia
2828 died, and now my Tor demands a password when I try to reconnect to it"
2832 - Don't decide to make a new descriptor when receiving a HUP signal.
2833 This bug has caused a lot of 0.2.2.x relays to disappear from the
2834 consensus periodically. Fixes the most common case of triggering
2835 bug 1810; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
2836 - Actually allow nameservers with IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug 2574.
2837 - Don't try to build descriptors if "ORPort auto" is set and we
2838 don't know our actual ORPort yet. Fix for bug 3216; bugfix on
2840 - Resolve a crash that occurred when setting BridgeRelay to 1 with
2841 accounting enabled. Fixes bug 3228; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
2842 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
2843 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
2844 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
2845 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
2846 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
2847 - Use the same circuit timeout for client-side introduction
2848 circuits as for other four-hop circuits, rather than the timeout
2849 for single-hop directory-fetch circuits; the shorter timeout may
2850 have been appropriate with the static circuit build timeout in
2851 0.2.1.x and earlier, but caused many hidden service access attempts
2852 to fail with the adaptive CBT introduced in 0.2.2.2-alpha. Bugfix
2853 on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes another part of bug 1297.
2854 - In ticket 2511 we fixed a case where you could use an unconfigured
2855 bridge if you had configured it as a bridge the last time you ran
2856 Tor. Now fix another edge case: if you had configured it as a bridge
2857 but then switched to a different bridge via the controller, you
2858 would still be willing to use the old one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha;
2862 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
2863 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
2864 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
2865 - If "UseBridges 1" is set and no bridges are configured, Tor will
2866 now refuse to build any circuits until some bridges are set.
2867 If "UseBridges auto" is set, Tor will use bridges if they are
2868 configured and we are not running as a server, but otherwise will
2869 make circuits as usual. The new default is "auto". Patch by anonym,
2870 so the Tails LiveCD can stop automatically revealing you as a Tor
2874 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
2875 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
2876 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
2878 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows builds.
2880 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
2881 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
2882 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
2883 - Remove dead code from rend_cache_lookup_v2_desc_as_dir. Fixes
2884 part of bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2885 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
2886 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
2887 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
2888 info-level messages. Fixes the other part of bug 2748; bugfix
2890 - Clear the table recording the time of the last request for each
2891 hidden service descriptor from each HS directory on SIGNAL NEWNYM.
2892 Previously, we would clear our HS descriptor cache on SIGNAL
2893 NEWNYM, but if we had previously retrieved a descriptor (or tried
2894 to) from every directory responsible for it, we would refuse to
2895 fetch it again for up to 15 minutes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha;
2897 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
2898 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
2900 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
2901 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
2902 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
2905 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
2906 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
2907 Resolves ticket 3252.
2908 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
2909 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
2910 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
2911 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
2912 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
2913 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
2916 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
2917 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
2920 Changes in version 0.2.2.27-beta - 2011-05-18
2921 Tor 0.2.2.27-beta fixes a bridge-related stability bug in the previous
2922 release, and also adds a few more general bugfixes.
2925 - Fix a crash bug when changing bridges in a running Tor process.
2926 Fixes bug 3213; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
2927 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
2928 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
2929 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
2932 - Require that onion keys have exponent 65537 in microdescriptors too.
2933 Fixes more of bug 3207; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
2934 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
2935 Changed the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
2936 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
2937 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
2938 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
2939 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
2940 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
2944 Changes in version 0.2.2.26-beta - 2011-05-17
2945 Tor 0.2.2.26-beta fixes a variety of potential privacy problems. It
2946 also introduces a new "socksport auto" approach that should make it
2947 easier to run multiple Tors on the same system, and does a lot of
2948 cleanup to get us closer to a release candidate.
2950 o Security/privacy fixes:
2951 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
2952 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
2953 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
2954 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
2955 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
2956 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
2957 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
2958 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
2959 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
2960 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
2961 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
2962 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
2963 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
2964 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
2965 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2968 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
2969 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
2970 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
2971 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
2972 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
2973 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
2974 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
2975 part of ticket 3076.
2976 - Set SO_REUSEADDR on all sockets, not just listeners. This should
2977 help busy exit nodes avoid running out of useable ports just
2978 because all the ports have been used in the near past. Resolves
2982 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
2983 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
2984 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
2985 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
2986 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
2987 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
2988 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
2989 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
2991 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
2992 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
2993 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
2994 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
2995 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
2996 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
2997 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
2998 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
2999 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
3000 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
3001 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
3002 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
3003 - Update to the May 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3006 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
3007 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
3008 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
3009 on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 2230.
3010 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
3011 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
3012 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
3014 - Avoid a bug that would keep us from replacing a microdescriptor
3015 cache on Windows. (We would try to replace the file while still
3016 holding it open. That's fine on Unix, but Windows doesn't let us
3017 do that.) Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; bug found by wanoskarnet.
3018 - Add missing explanations for the authority-related torrc options
3019 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey in the
3020 man page. Resolves issue 2379.
3021 - As an authority, do not upload our own vote or signature set to
3022 ourself. It would tell us nothing new, and as of 0.2.2.24-alpha,
3023 it would get flagged as a duplicate. Resolves bug 3026.
3024 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
3025 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
3026 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
3027 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
3028 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
3029 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
3031 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
3032 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
3034 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
3035 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
3037 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
3038 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
3040 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
3041 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
3042 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
3044 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanup):
3045 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
3046 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
3047 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
3048 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
3049 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
3050 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
3051 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
3052 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
3053 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
3054 consensus. Bugfix on tor-0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
3056 - Avoid a possible null-pointer dereference when rebuilding the mdesc
3057 cache without actually having any descriptors to cache. Bugfix on
3058 0.2.2.6-alpha. Issue discovered using clang's static analyzer.
3059 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
3060 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
3061 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
3062 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
3063 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
3064 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
3065 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
3066 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3067 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
3068 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
3072 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
3073 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
3074 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
3078 Changes in version 0.2.3.1-alpha - 2011-05-05
3079 Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha adds some new experimental features, including support
3080 for an improved network IO backend, IOCP networking on Windows,
3081 microdescriptor caching, "fast-start" support for streams, and automatic
3082 home router configuration. There are also numerous internal improvements
3083 to try to make the code easier for developers to work with.
3085 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
3086 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
3087 stay with 0.2.2.x for now.
3090 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
3091 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
3092 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
3093 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
3094 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
3095 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
3096 zero-copy transports where available.
3097 - As an experimental feature, Tor can use IOCP for networking on Windows.
3098 Once this code is tuned and optimized, it promises much better
3099 performance than the select-based backend we've used in the past. To
3100 try this feature, you must build Tor with Libevent 2, configure Tor
3101 with the "bufferevents" buffered IO backend, and add "DisableIOCP 0" to
3102 your torrc. There are known bugs here: only try this if you can help
3103 debug it as it breaks.
3104 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
3105 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these options
3106 because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up to
3107 date. Fixes bug 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved issue here.
3108 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
3109 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the stream was
3110 connected, which slowed down all connections. This change will enable
3111 clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams and send data without
3112 having to wait for a confirmation that the stream has opened. (Patch
3113 from Ian Goldberg; implements the server side of Proposal 174.)
3114 - Tor now has initial support for automatic port mapping on the many
3115 home routers that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. (Not yet supported on
3116 Windows). To build the support code, you'll need to have libnatpnp
3117 library and/or the libminiupnpc library, and you'll need to enable the
3118 feature specifically by passing "--enable-upnp" and/or
3119 "--enable-natpnp" to configure. To turn it on, use the new
3120 PortForwarding option.
3121 - Caches now download, cache, and serve multiple "flavors" of the
3122 consensus, including a flavor that describes microdescriptors.
3123 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors -- small
3124 summaries of router descriptors that are authenticated by all of the
3125 directory authorities. Once enough caches are running this code,
3126 clients will be able to save significant amounts of directory bandwidth
3127 by downloading microdescriptors instead of router descriptors.
3130 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
3131 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
3132 Implements enhancement 1668.
3133 - We log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements ticket
3135 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
3136 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
3137 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
3138 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
3139 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
3140 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
3141 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
3143 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
3144 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
3145 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
3146 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
3147 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
3148 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
3149 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
3151 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
3152 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
3153 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
3154 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
3155 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
3156 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
3157 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
3159 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.25-alpha):
3160 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
3161 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
3162 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
3163 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
3164 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
3165 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
3166 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
3167 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
3168 - If as an authority we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3
3169 legacy keypair, warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead.
3170 Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
3171 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
3172 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
3173 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
3176 o Minor features (controller):
3177 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
3178 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
3179 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
3180 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
3181 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
3182 - Implement some GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
3183 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
3186 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
3187 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
3188 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
3189 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
3190 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
3191 - Our autogen.sh script uses autoreconf to launch autoconf, automake, and
3192 so on. This is more robust against some of the failure modes
3193 associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
3195 o Minor packaging issues:
3196 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it is not
3197 already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
3199 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
3200 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
3201 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
3202 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
3203 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
3204 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
3205 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
3206 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
3207 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
3208 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
3209 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
3210 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
3211 our library structure used to force them to link it.
3214 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
3215 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
3216 are no longer in use as servers.
3218 o Documentation fixes:
3219 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
3220 - Add missing documentation for the authority-related torrc options
3221 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey. Resolves
3225 Changes in version 0.2.2.25-alpha - 2011-04-29
3226 Tor 0.2.2.25-alpha fixes many bugs: hidden service clients are more
3227 robust, routers no longer overreport their bandwidth, Win7 should crash
3228 a little less, and NEWNYM (as used by Vidalia's "new identity" button)
3229 now prevents hidden service-related activity from being linkable. It
3230 provides more information to Vidalia so you can see if your bridge is
3231 working. Also, 0.2.2.25-alpha revamps the Entry/Exit/ExcludeNodes and
3232 StrictNodes configuration options to make them more reliable, more
3233 understandable, and more regularly applied. If you use those options,
3234 please see the revised documentation for them in the manual page.
3237 - Relays were publishing grossly inflated bandwidth values because
3238 they were writing their state files wrong--now they write the
3239 correct value. Also, resume reading bandwidth history from the
3240 state file correctly. Fixes bug 2704; bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
3241 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
3242 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
3243 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
3244 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
3245 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
3246 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
3247 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
3248 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
3249 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
3250 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
3251 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
3252 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
3254 o Security and stability fixes:
3255 - Don't double-free a parsable, but invalid, microdescriptor, even if
3256 it is followed in the blob we're parsing by an unparsable
3257 microdescriptor. Fixes an issue reported in a comment on bug 2954.
3258 Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fix by "cypherpunks".
3259 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
3260 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
3261 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
3262 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
3263 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
3264 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
3265 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
3266 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
3267 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3268 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
3269 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
3270 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
3273 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
3274 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
3275 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
3276 contributions to the network.
3278 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
3279 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
3280 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and StrictNodes
3281 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
3282 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
3283 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
3284 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
3285 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
3286 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
3287 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
3288 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
3289 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
3290 connections to directory servers.
3291 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
3292 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
3293 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
3294 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
3295 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
3296 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
3297 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
3298 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
3299 information, or fetch directory information.
3300 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
3301 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
3302 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
3303 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
3304 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
3305 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
3306 unless you really want your Tor to break.
3307 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
3308 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
3309 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
3310 - When StrictNodes is 1:
3311 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
3312 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
3313 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
3314 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
3315 reachability self-tests.
3316 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
3317 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
3318 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
3319 - Remove a misfeature that caused us to ignore the Fast/Stable flags
3320 when ExitNodes is set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
3321 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
3322 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
3324 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
3325 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3326 - Revert a change where we would be laxer about attaching streams to
3327 circuits than when building the circuits. This was meant to prevent
3328 a set of bugs where streams were never attachable, but our improved
3329 code here should make this unnecessary. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
3330 - Keep track of how many times we launch a new circuit to handle a
3331 given stream. Too many launches could indicate an inconsistency
3332 between our "launch a circuit to handle this stream" logic and our
3333 "attach this stream to one of the available circuits" logic.
3334 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
3337 - Fix a spurious warning when moving from a short month to a long
3338 month on relays with month-based BandwidthAccounting. Bugfix on
3339 0.2.2.17-alpha; fixes bug 3020.
3340 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
3341 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
3342 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
3343 - Add a forgotten cast that caused a compile warning on OS X 10.6.
3344 Bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
3345 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
3346 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
3347 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
3348 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3349 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
3350 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
3351 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
3352 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
3353 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
3355 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
3356 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
3357 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
3358 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
3359 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
3360 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
3361 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
3362 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP control-port command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
3363 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
3364 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
3365 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
3366 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
3367 - Write the current time into the LastWritten line in our state file,
3368 rather than the time from the previous write attempt. Also, stop
3369 trying to use a time of -1 in our log statements. Fixes bug 3039;
3370 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
3371 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
3372 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
3373 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
3374 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
3377 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
3378 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
3379 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
3380 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
3381 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
3382 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
3383 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
3384 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
3385 Required by fix for bug 3000.
3386 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
3387 by fix for bug 3000.
3388 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
3389 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
3391 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3392 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
3393 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
3394 send a body too). Since only server versions before
3395 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
3396 keep the workaround in place.
3397 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
3398 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
3399 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
3400 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
3401 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
3402 want to do it differently.
3403 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
3404 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
3405 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
3406 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
3407 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch by
3411 Changes in version 0.2.2.24-alpha - 2011-04-08
3412 Tor 0.2.2.24-alpha fixes a variety of bugs, including a big bug that
3413 prevented Tor clients from effectively using "multihomed" bridges,
3414 that is, bridges that listen on multiple ports or IP addresses so users
3415 can continue to use some of their addresses even if others get blocked.
3418 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
3419 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
3420 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it should be
3421 able to advertise those addresses independently and any non-blocked
3422 addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.x. Fixes
3424 - If you configured Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
3425 configured Tor to use bridge B instead, it would happily continue
3426 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
3427 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
3428 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
3429 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
3430 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
3431 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
3432 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
3433 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
3434 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
3435 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
3438 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
3439 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
3440 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
3441 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
3442 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
3443 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
3444 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
3446 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
3447 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
3448 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
3449 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
3450 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
3451 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on
3452 versions 0.2.1.23/0.2.2.8-alpha (the versions introducing
3453 the --with-static-libevent configure option).
3454 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
3455 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
3456 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
3457 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
3458 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
3459 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
3460 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
3461 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
3462 - Avoid a double-mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
3463 transparent proxy connection. (We thought we had fixed this in
3464 0.2.2.23-alpha, but it turns out our fix was checking the wrong
3465 connection.) Fixes bug 2757; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha (the original
3466 bug) and 0.2.2.23-alpha (the incorrect fix).
3467 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
3468 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3471 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
3473 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
3474 --enable-gcc-warnings by removing two warning options that clang
3475 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Implements
3477 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
3478 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
3479 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
3480 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
3482 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
3483 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
3484 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
3485 - Update to the April 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3488 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
3489 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
3491 o Documentation changes:
3492 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
3493 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
3495 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
3498 Changes in version 0.2.2.23-alpha - 2011-03-08
3499 Tor 0.2.2.23-alpha lets relays record their bandwidth history so when
3500 they restart they don't lose their bandwidth capacity estimate. This
3501 release also fixes a diverse set of user-facing bugs, ranging from
3502 relays overrunning their rate limiting to clients falsely warning about
3503 clock skew to bridge descriptor leaks by our bridge directory authority.
3506 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
3507 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
3508 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
3509 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
3510 the rest of bug 1074.
3511 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
3512 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
3513 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
3514 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
3515 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
3516 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
3517 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
3518 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
3519 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
3520 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
3521 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
3522 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
3523 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
3524 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3527 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
3528 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved)
3529 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
3530 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
3531 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
3532 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
3533 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
3534 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
3535 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
3536 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
3537 change could take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
3538 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
3539 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
3540 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
3542 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
3543 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
3544 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
3545 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
3546 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
3547 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
3549 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
3550 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
3551 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
3552 - Country codes aren't supported in EntryNodes until 0.2.3.x, so
3553 don't mention them in the manpage. Fixes bug 2450; issue
3554 spotted by keb and G-Lo.
3555 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
3556 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
3557 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
3559 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
3560 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
3561 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
3562 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
3563 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
3564 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
3565 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
3566 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
3567 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
3568 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
3569 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
3570 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
3571 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
3572 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
3573 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
3574 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
3576 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
3577 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
3578 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
3579 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
3580 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
3581 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
3583 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
3584 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
3585 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
3587 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
3588 - Clients should not weight BadExit nodes as Exits in their node
3589 selection. Similarly, directory authorities should not count BadExit
3590 bandwidth as Exit bandwidth when computing bandwidth-weights.
3591 Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 2203.
3592 - Correctly clear our dir_read/dir_write history when there is an
3593 error parsing any bw history value from the state file. Bugfix on
3595 - Resolve a bug in verifying signatures of directory objects
3596 with digests longer than SHA1. Bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
3597 Fixes bug 2409. Found by "piebeer".
3598 - Bridge authorities no longer crash on SIGHUP when they try to
3599 publish their relay descriptor to themselves. Fixes bug 2572. Bugfix
3603 - Log less aggressively about circuit timeout changes, and improve
3604 some other circuit timeout messages. Resolves bug 2004.
3605 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
3606 accepting new connections. Resolves bug 2181.
3607 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
3608 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
3609 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
3610 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
3611 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
3612 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
3613 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
3614 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
3616 - Update to the March 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3618 o Minor features (log subsystem):
3619 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
3620 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
3621 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
3623 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
3624 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
3626 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
3627 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
3628 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
3631 o Packaging changes:
3632 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
3633 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
3634 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
3637 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
3638 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
3639 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
3640 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
3641 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
3642 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
3645 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
3646 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
3647 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
3648 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
3649 the rest of bug 1074.
3650 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
3651 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
3653 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
3654 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
3655 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
3656 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
3657 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
3658 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
3659 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3662 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
3664 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3667 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
3668 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
3669 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
3670 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
3671 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
3672 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
3673 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
3674 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
3675 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
3676 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
3677 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3679 o Packaging changes:
3680 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
3681 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
3682 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
3683 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
3684 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
3685 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
3688 Changes in version 0.2.2.22-alpha - 2011-01-25
3689 Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha fixes a few more less-critical security issues. The
3690 main other change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes
3691 relays and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
3692 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
3693 will buy us a bit more time until we roll out a better solution.
3696 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
3697 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
3699 - Don't assert when changing from bridge to relay or vice versa
3700 via the controller. The assert happened because we didn't properly
3701 initialize our keys in this case. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha; fixes
3702 bug 2433. Reported by bastik.
3705 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
3707 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
3708 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
3709 Implements ticket 2432.
3712 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
3713 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
3714 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28 / 0.2.2.20-alpha. Found by "doorss".
3717 Changes in version 0.2.2.21-alpha - 2011-01-15
3718 Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha includes all the patches from Tor 0.2.1.29, which
3719 continues our recent code security audit work. The main fix resolves
3720 a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote code
3721 execution (CVE-2011-0427). Other fixes address a variety of assert
3722 and crash bugs, most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
3724 o Major bugfixes (security), also included in 0.2.1.29:
3725 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
3726 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
3727 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
3729 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
3730 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
3731 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
3732 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
3733 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
3734 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
3735 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
3736 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
3738 o Major bugfixes (crashes), also included in 0.2.1.29:
3739 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
3740 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
3741 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
3742 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
3743 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
3744 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
3745 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
3746 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
3747 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
3748 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
3749 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
3750 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
3751 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
3754 o Minor bugfixes (other), also included in 0.2.1.29:
3755 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
3756 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
3757 bug reported by doorss.
3758 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
3759 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
3760 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3761 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
3762 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
3764 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
3765 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
3766 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
3767 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
3768 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
3770 o Minor features, also included in 0.2.1.29:
3771 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3772 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
3774 o Build changes, also included in 0.2.1.29:
3775 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
3776 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
3777 Automake 1.7 or later.
3778 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
3779 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
3780 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
3781 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
3783 o Major bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
3784 - Prevent crash/heap corruption when the cbtnummodes consensus
3785 parameter is set to 0 or large values. Fixes bug 2317; bugfix
3788 o Major features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
3789 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
3790 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
3791 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
3793 o Minor features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
3794 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
3795 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
3796 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
3797 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
3798 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
3799 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
3800 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
3801 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
3803 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
3804 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
3805 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
3808 o Minor bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
3809 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
3810 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
3811 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
3812 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
3813 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
3814 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
3815 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
3816 - Correctly detect failures to create DNS requests when using Libevent
3817 versions before v2. (Before Libevent 2, we used our own evdns
3818 implementation. Its return values for Libevent's evdns_resolve_*()
3819 functions are not consistent with those from Libevent.) Fixes bug
3820 2363; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Found by "lodger".
3822 o Documentation, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
3823 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
3827 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
3828 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
3829 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
3830 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
3831 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
3833 o Major bugfixes (security):
3834 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
3835 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
3836 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
3838 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
3839 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
3840 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
3841 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
3842 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
3843 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
3844 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
3845 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
3847 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
3848 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
3849 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
3850 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
3851 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
3852 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
3853 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
3854 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
3855 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
3856 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
3857 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
3858 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
3859 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
3860 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
3863 o Minor bugfixes (other):
3864 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
3865 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
3866 bug reported by doorss.
3867 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
3868 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
3869 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3870 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
3871 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
3873 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
3874 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
3875 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
3876 - Correctly handle wrapping around to when we run out of virtual
3877 address space. Found by cypherpunks, bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
3878 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
3879 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
3880 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
3881 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
3884 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3885 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
3888 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
3889 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
3890 Automake 1.7 or later.
3893 Changes in version 0.2.2.20-alpha - 2010-12-17
3894 Tor 0.2.2.20-alpha does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
3895 exploitable bugs. We also fix a variety of other significant bugs,
3896 change the IP address for one of our directory authorities, and update
3897 the minimum version that Tor relays must run to join the network.
3900 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
3901 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
3902 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
3903 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
3904 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
3905 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
3906 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
3907 - Fix a logic error in directory_fetches_from_authorities() that
3908 would cause all _non_-exits refusing single-hop-like circuits
3909 to fetch from authorities, when we wanted to have _exits_ fetch
3910 from authorities. Fixes more of 2097. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha;
3912 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
3913 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
3914 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
3915 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
3917 o Directory authority changes:
3918 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
3921 - Avoid crashes when AccountingMax is set on clients. Fixes bug 2235.
3922 Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha. Diagnosed by boboper.
3923 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
3924 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
3925 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
3926 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
3927 - Do not dereference NULL if a bridge fails to build its
3928 extra-info descriptor. Found by an anonymous commenter on
3929 Trac. Bugfix on 0.2.2.19-alpha.
3932 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3933 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
3934 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
3935 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
3936 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
3937 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
3938 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
3939 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
3940 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
3941 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
3945 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
3946 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
3947 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
3948 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
3952 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
3953 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
3954 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
3955 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
3957 o Directory authority changes:
3958 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
3961 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3964 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
3965 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
3966 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
3967 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
3968 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
3971 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
3972 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
3973 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
3974 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
3975 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
3976 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
3977 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
3978 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
3979 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
3980 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
3981 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
3982 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
3983 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
3984 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
3985 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
3986 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
3987 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
3988 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
3989 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
3990 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
3991 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
3992 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
3993 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
3996 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
3997 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
3998 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
3999 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
4001 o New directory authorities:
4002 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
4006 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
4007 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
4008 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
4010 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
4011 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
4012 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
4013 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
4014 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
4015 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
4017 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
4018 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
4019 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
4022 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
4023 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
4024 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
4025 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
4026 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
4027 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
4028 Patch from mingw-san.
4031 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
4032 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
4033 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
4034 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
4035 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
4036 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
4039 Changes in version 0.2.2.19-alpha - 2010-11-22
4040 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
4041 Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha makes relays work with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b.
4044 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
4045 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
4046 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
4047 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
4048 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
4051 - Try harder not to exceed the maximum length of 50 KB when writing
4052 statistics to extra-info descriptors. This bug was triggered by very
4053 fast relays reporting exit-port, entry, and dirreq statistics.
4054 Reported by Olaf Selke. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes bug 2183.
4055 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
4056 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
4057 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
4058 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
4059 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
4062 Changes in version 0.2.2.18-alpha - 2010-11-16
4063 Tor 0.2.2.18-alpha fixes several crash bugs that have been nagging
4064 us lately, makes unpublished bridge relays able to detect their IP
4065 address, and fixes a wide variety of other bugs to get us much closer
4066 to a stable release.
4069 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
4070 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
4071 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
4072 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
4073 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
4074 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
4075 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
4076 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
4077 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
4078 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
4079 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
4080 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
4081 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
4082 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
4083 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
4084 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
4085 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
4086 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
4087 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
4088 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
4089 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
4090 - Avoid an assertion failure when we as an authority receive a
4091 duplicate upload of a router descriptor that we already have,
4092 but which we previously considered an obsolete descriptor.
4093 Fixes another case of bug 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
4094 - Avoid a crash bug triggered by looking at a dangling pointer while
4095 setting the network status consensus. Found by Robert Ransom.
4096 Bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Fixes bug 2097.
4097 - Fix a logic error where servers that _didn't_ act as exits would
4098 try to keep their server lists more aggressively up to date than
4099 exits, when it was supposed to be the other way around. Bugfix
4102 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.1.x and earlier):
4103 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
4104 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
4105 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
4106 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
4107 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
4108 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
4109 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
4110 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
4111 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
4112 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
4113 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
4114 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
4115 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
4116 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
4117 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
4118 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
4120 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
4121 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
4122 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produced during
4123 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
4124 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
4126 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x):
4127 - Enable protection of small arrays whenever we build with gcc
4128 hardening features, not only when also building with warnings
4129 enabled. Fixes bug 2031; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. Reported by keb.
4132 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
4133 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
4134 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
4135 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
4136 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
4137 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
4138 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
4139 - Update to the November 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4141 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
4142 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
4143 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
4144 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
4145 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
4146 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
4147 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
4148 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
4149 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
4150 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
4151 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
4152 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
4153 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
4154 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
4155 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
4158 Changes in version 0.2.2.17-alpha - 2010-09-30
4159 Tor 0.2.2.17-alpha introduces a feature to make it harder for clients
4160 to use one-hop circuits (which can put the exit relays at higher risk,
4161 plus unbalance the network); fixes a big bug in bandwidth accounting
4162 for relays that want to limit their monthly bandwidth use; fixes a
4163 big pile of bugs in how clients tolerate temporary network failure;
4164 and makes our adaptive circuit build timeout feature (which improves
4165 client performance if your network is fast while not breaking things
4166 if your network is slow) better handle bad networks.
4169 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
4170 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
4171 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
4172 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
4173 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751.
4175 o Major bugfixes (0.2.1.x and earlier):
4176 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
4177 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
4178 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
4179 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
4180 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
4181 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
4182 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
4183 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
4184 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
4185 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
4186 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
4187 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
4188 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
4190 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
4191 - Fix compilation on Windows. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha; related to
4193 - Fix a segfault that could happen when operating a bridge relay with
4194 no GeoIP database set. Fixes bug 1964; bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
4195 - The consensus bandwidth-weights (used by clients to choose fast
4196 relays) entered an unexpected edge case in September where
4197 Exits were much scarcer than Guards, resulting in bad weight
4198 recommendations. Now we compute them using new constraints that
4199 should succeed in all cases. Also alter directory authorities to
4200 not include the bandwidth-weights line if they fail to produce
4201 valid values. Fixes bug 1952; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
4202 - When weighting bridges during path selection, we used to trust
4203 the bandwidths they provided in their descriptor, only capping them
4204 at 10MB/s. This turned out to be problematic for two reasons:
4205 Bridges could claim to handle a lot more traffic then they
4206 actually would, thus making more clients pick them and have a
4207 pretty effective DoS attack. The other issue is that new bridges
4208 that might not have a good estimate for their bw capacity yet
4209 would not get used at all unless no other bridges are available
4210 to a client. Fixes bug 1912; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
4212 o Major bugfixes (on the circuit build timeout feature, 0.2.2.x):
4213 - Ignore cannibalized circuits when recording circuit build times.
4214 This should provide for a minor performance improvement for hidden
4215 service users using 0.2.2.14-alpha, and should remove two spurious
4216 notice log messages. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1740.
4217 - Simplify the logic that causes us to decide if the network is
4218 unavailable for purposes of recording circuit build times. If we
4219 receive no cells whatsoever for the entire duration of a circuit's
4220 full measured lifetime, the network is probably down. Also ignore
4221 one-hop directory fetching circuit timeouts when calculating our
4222 circuit build times. These changes should hopefully reduce the
4223 cases where we see ridiculous circuit build timeouts for people
4224 with spotty wireless connections. Fixes part of bug 1772; bugfix
4226 - Prevent the circuit build timeout from becoming larger than
4227 the maximum build time we have ever seen. Also, prevent the time
4228 period for measurement circuits from becoming larger than twice that
4229 value. Fixes the other part of bug 1772; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
4232 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
4233 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
4234 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
4235 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
4236 - Be more generous with how much bandwidth we'd use up (with
4237 accounting enabled) before entering "soft hibernation". Previously,
4238 we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd used up 95% of
4239 our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment, AND make sure
4240 that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of expected traffic,
4241 whichever is lower) remaining before we enter soft hibernation.
4242 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
4243 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
4244 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
4245 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
4246 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
4247 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
4248 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
4249 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
4250 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
4253 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
4254 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
4255 based on the time during which we were active and not in
4256 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
4257 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
4258 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
4259 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
4260 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
4262 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
4263 - Resume generating CIRC FAILED REASON=TIMEOUT control port messages,
4264 which were disabled by the circuit build timeout changes in
4265 0.2.2.14-alpha. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1739.
4266 - Make sure we don't warn about missing bandwidth weights when
4267 choosing bridges or other relays not in the consensus. Bugfix on
4268 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1805.
4269 - In our logs, do not double-report signatures from unrecognized
4270 authorities both as "from unknown authority" and "not
4271 present". Fixes bug 1956, bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
4274 Changes in version 0.2.2.16-alpha - 2010-09-17
4275 Tor 0.2.2.16-alpha fixes a variety of old stream fairness bugs (most
4276 evident at exit relays), and also continues to resolve all the little
4277 bugs that have been filling up trac lately.
4279 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
4280 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
4281 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
4282 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
4283 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
4284 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
4285 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
4286 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
4287 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
4288 the longest-lived bug prize.
4289 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
4290 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
4291 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
4292 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
4293 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
4294 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
4296 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
4297 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
4298 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
4299 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
4300 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
4301 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
4305 - Update to the September 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4306 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
4307 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
4308 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
4309 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
4310 got suppressed since the last warning.
4311 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
4312 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
4313 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
4314 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
4315 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
4316 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
4317 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
4318 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
4319 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
4320 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
4321 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
4322 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
4323 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
4324 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
4325 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
4326 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
4327 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
4328 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
4329 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
4331 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
4332 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
4333 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
4335 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
4336 - Authorities will now attempt to download consensuses if their
4337 own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This change
4338 means authorities that restart will fetch a valid consensus, and
4339 it means authorities that didn't agree with the current consensus
4340 will still fetch and serve it if it has enough signatures. Bugfix
4341 on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
4342 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
4343 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
4344 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
4345 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
4346 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
4347 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
4348 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
4349 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
4351 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
4352 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
4353 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
4354 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
4355 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
4356 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4357 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
4359 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
4360 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
4361 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
4362 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
4363 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
4366 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
4367 - Fix a regression introduced in 0.2.2.7-alpha that marked relays
4368 down if a directory fetch fails and you've configured either
4369 bridges or EntryNodes. The intent was to mark the relay as down
4370 _unless_ you're using bridges or EntryNodes, since if you are
4371 then you could quickly run out of entry points.
4372 - Fix the Windows directory-listing code. A bug introduced in
4373 0.2.2.14-alpha could make Windows directory servers forget to load
4374 some of their cached v2 networkstatus files.
4375 - Really allow clients to use relays as bridges. Fixes bug 1776;
4376 bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
4377 - Demote a warn to info that happens when the CellStatistics option
4378 was just enabled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha; fixes bug 1921.
4379 Reported by Moritz Bartl.
4380 - On Windows, build correctly either with or without Unicode support.
4381 This is necessary so that Tor can support fringe platforms like
4382 Windows 98 (which has no Unicode), or Windows CE (which has no
4383 non-Unicode). Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1797.
4386 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
4389 Changes in version 0.2.2.15-alpha - 2010-08-18
4390 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha fixes a big bug in hidden service availability,
4391 fixes a variety of other bugs that were preventing performance
4392 experiments from moving forward, fixes several bothersome memory leaks,
4393 and generally closes a lot of smaller bugs that have been filling up
4397 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
4398 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
4399 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
4400 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
4401 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
4402 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
4403 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
4404 - The PerConnBWRate and Burst config options, along with the
4405 bwconnrate and bwconnburst consensus params, initialized each conn's
4406 token bucket values only when the connection is established. Now we
4407 update them if the config options change, and update them every time
4408 we get a new consensus. Otherwise we can encounter an ugly edge
4409 case where we initialize an OR conn to client-level bandwidth,
4410 but then later the relay joins the consensus and we leave it
4411 throttled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 1830.
4412 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
4413 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
4416 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
4417 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
4418 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
4419 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
4420 they first get the Guard flag.
4421 - Allow enabling or disabling the *Statistics config options while
4425 - Update to the August 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4426 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
4427 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
4428 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
4429 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
4430 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
4431 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
4432 Patch from mingw-san.
4433 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
4434 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
4436 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
4437 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
4438 Implements enhancement 1790.
4440 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
4441 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
4442 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
4443 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
4444 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
4445 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
4446 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
4447 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
4448 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
4449 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
4450 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
4451 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
4452 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
4453 - Users can't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It didn't
4454 work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
4455 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
4456 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
4457 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
4458 0.1.1.9-alpha. Bug 1776 not yet fixed because now we immediately
4459 refetch the descriptor with router purpose 'general', disabling
4461 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
4462 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
4463 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
4464 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
4465 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
4466 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
4467 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
4468 it. Also update the spec to reflect this new reason. Bugfix on
4469 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
4470 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
4471 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
4472 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
4473 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug
4475 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
4476 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
4477 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
4478 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in caches or bridge users
4479 when using a very short voting interval on a testing network.
4480 Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
4482 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
4483 - Alter directory authorities to always consider Exit-flagged nodes
4484 as potential Guard nodes in their votes. The actual decision to
4485 use Exits as Guards is done in the consensus bandwidth weights.
4486 Fixes bug 1294; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
4487 - When the controller is reporting the purpose of circuits that
4488 didn't finish building before the circuit build timeout, it was
4489 printing UNKNOWN_13. Now print EXPIRED. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
4490 - Our libevent version parsing code couldn't handle versions like
4491 1.4.14b-stable and incorrectly warned the user about using an
4492 old and broken version of libevent. Treat 1.4.14b-stable like
4493 1.4.14-stable when parsing the version. Fixes bug 1731; bugfix
4495 - Don't use substitution references like $(VAR:MOD) when
4496 $(asciidoc_files) is empty -- make(1) on NetBSD transforms
4497 '$(:x)' to 'x' rather than the empty string. This bites us in
4498 doc/ when configured with --disable-asciidoc. Bugfix on
4499 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1773.
4500 - Remove a spurious hidden service server-side log notice about
4501 "Ancient non-dirty circuits". Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes
4503 - Fix compilation with --with-dmalloc set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha;
4505 - Correctly report written bytes on linked connections. Found while
4506 implementing 1790. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
4507 - Fix three memory leaks: one in circuit_build_times_parse_state(),
4508 one in dirvote_add_signatures_to_pending_consensus(), and one every
4509 time we parse a v3 network consensus. Bugfixes on 0.2.2.14-alpha,
4510 0.2.2.6-alpha, and 0.2.2.10-alpha respectively; fixes bug 1831.
4512 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
4513 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
4514 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
4515 structures and defines in or.h for now.
4516 - Remove a bunch of unused function declarations as well as a block of
4517 #if 0'd code from the unit tests. Closes bug 1824.
4518 - New unit tests for exit-port history statistics; refactored exit
4519 statistics code to be more easily tested.
4520 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
4521 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
4522 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
4525 Changes in version 0.2.2.14-alpha - 2010-07-12
4526 Tor 0.2.2.14-alpha greatly improves client-side handling of
4527 circuit build timeouts, which are used to estimate speed and improve
4528 performance. We also move to a much better GeoIP database, port Tor to
4529 Windows CE, introduce new compile flags that improve code security,
4530 add an eighth v3 directory authority, and address a lot of more
4534 - Tor directory authorities no longer crash when started with a
4535 cached-microdesc-consensus file in their data directory. Bugfix
4536 on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 1532.
4537 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
4538 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
4539 - Ignore negative and large circuit build timeout values that can
4540 happen during a suspend or hibernate. These values caused various
4541 asserts to fire. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1245.
4542 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Xm' for
4543 Circuit Build Timeout learning to use the weighted average of the
4544 top N=3 modes (because we have three entry guards). Considering
4545 multiple modes should improve the timeout calculation in some cases,
4546 and prevent extremely high timeout values. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha;
4548 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Alpha' to use a
4549 right censored distribution model. This approach improves over the
4550 synthetic timeout generation approach that was producing insanely
4551 high timeout values. Now we calculate build timeouts using truncated
4552 times. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bugs 1245 and 1335.
4553 - Do not close circuits that are under construction when they reach
4554 the circuit build timeout. Instead, leave them building (but do not
4555 use them) for up until the time corresponding to the 95th percentile
4556 on the Pareto CDF or 60 seconds, whichever is greater. This is done
4557 to provide better data for the new Pareto model. This percentile
4558 can be controlled by the consensus.
4561 - Move to the June 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather than the
4562 June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that count
4563 how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we have
4564 more accurate data for many African countries.
4565 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
4566 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
4567 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
4568 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
4569 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
4570 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
4571 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
4572 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
4573 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
4574 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
4575 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
4576 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
4578 o New directory authorities:
4579 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
4583 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
4584 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
4585 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
4586 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
4587 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
4588 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
4589 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
4590 what should go in a patch.
4591 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
4592 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
4593 over our stored history.
4594 - Add ability to disable circuit build time learning via consensus
4595 parameter and via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. Also
4596 automatically disable circuit build time calculation if we are
4597 either a AuthoritativeDirectory, or if we fail to write our state
4598 file. Fixes bug 1296.
4599 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
4600 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
4601 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
4605 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
4607 - When a2x fails, mention that the user could disable manpages instead
4608 of trying to fix their asciidoc installation.
4609 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
4610 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
4611 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
4612 - If you run a bridge that listens on multiple IP addresses, and
4613 some user configures a bridge address that uses a different IP
4614 address than your bridge writes in its router descriptor, and the
4615 user doesn't specify an identity key, their Tor would discard the
4616 descriptor because "it isn't one of our configured bridges", and
4617 fail to bootstrap. Now believe the descriptor and bootstrap anyway.
4618 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
4619 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
4620 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
4621 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
4622 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
4623 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
4624 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
4625 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
4626 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
4627 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
4628 two-hop circuits are actually created.
4629 - Make directory mirrors report non-zero dirreq-v[23]-shares again.
4630 Fixes bug 1564; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
4631 - Eliminate a case where a circuit build time warning was displayed
4632 after network connectivity resumed. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
4635 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
4636 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
4637 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
4638 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
4639 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
4641 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
4642 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
4645 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
4646 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
4647 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
4648 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
4649 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
4650 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
4651 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
4652 their directory fetches over TLS).
4653 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
4654 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
4655 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
4656 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
4657 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
4658 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
4659 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
4660 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
4663 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
4664 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
4668 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
4669 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
4670 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
4671 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
4672 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
4673 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
4674 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4677 Changes in version 0.2.2.13-alpha - 2010-04-24
4678 Tor 0.2.2.13-alpha addresses the recent connection and memory overload
4679 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
4680 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
4681 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
4684 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
4685 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
4686 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
4687 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
4688 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
4689 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
4690 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
4691 their directory fetches over TLS).
4694 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
4695 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
4697 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
4698 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
4699 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
4700 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
4701 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
4702 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
4703 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
4704 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
4705 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
4706 hour of their uptime.
4709 Changes in version 0.2.2.12-alpha - 2010-04-20
4710 Tor 0.2.2.12-alpha fixes a critical bug in how directory authorities
4711 handle and vote on descriptors. It was causing relays to drop out of
4715 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
4716 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
4717 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
4718 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
4719 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
4720 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
4722 - Fix two typos in tor_vasprintf() that broke the compile on Windows,
4723 and a warning in or.h related to bandwidth_weight_rule_t that
4724 prevented clean compile on OS X. Fixes bug 1363; bugfix on
4726 - Fix a segfault on relays when DirReqStatistics is enabled
4727 and 24 hours pass. Bug found by keb. Fixes bug 1365; bugfix on
4731 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
4732 someone tries to talk to their OrPort. It is neither the operator's
4733 fault nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
4737 Changes in version 0.2.2.11-alpha - 2010-04-15
4738 Tor 0.2.2.11-alpha fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL
4739 libraries that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
4742 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
4743 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
4744 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
4745 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
4746 - Fix a parsing error that made every possible value of
4747 CircPriorityHalflifeMsec get treated as "1 msec". Bugfix
4748 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Rename CircPriorityHalflifeMsec to
4749 CircuitPriorityHalflifeMsec, so authorities can tell newer relays
4750 about the option without breaking older ones.
4751 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
4752 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
4753 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
4754 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
4757 - Experiment with a more aggressive approach to preventing clients
4758 from making one-hop exit streams. Exit relays who want to try it
4759 out can set "RefuseUnknownExits 1" in their torrc, and then look
4760 for "Attempt by %s to open a stream" log messages. Let us know
4762 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
4763 --enable-static-zlib, to go with our support for statically linking
4764 openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
4767 - Fix a segfault that happens whenever a Tor client that is using
4768 libevent2's bufferevents gets a hup signal. Bugfix on 0.2.2.5-alpha;
4770 - When we cleaned up the contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file, we left
4771 out the first line. Fixes bug 1295.
4772 - When building the manpage from a tarball, we required asciidoc, but
4773 the asciidoc -> roff/html conversion was already done for the
4774 tarball. Make 'make' complain only when we need asciidoc (either
4775 because we're compiling directly from git, or because we altered
4776 the asciidoc manpage in the tarball). Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
4777 - When none of the directory authorities vote on any params, Tor
4778 segfaulted when trying to make the consensus from the votes. We
4779 didn't trigger the bug in practice, because authorities do include
4780 params in their votes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1322.
4783 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
4784 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
4785 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
4786 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
4787 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
4788 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
4789 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4792 Changes in version 0.2.2.10-alpha - 2010-03-07
4793 Tor 0.2.2.10-alpha fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.2.9-alpha that
4794 could prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also
4795 starts the groundwork for another client-side performance boost, since
4796 currently we're not making efficient use of relays that have both the
4797 Guard flag and the Exit flag.
4800 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
4801 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
4802 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
4803 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1269.
4805 o Major features (performance):
4806 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
4807 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
4808 and no flag. Clients that use these weightings will distribute
4809 network load more evenly across these different relay types. The
4810 weightings are in the consensus so we can change them globally in
4811 the future. Extra thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty
4812 security bugs in the first implementation of this feature.
4814 o Minor features (performance):
4815 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
4816 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
4817 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
4818 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
4819 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
4823 - Allow disabling building of the manpages. Skipping the manpage
4824 speeds up the build considerably.
4826 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
4827 - Fix a memleak in the EXTENDCIRCUIT logic. Spotted by coverity.
4828 Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
4829 - Disallow values larger than INT32_MAX for PerConnBWRate|Burst
4830 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
4831 - Ship the asciidoc-helper file in the tarball, so that people can
4832 build from source if they want to, and touching the .1.txt files
4833 doesn't break the build. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
4835 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x or earlier):
4836 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
4837 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
4839 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
4840 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
4841 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
4842 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
4844 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
4845 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
4846 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
4847 - Don't use sed in asciidoc-helper anymore.
4848 - Make the build process fail if asciidoc cannot be found and
4849 building with asciidoc isn't disabled.
4852 Changes in version 0.2.2.9-alpha - 2010-02-22
4853 Tor 0.2.2.9-alpha makes Tor work again on the latest OS X, updates the
4854 location of a directory authority, and cleans up a bunch of small bugs.
4856 o Directory authority changes:
4857 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
4858 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
4859 service directory authority) from the list.
4862 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
4863 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
4864 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
4865 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
4866 libraries in a security patch.
4867 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
4868 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
4869 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
4870 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
4872 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
4873 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
4874 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
4875 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
4876 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
4877 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
4878 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
4881 - Fix static compilation by listing the openssl libraries in the right
4882 order. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha; fixes bug 1237.
4883 - Resume handling .exit hostnames in a special way: originally we
4884 stripped the .exit part and used the requested exit relay. In
4885 0.2.2.1-alpha we stopped treating them in any special way, meaning
4886 if you use a .exit address then Tor will pass it on to the exit
4887 relay. Now we reject the .exit stream outright, since that behavior
4888 might be more expected by the user. Found and diagnosed by Scott
4889 Bennett and Downie on or-talk.
4890 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
4891 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
4892 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
4893 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
4895 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
4896 behaviour for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
4897 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
4898 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
4899 control-spec.txt said they were.
4900 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
4901 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
4902 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
4903 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
4904 parakeep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
4906 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
4907 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
4908 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
4910 - Remove the --enable-iphone option. According to reports from Marco
4911 Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special tweaking on recent
4912 iPhone SDK versions.
4913 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
4914 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
4915 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
4916 projects directory in svn.
4917 - Enabled various circuit build timeout constants to be controlled
4918 by consensus parameters. Also set better defaults for these
4919 parameters based on experimentation on broadband and simulated
4923 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
4924 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
4925 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
4927 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
4928 to the circuit build timeout.
4929 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
4930 arguments we do not recognize.
4931 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
4932 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
4933 open() without checking it.
4936 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
4937 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
4938 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
4939 several minor potential security bugs.
4942 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
4943 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
4944 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
4945 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
4946 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
4947 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
4948 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
4951 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
4952 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
4954 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
4955 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
4956 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
4957 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
4961 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
4962 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
4966 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
4967 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
4968 customized patches to run/build.
4971 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
4972 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
4973 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
4976 o Major bugfixes (performance):
4977 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
4978 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
4979 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
4980 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
4981 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
4982 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
4983 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
4986 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
4987 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
4988 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
4989 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
4990 libraries in a security patch.
4991 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
4992 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
4993 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
4994 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
4997 o Directory authority changes:
4998 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
4999 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
5000 service directory authority) from the list.
5003 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
5004 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
5007 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
5008 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
5009 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
5010 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
5011 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
5014 Changes in version 0.2.2.8-alpha - 2010-01-26
5015 Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.2.7-alpha that has been
5016 causing bridge relays to disappear. If you're running a bridge,
5020 - Fix a memory corruption bug on bridges that occured during the
5021 inclusion of stats data in extra-info descriptors. Also fix the
5022 interface for geoip_get_bridge_stats* to prevent similar bugs in
5023 the future. Diagnosis by Tas, patch by Karsten and Sebastian.
5024 Fixes bug 1208; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
5027 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
5028 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
5029 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
5033 Changes in version 0.2.2.7-alpha - 2010-01-19
5034 Tor 0.2.2.7-alpha fixes a huge client-side performance bug, as well
5035 as laying the groundwork for further relay-side performance fixes. It
5036 also starts cleaning up client behavior with respect to the EntryNodes,
5037 ExitNodes, and StrictNodes config options.
5039 This release also rotates two directory authority keys, due to a
5040 security breach of some of the Torproject servers.
5042 o Directory authority changes:
5043 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
5046 o Major features (performance):
5047 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
5048 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
5049 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
5050 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
5051 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
5052 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
5053 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
5054 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays can now favor
5055 circuits that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency
5056 for low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
5057 feature based on a setting in the consensus. You can override
5058 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
5059 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
5061 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
5062 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
5063 but never per-conn write limits.
5064 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
5065 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
5066 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
5067 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
5069 o Major features (relay selection options):
5070 - Switch to a StrictNodes config option, rather than the previous
5071 "StrictEntryNodes" / "StrictExitNodes" separation that was missing a
5072 "StrictExcludeNodes" option.
5073 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
5074 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
5075 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
5076 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
5078 - If EntryNodes or ExitNodes are set, be more willing to use an
5079 unsuitable (e.g. slow or unstable) circuit. The user asked for it,
5081 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
5082 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
5083 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
5084 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
5085 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
5086 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
5087 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
5088 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
5089 the network changes.
5092 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
5093 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
5094 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
5097 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
5098 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
5099 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
5100 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
5101 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
5102 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
5103 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
5104 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
5105 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
5106 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
5107 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
5108 generated while acting as a relay.
5109 - Ship the bridges spec file in the tarball too.
5110 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
5111 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
5112 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
5113 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
5114 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
5116 o Minor bugfixes (compiling):
5117 - Fix compilation on OS X 10.3, which has a stub mlockall() but
5118 hides it. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
5119 - Fix compilation on Solaris by removing support for the
5120 DisableAllSwap config option. Solaris doesn't have an rlimit for
5121 mlockall, so we cannot use it safely. Fixes bug 1198; bugfix on
5124 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
5125 - Do not segfault when writing buffer stats when we haven't observed
5126 a single circuit to report about. Found by Fabian Lanze. Bugfix on
5128 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
5129 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
5130 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
5132 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
5133 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
5135 o Minor bugfixes (privacy):
5136 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
5137 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
5139 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
5140 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
5143 o Minor bugfixes (other):
5144 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
5145 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
5146 - Fix statistics on client numbers by country as seen by bridges that
5147 were broken in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Also switch to reporting full 24-hour
5148 intervals instead of variable 12-to-48-hour intervals.
5149 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
5150 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
5151 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
5153 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
5157 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
5158 service authorities could have used to track statistics of overall
5159 hidden service usage.
5162 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
5163 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
5164 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
5165 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
5166 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
5168 o Directory authority changes:
5169 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
5173 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
5174 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
5175 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
5178 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
5179 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
5180 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
5181 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
5182 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
5185 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
5186 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
5187 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
5188 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
5189 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
5190 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
5191 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
5194 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
5195 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
5196 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5197 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
5198 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
5199 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
5201 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
5202 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
5205 Changes in version 0.2.2.6-alpha - 2009-11-19
5206 Tor 0.2.2.6-alpha lays the groundwork for many upcoming features:
5207 support for the new lower-footprint "microdescriptor" directory design,
5208 future-proofing our consensus format against new hash functions or
5209 other changes, and an Android port. It also makes Tor compatible with
5210 the upcoming OpenSSL 0.9.8l release, and fixes a variety of bugs.
5213 - Directory authorities can now create, vote on, and serve multiple
5214 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
5215 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
5217 - Directory authorities can now agree on and publish small summaries
5218 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
5219 server descriptors. This transition will eventually allow clients
5220 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
5221 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
5222 download consensus + microdescriptors".
5223 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
5224 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
5225 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
5226 hash algorithm in the future.
5227 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
5228 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
5229 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
5230 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
5231 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
5232 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
5233 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
5234 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
5235 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
5238 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
5239 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
5240 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, but OpenSSL 0.9.8l
5241 won't work unless we say we are.
5244 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
5245 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
5246 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
5247 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
5248 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
5249 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
5250 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
5251 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
5252 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5253 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
5254 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
5255 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
5256 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
5257 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
5258 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
5259 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
5260 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
5261 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
5262 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
5263 on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1113.
5264 - Fix a memory leak on directory authorities during voting that was
5265 introduced in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Found via valgrind.
5268 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
5269 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
5270 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
5271 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
5273 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
5274 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
5276 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
5277 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
5278 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
5279 in the Vidalia Settings window.
5282 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
5283 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
5284 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
5285 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
5286 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
5288 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
5289 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
5291 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
5292 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
5293 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
5296 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
5297 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
5298 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
5300 o New directory authorities:
5301 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
5303 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
5306 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
5307 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
5309 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
5310 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
5311 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
5312 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
5313 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
5314 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
5315 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
5316 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
5317 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
5318 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
5319 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
5320 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
5321 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
5322 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
5323 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
5324 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
5325 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
5327 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
5328 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
5329 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
5331 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
5332 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
5336 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
5337 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
5338 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
5339 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
5340 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
5343 Changes in version 0.2.2.5-alpha - 2009-10-11
5344 Tor 0.2.2.5-alpha fixes a few compile problems in 0.2.2.4-alpha.
5347 - Make the tarball compile again. Oops. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
5349 o Directory authorities:
5350 - Temporarily (just for this release) move dizum to an alternate
5354 Changes in version 0.2.2.4-alpha - 2009-10-10
5355 Tor 0.2.2.4-alpha fixes more crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha. It also
5356 introduces a new unit test framework, shifts directry authority
5357 addresses around to reduce the impact from recent blocking events,
5358 and fixes a few smaller bugs.
5361 - Fix several more asserts in the circuit_build_times code, for
5362 example one that causes Tor to fail to start once we have
5363 accumulated 5000 build times in the state file. Bugfixes on
5364 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1108.
5366 o New directory authorities:
5367 - Move moria1 and Tonga to alternate IP addresses.
5370 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
5371 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
5372 SSL handshake issues.
5373 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
5374 during the TLS handshake.
5375 - Revert to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file. The September one
5376 seems to have removed most US IP addresses.
5377 - Directory authorities now reject Tor relays with versions less than
5378 0.1.2.14. This step cuts out four relays from the current network,
5379 none of which are very big.
5382 - Fix a couple of smaller issues with gathering statistics. Bugfixes
5384 - Fix two memory leaks in the error case of
5385 circuit_build_times_parse_state(). Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
5386 - Don't count one-hop circuits when we're estimating how long it
5387 takes circuits to build on average. Otherwise we'll set our circuit
5388 build timeout lower than we should. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
5389 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
5390 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
5391 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
5394 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
5395 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
5396 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
5397 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
5398 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
5401 Changes in version 0.2.2.3-alpha - 2009-09-23
5402 Tor 0.2.2.3-alpha fixes a few crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha.
5405 - Fix an overzealous assert in our new circuit build timeout code.
5406 Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1103.
5409 - If the networkstatus consensus tells us that we should use a
5410 negative circuit package window, ignore it. Otherwise we'll
5411 believe it and then trigger an assert. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
5414 Changes in version 0.2.2.2-alpha - 2009-09-21
5415 Tor 0.2.2.2-alpha introduces our latest performance improvement for
5416 clients: Tor tracks the average time it takes to build a circuit, and
5417 avoids using circuits that take too long to build. For fast connections,
5418 this feature can cut your expected latency in half. For slow or flaky
5419 connections, it could ruin your Tor experience. Let us know if it does!
5422 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
5423 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
5424 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
5425 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
5426 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
5427 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
5428 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
5429 We are especially looking for reports (good and bad) from users with
5430 both EDGE and broadband connections that can move from broadband
5431 to EDGE and find out if the build-time data in the .tor/state gets
5432 reset without loss of Tor usability. You should also see a notice
5433 log message telling you that Tor has reset its timeout.
5434 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitary integer values as
5435 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
5436 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
5437 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
5438 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
5439 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
5442 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
5443 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
5447 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
5448 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
5449 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
5450 - Fix parsing for memory or time units given without a space between
5451 the number and the unit. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1076.
5452 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
5453 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
5454 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
5455 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
5456 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
5457 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
5458 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
5459 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
5460 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
5461 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
5462 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
5463 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
5464 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
5465 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
5466 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
5467 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
5469 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
5470 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
5471 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090, but more problems
5472 remain. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
5473 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
5474 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
5476 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
5477 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
5478 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
5481 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
5482 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
5483 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
5484 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
5485 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
5486 - Update to the "September 4 2009" ip-to-country file.
5489 Changes in version 0.2.2.1-alpha - 2009-08-26
5490 Tor 0.2.2.1-alpha disables ".exit" address notation by default, allows
5491 Tor clients to bootstrap on networks where only port 80 is reachable,
5492 makes it more straightforward to support hardware crypto accelerators,
5493 and starts the groundwork for gathering stats safely at relays.
5496 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
5497 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
5498 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
5501 o New directory authorities:
5502 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
5506 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
5507 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
5508 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
5509 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
5510 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
5513 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
5514 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
5515 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
5516 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
5517 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
5520 o New options for gathering stats safely:
5521 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
5522 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
5523 --enable-geoip-stats flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few improvements:
5524 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours; 2) estimated
5525 shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean values, not at
5526 the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved requests are listed
5527 with country code '??'; 4) directories also measure download times.
5528 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
5529 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
5531 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
5532 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
5533 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
5534 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
5536 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
5537 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
5538 their extra-info documents.
5541 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
5542 source files Tor was built with.
5543 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
5544 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
5545 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
5546 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
5547 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
5548 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
5550 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
5551 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
5552 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
5553 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
5554 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
5556 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
5557 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
5560 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
5561 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
5562 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
5563 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
5564 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
5566 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
5567 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
5569 o Deprecated and removed features:
5570 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
5571 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
5572 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
5573 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
5574 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
5575 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
5576 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
5577 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
5579 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
5580 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
5581 via application-level web tricks.
5583 o Packaging changes:
5584 - Upgrade Vidalia from 0.1.15 to 0.2.3 in the Windows and OS X
5585 installer bundles. See
5586 https://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/tags/vidalia-0.2.3/CHANGELOG
5587 for details of what's new in Vidalia 0.2.3.
5588 - Windows Vidalia Bundle: update Privoxy from 3.0.6 to 3.0.14-beta.
5589 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: move to Polipo 1.0.4 with Tor specific
5590 configuration file, rather than the old Privoxy.
5591 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: Vidalia, Tor, and Polipo are compiled as
5592 x86-only for better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
5593 - OS X Tor Expert Bundle: Tor is compiled as x86-only for
5594 better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
5595 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: The multi-package installer is now replaced
5596 by a simple drag and drop to the /Applications folder. This change
5597 occurred with the upgrade to Vidalia 0.2.3.
5600 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
5601 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
5602 services on Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18.
5605 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
5606 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
5607 part of patch provided by "optimist".
5610 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
5611 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
5612 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
5613 and confuse fewer users.
5616 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
5617 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
5618 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
5619 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
5620 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
5621 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
5622 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
5625 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
5626 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
5627 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
5628 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
5629 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
5630 other features and bug fixes.
5633 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
5636 Changes in version 0.2.1.17-rc - 2009-07-07
5637 Tor 0.2.1.17-rc marks the fourth -- and hopefully last -- release
5638 candidate for the 0.2.1.x series. It lays the groundwork for further
5639 client performance improvements, and also fixes a big bug with directory
5640 authorities that were causing them to assign Guard and Stable flags
5643 The Windows bundles also finally include the geoip database that we
5644 thought we'd been shipping since 0.2.0.x (oops), and the OS X bundles
5645 should actually install Torbutton rather than giving you a cryptic
5646 failure message (oops).
5649 - Clients now use the bandwidth values in the consensus, rather than
5650 the bandwidth values in each relay descriptor. This approach opens
5651 the door to more accurate bandwidth estimates once the directory
5652 authorities start doing active measurements. Implements more of
5656 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
5657 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
5658 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
5659 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
5660 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
5661 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
5662 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
5663 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
5664 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
5665 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
5666 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
5667 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu"
5668 and "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable
5669 flags very wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and
5670 969. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
5673 - Serve the DirPortFrontPage page even when we have been approaching
5674 our quotas recently. Fixes bug 1013; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
5675 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
5676 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
5677 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
5678 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fixed a spurious
5679 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
5680 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
5681 by Marcus Griep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
5682 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
5683 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
5684 Workaround for bug 1024.
5685 - Fix a log message that did not respect the SafeLogging option.
5689 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
5690 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
5691 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
5694 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
5696 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
5697 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
5698 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
5699 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
5700 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
5703 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
5704 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
5705 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
5706 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
5707 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
5708 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
5709 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
5710 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
5711 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
5712 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
5715 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
5716 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
5717 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
5718 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
5719 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
5720 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
5721 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
5722 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
5725 Changes in version 0.2.1.16-rc - 2009-06-20
5726 Tor 0.2.1.16-rc speeds up performance for fast exit relays, and fixes
5727 a bunch of minor bugs.
5730 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
5731 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
5732 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
5734 o Major performance improvements (on 0.2.0.x):
5735 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
5736 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
5737 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Found
5739 - Disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
5743 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
5744 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
5745 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
5747 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
5748 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
5750 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
5751 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
5753 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
5754 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
5755 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
5756 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
5757 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
5758 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
5759 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
5760 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
5762 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
5763 - Don't warn users about low port and hibernation mix when they
5764 provide a *ListenAddress directive to fix that. Bugfix on
5766 - When switching back and forth between bridge mode, do not start
5767 gathering GeoIP data until two hours have passed.
5768 - Do not complain that the user has requested an excluded node as
5769 an exit when the node is not really an exit. This could happen
5770 because the circuit was for testing, or an introduction point.
5774 Changes in version 0.2.1.15-rc - 2009-05-25
5775 Tor 0.2.1.15-rc marks the second release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
5776 series. It fixes a major bug on fast exit relays, as well as a variety
5779 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
5780 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
5781 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
5782 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
5784 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
5785 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
5786 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
5787 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
5788 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
5789 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
5790 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
5791 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
5792 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
5793 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
5794 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
5795 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5796 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
5797 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
5798 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
5799 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
5800 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
5802 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
5803 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
5804 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
5805 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5807 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
5808 - Fix use of freed memory when deciding to mark a non-addable
5809 descriptor as never-downloadable. Bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
5812 Changes in version 0.2.1.14-rc - 2009-04-12
5813 Tor 0.2.1.14-rc marks the first release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
5814 series. It begins fixing some major performance problems, and also
5815 finally addresses the bug that was causing relays on dynamic IP
5816 addresses to fall out of the directory.
5819 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
5820 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
5821 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
5822 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
5824 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0):
5825 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
5826 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
5827 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
5828 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
5829 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
5830 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
5831 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
5832 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
5833 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
5834 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
5835 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
5836 if bandwidthrate or bandwidthburst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
5838 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
5839 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
5842 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
5843 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
5844 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
5845 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
5846 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
5847 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
5849 - Raise the minimum bandwidth to be a relay from 20000 bytes to 20480
5850 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also update
5851 directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag to relays
5852 with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't suddenly
5853 find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets faster
5855 - Update to the "April 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
5858 - Avoid trying to print raw memory to the logs when we decide to
5859 give up on downloading a given relay descriptor. Bugfix on
5861 - In tor-resolve, when the Tor client to use is specified by
5862 <hostname>:<port>, actually use the specified port rather than
5863 defaulting to 9050. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
5864 - Make directory usage recording work again. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
5865 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
5866 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
5868 - Avoid double-free on list of successfully uploaded hidden
5869 service discriptors. Fix for bug 948. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
5870 - Change memarea_strndup() implementation to work even when
5871 duplicating a string at the end of a page. This bug was
5872 harmless for now, but could have meant crashes later. Fix by
5873 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
5874 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
5875 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
5876 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
5877 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
5878 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
5879 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
5883 Changes in version 0.2.1.13-alpha - 2009-03-09
5884 Tor 0.2.1.13-alpha includes another big pile of minor bugfixes and
5885 cleanups. We're finally getting close to a release candidate.
5888 - Correctly update the list of which countries we exclude as
5889 exits, when the GeoIP file is loaded or reloaded. Diagnosed by
5890 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
5892 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and earlier):
5893 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
5894 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
5895 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
5896 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
5897 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
5898 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
5899 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
5900 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
5901 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
5902 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
5903 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
5904 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
5905 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
5906 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
5907 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
5908 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
5909 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
5910 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
5911 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
5912 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
5913 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
5914 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
5915 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
5916 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
5917 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
5919 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
5920 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
5921 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
5922 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
5923 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
5924 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
5925 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
5926 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
5927 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
5928 of 0. Suggested by lark.
5930 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
5931 - Don't re-extend introduction circuits if we ran out of RELAY_EARLY
5932 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Fixes more of bug 878.
5933 - If we're an exit node, scrub the IP address to which we are exiting
5934 in the logs. Bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
5937 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the user
5939 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
5940 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
5941 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
5942 - Update to the "February 26 2009" ip-to-country file.
5945 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
5946 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
5947 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
5948 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
5949 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
5951 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
5952 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
5953 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
5954 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
5957 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
5958 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
5959 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
5960 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
5961 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
5962 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
5963 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
5964 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
5967 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
5968 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
5969 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
5970 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
5973 Changes in version 0.2.1.12-alpha - 2009-02-08
5974 Tor 0.2.1.12-alpha features several more security-related fixes. You
5975 should upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or
5976 a directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
5977 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit). It also
5978 includes a big pile of minor bugfixes and cleanups.
5981 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
5982 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
5983 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
5984 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
5985 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
5986 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
5989 - Let controllers actually ask for the "clients_seen" event for
5990 getting usage summaries on bridge relays. Bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha;
5991 reported by Matt Edman.
5992 - Fix a compile warning on OSX Panther. Fixes bug 913; bugfix against
5994 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
5995 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
5996 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
5997 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
5999 - Remove a bash-ism from configure.in to build properly on non-Linux
6000 platforms. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
6001 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
6002 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
6003 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
6004 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
6005 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
6006 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
6007 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
6008 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
6009 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
6010 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
6011 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
6012 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
6013 - Support changing value of ServerDNSRandomizeCase during SIGHUP.
6014 Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
6015 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
6016 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
6017 request. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
6020 - Support platforms where time_t is 64 bits long. (Congratulations,
6021 NetBSD!) Patch from Matthias Drochner.
6022 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
6023 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
6026 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
6027 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
6028 the letter of C99's alias rules.
6031 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
6032 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
6033 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
6034 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
6036 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
6037 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
6038 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
6041 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
6042 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
6045 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
6046 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
6047 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
6048 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
6049 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
6051 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
6052 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
6053 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
6054 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
6055 identify a connection.
6056 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
6057 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
6058 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
6059 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
6060 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
6061 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
6062 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
6063 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
6064 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
6065 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
6067 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
6068 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
6069 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
6070 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
6071 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
6072 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
6073 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
6076 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
6077 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
6079 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
6080 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
6081 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
6082 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
6083 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
6084 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
6085 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
6086 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
6088 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
6089 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
6090 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
6091 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
6092 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
6093 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
6094 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
6095 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
6096 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
6097 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
6098 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
6099 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
6100 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
6101 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
6102 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
6103 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
6104 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
6105 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
6106 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
6107 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
6108 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
6109 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
6110 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
6111 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
6112 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
6113 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
6114 840. Patch from rovv.
6115 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
6116 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
6117 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
6119 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
6120 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
6121 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
6122 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
6123 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
6124 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
6125 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
6127 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
6128 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
6129 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
6132 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
6133 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
6135 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
6136 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
6137 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
6138 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
6139 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
6140 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
6141 ServerDNSRamdomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
6142 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
6143 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
6145 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
6147 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
6148 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
6152 Changes in version 0.2.1.11-alpha - 2009-01-20
6153 Tor 0.2.1.11-alpha finishes fixing the "if your Tor is off for a
6154 week it will take a long time to bootstrap again" bug. It also fixes
6155 an important security-related bug reported by Ilja van Sprundel. You
6156 should upgrade. (We'll send out more details about the bug once people
6157 have had some time to upgrade.)
6160 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
6161 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
6164 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
6165 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
6166 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion
6167 keys in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Bugfix
6168 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
6171 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
6172 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
6174 - Make setting ServerDNSRandomizeCase to 0 actually work. Bugfix
6175 for bug 905. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
6176 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
6177 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
6178 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
6179 entirely. Patch from coderman.
6182 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
6183 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
6184 - When our circuit fails at the first hop (e.g. we get a destroy
6185 cell back), avoid using that OR connection anymore, and also
6186 tell all the one-hop directory requests waiting for it that they
6187 should fail. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
6188 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
6192 Changes in version 0.2.1.10-alpha - 2009-01-06
6193 Tor 0.2.1.10-alpha fixes two major bugs in bridge relays (one that
6194 would make the bridge relay not so useful if it had DirPort set to 0,
6195 and one that could let an attacker learn a little bit of information
6196 about the bridge's users), and a bug that would cause your Tor relay
6197 to ignore a circuit create request it can't decrypt (rather than reply
6198 with an error). It also fixes a wide variety of other bugs.
6201 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
6202 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could
6203 be useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in
6204 practice it just means we spend many minutes trying directory
6205 mirrors that are long gone from the network. Helps bug 887 a bit;
6207 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
6208 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
6209 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
6210 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
6211 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
6212 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
6213 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
6214 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
6215 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
6216 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
6220 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
6221 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
6222 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
6224 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later built
6225 without support for deprecated functions.
6226 - Update to the "December 19 2008" ip-to-country file.
6228 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
6229 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
6230 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
6231 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
6232 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
6233 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
6234 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
6235 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
6236 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
6237 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
6238 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
6239 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
6240 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
6241 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
6242 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
6243 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
6244 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
6245 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
6246 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
6247 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
6248 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
6249 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
6250 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
6252 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
6253 - Make get_interface_address() function work properly again; stop
6254 guessing the wrong parts of our address as our address.
6255 - Do not cannibalize a circuit if we're out of RELAY_EARLY cells to
6256 send on that circuit. Otherwise we might violate the proposal-110
6257 limit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Partial fix for bug 878. Diagnosis
6259 - When we're sending non-EXTEND cells to the first hop in a circuit,
6260 for example to use an encrypted directory connection, we don't need
6261 to use RELAY_EARLY cells: the first hop knows what kind of cell
6262 it is, and nobody else can even see the cell type. Conserving
6263 RELAY_EARLY cells makes it easier to cannibalize circuits like
6265 - Stop logging nameserver addresses in reverse order.
6266 - If we are retrying a directory download slowly over and over, do
6267 not automatically give up after the 254th failure. Bugfix on
6269 - Resume reporting accurate "stream end" reasons to the local control
6270 port. They were lost in the changes for Proposal 148. Bugfix on
6273 o Deprecated and removed features:
6274 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
6275 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
6276 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
6279 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
6280 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
6281 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
6282 with log.h on Android.
6283 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
6284 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
6287 Changes in version 0.2.1.9-alpha - 2008-12-25
6288 Tor 0.2.1.9-alpha fixes many more bugs, some of them security-related.
6290 o New directory authorities:
6291 - gabelmoo (the authority run by Karsten Loesing) now has a new
6295 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
6296 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
6297 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
6298 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
6299 - Avoid a possible memory corruption bug when receiving hidden service
6300 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
6303 - Fix a logic error that would automatically reject all but the first
6304 configured DNS server. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Possible fix for
6305 part of bug 813/868. Bug spotted by coderman.
6306 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
6307 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
6308 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
6309 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
6310 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in 0.1.2.1-alpha;
6312 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
6313 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, retry failed
6314 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
6315 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
6318 - Give a better error message when an overzealous init script says
6319 "sudo -u username tor --user username". Makes Bug 882 easier for
6321 - When a directory authority gives us a new guess for our IP address,
6322 log which authority we used. Hopefully this will help us debug
6323 the recent complaints about bad IP address guesses.
6324 - Detect svn revision properly when we're using git-svn.
6325 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
6326 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
6327 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
6328 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
6329 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate.
6330 Partial implementation of proposal 157.
6331 - Start serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
6332 pairs. Partial implementation of proposal 157.
6333 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
6334 Implements proposal 148.
6335 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
6336 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
6337 system to do it for us.
6338 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
6339 or for every cell. On systems where time() is a slow syscall,
6340 this fix will be slightly helpful.
6341 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
6342 - When we download a descriptor that we then immediately (as
6343 a directory authority) reject, do not retry downloading it right
6344 away. Should save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug
6345 888. Patch by Sebastian Hahn.
6346 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
6347 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
6348 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
6349 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
6352 o Minor features (controller):
6353 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
6354 been fetched and validated.
6355 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
6356 descriptors file, print out a more useful error message rather
6357 than triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
6358 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
6359 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the
6360 configuration. Fixes bug 856.
6363 - Resume using the correct "REASON=" stream when telling the
6364 controller why we closed a stream. Bugfix in 0.2.1.1-alpha.
6365 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
6366 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
6367 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
6369 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
6370 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
6371 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
6372 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
6373 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
6374 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
6375 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
6376 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
6377 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
6379 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
6380 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP (bugfix on
6381 0.0.6pre1); also, do not stall hidden services because we're
6382 throwing away introduction points; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Spotted
6383 by John Brooks. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
6384 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous
6385 descriptor to the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor
6386 with the same ID. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
6388 o Deprecated and removed features:
6389 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
6391 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
6392 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
6393 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
6395 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
6396 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
6397 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
6399 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
6400 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
6401 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
6402 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
6403 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
6404 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
6407 Changes in version 0.2.1.8-alpha - 2008-12-08
6408 Tor 0.2.1.8-alpha fixes some crash bugs in earlier alpha releases,
6409 builds better on unusual platforms like Solaris and old OS X, and
6410 fixes a variety of other issues.
6413 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
6414 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
6415 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
6416 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
6419 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
6420 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
6421 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
6422 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
6425 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
6426 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
6427 - Fix a possible segfault when establishing an exit connection. Bugfix
6431 - Get file locking working on win32. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fixes
6433 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
6434 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
6435 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
6436 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fix for bug 862.
6437 - Fix a crash bug when changing EntryNodes from the controller. Bugfix
6438 on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fix for bug 867. Patched by Sebastian.
6439 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
6441 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
6442 rest, and don't automatically fail.
6443 - Use fcntl() for locking when flock() is not available. Should fix
6444 compilation on Solaris. Should fix Bug 873. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
6445 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
6446 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
6448 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
6449 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
6450 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
6451 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
6452 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
6453 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
6454 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
6455 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
6456 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
6457 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880. Bugfix
6459 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
6463 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
6464 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
6465 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
6467 o Minor features (controller):
6468 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status. Fixes
6472 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
6473 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
6474 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
6475 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
6476 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
6477 variety of other issues.
6480 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
6481 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
6482 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
6483 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
6484 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
6485 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
6486 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
6487 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
6488 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
6489 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
6490 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
6491 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
6494 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
6495 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
6497 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
6498 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
6499 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
6500 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
6501 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
6502 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
6503 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
6504 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
6505 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
6506 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
6507 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
6508 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
6509 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
6510 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
6511 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
6515 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
6516 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
6517 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
6518 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
6519 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
6520 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
6521 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
6522 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
6523 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
6524 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
6525 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
6526 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
6527 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
6528 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
6529 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
6530 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
6531 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
6532 list. It has been gone for many months.
6533 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
6534 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
6535 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
6538 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
6539 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
6540 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
6543 Changes in version 0.2.1.7-alpha - 2008-11-08
6544 Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
6545 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
6546 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
6547 services, adds better defense against DNS poisoning attacks on exit
6548 relays, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
6549 variety of other issues.
6552 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
6553 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
6554 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
6555 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
6556 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
6557 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
6558 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
6559 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
6560 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
6561 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
6562 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
6563 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848.
6564 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
6565 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
6568 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
6569 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
6570 Suggested by Lucky Green.
6571 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
6572 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
6573 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
6574 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
6575 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
6576 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
6578 - Preserve case in replies to DNSPort requests in order to support
6579 the 0x20 hack for resisting DNS poisoning attacks.
6581 o Hidden service performance improvements:
6582 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
6583 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
6584 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
6585 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
6586 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
6587 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
6588 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
6589 faster after restart.
6592 - Minor fix in the warning messages when you're having problems
6593 bootstrapping; also, be more forgiving of bootstrap problems when
6594 we're still making incremental progress on a given bootstrap phase.
6595 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
6596 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
6597 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
6598 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
6599 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
6600 840. Patch from rovv.
6601 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
6602 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
6603 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
6604 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
6605 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
6606 Fixes another case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
6607 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
6608 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
6609 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
6611 - Avoid using a negative right-shift when comparing 32-bit
6612 addresses. Possible fix for bug 845 and bug 811.
6613 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
6614 have already been marked for close.
6615 - Fix read-off-the-end-of-string error in unit tests when decoding
6616 introduction points.
6617 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
6618 memory performance during directory parsing.
6619 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
6620 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
6621 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
6622 because of a pending download.
6625 Changes in version 0.2.1.6-alpha - 2008-09-30
6626 Tor 0.2.1.6-alpha further improves performance and robustness of
6627 hidden services, starts work on supporting per-country relay selection,
6628 and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
6631 - Implement proposal 121: make it possible to build hidden services
6632 that only certain clients are allowed to connect to. This is
6633 enforced at several points, so that unauthorized clients are unable
6634 to send INTRODUCE cells to the service, or even (depending on the
6635 type of authentication) to learn introduction points. This feature
6636 raises the bar for certain kinds of active attacks against hidden
6637 services. Code by Karsten Loesing.
6638 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
6639 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
6640 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
6641 lookups more reliable.
6642 - Start work to allow node restrictions to include country codes. The
6643 syntax to exclude nodes in a country with country code XX is
6644 "ExcludeNodes {XX}". Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
6645 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
6646 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
6647 - Allow ExitNodes list to include IP ranges and country codes, just
6648 like the Exclude*Nodes lists. Patch from Robert Hogan.
6651 - Fix a bug when parsing ports in tor_addr_port_parse() that caused
6652 Tor to fail to start if you had it configured to use a bridge
6653 relay. Fixes bug 809. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
6654 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
6655 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
6656 requests failed, because the router descriptor had not been
6657 downloaded yet. In these cases, we now wait until the router
6658 descriptor is downloaded, and then retry. Likewise, clients
6659 now skip over a hidden service directory if they don't yet have
6660 its router descriptor, rather than futilely requesting it and
6661 putting mysterious complaints in the logs. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
6663 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
6664 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
6665 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
6666 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
6667 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
6668 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
6669 - DNS replies need to have names matching their requests, but
6670 these names should be in the questions section, not necessarily
6671 in the answers section. Fixes bug 823. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
6674 - Update to the "September 1 2008" ip-to-country file.
6675 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
6676 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
6677 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
6678 locked down these days.
6679 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
6680 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
6681 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
6682 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
6683 - Better logging about stability/reliability calculations on directory
6685 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
6686 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
6687 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
6688 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
6689 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
6690 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
6691 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
6692 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
6693 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
6694 people find host:port too confusing.
6695 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
6696 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
6697 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
6700 - Fix compile on OpenBSD 4.4-current. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
6702 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
6703 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
6704 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
6705 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
6706 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
6708 - Catch and report a few more bootstrapping failure cases when Tor
6709 fails to establish a TCP connection. Cleanup on 0.2.1.x.
6710 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
6711 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
6712 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
6713 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
6714 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
6715 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
6716 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
6717 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
6718 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
6719 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
6721 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
6722 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
6723 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
6724 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch by rovv.
6725 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
6726 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
6727 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
6728 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
6729 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
6731 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
6732 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
6733 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
6734 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
6735 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
6736 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
6737 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
6738 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
6739 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
6740 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
6741 bug 820, reported by seeess.
6742 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
6743 list. It has been gone for many months.
6745 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
6746 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
6747 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
6748 actual mistakes we're making here.
6749 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
6750 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
6751 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
6752 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
6755 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
6756 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
6757 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
6758 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
6761 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
6762 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
6763 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
6764 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
6765 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
6766 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
6768 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
6769 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
6770 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
6771 pointed out by rovv.
6774 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
6775 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6776 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
6777 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
6778 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
6779 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
6780 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
6781 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
6782 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
6783 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6784 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
6785 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
6786 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
6787 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
6788 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
6789 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
6790 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
6791 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
6792 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
6793 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
6794 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
6797 Changes in version 0.2.1.5-alpha - 2008-08-31
6798 Tor 0.2.1.5-alpha moves us closer to handling IPv6 destinations, puts
6799 in a lot of the infrastructure for adding authorization to hidden
6800 services, lays the groundwork for having clients read their load
6801 balancing information out of the networkstatus consensus rather than
6802 the individual router descriptors, addresses two potential anonymity
6803 issues, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
6806 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
6808 - Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol elements.
6809 - Make resolver code handle nameservers located at ipv6 addresses.
6810 - Begin implementation of proposal 121 ("Client authorization for
6811 hidden services"): configure hidden services with client
6812 authorization, publish descriptors for them, and configure
6813 authorization data for hidden services at clients. The next
6814 step is to actually access hidden services that perform client
6816 - More progress toward proposal 141: Network status consensus
6817 documents and votes now contain bandwidth information for each
6818 router and a summary of that router's exit policy. Eventually this
6819 will be used by clients so that they do not have to download every
6820 known descriptor before building circuits.
6822 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and before):
6823 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
6824 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
6825 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
6826 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
6827 identify a connection.
6828 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
6829 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
6830 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
6832 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
6833 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
6834 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
6835 pointed out by rovv.
6838 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
6839 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6840 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
6841 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open /dev/pf
6842 before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from Christopher
6843 Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
6844 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
6845 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
6846 - Add a missing safe_str() call for a debug log message.
6847 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
6848 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
6849 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
6850 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
6851 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
6852 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6855 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
6856 a lot. Resolves bug 748.
6857 - Resist DNS poisoning a little better by making sure that names in
6858 answer sections match.
6859 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
6860 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
6863 Changes in version 0.2.1.4-alpha - 2008-08-04
6864 Tor 0.2.1.4-alpha fixes a pair of crash bugs in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
6867 - The address part of exit policies was not correctly written
6868 to router descriptors. This generated router descriptors that failed
6869 their self-checks. Noticed by phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix
6871 - Tor triggered a false assert when extending a circuit to a relay
6872 but we already have a connection open to that relay. Noticed by
6873 phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
6876 - Fix a hidden service logging bug: in some edge cases, the router
6877 descriptor of a previously picked introduction point becomes
6878 obsolete and we need to give up on it rather than continually
6879 complaining that it has become obsolete. Observed by xiando. Bugfix
6883 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
6884 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
6887 Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-08-03
6888 Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha implements most of the pieces to prevent
6889 infinite-length circuit attacks (see proposal 110); fixes a bug that
6890 might cause exit relays to corrupt streams they send back; allows
6891 address patterns (e.g. 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in ExcludeNodes and
6892 ExcludeExitNodes config options; and fixes a big pile of bugs.
6894 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x-alpha):
6895 - Send a bootstrap problem "warn" event on the first problem if the
6896 reason is NO_ROUTE (that is, our network is down).
6899 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
6900 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
6901 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
6902 certain kinds of DOS attack by requiring that EXTEND commands must
6903 be sent using an "early" cell.
6906 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
6907 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
6908 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
6909 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
6910 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
6911 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
6912 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
6915 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
6916 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
6917 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
6918 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
6919 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
6920 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
6921 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
6922 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
6923 - Allow address patterns (e.g., 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in
6924 ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes lists.
6925 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
6926 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
6927 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
6928 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
6929 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
6930 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
6933 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
6934 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
6935 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
6936 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
6937 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
6938 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
6939 - When a hidden service is giving up on an introduction point candidate
6940 that was not included in the last published rendezvous descriptor,
6941 don't reschedule publication of the next descriptor. Fixes bug 763.
6943 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
6944 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
6945 and nobody claims to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
6946 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
6947 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
6950 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
6951 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit
6952 is getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly.
6953 Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
6956 - Remove all backward-compatibility code to support relays running
6957 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
6961 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
6963 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
6964 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
6965 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
6968 Changes in version 0.2.0.29-rc - 2008-07-08
6969 Tor 0.2.0.29-rc fixes two big bugs with using bridges, fixes more
6970 hidden-service performance bugs, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
6973 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys,
6974 you would only launch a request for the descriptor of the first one
6975 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
6976 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
6977 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
6978 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, and the
6979 connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel all
6980 pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the same
6981 digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
6982 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
6983 and Tor had built circuits preemptively for such purposes, we
6984 were ignoring all the preemptive circuits and launching a new one
6985 instead. Bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
6986 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
6987 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
6988 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
6989 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
6990 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
6991 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
6992 - Make directory servers include the X-Your-Address-Is: http header in
6993 their responses even for begin_dir conns. Now clients who only
6994 ever use begin_dir connections still have a way to learn their IP
6995 address. Fixes bug 737; bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc. Reported by goldy.
6998 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
6999 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
7001 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
7002 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
7003 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
7004 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
7005 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
7006 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
7007 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
7009 - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation
7010 stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be trying
7011 session resumption at this point, but apparently some did, in
7012 ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Bug
7013 found by Geoff Goodell.
7016 Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20
7017 Tor 0.2.1.2-alpha includes a new "TestingTorNetwork" config option to
7018 make it easier to set up your own private Tor network; fixes several
7019 big bugs with using more than one bridge relay; fixes a big bug with
7020 offering hidden services quickly after Tor starts; and uses a better
7021 API for reporting potential bootstrapping problems to the controller.
7024 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
7025 previously constant values that, while reasonable, could slow
7026 bootstrapping. Implements proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
7029 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
7030 you would only learn a request for the descriptor of the first one
7031 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
7032 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
7033 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7034 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
7035 and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel
7036 all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the
7037 same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7038 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
7039 originate from cannibalized circuits are completely ignored and not
7040 included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might be another
7041 reason for delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix
7042 from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
7045 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
7046 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
7047 This will cut down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements
7049 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
7050 fingerprints with or without space.
7051 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
7052 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
7053 partway through and wants to catch up.
7054 - Send an initial "Starting" bootstrap status event, so we have a
7055 state to start out in.
7058 - Asking for a conditional consensus at .../consensus/<fingerprints>
7059 would crash a dirserver if it did not already have a
7060 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
7061 - Clean up some macro/CPP interactions: some GCC versions don't like
7062 #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. Bugfix on
7065 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.1-alpha):
7066 - Directory authorities shouldn't complain about bootstrapping
7067 problems just because they do a lot of reachability testing and
7068 some of the connection attempts fail.
7069 - Start sending "count" and "recommendation" key/value pairs in
7070 bootstrap problem status events, so the controller can hear about
7071 problems even before Tor decides they're worth reporting for sure.
7072 - If you're using bridges, generate "bootstrap problem" warnings
7073 as soon as you run out of working bridges, rather than waiting
7074 for ten failures -- which will never happen if you have less than
7076 - If we close our OR connection because there's been a circuit
7077 pending on it for too long, we were telling our bootstrap status
7078 events "REASON=NONE". Now tell them "REASON=TIMEOUT".
7081 Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13
7082 Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha fixes a lot of memory fragmentation problems that
7083 were making the Tor process bloat especially on Linux; makes our TLS
7084 handshake blend in better; sends "bootstrap phase" status events to
7085 the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress (and
7086 problems) fetching directory information and establishing circuits;
7087 and adds a variety of smaller features.
7090 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
7091 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
7092 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
7093 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
7095 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
7096 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
7097 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
7098 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
7100 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
7101 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
7102 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
7103 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
7104 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
7105 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
7106 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
7109 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
7110 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
7111 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
7112 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
7113 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
7115 o Memory fixes and improvements:
7116 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
7117 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
7118 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
7119 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
7120 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
7121 on a typical directory cache.
7122 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
7123 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
7124 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
7125 and may reduce fragmentation.
7126 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
7127 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
7128 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
7130 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
7131 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
7132 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
7134 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
7135 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed,
7139 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
7140 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
7141 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
7142 done that for a long time.
7143 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
7144 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
7145 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
7146 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
7149 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
7150 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
7151 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
7152 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
7153 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
7154 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
7156 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
7157 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
7158 output to messages of warning and error severity.
7159 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
7160 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
7161 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
7162 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
7163 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
7164 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
7165 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
7166 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
7167 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
7168 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
7169 directory requests we should expect to see.
7170 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
7172 - Lots of new unit tests.
7173 - Add a macro to implement the common pattern of iterating through
7174 two parallel lists in lockstep.
7177 Changes in version 0.2.0.28-rc - 2008-06-13
7178 Tor 0.2.0.28-rc fixes an anonymity-related bug, fixes a hidden-service
7179 performance bug, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
7182 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
7183 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
7184 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
7185 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
7186 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
7187 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
7188 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
7191 - While setting up a hidden service, some valid introduction circuits
7192 were overlooked and abandoned. This might be the reason for
7193 the long delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix on
7197 - Update to the "June 9 2008" ip-to-country file.
7198 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
7199 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
7202 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
7203 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
7204 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
7206 - Bridge relays no longer print "xx=0" in their extrainfo document
7207 for every single country code in the geoip db. Bugfix on
7209 - Only warn when we fail to load the geoip file if we were planning to
7210 include geoip stats in our extrainfo document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc.
7211 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
7212 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
7213 bug 688, reported by mfr. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
7214 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
7215 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors. Bugfix
7217 - Make relay cells written on a connection count as non-padding when
7218 tracking how long a connection has been in use. Bugfix on
7219 0.2.0.1-alpha. Spotted by lodger.
7220 - Fix unit tests in 0.2.0.27-rc.
7221 - Fix compile on Windows.
7224 Changes in version 0.2.0.27-rc - 2008-06-03
7225 Tor 0.2.0.27-rc adds a few features we left out of the earlier
7226 release candidates. In particular, we now include an IP-to-country
7227 GeoIP database, so controllers can easily look up what country a
7228 given relay is in, and so bridge relays can give us some sanitized
7229 summaries about which countries are making use of bridges. (See proposal
7230 126-geoip-fetching.txt for details.)
7233 - Include an IP-to-country GeoIP file in the tarball, so bridge
7234 relays can report sanitized summaries of the usage they're seeing.
7237 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
7238 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
7239 - Make bridge authorities never serve extrainfo docs.
7240 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
7242 - Fix build on gcc 4.3 with --enable-gcc-warnings set.
7243 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
7244 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
7247 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
7248 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
7249 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
7250 - Make bridge authorities correctly expire old extrainfo documents
7254 Changes in version 0.2.0.26-rc - 2008-05-13
7255 Tor 0.2.0.26-rc fixes a major security vulnerability caused by a bug
7256 in Debian's OpenSSL packages. All users running any 0.2.0.x version
7257 should upgrade, whether they're running Debian or not.
7259 o Major security fixes:
7260 - Use new V3 directory authority keys on the tor26, gabelmoo, and
7261 moria1 V3 directory authorities. The old keys were generated with
7262 a vulnerable version of Debian's OpenSSL package, and must be
7263 considered compromised. Other authorities' keys were not generated
7264 with an affected version of OpenSSL.
7267 - List authority signatures as "unrecognized" based on DirServer
7268 lines, not on cert cache. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7271 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey option to make it easier for
7272 authorities to change their identity keys if they have to.
7275 Changes in version 0.2.0.25-rc - 2008-04-23
7276 Tor 0.2.0.25-rc makes Tor work again on OS X and certain BSDs.
7279 - Remember to initialize threading before initializing logging.
7280 Otherwise, many BSD-family implementations will crash hard on
7281 startup. Fixes bug 671. Bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc.
7284 - Authorities correctly free policies on bad servers on
7285 exit. Fixes bug 672. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7288 Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-22
7289 Tor 0.2.0.24-rc adds dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth
7290 v3 directory authority, makes relays with dynamic IP addresses and no
7291 DirPort notice more quickly when their IP address changes, fixes a few
7292 rare crashes and memory leaks, and fixes a few other miscellaneous bugs.
7294 o New directory authorities:
7295 - Take lefkada out of the list of v3 directory authorities, since
7296 it has been down for months.
7297 - Set up dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory
7301 - Detect address changes more quickly on non-directory mirror
7302 relays. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 652.
7304 o Minor features (security):
7305 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
7306 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
7307 - Non-exit relays no longer allow DNS requests. Fixes bug 619. Patch
7310 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
7311 - Avoid a rare assert that can trigger when Tor doesn't have much
7312 directory information yet and it tries to fetch a v2 hidden
7313 service descriptor. Fixes bug 651, reported by nwf.
7314 - Initialize log mutex before initializing dmalloc. Otherwise,
7315 running with dmalloc would crash. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha.
7316 - Use recursive pthread mutexes in order to avoid deadlock when
7317 logging debug-level messages to a controller. Bug spotted by nwf,
7318 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
7320 o Minor bugfixes (resource management):
7321 - Keep address policies from leaking memory: start their refcount
7322 at 1, not 2. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
7323 - Free authority certificates on exit, so they don't look like memory
7324 leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
7325 - Free static hashtables for policy maps and for TLS connections on
7326 shutdown, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7327 - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on 64-bit
7328 platforms. Bug spotted by aakova.
7330 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
7331 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
7332 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
7333 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
7334 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
7335 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
7336 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
7337 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
7338 - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should
7339 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
7340 Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
7341 - Warn less verbosely about clock skew from netinfo cells from
7342 untrusted sources. Fixes bug 663.
7343 - Make controller stream events for DNS requests more consistent,
7344 by adding "new stream" events for DNS requests, and removing
7345 spurious "stream closed" events" for cached reverse resolves.
7346 Patch from mwenge. Fixes bug 646.
7347 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
7348 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
7351 Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24
7352 Tor 0.2.0.23-rc is the fourth release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
7353 makes bootstrapping faster if the first directory mirror you contact
7354 is down. The bundles also include the new Vidalia 0.1.2 release.
7357 - When a tunneled directory request is made to a directory server
7358 that's down, notice after 30 seconds rather than 120 seconds. Also,
7359 fail any begindir streams that are pending on it, so they can
7360 retry elsewhere. This was causing multi-minute delays on bootstrap.
7363 Changes in version 0.2.0.22-rc - 2008-03-18
7364 Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is the third release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
7365 enables encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, fixes
7366 some broken TLS behavior we added in 0.2.0.20-rc, and resolves many
7367 other bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.1 and Torbutton 1.1.17.
7370 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
7371 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
7372 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
7373 certain censored countries by default again.
7376 - Make sure servers always request certificates from clients during
7377 TLS renegotiation. Reported by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
7378 - Do not enter a CPU-eating loop when a connection is closed in
7379 the middle of client-side TLS renegotiation. Fixes bug 622. Bug
7380 diagnosed by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
7381 - Fix assertion failure that could occur when a blocked circuit
7382 became unblocked, and it had pending client DNS requests. Bugfix
7383 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 632.
7385 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
7386 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
7387 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
7388 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
7389 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
7390 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
7391 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
7392 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
7393 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
7394 a directory. Fix from lodger.
7396 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
7397 - Downgrade "sslv3 alert handshake failure" message to INFO.
7398 - If we set RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst very high but
7399 left BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at the default, we would be
7400 silently limited by those defaults. Now raise them to match the
7401 RelayBandwidth* values.
7402 - Fix the SVK version detection logic to work correctly on a branch.
7403 - Make --enable-openbsd-malloc work correctly on Linux with alpha
7404 CPUs. Fixes bug 625.
7405 - Logging functions now check that the passed severity is sane.
7406 - Use proper log levels in the testsuite call of
7407 get_interface_address6().
7408 - When using a nonstandard malloc, do not use the platform values for
7409 HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE or HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE.
7410 - Make the openbsd malloc code use 8k pages on alpha CPUs and
7412 - Detect mismatched page sizes when using --enable-openbsd-malloc.
7413 - Avoid double-marked-for-close warning when certain kinds of invalid
7414 .in-addr.arpa addresses are passed to the DNSPort. Part of a fix
7415 for bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7416 - Make sure that the "NULL-means-reject *:*" convention is followed by
7417 all the policy manipulation functions, avoiding some possible crash
7418 bugs. Bug found by lodger. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
7419 - Fix the implementation of ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses so that it
7420 actually works, and doesn't warn about every single reverse lookup.
7421 Fixes the other part of bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7424 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
7425 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
7426 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
7429 Changes in version 0.2.0.21-rc - 2008-03-02
7430 Tor 0.2.0.21-rc is the second release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
7431 makes Tor work well with Vidalia again, fixes a rare assert bug,
7432 and fixes a pair of more minor bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia
7433 0.1.0 and Torbutton 1.1.16.
7436 - The control port should declare that it requires password auth
7437 when HashedControlSessionPassword is set too. Patch from Matt Edman;
7438 bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Fixes bug 615.
7439 - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message.
7440 This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its
7441 symptoms less severe. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Reported by fredzupy.
7442 - We were sometimes miscounting the number of bytes read from the
7443 network, causing our rate limiting to not be followed exactly.
7444 Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by lodger.
7447 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a. All other supported
7448 OpenSSL versions should have been working fine. Diagnosis and patch
7449 from lodger, Karsten Loesing, and Sebastian Hahn. Fixes bug 616.
7450 Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
7453 Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24
7454 Tor 0.2.0.20-rc is the first release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
7455 makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes
7456 hidden services work better again, helps relays bootstrap if they don't
7457 know their IP address, adds optional support for linking in openbsd's
7458 allocator or tcmalloc, allows really fast relays to scale past 15000
7459 sockets, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs reported by Veracode.
7462 - Enable the revised TLS handshake based on the one designed by
7463 Steven Murdoch in proposal 124, as revised in proposal 130. It
7464 includes version negotiation for OR connections as described in
7465 proposal 105. The new handshake is meant to be harder for censors
7466 to fingerprint, and it adds the ability to detect certain kinds of
7467 man-in-the-middle traffic analysis attacks. The version negotiation
7468 feature will allow us to improve Tor's link protocol more safely
7470 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
7471 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
7472 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
7473 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
7474 stop using it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 437.
7477 - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors.
7478 Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha
7480 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
7481 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
7482 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
7483 by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
7484 - Servers that don't know their own IP address should go to the
7485 authorities for their first directory fetch, even if their DirPort
7486 is off or if they don't know they're reachable yet. This will help
7487 them bootstrap better. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 609.
7488 - When counting the number of open sockets, count not only the number
7489 of sockets we have received from the socket() call, but also
7490 the number we've gotten from accept() and socketpair(). This bug
7491 made us fail to count all sockets that we were using for incoming
7492 connections. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7493 - Fix code used to find strings within buffers, when those strings
7494 are not in the first chunk of the buffer. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7495 - Fix potential segfault when parsing HTTP headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7496 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
7497 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
7498 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
7499 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
7500 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
7501 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
7502 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
7504 o Minor features (performance):
7505 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
7507 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc
7508 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly
7509 with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass
7510 --enable-openbsd-malloc to get the replacement malloc code.
7511 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
7512 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for
7513 non-system include paths.
7514 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
7515 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
7518 o Minor features (other):
7519 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
7521 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
7522 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
7523 - Add a --passphrase-fd argument to the tor-gencert command for
7526 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks and code problems):
7527 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
7528 cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2.
7529 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
7531 - We were comparing the raw BridgePassword entry with a base64'ed
7532 version of it, when handling a "/tor/networkstatus-bridges"
7533 directory request. Now compare correctly. Noticed by Veracode.
7534 - Recover from bad tracked-since value in MTBF-history file.
7536 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
7537 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
7538 unhandled errors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
7539 - Make Unix controlsockets work correctly on OpenBSD. Patch from
7540 tup. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
7542 o Minor bugfixes (other):
7543 - If we have an extra-info document for our server, always make
7544 it available on the control port, even if we haven't gotten
7545 a copy of it from an authority yet. Patch from mwenge.
7546 - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c.
7547 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
7548 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
7549 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
7550 - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting.
7551 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten.
7552 - When starting as an authority, do not overwrite all certificates
7553 cached from other authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 606.
7554 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
7555 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
7556 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
7557 on the socket. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
7558 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
7559 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
7560 - Even though the man page said that "TrackHostExits ." should
7561 work, nobody had ever implemented it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
7562 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
7563 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
7564 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
7565 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
7566 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
7569 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
7570 - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused,
7571 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
7575 Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09
7576 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS
7577 handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address
7578 guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation
7579 for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable.
7582 - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
7583 Tor's x509 certificates.
7586 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
7587 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
7588 reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
7589 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
7590 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
7591 IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
7593 o Minor features (security):
7594 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
7595 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
7597 o Minor features (directory authority):
7598 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
7599 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
7600 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
7601 bandwidthburst values.
7603 o Minor features (controller):
7604 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue
7605 processes from running us out of memory.
7607 o Minor features (misc):
7608 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
7609 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
7610 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
7611 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
7613 o Deprecated features (controller):
7614 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
7615 GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol:
7616 treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
7619 - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop
7620 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix
7622 - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities
7623 listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not
7624 recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7625 - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert
7626 the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as
7627 a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7628 - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the
7629 library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix
7631 - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority
7632 signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7633 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
7634 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
7635 - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a
7636 private IP address (like 127.0.0.1).
7637 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
7638 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix
7640 - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control
7641 port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of
7642 connections, tell the controller that the request has failed.
7643 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few
7644 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
7645 - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure
7646 script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7647 - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like
7648 cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7649 - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all
7650 introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from
7651 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7653 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
7654 - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved
7656 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
7657 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
7658 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
7659 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
7660 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
7661 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
7664 Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25
7665 Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC,
7666 fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options
7667 that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with
7668 vulnerable-plaintext protocols.
7670 o New directory authorities:
7671 - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory
7675 - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS
7676 handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589.
7677 - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake
7678 code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while
7679 renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590.
7680 - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory
7681 responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients
7682 asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially
7686 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
7687 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
7688 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
7689 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
7690 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
7691 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
7692 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
7693 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
7694 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
7695 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any.
7698 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
7699 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
7700 - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than
7701 we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported
7705 - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if
7706 the request isn't encrypted.
7707 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
7708 - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more
7709 robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available;
7710 retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we
7711 already have a usable v0 rend desc.
7714 Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17
7715 Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops).
7718 - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball.
7721 Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17
7722 Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten
7723 Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs.
7725 o New directory authorities:
7726 - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory
7729 o Major performance improvements:
7730 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
7731 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
7732 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
7733 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
7734 memory fragmentation.
7737 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
7738 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
7739 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
7740 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
7741 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out
7742 there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such
7743 bodies when they receive them.
7744 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
7745 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
7746 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
7748 o Minor performance improvements:
7749 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
7750 of them were actually distinct.
7751 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is
7752 interested in a given message.
7755 - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to
7756 download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix
7757 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569.
7758 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
7759 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
7760 list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare
7761 bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222.
7762 - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client
7763 and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't
7764 anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor.
7765 - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on
7767 - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried
7768 to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583.
7769 - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest
7770 estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from
7771 this country" and "1 person from this country".
7772 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.
7773 - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in
7774 crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
7775 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
7776 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
7778 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
7779 router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.
7780 - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix
7782 - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present
7783 but client versions are not.
7784 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
7785 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
7787 - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're
7788 compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k
7789 left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
7790 - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service.
7791 - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre
7793 - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the
7794 control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current
7795 network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on
7798 o Minor features (controller):
7799 - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup.
7800 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
7801 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
7802 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
7804 o Minor features (directory authorities):
7805 - New configuration options to override default maximum number of
7806 servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
7807 running a test network on a single host.
7808 - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert.
7809 - Add a manual page for tor-gencert.
7811 o Minor features (bridges):
7812 - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over
7813 unencrypted connections.
7815 o Minor features (other):
7816 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
7817 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
7818 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
7819 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
7822 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
7823 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
7824 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
7825 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
7828 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
7829 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
7830 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
7831 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
7835 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
7836 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
7837 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
7838 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
7839 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
7840 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
7841 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
7842 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
7843 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
7844 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
7845 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
7846 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
7849 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
7850 rebuild our server descriptor.
7851 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
7852 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
7853 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
7854 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
7855 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
7856 nonstandard integer types.
7857 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
7858 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
7859 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
7860 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
7861 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
7863 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
7864 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
7865 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
7866 when they receive them.
7867 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
7868 This includes some 64-bit systems.
7869 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
7870 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
7871 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
7872 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
7873 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
7874 router_get_by_hexdigest().
7875 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
7876 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
7880 Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25
7881 Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the
7882 features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha.
7885 - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests
7886 for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This
7887 was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who
7888 would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash
7889 when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x.
7890 - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than
7891 estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority
7892 compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7895 - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation.
7896 - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was
7897 previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just
7898 ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes
7900 - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example
7901 self-reachability and authority-reachability tests.
7904 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
7905 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
7908 Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23
7910 - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh
7911 without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported
7913 - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be
7914 unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started
7915 fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we
7916 aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7917 - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first
7918 time you use a given introduction point for your service, but
7919 on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by
7920 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
7921 - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't
7922 currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on
7926 - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a
7927 snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to
7928 anybody who knows that password. Unset by default.
7931 - Make the unit tests build again.
7932 - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" actually work.
7933 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
7934 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
7935 - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to
7936 be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes
7937 bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7938 - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an
7939 identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard
7940 the next one as a duplicate.
7943 - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for
7944 PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3".
7945 - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set
7946 RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out.
7949 Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21
7950 Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff
7951 Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for
7954 o New directory authorities:
7955 - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory
7959 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
7960 enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick
7961 two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was
7962 causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been
7963 running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448.
7964 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
7965 service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix
7967 - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds
7968 after opening a circuit -- even a relayed circuit. Bugfix on
7970 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
7971 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
7972 crashing or mis-answering these types of requests.
7973 - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2
7974 directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only
7975 authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities.
7977 - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring
7978 the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose
7979 descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
7980 - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we
7981 were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the
7982 whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
7985 - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time
7986 intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they
7987 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
7988 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
7989 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
7990 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
7991 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
7992 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
7993 - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one
7994 of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses
7995 to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country.
7996 - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users
7997 are coming from, and report aggregate information in their
7998 extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn
7999 where Tor is blocked.
8000 - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the
8001 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
8002 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
8003 to a file periodically.
8004 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
8005 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
8006 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
8010 - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network
8011 consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single
8012 IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and
8013 also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed
8014 in the relevant networkstatus document.
8015 - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the
8016 PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman;
8017 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
8018 - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors
8019 that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried
8020 to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have
8021 crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch
8023 - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc.
8024 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
8025 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
8026 clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer.
8027 - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr
8028 via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
8029 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
8030 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
8031 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
8032 "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
8033 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
8034 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
8035 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
8036 to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
8037 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
8038 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown
8039 routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.)
8040 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
8041 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
8042 nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
8043 - Fix compilation with --disable-threads set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
8044 - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes
8045 bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
8046 - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should
8047 create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors
8048 used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
8049 - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info
8050 documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
8053 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
8054 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
8055 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
8056 less often, now that v3 is encouraged.
8057 - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to
8058 be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes
8059 you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info,
8060 even if your DirPort isn't on.
8061 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
8062 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
8063 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
8065 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
8066 multiple controller passwords.
8067 - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given
8068 router based on the router's purpose.
8069 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
8070 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
8071 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
8072 the approved-routers file.
8075 Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16
8076 This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as
8077 well as a few minor bugs.
8080 - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup.
8081 - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes
8082 package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc.
8084 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
8085 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
8086 rebuild our server descriptor.
8088 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
8089 - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous
8090 operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing.
8091 - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a
8092 newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry.
8093 - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same
8094 IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting
8095 to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a
8096 given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they
8097 never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running'
8099 - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way
8100 the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know
8101 a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to
8102 fall back to asking the bridge authority.
8103 - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our
8104 chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards,
8105 then be flexible about families.
8108 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
8109 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
8110 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for
8114 Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12
8115 This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with
8116 the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit
8117 policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and
8118 fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list.
8121 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
8122 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
8123 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
8124 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
8125 on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
8128 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
8129 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix
8131 - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply
8132 because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22
8133 where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an
8134 old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the
8135 consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548.
8136 Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so,
8137 we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
8139 o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha:
8140 - We were including instructions about what to do with the
8141 src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually
8142 including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now.
8145 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
8146 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
8149 - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document
8150 just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend
8151 to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
8154 Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10
8155 This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority
8156 run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service
8157 descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced
8158 in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation,
8159 fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and
8160 addresses many more minor issues.
8162 o New directory authorities:
8163 - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority.
8166 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
8167 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
8168 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
8169 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
8171 - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to
8172 implement new hidden service descriptor format.
8173 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
8174 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
8175 and are reaching it.
8176 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes
8177 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
8178 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
8179 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
8180 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
8181 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
8184 - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or
8185 maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported
8187 - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in
8188 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges
8189 no longer work for clients.
8190 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
8191 buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544.
8193 o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha):
8194 - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were
8195 mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the
8196 descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers
8197 would start complaining after a few days that they don't have
8198 enough directory information to build a circuit.
8199 - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive
8200 that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only
8201 considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help.
8202 - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the
8203 consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching
8204 the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it
8206 - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad
8207 Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending
8208 requests for all of them.
8209 - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes
8211 - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running
8212 for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly
8213 started authority would vote that everyone was down.
8216 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
8217 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
8221 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
8222 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
8223 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
8224 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
8225 - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus
8226 networkstatuses that we already have.
8227 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
8228 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
8229 we start knowing some directory caches.
8230 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
8231 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
8232 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
8233 - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that
8234 certificate's claims about the authority's IP address.
8235 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
8236 Good in combination with --hash-password.
8237 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
8238 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
8240 - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful.
8241 - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to
8242 track down the second incarnation of bug 546.
8244 o Minor features (bridges):
8245 - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest
8246 they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall
8247 back to trying the bridge directly.
8248 - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
8249 the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns.
8251 o Minor features (controller):
8252 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
8253 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
8254 report the value as a "minimum skew."
8257 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
8258 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
8262 - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix
8263 on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman.
8264 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
8265 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x;
8266 reported by tup and ioerror.
8267 - Better log message on vote from unknown authority.
8268 - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message.
8270 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
8271 - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix
8273 - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix
8274 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 536.
8275 - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on
8277 - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus.
8278 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
8279 - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature.
8280 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
8281 - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or
8282 a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
8283 - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on
8285 - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a
8286 Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when
8287 using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
8289 - Minor bugfixes (portability):
8290 - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned
8291 long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is
8292 OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In
8293 particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5.
8296 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
8297 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
8298 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
8299 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
8300 lists for a few hours each day.
8302 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
8303 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
8304 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
8305 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
8306 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
8307 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
8308 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
8309 rend_process_relay_cell().
8311 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
8312 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
8313 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
8314 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
8315 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
8316 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
8317 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
8318 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
8320 o Major bugfixes (other):
8321 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
8322 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
8323 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
8324 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
8325 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
8326 circuit cannibalization).
8327 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
8328 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
8329 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
8330 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
8331 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
8332 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
8335 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
8336 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
8338 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
8339 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
8340 absent. Resolves bug 467.
8341 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
8342 a way to trigger this remotely.)
8343 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
8344 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
8345 were reporting the dir port.)
8346 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
8347 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
8348 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
8349 the future. Fixes bug 434.
8350 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
8352 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
8353 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
8354 the onion key from getting rotated.
8355 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
8356 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
8357 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
8358 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
8359 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
8360 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
8361 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
8362 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
8363 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
8366 Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24
8367 This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory
8368 system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they
8369 have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other
8370 bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear
8371 from the network status lists for a few hours each day.
8373 o Major features (directory system):
8374 - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead
8375 of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their
8376 opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only
8377 download router descriptors listed in the consensus.
8378 - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as
8379 a different named server, but list them with a new flag,
8380 "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same
8381 nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
8382 disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122.
8383 - If the consensus lists a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned
8384 to a different router: do not identify the router by that name.
8385 Partially implements proposal 122.
8386 - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to
8387 compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility.
8390 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or
8391 when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish
8392 it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the
8393 authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule.
8395 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
8396 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
8397 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
8398 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
8399 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
8400 consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
8401 - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch
8402 extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not
8403 matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8405 o Minor features (v3 directory protocol):
8406 - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing
8408 - Allow certificates to include an address.
8409 - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting
8410 and download operations.
8411 - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as
8412 we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet.
8413 - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading
8414 certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a
8415 consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure,
8416 and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a
8418 - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a
8419 little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are
8422 o Minor features (router descriptor cache):
8423 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
8424 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
8425 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
8427 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
8428 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
8429 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
8431 o Minor features (performance):
8432 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
8433 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
8434 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
8435 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
8436 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
8437 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
8438 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
8441 o Minor features (compilation):
8442 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
8443 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
8445 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
8446 - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately
8447 after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them
8448 stick around indefinitely.
8449 - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as
8451 - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a
8452 v3 directory authority.
8453 - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed
8454 as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct
8456 - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put
8457 its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to
8458 "moria on moria:9031."
8459 - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and
8460 detached signatures for a divergent vote.
8461 - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus.
8462 - When there's no concensus, we were forming a vote every 30
8463 minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based
8464 on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals
8465 matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't
8466 start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote.
8468 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
8469 - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set.
8470 - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately
8471 after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice.
8472 - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus
8473 should exist before trying to replace the current one.
8474 - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus
8475 downloads than for other types.
8477 o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues):
8478 - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on
8480 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
8481 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
8482 supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
8484 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
8485 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
8486 option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
8487 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
8488 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
8489 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
8490 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
8491 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
8493 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
8494 - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor"
8495 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman.
8496 - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make
8497 it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
8498 - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to
8499 fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough
8500 info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
8501 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
8502 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
8503 yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix
8505 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
8506 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix
8509 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
8510 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
8511 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
8512 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
8513 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
8514 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
8515 - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory.
8516 - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c.
8517 - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server
8518 so that they all take the same named flags.
8521 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
8522 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
8523 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
8526 Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12
8527 This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering
8528 us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge
8529 descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working,
8530 starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors,
8531 and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks.
8533 o Major features (router descriptor cache):
8534 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
8535 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
8536 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
8537 annotations along with descriptors.
8538 - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its
8539 source, and its purpose.
8540 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
8542 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
8543 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
8544 - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning
8545 we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them
8548 o Major features (directory authorities):
8549 - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries
8551 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as
8552 weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding
8553 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
8554 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
8555 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
8556 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
8558 o Major features (v3 directory system):
8559 - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed,
8560 and download the descriptors listed in them.
8561 - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority
8562 certificates, and re-attempt after failures.
8563 - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing.
8565 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
8566 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
8567 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
8568 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on
8571 o Major bugfixes (performance):
8572 - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of
8573 routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info "
8574 string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo
8575 we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like.
8577 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
8578 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
8579 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
8580 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
8581 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
8582 eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
8584 o Minor features (v3 authority system):
8585 - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the
8587 - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or
8588 certificate is requested.
8589 - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of
8590 certificate requests.
8592 o Minor bugfixes (network statuses):
8593 - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most
8594 two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location
8595 of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on
8598 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
8599 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
8600 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
8601 were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
8603 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system):
8604 - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on
8606 - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already
8607 set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may
8608 have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
8609 - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule.
8610 - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting
8611 schedule, not on our preferred schedule.
8612 - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and
8613 downloads more sensible.
8614 - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and
8615 another when serving certificates.
8617 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
8618 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
8619 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
8620 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
8622 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state
8623 file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
8624 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on
8626 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
8627 command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
8629 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
8630 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
8631 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
8632 - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases.
8633 Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha.
8635 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
8636 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
8637 WARN-severity events.
8638 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
8639 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is
8640 fishy. Resolves bug 463.
8642 o Minor bugfixes (anonymity):
8643 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
8644 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
8646 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
8647 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
8648 circuit cannibalization).
8650 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
8651 - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code.
8652 - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a
8653 new module, networkstatus.c.
8654 - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into
8655 routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each
8656 authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally
8657 computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally
8658 modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common
8659 stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use,
8660 clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions;
8661 thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone.
8662 - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more
8664 - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to
8666 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
8667 The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha.
8670 Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21
8671 This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge
8672 authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws
8673 in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues.
8675 o New directory authorities:
8676 - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See
8677 doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design.
8679 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
8680 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
8681 rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
8683 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
8684 - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to
8685 attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers
8686 to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort,
8687 and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
8688 - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge
8689 users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity
8690 fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the
8691 default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits
8692 are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later
8693 connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
8695 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
8696 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
8697 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
8698 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
8699 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
8700 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
8701 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both
8702 are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service
8703 connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing.
8705 o Minor features (security):
8706 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
8707 address maps to an internal address space.
8708 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
8709 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
8711 o Minor features (guard nodes):
8712 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
8713 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
8714 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
8715 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
8717 o Minor features (speed):
8718 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
8719 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
8720 network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e.,
8721 on big-endian hosts.)
8723 o Minor features (controller):
8724 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
8725 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
8726 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
8727 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
8731 - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their
8732 descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info
8733 documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60%
8734 (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes
8735 implementation of proposal 104.
8736 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
8737 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
8738 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
8739 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
8740 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
8741 patch from Karsten Loesing.
8742 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
8743 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
8746 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
8747 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes
8748 bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
8749 - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault
8750 in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
8751 - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
8752 Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8753 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
8754 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves
8755 bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
8756 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
8757 BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
8758 were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and
8759 RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
8760 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
8761 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
8762 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
8763 code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
8764 - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status.
8765 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode.
8767 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
8768 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
8769 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
8771 - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type.
8772 - Move all NT services code into a separate source file.
8773 - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc.
8774 - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies.
8777 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
8778 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
8779 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
8780 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
8781 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
8784 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
8785 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
8788 o Major bugfixes (security):
8789 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
8790 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
8791 become more of a headache than it's worth.
8793 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
8794 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
8795 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
8797 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
8798 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
8799 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
8800 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
8801 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
8802 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
8804 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
8805 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
8806 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
8807 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
8808 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
8810 o Minor features (controller):
8811 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
8812 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
8813 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
8814 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
8816 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
8817 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
8818 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
8819 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
8820 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
8821 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
8822 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
8823 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
8825 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
8826 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
8827 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
8828 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
8829 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
8830 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
8831 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
8832 if we ran off the end of the list.
8833 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
8834 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
8835 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
8836 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
8837 every time we change any piece of our config.
8838 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
8839 encourage people using them to stop.
8840 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
8842 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
8843 servers to choose a circuit.
8844 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
8845 unparseable piece of it.
8848 Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26
8849 This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the
8850 Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for
8851 the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
8854 In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems
8855 with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many
8856 people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new
8857 mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable,
8858 rather than just looking at the most recent uptime.
8860 o New directory authorities:
8861 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
8864 - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted
8865 mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data,
8866 use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether
8867 to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108.
8869 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
8870 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
8871 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
8873 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
8874 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
8875 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
8876 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
8877 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
8878 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
8880 o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing):
8881 - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug
8882 found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
8885 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
8886 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
8887 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
8888 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
8892 - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added
8893 routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x)
8894 - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected
8895 address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix
8897 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
8898 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
8900 - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0"
8901 in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the
8902 new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman.
8903 - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that
8904 conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman.
8905 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
8906 servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
8907 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
8908 unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
8909 - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit.
8912 Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
8913 This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again;
8914 fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put
8915 extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory
8916 voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based
8917 authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs.
8920 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
8921 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
8922 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
8923 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
8926 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
8927 - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
8928 - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
8929 not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
8930 - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
8933 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
8934 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
8935 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
8936 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
8937 circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454;
8940 o Minor features (directory servers):
8941 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
8942 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
8944 o Minor features (directory voting):
8945 - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
8948 o Minor features (security):
8949 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
8950 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
8951 encourage people using them to stop.
8953 o Minor features (controller):
8954 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
8955 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
8956 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
8957 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
8958 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
8959 cookie authentication file, and config option
8960 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
8962 o Minor features (unit testing):
8963 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
8964 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
8965 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
8966 logging for the unit tests.
8968 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
8969 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
8970 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
8971 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
8972 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
8973 every time we change any piece of our config.
8974 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
8975 the future. Fixes bug 434.
8976 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
8978 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
8979 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
8980 the onion key from getting rotated.
8981 - Clean up torrc sample config file.
8982 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
8983 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
8986 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
8987 - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
8988 the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
8990 - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes
8991 try to print a NULL. Patch from tup.
8992 - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
8993 - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
8996 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
8997 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
8998 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
8999 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
9000 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
9001 TorK, etc. Or worse.
9003 o Major security fixes:
9004 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
9005 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
9008 Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
9009 This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability
9010 for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody
9011 should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha.
9013 o Major security fixes:
9014 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
9015 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
9017 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
9018 - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
9021 o Minor features (performance):
9022 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
9023 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
9024 performance-intensive.
9025 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
9026 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
9027 now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
9028 powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
9029 slightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
9030 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
9034 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
9035 This third development snapshot introduces new experimental
9036 blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3
9037 directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features
9041 - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
9042 are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
9043 people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
9044 with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
9045 See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
9047 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
9048 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
9049 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
9050 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
9052 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
9053 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
9054 on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
9055 - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
9056 traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
9058 o Major features (experimental):
9059 - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
9060 vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
9061 their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
9062 handling before it's ready for use.
9065 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
9066 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
9067 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
9068 complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
9069 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
9070 Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
9072 - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
9073 procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
9074 some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
9075 solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
9076 the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
9078 o Major bugfixes (directory):
9079 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
9080 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
9082 o Minor features (controller):
9083 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
9084 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
9085 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
9087 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
9089 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
9090 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
9092 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
9093 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
9094 support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
9095 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
9096 tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
9097 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
9098 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
9101 o Minor features (misc):
9102 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
9104 - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
9105 files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
9106 the authority identity key.
9107 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
9109 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
9110 - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
9111 if they generate a network status document that is somehow
9114 o Traffic load balancing improvements:
9115 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
9116 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
9117 (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
9118 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
9119 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
9120 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
9121 if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
9123 o Performance improvements:
9124 - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
9126 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
9127 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
9130 o Deprecated and removed features:
9131 - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
9132 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
9133 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
9134 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
9136 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
9137 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
9138 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
9139 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
9140 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
9141 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
9142 - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
9143 suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
9144 servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
9147 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
9148 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
9149 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
9150 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
9151 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
9153 - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
9154 changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
9157 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
9158 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
9159 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
9160 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
9161 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
9162 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
9163 from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
9164 - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
9165 events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
9168 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
9169 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
9170 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
9171 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
9173 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
9174 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
9176 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
9177 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
9178 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
9179 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
9180 routerlist while inserting a new router.
9181 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
9182 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
9184 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
9185 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
9186 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
9188 o Major bugfixes (security):
9189 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
9191 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
9192 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
9193 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
9194 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
9195 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
9196 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
9197 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
9198 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
9199 guard list unless we need to.
9201 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
9202 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
9203 don't get overused as guards.
9205 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
9206 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
9207 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
9208 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
9209 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
9211 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
9212 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
9213 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
9216 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
9217 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
9218 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
9219 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
9220 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
9221 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
9222 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
9223 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
9226 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
9227 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
9228 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
9229 Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
9231 o Minor features (directory):
9232 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
9233 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
9234 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
9235 are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
9237 o Minor build issues:
9238 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
9239 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
9240 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
9241 in the tarball, not as "x".
9244 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
9245 This early development snapshot provides new features for people running
9246 Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth
9247 config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us
9248 forward on a lot of fronts.
9250 o Major features, server usability:
9251 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
9252 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
9253 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
9254 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
9256 o Major features, client usability:
9257 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
9258 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
9259 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
9260 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
9261 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
9262 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
9263 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
9264 do all of their connections protected by TLS.
9266 o Major features, performance and efficiency:
9267 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
9268 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
9269 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
9270 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
9271 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
9273 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
9274 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
9275 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
9277 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
9278 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
9279 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
9280 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
9281 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
9283 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
9284 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
9285 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
9286 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
9288 o Major features, other:
9289 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
9290 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
9291 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
9292 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
9293 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
9296 - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
9297 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
9298 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
9301 o Minor fixes (resource management):
9302 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
9303 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
9304 our allocated connection limit.
9305 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
9306 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
9307 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
9308 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
9309 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
9311 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
9312 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
9313 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
9315 o Minor features (build):
9316 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
9317 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
9318 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
9319 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
9321 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
9322 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
9323 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
9324 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
9325 Use this version consistently in log messages.
9327 o Minor features (logging):
9328 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
9329 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
9330 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
9331 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
9332 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
9335 o Minor features (directory system):
9336 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
9337 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
9338 not to serve V2 directory information.
9339 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
9340 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
9341 implementing proposal 104 simpler.
9343 o Minor features (controller):
9344 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
9345 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
9347 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
9348 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
9349 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
9350 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
9351 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
9352 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
9354 o Minor features (hidden services):
9355 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
9356 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
9357 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
9358 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
9360 o Minor features (other):
9362 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
9363 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
9364 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
9365 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
9366 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
9367 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
9368 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
9369 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
9370 longer a completely silly thing to do.
9371 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
9372 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
9373 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
9374 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
9377 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
9378 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
9379 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
9380 back an error and close the connection.
9381 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
9382 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
9385 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
9386 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
9387 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
9388 makes the log messages nicer.
9389 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
9390 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
9391 partial results on small file reads.
9393 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
9394 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
9395 more often than they are allowed to appear.
9396 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
9397 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
9399 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
9400 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
9401 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
9402 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
9404 o Minor bugfixes (other):
9405 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
9406 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
9407 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
9408 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
9409 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
9410 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
9411 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
9412 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
9413 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
9414 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
9416 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
9417 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
9418 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
9420 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
9421 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
9422 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
9423 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
9425 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
9426 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
9427 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
9429 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
9430 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
9433 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
9434 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
9435 implicit in other procedure arguments.
9436 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
9437 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
9438 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
9439 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
9440 properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
9441 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
9442 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
9443 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
9444 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
9447 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
9448 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
9449 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
9450 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
9452 o Directory authority changes:
9453 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
9454 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
9455 or use hidden services.
9457 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
9458 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
9459 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
9460 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
9461 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
9462 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
9463 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
9464 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
9465 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
9468 o Major bugfixes (security):
9469 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
9470 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
9471 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
9473 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
9474 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
9475 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
9476 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
9477 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
9478 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
9479 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
9480 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
9481 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
9482 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
9485 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
9487 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
9488 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
9490 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
9491 having a hard time downloading.
9492 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
9493 partial results on small file reads.
9494 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
9495 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
9496 the gaps in the store get very large.
9499 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
9500 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
9502 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
9503 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
9506 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
9507 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
9508 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
9509 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
9510 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
9511 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
9513 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
9514 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
9515 free speech on the Internet.
9518 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
9519 get one we don't recognize.
9520 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
9521 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
9524 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
9526 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
9527 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
9528 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
9529 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
9532 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
9533 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
9536 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
9537 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
9538 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
9539 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
9540 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
9541 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
9545 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
9546 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
9547 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
9548 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
9549 on Win98 and friends again.
9551 o Minor bugfixes (other):
9552 - Clarify a couple of log messages.
9553 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
9556 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
9557 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
9558 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
9559 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
9560 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
9561 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
9562 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
9563 and maybe also bug 397.)
9565 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
9566 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
9567 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
9569 o Minor bugfixes (server):
9570 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
9573 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
9574 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
9575 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
9576 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
9577 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
9579 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
9580 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
9581 load on authorities.
9583 o Minor bugfixes (other):
9584 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
9585 cleared EntryNodes. Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.
9586 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
9588 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
9590 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
9591 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
9592 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
9593 the last of bug 326.)
9594 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
9595 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
9599 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
9600 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
9601 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
9602 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
9603 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
9604 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
9605 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
9607 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
9608 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
9610 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
9611 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
9612 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
9614 o Major bugfixes (accounting):
9615 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
9616 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
9618 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
9619 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
9620 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
9621 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. Resolves part
9623 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
9624 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
9626 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
9627 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
9628 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
9631 o Minor bugfixes (other):
9632 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
9633 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
9634 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
9635 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
9636 from all known directories, not that it will have the average
9637 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
9638 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
9639 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
9640 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
9641 user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
9642 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
9643 other than file-not-found.
9644 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
9645 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
9646 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
9647 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
9648 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
9649 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
9650 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
9651 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
9652 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
9653 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
9654 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
9655 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
9656 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
9657 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
9658 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
9660 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
9662 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
9663 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
9665 o Minor features (controller):
9666 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
9667 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
9668 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
9670 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
9671 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
9672 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
9673 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
9674 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
9675 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
9676 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
9677 connected or resolved cell.
9679 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
9680 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
9681 some profiles, but not others.)
9682 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
9683 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
9684 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
9687 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
9689 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
9690 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
9691 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
9692 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
9693 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
9694 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
9695 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
9696 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
9697 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
9698 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
9699 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
9700 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
9701 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
9702 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
9703 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
9705 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
9708 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
9709 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
9710 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
9711 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
9712 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
9713 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
9714 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
9716 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
9717 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
9718 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
9719 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
9720 buckets go absurdly negative.
9721 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
9722 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
9725 o Major bugfixes (NT services):
9726 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
9727 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
9728 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
9729 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
9730 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
9731 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
9732 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
9735 o Major bugfixes (other):
9736 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
9737 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
9738 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
9739 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
9741 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
9743 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
9744 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
9746 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
9747 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
9748 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
9749 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
9750 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
9753 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
9754 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
9755 possible memory-stomping bugs.
9756 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
9757 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
9759 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
9760 in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
9761 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
9762 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
9763 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
9764 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
9766 o Minor bugfixes (other):
9767 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
9768 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
9769 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
9771 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
9772 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
9773 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
9774 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
9775 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
9776 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
9777 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
9778 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
9779 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
9780 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
9781 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
9782 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
9783 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
9785 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
9786 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
9787 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
9788 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
9789 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
9790 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
9791 to the resulting address.
9794 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
9795 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
9796 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
9797 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
9800 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
9801 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
9803 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
9804 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
9805 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
9806 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
9807 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
9808 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
9809 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
9810 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
9811 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
9812 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
9813 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
9814 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
9815 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
9816 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
9817 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
9818 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
9819 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
9822 o Minor features (controller):
9823 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
9824 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
9825 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
9826 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
9827 - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
9828 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
9829 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
9833 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
9835 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
9836 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
9837 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
9838 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
9839 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
9840 Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
9843 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
9844 weren't planning to resolve.
9845 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
9846 unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
9847 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
9848 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
9849 the controller from learning about current events.
9851 o Minor features (more controller status events):
9852 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
9853 learn when our address changes.
9854 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
9855 can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
9856 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
9857 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
9859 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
9860 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
9861 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
9862 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
9863 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
9864 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
9865 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
9866 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
9867 are accepted by a directory.
9868 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
9869 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
9870 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
9871 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
9872 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
9874 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
9875 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
9876 about changes to DNS server status.
9878 o Minor features (directory):
9879 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
9880 too much load to the exit nodes.
9883 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
9885 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
9886 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
9887 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
9888 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
9889 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
9891 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
9892 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
9893 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
9895 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
9896 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
9897 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
9898 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
9899 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
9900 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
9901 config options if you like.
9903 o Minor features (config and docs):
9904 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
9905 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
9906 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
9907 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
9908 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
9910 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
9911 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
9912 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
9913 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
9914 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
9916 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
9917 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
9918 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
9919 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
9920 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
9921 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
9922 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
9923 documentation: "make check-docs".
9924 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
9925 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
9927 o Minor features (DNS):
9928 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
9929 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
9930 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
9931 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
9932 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
9933 our tests for DNS hijacking.
9935 o Minor features (directory):
9936 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
9937 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
9938 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
9939 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
9940 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
9941 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
9942 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
9943 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
9944 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
9945 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
9946 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
9947 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
9948 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
9949 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
9950 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
9951 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
9952 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
9953 for the thing we're trying to download.
9954 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
9955 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
9956 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
9958 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
9959 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
9960 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
9963 o Minor features (controller):
9964 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
9965 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
9967 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
9968 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
9969 entry guard status as it changes.
9971 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
9972 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
9973 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
9974 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
9976 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
9977 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
9978 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
9979 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
9982 o Major bugfixes (security):
9983 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
9984 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
9985 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
9986 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
9988 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
9989 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
9990 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
9991 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
9992 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
9994 o Major bugfixes (other):
9995 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
9996 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
9997 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
9998 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
10000 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
10001 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
10002 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
10003 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
10004 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
10005 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
10009 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
10010 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
10011 unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
10012 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
10013 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
10015 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
10016 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
10018 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
10019 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
10020 family lists conveniently.
10021 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
10022 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
10023 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
10025 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
10026 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
10028 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
10029 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
10030 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
10031 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
10032 if their identity keys are as expected.
10033 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
10034 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
10035 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
10037 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
10038 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
10039 reported by Mike Perry.
10040 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
10041 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
10042 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
10043 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
10046 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
10047 o Security bugfixes:
10048 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
10049 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
10050 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
10051 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
10055 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
10056 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
10057 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
10060 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
10062 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
10063 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
10064 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
10067 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
10068 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
10069 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
10070 watching for STREAM events.
10071 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
10072 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
10073 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
10074 operations, for profiling.
10077 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
10078 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
10079 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
10080 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
10081 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
10082 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
10084 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
10088 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
10089 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
10090 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
10091 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
10092 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
10094 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
10095 correctly in the Windows installer.
10096 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
10097 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
10098 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
10099 MIPSpro C compiler.
10100 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
10101 when we're running as a client.
10104 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
10106 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
10107 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
10108 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
10109 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
10110 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
10111 its circuits on demand.
10112 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
10113 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
10114 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
10115 connections more stable on average.
10116 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
10117 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
10118 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
10120 o Security bugfixes:
10121 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
10122 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
10125 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
10127 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
10128 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
10129 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
10130 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
10131 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
10132 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
10133 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
10134 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
10137 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
10139 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
10140 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
10141 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
10142 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
10143 routers for even longer.
10144 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
10145 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
10146 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
10147 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
10148 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
10149 caching HTTP proxies.
10150 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
10153 o Minor features, controller:
10154 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
10155 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
10156 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
10157 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
10159 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
10160 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
10161 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
10162 working much like those for circuit events.
10163 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
10164 about the current status of a router.
10165 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
10166 a router's status has changed.
10167 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
10168 can tell which events and features are supported.
10169 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
10170 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
10172 o Security bugfixes:
10173 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
10174 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
10177 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
10178 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
10179 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
10180 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
10181 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
10182 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
10183 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
10184 long nicknames where appropriate.
10185 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
10186 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
10187 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
10188 chews through many circuits before giving up.
10189 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
10190 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
10191 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
10192 stop. Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.
10193 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
10194 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
10196 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
10197 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
10198 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
10200 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
10201 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
10202 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
10203 with mmap). This bug was harmless.
10204 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
10205 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
10206 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
10207 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
10208 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
10209 (reported by fookoowa).
10210 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
10211 and reported by some Centos users.
10212 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
10213 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
10214 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
10215 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
10216 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
10217 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
10218 before we check for libevent.
10221 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
10223 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
10224 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
10225 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
10226 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
10227 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
10228 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
10229 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
10230 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
10231 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
10232 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
10233 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
10234 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
10235 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
10236 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
10237 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
10238 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
10239 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
10240 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
10241 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
10242 lets you turn it off.
10243 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
10244 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
10245 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
10246 us into the directory more quickly.
10248 o New/improved config options:
10249 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
10250 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
10251 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
10252 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
10253 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
10254 all the machines on the same subnet.
10255 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
10256 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
10257 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
10258 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
10259 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
10260 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
10261 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
10262 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
10263 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
10264 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
10266 o Minor features, controller:
10267 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
10268 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
10269 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
10270 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
10271 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
10272 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
10273 for more information.
10274 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
10275 best guess to the user.
10276 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
10277 descriptor has changed.
10278 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
10280 o Minor features, other:
10281 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
10282 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
10283 useful to the network.
10284 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
10285 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
10286 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
10287 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
10288 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
10289 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
10290 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
10291 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
10292 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
10293 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
10294 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
10295 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
10296 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
10297 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
10298 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
10300 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
10301 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
10302 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
10303 could return an unnamed server instead.
10304 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
10305 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
10306 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
10307 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
10308 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
10309 a more attractive target for compromise.)
10310 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
10311 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
10312 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
10314 o Major bugfixes, other:
10315 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
10316 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
10317 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
10318 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
10319 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
10320 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
10321 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
10322 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
10323 its circuits on demand.
10324 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
10325 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
10326 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
10327 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
10329 o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
10330 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
10331 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
10332 we don't recognize.
10333 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
10335 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
10336 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
10337 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
10338 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
10339 "extendcircuit" request.
10340 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
10341 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
10342 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
10344 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
10345 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
10346 instead of "X resolved to X".
10347 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
10348 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
10349 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
10350 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
10351 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
10352 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
10353 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
10354 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
10355 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
10357 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
10358 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
10359 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
10360 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
10361 result more than once.
10362 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
10363 non-versioning dirservers.
10364 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
10365 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
10367 o Minor bugfixes, performance:
10368 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
10369 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
10370 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
10371 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
10372 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
10373 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
10374 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
10375 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
10377 o Packaging, features:
10378 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
10379 now universal binaries.
10380 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
10381 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
10382 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
10384 o Packaging, bugfixes:
10385 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
10386 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
10387 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
10388 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
10390 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
10391 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
10392 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
10395 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
10396 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
10397 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
10401 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
10403 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
10404 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
10405 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
10406 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
10407 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
10408 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
10409 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
10410 it can't resolve its hostname.
10413 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
10414 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
10415 "extendcircuit" request.
10416 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
10417 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
10418 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
10419 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
10421 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
10422 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
10423 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
10425 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
10426 methods: these are known to be buggy.
10427 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
10428 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
10429 we don't recognize.
10432 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
10434 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
10435 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
10436 --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
10437 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
10438 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
10439 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
10440 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
10441 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
10442 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
10443 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
10444 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
10445 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
10446 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
10447 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
10448 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
10449 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
10450 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
10451 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
10452 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
10453 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
10454 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
10455 /16 network when constructing a circuit.
10456 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
10457 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
10460 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
10461 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
10462 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
10463 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
10464 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
10465 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
10466 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
10467 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
10468 recommendation system saner.)
10469 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
10471 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
10472 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
10473 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
10474 - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
10475 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
10476 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
10477 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
10478 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
10479 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
10480 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
10481 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
10482 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
10483 your ORPort is set.
10484 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
10485 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
10486 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
10487 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
10488 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
10489 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
10490 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
10491 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
10492 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
10493 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
10494 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
10495 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
10497 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
10498 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
10499 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
10500 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
10501 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
10502 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
10505 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
10506 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
10507 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
10508 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
10509 our DirPort now, etc.
10510 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
10511 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
10512 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
10513 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
10514 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
10515 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
10516 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
10518 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
10519 whether the config options are bad or good.
10520 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
10521 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
10522 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
10523 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
10524 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
10525 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
10526 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
10527 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
10530 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
10531 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
10532 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
10533 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
10534 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
10535 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
10536 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
10537 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
10538 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
10539 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
10540 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
10541 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
10542 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
10543 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
10544 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
10545 of it), is not therefore "up".
10546 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
10547 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
10548 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
10549 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
10550 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
10551 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
10554 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
10556 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
10557 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
10558 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
10559 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
10560 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
10561 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
10562 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
10563 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
10564 test reachability, so you won't publish.
10567 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
10568 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
10569 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
10570 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
10571 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
10573 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
10574 own server descriptor yet.
10577 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
10579 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
10580 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
10581 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
10582 make sure to test via one of these.
10583 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
10584 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
10585 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
10586 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
10587 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
10589 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
10590 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
10591 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
10594 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
10595 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
10596 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
10597 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
10598 directory authority.
10599 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
10600 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
10601 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
10602 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
10605 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
10606 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
10607 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
10609 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
10610 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
10611 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
10612 current guards when picking a new guard.
10613 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
10614 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
10615 when we had more than one pending.
10616 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
10617 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
10618 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
10619 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
10620 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
10621 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
10622 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
10623 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
10624 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
10625 debug the reachability problems better.
10627 o Log / documentation fixes:
10628 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
10629 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
10630 about protocol violations by others.
10631 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
10632 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
10633 about what happened to our old torrc.
10636 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
10638 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
10640 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
10641 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
10642 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
10643 more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
10646 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
10648 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
10649 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
10650 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
10651 old ORPort and receive connections.
10652 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
10654 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
10655 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
10656 and network-statuses.
10657 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
10658 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
10659 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
10660 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
10662 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
10665 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
10666 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
10667 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
10670 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
10672 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
10673 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
10674 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
10675 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
10676 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
10679 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
10680 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
10682 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
10683 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
10684 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
10685 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
10686 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
10687 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
10688 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
10689 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
10690 rather than not sending anything back at all.
10691 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
10692 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
10693 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
10694 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
10695 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
10696 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
10697 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
10698 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
10699 clients more convinced that it's recommended.
10700 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
10701 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
10702 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
10703 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
10704 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
10705 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
10706 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
10707 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
10708 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
10709 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
10710 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
10711 default ulimit -n is 1024.
10714 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
10715 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
10716 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
10717 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
10720 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
10722 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
10723 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
10724 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
10725 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
10726 entry guards running these flawed versions.
10727 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
10728 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
10729 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
10730 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
10731 include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
10734 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
10735 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
10737 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
10738 and it is confusing some users.
10739 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
10740 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
10741 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
10742 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
10743 win32 versions it thinks it's found.
10746 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
10748 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
10749 message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
10750 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
10751 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
10752 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
10753 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
10754 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
10755 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
10756 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
10757 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
10758 dirport is set for now.
10760 o New config options rather than constants in the code:
10761 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
10762 unattached before we fail it?
10763 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
10764 at least this many seconds ago.
10765 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
10766 at least this many seconds ago.
10769 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
10770 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
10771 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
10772 or resolve-wait stream.
10773 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
10774 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
10775 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
10776 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
10777 can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
10778 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
10779 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
10780 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
10782 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
10783 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
10784 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
10785 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
10786 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
10787 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
10788 given as hex digests.
10789 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
10790 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
10791 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
10792 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
10793 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
10794 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
10795 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
10796 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
10799 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
10800 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
10801 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
10802 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
10803 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
10804 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
10805 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
10806 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
10807 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
10808 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
10809 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
10812 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
10813 directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
10814 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
10815 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
10816 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
10817 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
10818 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
10821 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
10822 o Bugfixes and cleanups:
10823 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
10824 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
10825 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
10826 misreading their logs.
10827 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
10828 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
10829 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
10830 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
10831 valid router descriptors.
10832 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
10833 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
10834 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
10835 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
10836 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
10837 silently resetting it to its default.
10838 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
10840 - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
10843 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
10844 use clean circuits.
10845 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
10846 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
10847 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
10848 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
10849 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
10851 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
10852 because older Tors do not understand it.
10853 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
10857 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
10858 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
10859 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
10860 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
10861 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
10862 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
10863 fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
10864 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
10865 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
10866 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
10867 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
10869 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
10870 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
10871 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
10872 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
10874 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
10875 permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
10878 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
10879 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
10880 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
10881 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
10882 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
10883 without getting overloaded.
10884 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
10886 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
10887 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
10888 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
10889 be forward-compatible.
10890 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
10891 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
10892 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
10893 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
10895 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
10896 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
10897 and OR conns to port 443.
10898 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
10899 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
10901 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
10902 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
10903 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
10904 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
10905 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
10906 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
10907 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
10910 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
10911 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
10912 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
10913 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
10915 o Other important bugfixes:
10916 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
10917 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
10918 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
10919 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
10921 o Backported features:
10922 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
10923 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
10924 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
10925 without getting overloaded.
10926 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
10927 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
10928 503's whenever they feel busy.
10929 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
10930 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
10931 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
10932 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
10933 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
10936 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
10937 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
10938 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
10939 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
10940 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
10941 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
10942 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
10943 know if the crashes continue.
10944 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
10945 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
10946 seg faults in at least some cases.)
10947 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
10948 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
10949 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
10952 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
10953 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
10954 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
10955 try to be a bit more fair.
10956 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
10957 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
10958 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
10959 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
10960 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
10961 bug that let it go negative.
10962 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
10963 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
10964 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
10965 transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
10966 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
10967 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
10968 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
10969 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
10970 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
10971 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
10972 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
10975 - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running
10977 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
10978 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
10979 service descriptors.
10982 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
10983 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
10984 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
10985 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
10987 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
10988 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
10989 versions *are* still recommended.
10990 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
10991 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
10992 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
10993 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
10994 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
10995 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
10996 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
10997 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
10999 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
11000 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
11001 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
11002 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
11003 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
11004 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
11005 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
11006 on it. Not used by clients yet.
11007 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
11008 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
11009 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
11010 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
11011 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
11012 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
11013 established a circuit.
11014 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
11015 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
11016 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
11017 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
11020 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
11021 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
11022 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
11023 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
11024 quickly enough. Oops.
11025 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
11027 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
11028 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
11031 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
11032 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
11033 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
11034 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
11035 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
11036 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
11037 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
11038 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
11039 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
11040 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
11041 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
11042 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
11043 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
11044 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
11045 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
11046 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
11047 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
11050 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
11051 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
11052 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
11053 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
11054 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
11055 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
11056 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
11057 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
11058 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
11059 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
11060 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
11061 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
11062 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
11063 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
11064 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
11065 connections more reliable.
11068 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
11069 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
11070 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
11071 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
11072 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
11073 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
11074 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
11075 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
11076 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
11077 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
11078 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
11079 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
11080 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
11081 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
11085 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
11086 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
11087 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
11088 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
11089 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
11090 need to be uint64_t's.
11091 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
11092 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
11093 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
11095 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
11097 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
11098 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
11099 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
11100 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
11101 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
11102 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
11103 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
11105 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
11106 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
11107 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
11108 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
11109 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
11110 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
11111 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
11112 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
11113 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
11114 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
11115 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
11116 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
11117 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
11120 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
11121 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
11122 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
11123 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
11124 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
11125 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
11126 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
11128 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
11129 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
11130 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
11131 can answer v2 directory requests too.
11132 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
11133 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
11134 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
11135 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
11137 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
11138 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
11139 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
11140 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
11141 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
11142 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
11143 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
11144 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
11145 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
11146 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
11147 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
11148 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
11149 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
11150 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
11151 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
11153 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
11154 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
11157 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
11158 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
11159 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
11160 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
11161 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
11162 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
11163 too -- so detect and avoid this.
11164 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
11166 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
11167 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
11168 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
11169 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
11170 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
11171 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
11172 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
11173 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
11174 rendezvous circuits.
11175 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
11177 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
11178 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
11179 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
11180 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
11181 advertising it because of hibernation.
11182 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
11183 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
11184 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
11185 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
11186 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
11187 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
11188 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
11189 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
11190 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
11191 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
11192 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
11193 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
11194 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
11195 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
11198 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
11199 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
11200 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
11201 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
11202 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
11203 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
11204 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
11205 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
11206 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
11207 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
11208 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
11209 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
11210 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
11211 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
11212 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
11213 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
11214 connections once a week.
11215 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
11216 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
11217 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
11218 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
11219 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
11220 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
11222 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
11223 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
11224 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
11226 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
11227 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
11228 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
11229 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
11230 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
11231 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
11232 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
11233 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
11234 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
11235 firewall options forbid.
11236 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
11237 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
11238 can only proxy to certain destinations.
11239 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
11240 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
11241 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
11242 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
11243 aids some statistical attacks.
11244 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
11245 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
11246 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
11247 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
11249 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
11250 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
11251 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
11252 server descriptor sometimes.
11253 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
11254 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
11255 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
11256 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
11257 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
11258 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
11259 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
11260 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
11262 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
11263 case the controller wants to change that too.
11264 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
11265 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
11266 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
11267 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
11269 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
11270 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
11271 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
11273 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
11274 descriptors that they know they will reject.
11276 o Features and updates:
11277 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
11278 significantly faster.
11279 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
11280 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
11281 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
11282 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
11283 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
11284 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
11285 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
11286 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
11287 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
11288 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
11289 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
11290 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
11291 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
11292 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
11293 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
11294 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
11295 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
11296 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
11297 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
11298 as authoritative dirserver.
11299 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
11300 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
11301 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
11304 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
11305 o Usability improvements:
11306 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
11307 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
11309 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
11310 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
11311 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
11313 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
11314 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
11315 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
11316 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
11317 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
11318 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
11319 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
11320 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
11321 memory leaks better.
11322 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
11323 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
11324 their operators to pay close attention.
11325 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
11326 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
11328 o Performance improvements:
11329 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
11330 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
11331 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
11332 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
11333 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
11334 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
11335 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
11336 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
11337 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
11338 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
11339 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
11340 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
11341 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
11342 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
11343 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
11344 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
11345 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
11347 o Security improvements:
11348 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
11349 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
11350 fingerprint of server.
11351 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
11352 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
11353 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
11355 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
11356 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
11357 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
11358 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
11359 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
11360 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
11361 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
11362 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
11363 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
11364 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
11365 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
11366 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
11367 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
11368 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
11369 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
11370 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
11371 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
11372 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
11373 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
11374 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
11375 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
11377 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
11378 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
11379 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
11381 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
11382 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
11384 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
11385 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
11386 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
11387 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
11388 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
11389 of the controller protocol.
11390 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
11391 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
11392 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
11395 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
11396 o New features (major):
11397 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
11398 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
11399 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
11400 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
11401 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
11402 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
11403 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
11404 we're using a default DirPort.
11405 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
11407 o New features (minor):
11408 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
11409 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
11410 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
11411 mirrors still cache and serve it).
11412 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
11413 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
11414 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
11415 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
11416 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
11417 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
11418 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
11419 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
11420 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
11421 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
11422 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
11423 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
11424 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
11425 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
11426 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
11428 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
11429 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
11430 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
11431 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
11432 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
11433 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
11434 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
11435 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
11437 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
11438 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
11439 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
11440 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
11441 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
11442 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
11443 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
11444 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
11445 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
11446 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
11448 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
11449 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
11450 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
11451 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
11452 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
11454 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
11455 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
11456 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
11458 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
11459 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
11461 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
11462 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
11463 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
11464 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
11465 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
11466 don't warn twice about the same name.
11467 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
11468 if we've not heard of the server.
11469 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
11470 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
11473 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
11474 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
11475 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
11476 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
11477 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
11478 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
11479 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
11480 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
11481 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
11482 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
11483 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
11484 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
11485 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
11486 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
11487 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
11490 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
11491 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
11492 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
11493 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
11494 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
11496 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
11497 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
11498 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
11499 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
11500 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
11501 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
11505 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
11506 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
11507 nickname) is reachable by you.
11508 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
11511 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
11512 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
11513 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
11514 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
11515 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
11516 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
11517 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
11518 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
11519 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
11520 we fail to connect).
11521 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
11522 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
11523 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
11524 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
11526 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
11527 it was self-testing that told us so.
11530 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
11531 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
11532 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
11533 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
11534 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
11535 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
11536 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
11537 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
11538 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
11539 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
11540 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
11541 exit policy using him for any exits.
11542 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
11545 o New controller features/fixes:
11546 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
11547 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
11548 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
11549 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
11550 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
11551 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
11552 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
11553 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
11554 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
11556 o Start on the new directory design:
11557 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
11558 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
11560 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
11561 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
11562 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
11563 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
11565 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
11566 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
11567 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
11568 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
11569 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
11570 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
11571 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
11572 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
11575 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
11576 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
11577 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
11578 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
11579 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
11580 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
11581 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
11582 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
11583 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
11584 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
11586 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
11587 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
11588 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
11589 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
11590 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
11591 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
11592 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
11593 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
11594 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
11596 o Config option changes:
11597 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
11598 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
11599 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
11600 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
11601 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
11602 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
11604 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
11605 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
11606 people have started using them for spam too.
11607 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
11608 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
11609 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
11610 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
11611 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
11612 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
11613 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
11614 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
11615 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
11616 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
11617 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
11618 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
11619 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
11620 services faster on the service end.
11621 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
11622 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
11623 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
11624 it a fair shake next time we try.
11625 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
11626 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
11627 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
11628 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
11629 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
11630 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
11631 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
11632 able to discover them.
11633 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
11634 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
11635 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
11636 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
11637 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
11638 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
11639 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
11640 testing for reachability.
11641 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
11642 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
11644 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
11646 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
11647 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
11650 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
11651 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
11653 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
11654 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
11655 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
11656 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
11659 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
11660 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
11661 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
11663 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
11664 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
11667 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
11668 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
11671 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
11672 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
11673 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
11674 options, getinfo keys.
11677 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
11678 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
11679 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
11680 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
11681 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
11682 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
11683 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
11685 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
11686 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
11690 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
11691 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
11692 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
11694 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
11696 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
11697 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
11698 circuit events and we go offline.
11699 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
11700 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
11701 you don't have enough intro points already.
11703 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
11704 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
11705 many bytes we've used in this time period.
11706 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
11707 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
11708 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
11709 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
11710 enabled by default yet.
11712 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
11713 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
11714 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
11715 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
11716 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
11719 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
11720 o New directory servers:
11721 - tor26 has changed IP address.
11723 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
11724 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
11725 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
11726 pthreads libraries.
11727 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
11728 claims its dirport is 0.
11729 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
11730 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
11734 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
11735 o New directory servers:
11736 - tor26 has changed IP address.
11738 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
11739 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
11741 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
11742 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
11743 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
11744 ports that have changed.
11745 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
11747 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
11748 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
11749 Windows-style errno back.
11750 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
11752 want to make it an NT service.
11753 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
11754 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
11755 name, give the full name in our response.
11756 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
11757 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
11758 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
11759 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
11760 pthreads libraries.
11762 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
11763 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
11767 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
11768 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
11769 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
11770 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
11771 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
11774 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
11775 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
11776 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
11777 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
11778 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
11779 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
11780 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
11781 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
11784 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
11786 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
11787 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
11788 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
11789 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
11790 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
11791 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
11793 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
11794 temporarily unreachable.
11795 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
11799 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
11800 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
11801 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
11802 our protocol works.
11803 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
11807 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
11808 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
11809 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
11810 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
11811 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
11815 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
11816 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
11817 libevent before 1.1a.
11820 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
11822 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
11823 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
11824 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
11825 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
11826 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
11828 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
11829 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
11830 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
11831 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
11832 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
11833 of CPU time plus memory.
11834 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
11835 normal web requests.
11836 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
11837 tor_lookup_hostname().
11838 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
11839 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
11840 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
11841 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
11842 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
11843 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
11845 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
11846 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
11847 HttpProxyAuthenticator
11848 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
11849 pretend that getting these occassionally is normal and fine.
11850 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
11852 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
11853 the user asks you to.
11854 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
11855 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
11856 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
11857 their descriptors are being rejected.
11858 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
11862 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
11864 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
11865 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
11866 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
11868 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
11870 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
11872 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
11873 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
11874 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
11875 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
11876 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
11877 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
11878 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
11879 keys) from the exit server's process.
11880 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
11881 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
11882 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
11883 so it doesn't seg fault on error.
11884 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
11885 point at your Tor server.
11886 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
11887 you're not sending a socks reply back.
11890 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
11891 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
11892 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
11893 to make it easier to write controllers.
11896 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
11898 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
11899 installing on Tiger.
11900 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
11901 complain during installation.
11902 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
11903 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
11904 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
11905 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
11906 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
11907 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
11909 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
11910 something more reasonable when first installing.
11911 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
11914 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
11916 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
11917 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
11919 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
11920 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
11921 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
11922 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
11923 when using the default exit policy.
11924 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
11925 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
11926 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
11927 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
11928 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
11929 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
11930 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
11931 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
11932 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
11933 we fetched a new directory.
11934 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
11935 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
11938 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
11939 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
11940 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
11941 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
11942 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
11943 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
11944 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
11945 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
11947 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
11948 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
11949 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
11950 save memory on systems that need to fork.
11951 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
11952 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
11953 is valid without actually launching Tor.
11954 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
11955 rather than just rejecting it.
11958 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
11960 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
11961 we didn't like its cert.
11963 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
11964 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
11965 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
11966 on patch from Adam Langley.
11967 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
11968 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
11969 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
11970 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
11972 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
11973 directory every time you regenerate it.
11974 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
11975 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
11978 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
11979 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
11980 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
11981 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
11982 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
11985 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
11987 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
11988 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
11989 TLS errors better in other situations too.
11990 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
11991 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
11992 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
11993 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
11994 and don't log when you are.
11995 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
11996 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
11998 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
11999 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
12000 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
12001 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
12002 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
12005 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
12006 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
12007 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
12008 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
12009 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
12010 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
12011 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
12012 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
12013 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
12014 nickname+key are allowed.
12015 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
12016 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
12017 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
12018 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
12019 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
12020 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
12021 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
12022 have quite wrong clocks).
12023 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
12024 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
12025 - Efficiency improvements:
12026 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
12027 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
12028 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
12029 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
12030 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
12031 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
12032 lowercase and be done with it.
12033 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
12034 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
12035 to abandon partially built circuits.
12036 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
12037 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
12039 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
12041 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
12042 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
12043 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
12044 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
12046 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
12047 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
12049 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
12050 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
12051 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
12052 obeying the exit policy internally.
12053 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
12054 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
12056 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
12057 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
12058 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
12059 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
12061 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
12062 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
12063 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
12064 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
12065 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
12067 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
12068 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
12069 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
12070 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
12071 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
12072 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
12073 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
12074 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
12075 descriptors we just dropped.
12076 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
12077 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
12078 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
12079 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
12080 artificially capped at 500kB.
12083 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
12084 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
12085 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
12086 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
12087 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
12088 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
12089 busy for more than 100 seconds.
12092 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
12093 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
12094 - Fixes on reachability detection:
12095 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
12096 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
12097 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
12098 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
12099 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
12100 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
12101 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
12102 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
12103 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
12104 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
12105 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
12106 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
12107 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
12108 server not already connected to them.
12109 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
12110 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
12111 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
12113 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
12115 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
12116 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
12117 are in a different state than they actually are.
12118 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
12119 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
12120 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
12122 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
12123 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
12124 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
12126 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
12127 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
12128 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
12129 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
12130 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
12131 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
12132 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
12134 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
12135 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
12136 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
12137 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
12140 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
12141 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
12142 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
12143 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
12144 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
12145 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
12146 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
12147 creating actual system users.
12148 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
12149 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
12153 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
12155 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
12156 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
12157 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
12158 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
12159 hidden services better.
12160 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
12162 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
12163 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
12164 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
12165 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
12166 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
12167 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
12168 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
12169 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
12170 patch by Matt Edman).
12171 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
12172 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
12173 required exit node for certain sites.
12174 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
12175 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
12176 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
12177 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
12178 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
12179 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
12180 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
12181 rather than just "success" or "failure".
12182 - A more sane version numbering system. See
12183 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
12184 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
12185 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
12187 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
12188 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
12189 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
12190 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
12191 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
12192 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
12193 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
12195 o Robustness/stability fixes:
12196 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
12197 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
12198 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
12200 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
12201 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
12202 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
12204 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
12205 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
12206 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
12208 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
12209 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
12210 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
12211 that will want high uptime circuits.
12212 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
12213 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
12214 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
12215 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
12216 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
12217 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
12218 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
12219 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
12220 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
12221 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
12222 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
12223 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
12224 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
12225 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
12226 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
12227 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
12228 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
12229 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
12230 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
12231 when we try to launch one.
12232 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
12233 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
12234 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
12235 "ShutdownWaitLength".
12236 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
12237 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
12238 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
12239 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
12240 and to take errno into account where possible.
12243 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
12244 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
12245 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
12246 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
12247 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
12248 file more reasonable.
12249 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
12250 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
12251 addresses -- it won't.
12252 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
12253 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
12254 for google.com" problem.
12255 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
12256 so it's not just "unknown platform".
12257 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
12258 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
12259 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
12260 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
12262 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
12263 they could use instead.
12264 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
12265 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
12266 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
12267 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
12268 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
12269 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
12270 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
12271 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
12272 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
12274 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
12278 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
12279 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
12281 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
12282 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
12283 private-IP addresses.
12284 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
12285 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
12287 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
12288 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
12289 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
12290 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
12291 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
12292 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
12293 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
12295 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
12296 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
12297 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
12298 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
12299 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
12300 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
12301 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
12302 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
12304 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
12306 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
12307 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
12308 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
12309 whether the server is hibernating.
12312 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
12313 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
12314 - Add new end stream reasons to maintainance branch. Fix bug where
12315 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
12316 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
12317 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
12318 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
12319 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
12320 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
12321 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
12322 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
12323 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
12324 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
12325 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
12326 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
12328 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
12329 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
12330 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
12331 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
12332 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
12333 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
12334 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
12335 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
12336 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
12337 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
12338 existing torrc files.
12339 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
12342 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
12343 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
12344 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
12345 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
12346 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
12347 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
12348 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
12349 the win32 SYSTEM account.
12350 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
12351 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
12352 file descriptors available.
12353 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
12354 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
12355 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
12358 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
12359 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
12360 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
12361 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
12363 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
12364 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
12365 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
12366 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
12367 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
12369 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
12370 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
12371 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
12372 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
12373 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
12374 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
12375 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
12376 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
12377 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
12378 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
12379 800kB/s of capacity.
12380 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
12383 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
12384 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
12385 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
12386 need as much processor time.
12387 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
12388 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
12389 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
12390 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
12391 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
12392 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
12393 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
12394 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
12395 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
12396 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
12397 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
12398 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
12400 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
12401 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
12402 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
12403 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
12404 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
12405 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
12406 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
12409 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
12410 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
12411 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
12413 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
12414 style address, then we'd crash.
12415 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
12416 a dirserver is broken.
12417 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
12419 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
12420 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
12421 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
12423 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
12424 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
12425 name out of the warning/assert messages.
12426 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
12427 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
12428 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
12430 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
12431 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
12432 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
12434 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
12436 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
12437 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
12438 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
12439 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
12440 values at once couldn't work.
12441 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
12442 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
12443 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
12444 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
12445 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
12446 they can handle any number of routers.
12447 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
12448 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
12449 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
12450 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
12451 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
12452 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
12453 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
12454 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
12455 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
12458 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
12459 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
12460 - Make hibernation actually work.
12461 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
12462 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
12463 don't use the stream status code.
12466 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
12468 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
12469 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
12471 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
12474 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
12475 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
12476 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
12477 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
12478 ports we need to build circuits to cover.
12479 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
12480 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
12481 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
12482 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
12483 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
12485 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
12486 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
12487 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
12488 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
12489 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
12490 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
12491 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
12492 - Make unit tests work on win32.
12495 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
12496 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
12497 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
12499 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
12500 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
12501 than just chopping them off.
12502 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
12504 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
12505 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
12506 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
12507 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
12508 right after sending the begin cell.
12509 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
12510 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
12511 exit nodes too. Oops.
12514 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
12515 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
12516 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
12517 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
12518 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
12519 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
12520 the user knows which one it's talking about.
12521 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
12522 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
12523 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
12526 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
12527 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
12528 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
12529 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
12531 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
12533 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
12534 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
12535 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
12537 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
12538 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
12539 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
12540 Clip rather than rejecting.
12541 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
12542 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
12545 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
12546 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
12547 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
12548 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
12550 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
12553 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
12554 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
12555 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
12556 win32 socket errors better.
12558 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
12559 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
12562 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
12563 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
12564 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
12565 so we don't see those messages days later.
12567 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
12568 - Make tor-resolve work again.
12569 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
12570 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
12573 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
12574 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
12575 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
12576 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
12578 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
12579 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
12580 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
12583 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
12584 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
12585 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
12586 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
12587 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
12588 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
12589 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
12590 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
12591 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
12593 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
12594 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
12595 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
12596 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
12598 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
12599 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
12602 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
12603 hibernation properties by
12604 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
12605 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
12606 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
12607 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
12608 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
12609 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
12610 get back to normal.)
12611 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
12613 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
12614 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
12615 to fill the last cell completely.
12616 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
12619 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
12620 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
12621 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
12622 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
12623 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
12624 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
12625 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
12626 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
12627 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
12628 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
12629 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
12631 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
12632 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
12633 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
12634 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
12635 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
12636 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
12637 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
12638 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
12640 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
12641 - Make kill -USR1 work again.
12642 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
12643 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
12644 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
12645 have it on start-up.
12648 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
12649 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
12650 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
12651 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
12652 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
12653 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
12654 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
12655 configuration to torrc.
12656 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
12657 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
12658 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
12659 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
12660 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
12662 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
12663 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
12664 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
12665 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
12666 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
12667 log more informatively.
12668 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
12669 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
12670 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
12671 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
12672 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
12673 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
12674 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
12675 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
12676 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
12677 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
12678 from each other, to hinder linkability.
12681 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
12682 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
12683 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
12684 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
12685 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
12686 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
12687 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
12689 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
12690 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
12691 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
12692 they ran out of file descriptors.
12693 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
12694 enough version of the resolve code to work right.
12695 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
12696 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
12697 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
12698 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
12699 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
12701 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
12704 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
12705 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
12706 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
12707 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
12708 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
12709 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
12710 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
12711 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
12712 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
12713 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
12714 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
12715 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
12716 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
12717 with the control port.
12718 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
12719 use in authenticating to the control interface.
12720 - New log format in config:
12721 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
12722 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
12725 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
12726 from their dirserver.
12727 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
12729 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
12730 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
12731 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
12732 them act more like real nodes.
12733 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
12734 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
12736 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
12737 nickname to its identity key.
12738 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
12739 not on the command line.
12740 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
12741 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
12742 1024) file descriptors.
12744 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
12745 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
12747 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
12748 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
12749 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
12752 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
12753 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
12754 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
12755 exit policy, not reject *:*.
12756 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
12757 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
12758 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
12759 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
12760 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
12761 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
12762 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
12765 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
12766 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
12767 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
12768 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
12769 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
12770 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
12771 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
12774 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
12775 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
12776 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
12777 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
12778 the ones we find in directories.)
12779 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
12781 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
12782 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
12784 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
12785 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
12786 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
12788 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
12789 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
12790 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
12791 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
12793 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
12794 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
12795 any more exit policy lines.
12798 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
12799 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
12800 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
12801 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
12802 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
12803 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
12804 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
12805 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
12806 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
12807 will be able to get a directory.
12808 - Http proxy support
12809 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
12810 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
12811 be routed through this host.
12812 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
12813 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
12814 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
12815 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
12818 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
12820 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
12821 clients/servers with an open dirport.
12822 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
12823 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
12824 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
12825 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
12826 intermittent connections.
12827 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
12828 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
12830 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
12831 in reporting stats locally.
12832 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
12833 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
12834 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
12837 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
12839 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
12840 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
12843 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
12845 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
12846 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
12847 if you don't want it open.
12848 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
12849 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
12850 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
12851 intermittent connections.
12852 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
12854 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
12855 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
12856 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
12857 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
12858 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
12859 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
12860 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
12861 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
12862 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
12863 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
12864 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
12865 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
12866 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
12867 the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
12868 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
12869 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
12872 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
12873 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
12874 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
12875 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
12876 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
12878 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
12880 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
12881 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
12882 specified in HTTP 1.0.
12883 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
12884 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
12885 than once per minute.
12886 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
12887 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
12890 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
12891 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
12894 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
12895 o Make it compile on cygwin again.
12896 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
12897 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
12900 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
12901 o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
12903 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
12904 don't put it into the client dns cache.
12905 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
12906 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
12907 until we get our next directory.
12909 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
12910 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
12911 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
12912 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
12913 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
12914 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
12915 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
12916 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
12917 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
12918 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
12919 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
12921 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
12923 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
12924 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
12926 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
12927 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
12928 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
12930 o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
12932 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
12933 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
12934 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
12935 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
12936 routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
12937 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
12938 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
12939 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
12942 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
12943 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
12944 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
12945 - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
12948 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
12949 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
12950 ask them to resolve the host "".
12953 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
12954 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
12955 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
12956 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
12957 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
12958 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
12959 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
12960 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
12961 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
12962 clients don't use this yet.)
12963 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
12964 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
12965 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
12966 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
12967 for pointing out this bug.)
12968 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
12969 fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
12970 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
12971 kazaa, gnutella ports.
12972 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
12974 o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
12975 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
12976 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
12977 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
12978 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
12979 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
12980 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
12981 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
12982 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
12983 wolf unpredictably.
12984 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
12985 that's still handshaking.
12986 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
12987 you'll choose it for your path.
12988 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
12989 end relay cell, etc.
12990 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
12991 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
12992 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
12995 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
12996 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
12998 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
12999 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
13000 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
13001 list to decide who's running or verified.
13002 - Bugfixes and features:
13003 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
13004 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
13005 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
13006 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
13007 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
13008 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
13010 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
13011 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
13012 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
13013 know you might want to get it verified.
13014 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
13017 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
13019 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
13020 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
13021 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
13022 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
13024 o Protocol changes:
13025 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
13026 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
13027 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
13028 hadn't heard of before.
13031 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
13032 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
13033 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
13034 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
13035 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
13036 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
13037 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
13038 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
13039 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
13040 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
13041 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
13042 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
13043 - Directory caching.
13044 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
13045 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
13046 directory they've pulled down.
13047 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
13048 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
13049 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
13050 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
13051 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
13052 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
13053 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
13055 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
13056 This isn't used yet.
13057 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
13058 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
13059 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
13060 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
13061 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
13062 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
13063 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
13064 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
13065 - File and name management:
13066 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
13067 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
13069 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
13070 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
13071 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
13072 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
13073 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
13074 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
13075 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
13077 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
13078 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
13079 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
13080 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
13081 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
13083 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
13084 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
13085 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
13086 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
13087 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
13088 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
13089 - New docs in the tarball:
13091 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
13094 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
13095 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
13096 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
13099 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
13100 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
13101 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
13104 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
13105 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
13108 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
13109 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
13110 - Make it build on Win32 again.
13111 o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
13112 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
13116 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
13118 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
13119 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
13120 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
13121 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
13122 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
13123 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
13124 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
13125 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
13126 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
13127 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
13130 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
13133 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
13134 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
13135 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
13136 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
13138 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
13139 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
13140 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
13142 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
13143 hidden service per 15-minute period.
13144 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
13145 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
13146 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
13147 o Fixes for security bugs:
13148 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
13149 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
13150 a trusted dirserver.
13152 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
13153 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
13154 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
13155 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
13156 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
13157 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
13158 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
13159 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
13160 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
13161 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
13163 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
13164 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
13165 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
13166 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
13168 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
13169 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
13170 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
13171 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
13172 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
13173 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
13174 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
13175 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
13176 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
13177 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
13178 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
13179 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
13180 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
13183 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
13184 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
13185 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
13186 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
13189 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
13190 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
13191 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
13192 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
13193 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
13194 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
13195 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
13199 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
13200 [version bump only]
13203 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
13204 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
13205 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
13206 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
13207 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
13209 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
13212 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
13213 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
13214 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
13215 when they had a stream attached. oops.)
13216 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
13217 o Better debugging for tls errors
13218 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
13219 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
13220 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
13221 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
13222 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
13223 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
13224 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
13225 o win32's close can't close a socket.
13228 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
13229 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
13230 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
13231 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
13232 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
13233 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
13234 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
13235 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
13236 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
13237 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
13238 just close the circ.
13239 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
13240 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
13241 (this was quite rare).
13244 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
13245 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
13246 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
13247 if you decrypted them correctly.
13248 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
13249 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
13250 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
13253 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
13254 o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
13255 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
13256 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
13257 a second one and it works.
13258 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
13259 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
13260 alice would just have to wait to time out.
13261 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
13262 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
13263 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
13264 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
13265 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
13266 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
13267 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
13268 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
13269 i'd still like to find the bug though.
13270 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
13272 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
13276 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
13277 o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
13278 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
13279 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
13280 he retries a couple of times
13281 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
13282 (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
13283 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
13284 too long (they were sticking around forever).
13285 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
13289 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
13290 o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
13291 - make hup work again
13292 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
13293 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
13294 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
13295 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
13296 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
13297 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
13299 - bob publishes intro points more correctly
13300 o changes from 0.0.5:
13301 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
13302 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
13303 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
13304 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
13305 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
13307 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
13308 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
13309 in-memory directories too
13312 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
13313 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
13316 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
13318 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
13319 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
13320 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
13321 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
13324 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
13325 [version bump only]
13328 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
13329 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
13331 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
13332 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
13333 but that aren't warnings
13336 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
13337 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
13338 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
13339 the dns farm to do it.
13340 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
13341 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
13343 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
13344 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
13345 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
13348 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
13349 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
13350 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
13351 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
13352 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
13353 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
13354 expect it to have a nickname.
13355 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
13356 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
13359 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
13360 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
13364 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
13365 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
13366 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
13367 - include missing header fcntl.h
13368 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
13369 - deal with hardware word alignment
13370 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
13371 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
13372 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
13373 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
13374 by kill -USR1 currently.
13375 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
13376 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
13377 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
13380 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
13381 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
13382 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
13385 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
13387 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
13388 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
13389 - And fix a few endian issues.
13392 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
13394 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
13395 try that circuit again: try a new one.
13396 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
13397 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
13398 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
13399 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
13400 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
13401 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
13403 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
13404 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
13405 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
13407 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
13409 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
13410 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
13411 side isn't reading right then.
13412 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
13413 RecommendedVersions
13414 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
13415 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
13416 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
13419 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
13421 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
13422 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
13425 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
13429 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
13431 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
13432 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
13433 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
13434 connection is finished.
13435 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
13436 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
13437 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
13438 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
13439 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
13440 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
13441 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
13442 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
13443 rather than warn and continue.
13444 - Make --version work
13445 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
13448 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
13450 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
13451 knows it's working.
13452 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
13453 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
13455 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
13456 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
13457 so you can collect coredumps there.
13459 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
13460 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
13461 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
13462 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
13463 dns cache actually gets populated.
13464 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
13465 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
13466 end cell down it first.
13467 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
13468 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
13471 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
13473 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
13474 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
13476 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
13477 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
13478 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
13479 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
13480 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
13481 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
13483 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
13485 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
13486 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
13487 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
13488 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
13489 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
13490 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
13492 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
13493 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
13496 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
13498 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
13499 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
13500 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
13501 tor. It even has a man page.
13502 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
13503 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
13504 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
13505 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
13507 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
13509 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
13512 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
13514 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
13515 it, apt-getters. :)
13516 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
13517 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
13518 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
13519 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
13520 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
13521 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
13522 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
13523 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
13524 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
13525 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
13526 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
13528 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
13529 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
13532 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
13534 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
13535 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
13538 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
13540 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
13541 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
13542 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
13543 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
13544 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
13545 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
13546 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
13547 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
13548 logfile so you know it's working.
13549 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
13550 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
13553 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
13555 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
13556 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
13557 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
13560 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
13562 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
13563 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
13564 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
13567 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
13568 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
13569 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
13571 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
13572 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
13574 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
13575 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
13576 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
13578 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
13579 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
13583 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
13585 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
13586 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
13587 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
13590 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
13591 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
13592 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
13593 - Add port ranges to exit policies
13594 - Add a conservative default exit policy
13595 - Warn if you're running tor as root
13596 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
13597 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
13598 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
13599 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
13601 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
13604 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
13605 o Robustness and bugfixes:
13606 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
13607 really screw things up.
13608 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
13610 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
13611 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
13613 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
13614 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
13615 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
13616 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
13617 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
13618 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
13621 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
13624 - Change default loglevel to warn.
13625 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
13626 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
13628 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
13631 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
13632 o Robustness and bugfixes:
13633 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
13634 - to get ownership/permissions right
13635 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
13636 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
13637 pull down a directory again
13638 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
13639 causing server crashes
13640 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
13641 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
13642 - exit if bind() fails
13643 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
13644 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
13645 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
13646 - fix minor bias in PRNG
13647 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
13650 - Wrote the design document (woo)
13652 o Circuit building and exit policies:
13653 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
13655 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
13656 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
13657 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
13658 exists, rather than failing
13659 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
13660 which AP connections are standing by
13661 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
13662 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
13663 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
13665 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
13666 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
13669 - APPort is now called SocksPort
13670 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
13672 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
13673 hardcoded (for dirservers)
13674 - Reloads config on HUP
13675 - Usage info on -h or --help
13676 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
13679 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
13680 o General stability:
13681 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
13682 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
13683 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
13684 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
13685 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
13686 to take down the network when I approve a new router
13687 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
13690 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
13691 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
13693 o Autoconf improvements:
13694 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
13695 - Make install now works
13696 - create var/lib/tor on make install
13697 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
13698 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
13700 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
13701 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
13702 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
13703 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup