1 This document summarizes new features and bugfixes in each stable
2 release of Tor. If you want to see more detailed descriptions of the
3 changes in each development snapshot, see the ChangeLog file.
5 Changes in version 0.4.1.5 - 2019-08-20
6 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.1.x series. This series
7 adds experimental circuit-level padding, authenticated SENDME cells to
8 defend against certain attacks, and several performance improvements
9 to save on CPU consumption. It fixes bugs in bootstrapping and v3
10 onion services. It also includes numerous smaller features and
11 bugfixes on earlier versions.
13 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.1.x series for nine
14 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.2.x:
15 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
16 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
18 Below are the changes since 0.4.0.5. For a list of only the changes
19 since 0.4.1.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
21 o Directory authority changes:
22 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
25 o Major features (circuit padding):
26 - Onion service clients now add padding cells at the start of their
27 INTRODUCE and RENDEZVOUS circuits, to make those circuits' traffic
28 look more like general purpose Exit traffic. The overhead for this
29 is 2 extra cells in each direction for RENDEZVOUS circuits, and 1
30 extra upstream cell and 10 downstream cells for INTRODUCE
31 circuits. This feature is only enabled when also supported by the
32 circuit's middle node. (Clients may specify fixed middle nodes
33 with the MiddleNodes option, and may force-disable this feature
34 with the CircuitPadding option.) Closes ticket 28634.
36 o Major features (code organization):
37 - Tor now includes a generic publish-subscribe message-passing
38 subsystem that we can use to organize intermodule dependencies. We
39 hope to use this to reduce dependencies between modules that don't
40 need to be related, and to generally simplify our codebase. Closes
43 o Major features (controller protocol):
44 - Controller commands are now parsed using a generalized parsing
45 subsystem. Previously, each controller command was responsible for
46 parsing its own input, which led to strange inconsistencies.
49 o Major features (flow control):
50 - Implement authenticated SENDMEs as detailed in proposal 289. A
51 SENDME cell now includes the digest of the traffic that it
52 acknowledges, so that once an end point receives the SENDME, it
53 can confirm the other side's knowledge of the previous cells that
54 were sent, and prevent certain types of denial-of-service attacks.
55 This behavior is controlled by two new consensus parameters: see
56 the proposal for more details. Fixes ticket 26288.
58 o Major features (performance):
59 - Our node selection algorithm now excludes nodes in linear time.
60 Previously, the algorithm was quadratic, which could slow down
61 heavily used onion services. Closes ticket 30307.
63 o Major features (performance, RNG):
64 - Tor now constructs a fast secure pseudorandom number generator for
65 each thread, to use when performance is critical. This PRNG is
66 based on AES-CTR, using a buffering construction similar to
67 libottery and the (newer) OpenBSD arc4random() code. It
68 outperforms OpenSSL 1.1.1a's CSPRNG by roughly a factor of 100 for
69 small outputs. Although we believe it to be cryptographically
70 strong, we are only using it when necessary for performance.
71 Implements tickets 29023 and 29536.
73 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
74 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
75 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
76 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
77 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
78 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
79 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
80 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
81 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
82 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
83 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
85 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
86 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
87 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
88 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
89 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
90 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
92 o Major bugfixes (onion service reachability):
93 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
94 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
95 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
96 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
99 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
100 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
101 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
102 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
103 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
105 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
106 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
107 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
108 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
111 o Minor features (authenticated SENDME):
112 - Ensure that there is enough randomness on every circuit to prevent
113 an attacker from successfully predicting the hashes they will need
114 to include in authenticated SENDME cells. At a random interval, if
115 we have not sent randomness already, we now leave some extra space
116 at the end of a cell that we can fill with random bytes. Closes
119 o Minor features (circuit padding logging):
120 - Demote noisy client-side warn logs about circuit padding to protocol
121 warnings. Add additional log messages and circuit ID fields to help
122 with bug 30992 and any other future issues.
124 o Minor features (circuit padding):
125 - We now use a fast PRNG when scheduling circuit padding. Part of
127 - Allow the padding machine designer to pick the edges of their
128 histogram instead of trying to compute them automatically using an
129 exponential formula. Resolves some undefined behavior in the case
130 of small histograms and allows greater flexibility on machine
131 design. Closes ticket 29298; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
132 - Allow circuit padding machines to hold a circuit open until they
133 are done padding it. Closes ticket 28780.
135 o Minor features (compile-time modules):
136 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
137 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
139 o Minor features (continuous integration):
140 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
141 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
142 - When running coverage builds on Travis, we now set
143 TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED, to avoid RNG-based coverage differences. Part
145 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
146 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
148 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
150 o Minor features (controller):
151 - Add onion service version 3 support to the HSFETCH command.
152 Previously, only version 2 onion services were supported. Closes
153 ticket 25417. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
155 o Minor features (debugging):
156 - Introduce tor_assertf() and tor_assertf_nonfatal() to enable
157 logging of additional information during assert failure. Now we
158 can use format strings to include information for trouble
159 shooting. Resolves ticket 29662.
161 o Minor features (defense in depth):
162 - In smartlist_remove_keeporder(), set unused pointers to NULL, in
163 case a bug causes them to be used later. Closes ticket 30176.
164 Patch from Tobias Stoeckmann.
165 - Tor now uses a cryptographically strong PRNG even for decisions
166 that we do not believe are security-sensitive. Previously, for
167 performance reasons, we had used a trivially predictable linear
168 congruential generator algorithm for certain load-balancing and
169 statistical sampling decisions. Now we use our fast RNG in those
170 cases. Closes ticket 29542.
172 o Minor features (developer tools):
173 - Tor's "practracker" test script now checks for files and functions
174 that seem too long and complicated. Existing overlong functions
175 and files are accepted for now, but should eventually be
176 refactored. Closes ticket 29221.
177 - Add some scripts used for git maintenance to scripts/git. Closes
179 - Call practracker from pre-push and pre-commit git hooks to let
180 developers know if they made any code style violations. Closes
182 - Add a script to check that each header has a well-formed and
183 unique guard macro. Closes ticket 29756.
185 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
186 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
187 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
188 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
189 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
191 o Minor features (geoip):
192 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 10 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
193 Country database. Closes ticket 30852.
194 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 13 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
195 Country database. Closes ticket 30522.
197 o Minor features (HTTP tunnel):
198 - Return an informative web page when the HTTPTunnelPort is used as
199 an HTTP proxy. Closes ticket 27821, patch by "eighthave".
201 o Minor features (IPv6, v3 onion services):
202 - Make v3 onion services put IPv6 addresses in service descriptors.
203 Before this change, service descriptors only contained IPv4
204 addresses. Implements 26992.
206 o Minor features (logging):
207 - Give a more useful assertion failure message if we think we have
208 minherit() but we fail to make a region non-inheritable. Give a
209 compile-time warning if our support for minherit() is incomplete.
212 o Minor features (maintenance):
213 - Add a new "make autostyle" target that developers can use to apply
214 all automatic Tor style and consistency conversions to the
215 codebase. Closes ticket 30539.
217 o Minor features (modularity):
218 - The "--disable-module-dirauth" compile-time option now disables
219 even more dirauth-only code. Closes ticket 30345.
221 o Minor features (performance):
222 - Use OpenSSL's implementations of SHA3 when available (in OpenSSL
223 1.1.1 and later), since they tend to be faster than tiny-keccak.
226 o Minor features (testing):
227 - The circuitpadding tests now use a reproducible RNG implementation,
228 so that if a test fails, we can learn why. Part of ticket 28878.
229 - Tor's tests now support an environment variable, TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED,
230 to set the RNG seed for tests that use a reproducible RNG. Part of
232 - When running tests in coverage mode, take additional care to make
233 our coverage deterministic, so that we can accurately track
234 changes in code coverage. Closes ticket 30519.
235 - Tor's unit test code now contains helper functions to replace the
236 PRNG with a deterministic or reproducible version for testing.
237 Previously, various tests implemented this in various ways.
238 Implements ticket 29732.
239 - We now have a script, cov-test-determinism.sh, to identify places
240 where our unit test coverage has become nondeterministic. Closes
242 - Check that representative subsets of values of `int` and `unsigned
243 int` can be represented by `void *`. Resolves issue 29537.
245 o Minor bugfixes (bridge authority):
246 - Bridge authorities now set bridges as running or non-running when
247 about to dump their status to a file. Previously, they set bridges
248 as running in response to a GETINFO command, but those shouldn't
249 modify data structures. Fixes bug 24490; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
250 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
252 o Minor bugfixes (channel padding statistics):
253 - Channel padding write totals and padding-enabled totals are now
254 counted properly in relay extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 29231;
255 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
257 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation):
258 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
259 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
261 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
262 - Add a "CircuitPadding" torrc option to disable circuit padding.
263 Fixes bug 28693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
264 - Allow circuit padding machines to specify that they do not
265 contribute much overhead, and provide consensus flags and torrc
266 options to force clients to only use these low overhead machines.
267 Fixes bug 29203; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
268 - Provide a consensus parameter to fully disable circuit padding, to
269 be used in emergency network overload situations. Fixes bug 30173;
270 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
271 - The circuit padding subsystem will no longer schedule padding if
272 dormant mode is enabled. Fixes bug 28636; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
273 - Inspect a circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
274 avoid sending padding while too much data is already queued. Fixes
275 bug 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
276 - Avoid calling monotime_absolute_usec() in circuit padding machines
277 that do not use token removal or circuit RTT estimation. Fixes bug
278 29085; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
280 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection):
281 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
282 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
283 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
284 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
286 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, standards compliance):
287 - Fix a bug that would invoke undefined behavior on certain
288 operating systems when trying to asprintf() a string exactly
289 INT_MAX bytes long. We don't believe this is exploitable, but it's
290 better to fix it anyway. Fixes bug 31001; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
291 Found and fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
293 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning):
294 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
295 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix on
298 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
299 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
300 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
302 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations):
303 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
304 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
305 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
307 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies):
308 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
309 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
310 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
312 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
313 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
314 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
315 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
316 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
317 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
318 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
320 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
321 - Teach the controller parser to distinguish an object preceded by
322 an argument list from one without. Previously, it couldn't
323 distinguish an argument list from the first line of a multiline
324 object. Fixes bug 29984; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
326 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit):
327 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
328 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
329 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
331 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
332 - Fix pre-push hook to allow fixup and squash commits when pushing
333 to non-upstream git remote. Fixes bug 30286; bugfix
336 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
337 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
338 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
339 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
340 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
341 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
343 - Directory authorities with IPv6 support now always mark themselves
344 as reachable via IPv6. Fixes bug 24338; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
345 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
347 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
348 - Improve the documentation for using MapAddress with ".exit". Fixes
349 bug 30109; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
350 - Improve the monotonic time module and function documentation to
351 explain what "monotonic" actually means, and document some results
352 that have surprised people. Fixes bug 29640; bugfix
354 - Use proper formatting when providing an example on quoting options
355 that contain whitespace. Fixes bug 29635; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
357 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
358 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
359 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
360 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
361 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
362 - Warn operators when the MyFamily option is set but ContactInfo is
363 missing, as the latter should be set too. Fixes bug 25110; bugfix
366 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
367 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
368 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
370 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value from a
371 download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug 30894; bugfix
374 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD):
375 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
376 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
377 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
379 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
380 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
381 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
382 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
383 - When refusing to launch a controller's HSFETCH request because of
384 rate-limiting, respond to the controller with a new response,
385 "QUERY_RATE_LIMITED". Previously, we would log QUERY_NO_HSDIR for
386 this case. Fixes bug 28269; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by
388 - When relaunching a circuit to a rendezvous service, mark the
389 circuit as needing high-uptime routers as appropriate. Fixes bug
390 17357; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
391 - Stop ignoring IPv6 link specifiers sent to v3 onion services.
392 (IPv6 support for v3 onion services is still incomplete: see
393 ticket 23493 for details.) Fixes bug 23588; bugfix on
394 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
396 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, performance):
397 - When building circuits to onion services, call tor_addr_parse()
398 less often. Previously, we called tor_addr_parse() in
399 circuit_is_acceptable() even if its output wasn't used. This
400 change should improve performance when building circuits. Fixes
401 bug 22210; bugfix on 0.2.8.12. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
403 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler):
404 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
405 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
406 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
409 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
410 - When checking whether a node is a bridge, use a fast check to make
411 sure that its identity is set. Previously, we used a constant-time
412 check, which is not necessary in this case. Fixes bug 30308;
413 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
415 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
416 - Tor now sets TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE=1 for client transports as
417 well as servers. Fixes bug 25614; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
419 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
420 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
421 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
422 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
423 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
424 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
427 o Minor bugfixes (probability distributions):
428 - Refactor and improve parts of the probability distribution code
429 that made Coverity complain. Fixes bug 29805; bugfix
432 o Minor bugfixes (python):
433 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python3 exists. For scripts that work
434 with python2, use /usr/bin/python. Otherwise, use /usr/bin/env
435 python3. Fixes bug 29913; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
437 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
438 - When running as a relay, if IPv6Exit is set to 1 while ExitRelay
439 is auto, act as if ExitRelay is 1. Previously, we would ignore
440 IPv6Exit if ExitRelay was 0 or auto. Fixes bug 29613; bugfix on
441 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
443 o Minor bugfixes (static analysis):
444 - Fix several spurious Coverity warnings about the unit tests, to
445 lower our chances of missing real warnings in the future. Fixes
446 bug 30150; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha and various other Tor versions.
448 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
449 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including bandwidth usage
450 statistics, GeoIPFile hashes, ServerTransportPlugin lines, and
451 bridge statistics by country in extra-info documents. Fixes bug
452 29018; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
454 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
455 - Call setrlimit() to disable core dumps in test_bt_cl.c. Previously
456 we used `ulimit -c` in test_bt.sh, which violates POSIX shell
457 compatibility. Fixes bug 29061; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
458 - Fix some incorrect code in the v3 onion service unit tests. Fixes
459 bug 29243; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
460 - In the "routerkeys/*" tests, check the return values of mkdir()
461 for possible failures. Fixes bug 29939; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
462 Found by Coverity as CID 1444254.
463 - Split test_utils_general() into several smaller test functions.
464 This makes it easier to perform resource deallocation on assert
465 failure, and fixes Coverity warnings CID 1444117 and CID 1444118.
466 Fixes bug 29823; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
468 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
469 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve that could happen if Tor gave it
470 a malformed SOCKS response. (Memory leaks in tor-resolve don't
471 actually matter, but it's good to fix them anyway.) Fixes bug
472 30151; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
474 o Code simplification and refactoring:
475 - Abstract out the low-level formatting of replies on the control
476 port. Implements ticket 30007.
477 - Add several assertions in an attempt to fix some Coverity
478 warnings. Closes ticket 30149.
479 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that checks
480 for compress_state of dir_connection_t and automatically writes a
481 string to directory connection with or without compression.
482 Resolves issue 28816.
483 - Make the base32_decode() API return the number of bytes written,
484 for consistency with base64_decode(). Closes ticket 28913.
485 - Move most relay-only periodic events out of mainloop.c into the
486 relay subsystem. Closes ticket 30414.
487 - Refactor and encapsulate parts of the codebase that manipulate
488 crypt_path_t objects. Resolves issue 30236.
489 - Refactor several places in our code that Coverity incorrectly
490 believed might have memory leaks. Closes ticket 30147.
491 - Remove redundant return values in crypto_format, and the
492 associated return value checks elsewhere in the code. Make the
493 implementations in crypto_format consistent, and remove redundant
494 code. Resolves ticket 29660.
495 - Rename tor_mem_is_zero() to fast_mem_is_zero(), to emphasize that
496 it is not a constant-time function. Closes ticket 30309.
497 - Replace hs_desc_link_specifier_t with link_specifier_t, and remove
498 all hs_desc_link_specifier_t-specific code. Fixes bug 22781;
499 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
500 - Simplify v3 onion service link specifier handling code. Fixes bug
501 23576; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
502 - Split crypto_digest.c into NSS code, OpenSSL code, and shared
503 code. Resolves ticket 29108.
504 - Split control.c into several submodules, in preparation for
505 distributing its current responsibilities throughout the codebase.
507 - Start to move responsibility for knowing about periodic events to
508 the appropriate subsystems, so that the mainloop doesn't need to
509 know all the periodic events in the rest of the codebase.
510 Implements tickets 30293 and 30294.
513 - Mention URLs for Travis/Appveyor/Jenkins in ReleasingTor.md.
515 - Document how to find git commits and tags for bug fixes in
516 CodingStandards.md. Update some file documentation. Closes
520 - Remove the linux-tor-prio.sh script from contrib/operator-tools
521 directory. Resolves issue 29434.
522 - Remove the obsolete OpenSUSE initscript. Resolves issue 30076.
523 - Remove the obsolete script at contrib/dist/tor.sh.in. Resolves
527 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
528 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
529 Resolves issue 29702.
531 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
532 - Clean up many of our shell scripts to fix shellcheck warnings.
533 These include autogen.sh (ticket 26069), test_keygen.sh (ticket
534 29062), test_switch_id.sh (ticket 29065), test_rebind.sh (ticket
535 29063), src/test/fuzz/minimize.sh (ticket 30079), test_rust.sh
536 (ticket 29064), torify (ticket 29070), asciidoc-helper.sh (29926),
537 fuzz_multi.sh (30077), fuzz_static_testcases.sh (ticket 29059),
538 nagios-check-tor-authority-cert (ticket 29071),
539 src/test/fuzz/fixup_filenames.sh (ticket 30078), test-network.sh
540 (ticket 29060), test_key_expiration.sh (ticket 30002),
541 zero_length_keys.sh (ticket 29068), and test_workqueue_*.sh
545 - In "make test-network-all", test IPv6-only v3 single onion
546 services, using the chutney network single-onion-v23-ipv6-md.
549 o Testing (continuous integration):
550 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and tail
551 stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
552 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary.
556 Changes in version 0.4.0.5 - 2019-05-02
557 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. It contains
558 improvements for power management and bootstrap reporting, as well as
559 preliminary backend support for circuit padding to prevent some kinds
560 of traffic analysis. It also continues our work in refactoring Tor for
561 long-term maintainability.
563 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.0.x series for nine
564 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.1.x:
565 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
566 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
568 Below are the changes since 0.3.5.7. For a complete list of changes
569 since 0.4.0.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
571 o Major features (battery management, client, dormant mode):
572 - When Tor is running as a client, and it is unused for a long time,
573 it can now enter a "dormant" state. When Tor is dormant, it avoids
574 network and CPU activity until it is reawoken either by a user
575 request or by a controller command. For more information, see the
576 configuration options starting with "Dormant". Implements tickets
578 - The client's memory of whether it is "dormant", and how long it
579 has spent idle, persists across invocations. Implements
581 - There is a DormantOnFirstStartup option that integrators can use
582 if they expect that in many cases, Tor will be installed but
585 o Major features (bootstrap reporting):
586 - When reporting bootstrap progress, report the first connection
587 uniformly, regardless of whether it's a connection for building
588 application circuits. This allows finer-grained reporting of early
589 progress than previously possible, with the improvements of ticket
590 27169. Closes tickets 27167 and 27103. Addresses ticket 27308.
591 - When reporting bootstrap progress, treat connecting to a proxy or
592 pluggable transport as separate from having successfully used that
593 proxy or pluggable transport to connect to a relay. Closes tickets
596 o Major features (circuit padding):
597 - Implement preliminary support for the circuit padding portion of
598 Proposal 254. The implementation supports Adaptive Padding (aka
599 WTF-PAD) state machines for use between experimental clients and
600 relays. Support is also provided for APE-style state machines that
601 use probability distributions instead of histograms to specify
602 inter-packet delay. At the moment, Tor does not provide any
603 padding state machines that are used in normal operation: for now,
604 this feature exists solely for experimentation. Closes
607 o Major features (refactoring):
608 - Tor now uses an explicit list of its own subsystems when
609 initializing and shutting down. Previously, these systems were
610 managed implicitly in various places throughout the codebase.
611 (There may still be some subsystems using the old system.) Closes
614 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
615 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
616 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
617 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
618 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
619 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
620 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
621 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
623 o Major bugfixes (networking):
624 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
625 username/password auth message and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
626 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
627 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
629 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay):
630 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
631 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
632 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
633 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
634 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
636 o Major bugfixes (windows, startup):
637 - When reading a consensus file from disk, detect whether it was
638 written in text mode, and re-read it in text mode if so. Always
639 write consensus files in binary mode so that we can map them into
640 memory later. Previously, we had written in text mode, which
641 confused us when we tried to map the file on windows. Fixes bug
642 28614; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
644 o Minor features (address selection):
645 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
646 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
647 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
648 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
649 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
650 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
651 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
653 o Minor features (bandwidth authority):
654 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
655 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
656 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
657 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
659 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain the
660 bandwidth values that will be included in the next vote, serve
661 this bandwidth file at /tor/status-vote/next/bandwidth. Closes
664 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
665 - When reporting bootstrap progress, stop distinguishing between
666 situations where only internal paths are available and situations
667 where external paths are available. Previously, Tor would often
668 erroneously report that it had only internal paths. Closes
671 o Minor features (compilation):
672 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
673 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
674 Patches from "Mangix".
676 o Minor features (continuous integration):
677 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
678 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
680 - Log Python version during each Travis CI job. Resolves
682 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
683 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
684 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
686 o Minor features (controller):
687 - Add a DROPOWNERSHIP command to undo the effects of TAKEOWNERSHIP.
688 Implements ticket 28843.
690 o Minor features (developer tooling):
691 - Check that bugfix versions in changes files look like Tor versions
692 from the versions spec. Warn when bugfixes claim to be on a future
693 release. Closes ticket 27761.
694 - Provide a git pre-commit hook that disallows committing if we have
695 any failures in our code and changelog formatting checks. It is
696 now available in scripts/maint/pre-commit.git-hook. Implements
698 - Provide a git hook script to prevent "fixup!" and "squash!"
699 commits from ending up in the master branch, as scripts/main/pre-
700 push.git-hook. Closes ticket 27993.
702 o Minor features (diagnostic):
703 - Add more diagnostic log messages in an attempt to solve the issue
704 of NUL bytes appearing in a microdescriptor cache. Related to
707 o Minor features (directory authority):
708 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain
709 bandwidth values, include the digest of that file in the vote.
711 - Directory authorities support a new consensus algorithm, under
712 which the family lines in microdescriptors are encoded in a
713 canonical form. This change makes family lines more compressible
714 in transit, and on the client. Closes ticket 28266; implements
717 o Minor features (directory authority, relay):
718 - Authorities now vote on a "StaleDesc" flag to indicate that a
719 relay's descriptor is so old that the relay should upload again
720 soon. Relays treat this flag as a signal to upload a new
721 descriptor. This flag will eventually let us remove the
722 'published' date from routerstatus entries, and make our consensus
723 diffs much smaller. Closes ticket 26770; implements proposal 293.
725 o Minor features (dormant mode):
726 - Add a DormantCanceledByStartup option to tell Tor that it should
727 treat a startup event as cancelling any previous dormant state.
728 Integrators should use this option with caution: it should only be
729 used if Tor is being started because of something that the user
730 did, and not if Tor is being automatically started in the
731 background. Closes ticket 29357.
733 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
734 - Update the fallback whitelist based on operator opt-ins and opt-
735 outs. Closes ticket 24805, patch by Phoul.
737 o Minor features (FreeBSD):
738 - On FreeBSD-based systems, warn relay operators if the
739 "net.inet.ip.random_id" sysctl (IP ID randomization) is disabled.
742 o Minor features (geoip):
743 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 2 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
744 Country database. Closes ticket 29992.
746 o Minor features (HTTP standards compliance):
747 - Stop sending the header "Content-type: application/octet-stream"
748 along with transparently compressed documents: this confused
749 browsers. Closes ticket 28100.
751 o Minor features (IPv6):
752 - We add an option ClientAutoIPv6ORPort, to make clients randomly
753 prefer a node's IPv4 or IPv6 ORPort. The random preference is set
754 every time a node is loaded from a new consensus or bridge config.
755 We expect that this option will enable clients to bootstrap more
756 quickly without having to determine whether they support IPv4,
757 IPv6, or both. Closes ticket 27490. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
758 - When using addrs_in_same_network_family(), avoid choosing circuit
759 paths that pass through the same IPv6 subnet more than once.
760 Previously, we only checked IPv4 subnets. Closes ticket 24393.
761 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
763 o Minor features (log messages):
764 - Improve log message in v3 onion services that could print out
765 negative revision counters. Closes ticket 27707. Patch
768 o Minor features (memory usage):
769 - Save memory by storing microdescriptor family lists with a more
770 compact representation. Closes ticket 27359.
771 - Tor clients now use mmap() to read consensus files from disk, so
772 that they no longer need keep the full text of a consensus in
773 memory when parsing it or applying a diff. Closes ticket 27244.
775 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic):
776 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
777 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
778 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
780 o Minor features (parsing):
781 - Directory authorities now validate that router descriptors and
782 ExtraInfo documents are in a valid subset of UTF-8, and reject
783 them if they are not. Closes ticket 27367.
785 o Minor features (performance):
786 - Cache the results of summarize_protocol_flags(), so that we don't
787 have to parse the same protocol-versions string over and over.
788 This should save us a huge number of malloc calls on startup, and
789 may reduce memory fragmentation with some allocators. Closes
791 - Remove a needless memset() call from get_token_arguments, thereby
792 speeding up the tokenization of directory objects by about 20%.
794 - Replace parse_short_policy() with a faster implementation, to
795 improve microdescriptor parsing time. Closes ticket 28853.
796 - Speed up directory parsing a little by avoiding use of the non-
797 inlined strcmp_len() function. Closes ticket 28856.
798 - Speed up microdescriptor parsing by about 30%, to help improve
799 startup time. Closes ticket 28839.
801 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
802 - Add support for emitting STATUS updates to Tor's control port from
803 a pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28846.
804 - Add support for logging to Tor's logging subsystem from a
805 pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28180.
807 o Minor features (process management):
808 - Add a new process API for handling child processes. This new API
809 allows Tor to have bi-directional communication with child
810 processes on both Unix and Windows. Closes ticket 28179.
811 - Use the subsystem manager to initialize and shut down the process
812 module. Closes ticket 28847.
814 o Minor features (relay):
815 - When listing relay families, list them in canonical form including
816 the relay's own identity, and try to give a more useful set of
817 warnings. Part of ticket 28266 and proposal 298.
819 o Minor features (required protocols):
820 - Before exiting because of a missing required protocol, Tor will
821 now check the publication time of the consensus, and not exit
822 unless the consensus is newer than the Tor program's own release
823 date. Previously, Tor would not check the consensus publication
824 time, and so might exit because of a missing protocol that might
825 no longer be required in a current consensus. Implements proposal
826 297; closes ticket 27735.
828 o Minor features (testing):
829 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
831 - Allow a HeartbeatPeriod of less than 30 minutes in testing Tor
832 networks. Closes ticket 28840. Patch by Rob Jansen.
833 - Use the approx_time() function when setting the "Expires" header
834 in directory replies, to make them more testable. Needed for
837 o Minor bugfixes (security):
838 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
839 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
840 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
841 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
842 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
843 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
844 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
845 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
847 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
848 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
849 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
850 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
852 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration):
853 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
854 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
855 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
856 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
858 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
859 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
860 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
862 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust):
863 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
864 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
865 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
867 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
868 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
869 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
872 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew):
873 - Bootstrap successfully even when Tor's clock is behind the clocks
874 on the authorities. Fixes bug 28591; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
875 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
876 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
879 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
880 - Fix compilation warnings in test_circuitpadding.c. Fixes bug
881 29169; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
882 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
883 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
884 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
885 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
886 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
888 o Minor bugfixes (directory clients):
889 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
890 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
892 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
893 - Even when a directory mirror's clock is behind the clocks on the
894 authorities, we now allow the mirror to serve "future"
895 consensuses. Fixes bug 28654; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
897 o Minor bugfixes (DNS):
898 - Gracefully handle an empty or absent resolve.conf file by falling
899 back to using "localhost" as a DNS server (and hoping it works).
900 Previously, we would just stop running as an exit. Fixes bug
901 21900; bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
903 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
904 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
905 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
906 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
908 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
909 - In count_acceptable_nodes(), the minimum number is now one bridge
910 or guard node, and two non-guard nodes for a circuit. Previously,
911 we had added up the sum of all nodes with a descriptor, but that
912 could cause us to build failing circuits when we had either too
913 many bridges or not enough guard nodes. Fixes bug 25885; bugfix on
914 0.3.6.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
916 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
917 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
918 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
919 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
922 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox):
923 - Fix startup crash when experimental sandbox support is enabled.
924 Fixes bug 29150; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Gerber.
926 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
927 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
928 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
929 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
930 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
931 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
932 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
933 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
934 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
935 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
936 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
937 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
938 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
939 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
940 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
941 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
942 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
943 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
944 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
945 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
946 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
947 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
949 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
950 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
951 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
952 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
953 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
954 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
956 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
957 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
958 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
959 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
960 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
962 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
963 - Introduce additional checks into tor_addr_parse() to reject
964 certain incorrect inputs that previously were not detected. Fixes
965 bug 23082; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
967 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
968 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
969 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
970 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
971 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
972 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
974 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
975 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
976 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
978 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
979 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
980 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
982 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
983 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
984 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
985 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
987 o Minor bugfixes (periodic events):
988 - Refrain from calling routerlist_remove_old_routers() from
989 check_descriptor_callback(). Instead, create a new hourly periodic
990 event. Fixes bug 27929; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
992 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
993 - Make sure that data is continously read from standard output and
994 standard error pipes of a pluggable transport child-process, to
995 avoid deadlocking when a pipe's buffer is full. Fixes bug 26360;
996 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
998 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
999 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
1000 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1002 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
1003 - When re-adding channels to the pending list, check the correct
1004 channel's sched_heap_idx. This issue has had no effect in mainline
1005 Tor, but could have led to bugs down the road in improved versions
1006 of our circuit scheduling code. Fixes bug 29508; bugfix
1009 o Minor bugfixes (shellcheck):
1010 - Look for scripts in their correct locations during "make
1011 shellcheck". Previously we had looked in the wrong place during
1012 out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 30263; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1014 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
1015 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
1016 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
1017 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
1018 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
1019 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
1020 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
1022 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
1023 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
1024 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
1027 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
1028 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
1029 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
1030 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
1031 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
1032 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
1034 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
1035 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
1036 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
1037 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
1038 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
1039 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
1040 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1041 - Decrease the false positive rate of stochastic probability
1042 distribution tests. Fixes bug 29693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1043 - Fix intermittent failures on an adaptive padding test. Fixes one
1044 case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1045 - Disable an unstable circuit-padding test that was failing
1046 intermittently because of an ill-defined small histogram. Such
1047 histograms will be allowed again after 29298 is implemented. Fixes
1048 a second case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1049 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
1050 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
1051 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
1052 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
1054 - Instead of relying on hs_free_all() to clean up all onion service
1055 objects in test_build_descriptors(), we now deallocate them one by
1056 one. This lets Coverity know that we are not leaking memory there
1057 and fixes CID 1442277. Fixes bug 28989; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1058 - Check the time in the "Expires" header using approx_time(). Fixes
1059 bug 30001; bugfix on 0.4.0.4-rc.
1061 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol):
1062 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
1063 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
1064 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
1065 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
1066 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
1067 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
1068 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
1070 o Minor bugfixes (UI):
1071 - Lower log level of unlink() errors during bootstrap. Fixes bug
1072 29930; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1074 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
1075 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
1076 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
1077 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
1078 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1080 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI):
1081 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
1082 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
1083 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
1084 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
1085 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
1087 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1088 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that detects
1089 whether compression is in use, and adds a string accordingly.
1090 Resolves issue 28816.
1091 - Refactor handle_get_next_bandwidth() to use
1092 connection_dir_buf_add(). Implements ticket 29897.
1093 - Reimplement NETINFO cell parsing and generation to rely on
1094 trunnel-generated wire format handling code. Closes ticket 27325.
1095 - Remove unnecessary unsafe code from the Rust macro "cstr!". Closes
1097 - Rework SOCKS wire format handling to rely on trunnel-generated
1098 parsing/generation code. Resolves ticket 27620.
1099 - Split out bootstrap progress reporting from control.c into a
1100 separate file. Part of ticket 27402.
1101 - The .may_include files that we use to describe our directory-by-
1102 directory dependency structure now describe a noncircular
1103 dependency graph over the directories that they cover. Our
1104 checkIncludes.py tool now enforces this noncircularity. Closes
1108 - Clarify that Tor performs stream isolation among *Port listeners
1109 by default. Resolves issue 29121.
1110 - In the manpage entry describing MapAddress torrc setting, use
1111 example IP addresses from ranges specified for use in documentation
1112 by RFC 5737. Resolves issue 28623.
1113 - Mention that you cannot add a new onion service if Tor is already
1114 running with Sandbox enabled. Closes ticket 28560.
1115 - Improve ControlPort documentation. Mention that it accepts
1116 address:port pairs, and can be used multiple times. Closes
1118 - Document the exact output of "tor --version". Closes ticket 28889.
1121 - Remove the old check-tor script. Resolves issue 29072.
1122 - Stop responding to the 'GETINFO status/version/num-concurring' and
1123 'GETINFO status/version/num-versioning' control port commands, as
1124 those were deprecated back in 0.2.0.30. Also stop listing them in
1125 output of 'GETINFO info/names'. Resolves ticket 28757.
1126 - The scripts used to generate and maintain the list of fallback
1127 directories have been extracted into a new "fallback-scripts"
1128 repository. Closes ticket 27914.
1131 - Run shellcheck for scripts in the in scripts/ directory. Closes
1133 - Add unit tests for tokenize_string() and get_next_token()
1134 functions. Resolves ticket 27625.
1136 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service v3):
1137 - Consolidate the authorized client descriptor cookie computation
1138 code from client and service into one function. Closes
1141 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
1142 - Cleanup scan-build.sh to silence shellcheck warnings. Closes
1144 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in chutney-git-bisect.sh.
1145 Resolves ticket 28006.
1146 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in updateRustDependencies.sh.
1147 Resolves ticket 28012.
1148 - Fix shellcheck warnings in cov-diff script. Resolves issue 28009.
1149 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_calltool.sh. Resolves ticket 28011.
1150 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_trunnel.sh. Resolves issue 28010.
1151 - Fix shellcheck warnings in scripts/test/coverage. Resolves
1155 Changes in version 0.3.5.8 - 2019-02-21
1156 Tor 0.3.5.8 backports several fixes from later releases, including fixes
1157 for an annoying SOCKS-parsing bug that affected users in earlier 0.3.5.x
1160 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
1161 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
1162 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
1164 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
1165 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
1166 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
1167 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
1168 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
1169 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
1170 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
1171 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
1173 o Major bugfixes (networking, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
1174 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
1175 username/password auth messsage and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
1176 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
1177 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1179 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
1180 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
1181 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
1182 Patches from "Mangix".
1184 o Minor features (geoip):
1185 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
1186 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
1188 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
1189 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
1192 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
1193 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
1194 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
1195 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
1196 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
1197 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
1199 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
1200 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
1201 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
1202 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
1205 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
1206 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
1207 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
1208 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
1210 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
1211 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
1212 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
1215 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
1216 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
1217 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
1218 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
1220 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
1221 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
1222 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
1223 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
1225 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
1226 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
1227 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
1228 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
1229 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
1230 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
1232 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
1233 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
1234 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
1235 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
1236 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1238 o Minor bugfixes (misc, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
1239 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
1240 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
1241 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
1242 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
1244 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
1245 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
1246 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
1248 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
1249 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
1250 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
1252 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
1253 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
1254 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
1255 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
1257 o Minor bugfixes (tests, directory clients, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
1258 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
1259 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
1261 o Minor bugfixes (tests, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
1262 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
1263 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
1264 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
1265 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
1268 o Minor bugfixes (usability, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
1269 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
1270 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
1271 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
1272 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1275 Changes in version 0.3.4.11 - 2019-02-21
1276 Tor 0.3.4.11 is the third stable release in its series. It includes
1277 a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha and
1278 later. All Tor instances running an affected release should upgrade to
1279 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
1281 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
1282 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
1283 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
1284 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
1285 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
1286 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
1287 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
1288 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
1290 o Minor features (geoip):
1291 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
1292 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
1294 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
1295 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
1296 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
1297 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
1299 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
1300 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
1301 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
1302 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
1303 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
1306 Changes in version 0.3.3.12 - 2019-02-21
1307 Tor 0.3.3.12 fixes a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
1308 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
1309 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
1311 This release marks the end of support for the Tor 0.3.3.x series. We
1312 recommend that users switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported
1313 until at least 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will
1314 receive long-term support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
1316 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
1317 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
1318 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
1319 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
1320 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
1321 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
1322 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
1323 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
1325 o Minor features (geoip):
1326 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
1327 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
1329 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
1330 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
1331 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
1332 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
1334 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
1335 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
1336 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
1337 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
1338 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
1341 Changes in version 0.3.3.11 - 2019-01-07
1342 Tor 0.3.3.11 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
1343 numerous fixes, including an important fix for anyone using OpenSSL
1344 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.3 should upgrade
1345 to this version, or to a later series.
1347 As a reminder, support the Tor 0.3.3 series will end on 22 Feb 2019.
1348 We anticipate that this will be the last release of Tor 0.3.3, unless
1349 some major bug is before then. Some time between now and then, users
1350 should switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported until at least
1351 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term
1352 support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
1354 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
1355 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
1356 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
1357 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
1358 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
1361 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
1362 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
1363 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
1364 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1366 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
1367 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
1368 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
1369 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
1370 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
1371 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
1372 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
1373 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
1375 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
1376 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
1377 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
1378 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
1380 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
1381 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
1382 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
1383 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
1384 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
1386 o Minor features (geoip):
1387 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
1388 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
1390 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
1391 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
1392 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
1393 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
1394 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
1395 Closes ticket 28973.
1397 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
1398 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
1399 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
1400 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
1402 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
1403 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
1404 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
1407 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
1408 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
1409 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
1411 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
1412 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
1413 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
1414 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
1416 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
1417 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
1418 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
1419 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1421 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
1422 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
1423 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
1424 were the same, the default setting (0) for
1425 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
1426 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
1429 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
1430 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
1431 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
1434 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
1435 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
1436 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
1437 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
1438 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1440 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
1441 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
1442 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
1443 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
1444 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1446 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
1447 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
1448 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
1449 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
1450 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
1451 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1453 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
1454 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to
1455 an HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix on
1458 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
1459 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
1460 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
1462 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
1463 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
1464 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1466 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
1467 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
1468 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
1471 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
1472 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
1473 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
1474 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
1475 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
1476 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
1477 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
1478 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1480 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
1481 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
1482 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
1483 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
1485 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
1486 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
1487 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1488 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
1489 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
1490 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1491 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
1492 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
1493 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
1494 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
1496 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
1497 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
1498 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
1499 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
1500 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
1501 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
1503 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
1504 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
1505 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
1506 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
1507 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
1509 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
1510 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
1511 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1514 Changes in version 0.3.4.10 - 2019-01-07
1515 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
1516 numerous fixes, including an important fix for relays, and for anyone
1517 using OpenSSL 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.4
1520 As a reminder, the Tor 0.3.4 series will be supported until 10 June
1521 2019. Some time between now and then, users should switch to the Tor
1522 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term support until at least 1
1525 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
1526 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
1527 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
1528 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
1529 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
1532 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory, backport from 0.3.5.7):
1533 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
1534 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
1535 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
1536 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
1537 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
1538 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
1540 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
1541 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
1542 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
1545 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
1546 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
1547 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
1548 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
1549 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
1552 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
1553 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
1554 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
1555 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
1556 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
1558 o Minor features (geoip):
1559 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
1560 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
1562 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
1563 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
1564 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
1565 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
1566 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
1567 Closes ticket 28973.
1569 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
1570 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
1571 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
1572 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
1574 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
1575 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
1576 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
1577 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
1578 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
1581 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
1582 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
1583 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
1584 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
1586 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
1587 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
1588 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1590 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
1591 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
1592 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
1593 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
1595 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
1596 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
1597 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
1598 were the same, the default setting (0) for
1599 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
1600 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
1603 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
1604 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
1605 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
1607 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
1608 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
1609 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
1610 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
1611 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1613 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
1614 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
1615 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
1616 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
1617 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
1618 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1620 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
1621 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
1622 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
1623 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
1625 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
1626 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
1627 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1630 Changes in version 0.3.5.7 - 2019-01-07
1631 Tor 0.3.5.7 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
1632 compilation and portability fixes, and a fix for a severe problem
1633 affecting directory caches.
1635 The Tor 0.3.5 series includes several new features and performance
1636 improvements, including client authorization for v3 onion services,
1637 cleanups to bootstrap reporting, support for improved bandwidth-
1638 measurement tools, experimental support for NSS in place of OpenSSL,
1639 and much more. It also begins a full reorganization of Tor's code
1640 layout, for improved modularity and maintainability in the future.
1641 Finally, there is the usual set of performance improvements and
1642 bugfixes that we try to do in every release series.
1644 There are a couple of changes in the 0.3.5 that may affect
1645 compatibility. First, the default version for newly created onion
1646 services is now v3. Use the HiddenServiceVersion option if you want to
1647 override this. Second, some log messages related to bootstrapping have
1648 changed; if you use stem, you may need to update to the latest version
1649 so it will recognize them.
1651 We have designated 0.3.5 as a "long-term support" (LTS) series: we
1652 will continue to patch major bugs in typical configurations of 0.3.5
1653 until at least 1 Feb 2022. (We do not plan to provide long-term
1654 support for embedding, Rust support, NSS support, running a directory
1655 authority, or unsupported platforms. For these, you will need to stick
1656 with the latest stable release.)
1658 Below are the changes since 0.3.4.9. For a complete list of changes
1659 since 0.3.5.6-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
1661 o Major features (bootstrap):
1662 - Don't report directory progress until after a connection to a
1663 relay or bridge has succeeded. Previously, we'd report 80%
1664 progress based on cached directory information when we couldn't
1665 even connect to the network. Closes ticket 27169.
1667 o Major features (new code layout):
1668 - Nearly all of Tor's source code has been moved around into more
1669 logical places. The "common" directory is now divided into a set
1670 of libraries in "lib", and files in the "or" directory have been
1671 split into "core" (logic absolutely needed for onion routing),
1672 "feature" (independent modules in Tor), and "app" (to configure
1673 and invoke the rest of Tor). See doc/HACKING/CodeStructure.md for
1674 more information. Closes ticket 26481.
1676 This refactoring is not complete: although the libraries have been
1677 refactored to be acyclic, the main body of Tor is still too
1678 interconnected. We will attempt to improve this in the future.
1680 o Major features (onion services v3):
1681 - Implement onion service client authorization at the descriptor
1682 level: only authorized clients can decrypt a service's descriptor
1683 to find out how to contact it. A new torrc option was added to
1684 control this client side: ClientOnionAuthDir <path>. On the
1685 service side, if the "authorized_clients/" directory exists in the
1686 onion service directory path, client configurations are read from
1687 the files within. See the manpage for more details. Closes ticket
1688 27547. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
1689 - Improve revision counter generation in next-gen onion services.
1690 Onion services can now scale by hosting multiple instances on
1691 different hosts without synchronization between them, which was
1692 previously impossible because descriptors would get rejected by
1693 HSDirs. Addresses ticket 25552.
1694 - Version 3 onion services can now use the per-service
1695 HiddenServiceExportCircuitID option to differentiate client
1696 circuits. It communicates with the service by using the HAProxy
1697 protocol to assign virtual IP addresses to inbound client
1698 circuits. Closes ticket 4700. Patch by Mahrud Sayrafi.
1700 o Major features (onion services, UI change):
1701 - For a newly created onion service, the default version is now 3.
1702 Tor still supports existing version 2 services, but the operator
1703 now needs to set "HiddenServiceVersion 2" in order to create a new
1704 version 2 service. For existing services, Tor now learns the
1705 version by reading the key file. Closes ticket 27215.
1707 o Major features (portability, cryptography, experimental, TLS):
1708 - Tor now has the option to compile with the NSS library instead of
1709 OpenSSL. This feature is experimental, and we expect that bugs may
1710 remain. It is mainly intended for environments where Tor's
1711 performance is not CPU-bound, and where NSS is already known to be
1712 installed. To try it out, configure Tor with the --enable-nss
1713 flag. Closes tickets 26631, 26815, and 26816.
1715 If you are experimenting with this option and using an old cached
1716 consensus, Tor may fail to start. To solve this, delete your
1717 "cached-consensus" and "cached-microdesc-consensus" files,
1718 (if present), and restart Tor.
1720 o Major features (relay, UI change):
1721 - Relays no longer run as exits by default. If the "ExitRelay"
1722 option is auto (or unset), and no exit policy is specified with
1723 ExitPolicy or ReducedExitPolicy, we now treat ExitRelay as 0.
1724 Previously in this case, we allowed exit traffic and logged a
1725 warning message. Closes ticket 21530. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1726 - Tor now validates that the ContactInfo config option is valid UTF-
1727 8 when parsing torrc. Closes ticket 27428.
1729 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
1730 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
1731 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1733 o Major bugfixes (compilation, rust):
1734 - Rust tests can now build and run successfully with the
1735 --enable-fragile-hardening option enabled. Doing this currently
1736 requires the rust beta channel; it will be possible with stable
1737 rust once Rust version 1.31 is released. Patch from Alex Crichton.
1738 Fixes bugs 27272, 27273, and 27274. Bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1740 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
1741 - Actually check that the address we get from DirAuthority
1742 configuration line is valid IPv4. Explicitly disallow DirAuthority
1743 address to be a DNS hostname. Fixes bug 26488; bugfix
1746 o Major bugfixes (embedding, main loop):
1747 - When DisableNetwork becomes set, actually disable periodic events
1748 that are already enabled. (Previously, we would refrain from
1749 enabling new ones, but we would leave the old ones turned on.)
1750 Fixes bug 28348; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1752 o Major bugfixes (main loop, bootstrap):
1753 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
1754 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
1755 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
1756 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1758 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
1759 - On an intro point for a version 3 onion service, stop closing
1760 introduction circuits on a NACK. This lets the client decide
1761 whether to reuse the circuit or discard it. Previously, we closed
1762 intro circuits when sending NACKs. Fixes bug 27841; bugfix on
1763 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chaunan.
1765 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability):
1766 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
1767 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
1768 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
1769 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
1772 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth statistics):
1773 - When we close relayed circuits, report the data in the circuit
1774 queues as being written in our relay bandwidth stats. This
1775 mitigates guard discovery and other attacks that close circuits
1776 for the explicit purpose of noticing this discrepancy in
1777 statistics. Fixes bug 23512; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
1779 o Major bugfixes (relay):
1780 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
1781 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
1782 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
1783 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
1785 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
1786 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
1787 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
1788 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
1789 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
1790 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
1792 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process):
1793 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
1794 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
1795 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1797 o Minor features (admin tools):
1798 - Add a new --key-expiration option to print the expiration date of
1799 the signing cert in an ed25519_signing_cert file. Resolves
1802 o Minor features (build):
1803 - If you pass the "--enable-pic" option to configure, Tor will try
1804 to tell the compiler to build position-independent code suitable
1805 to link into a dynamic library. (The default remains -fPIE, for
1806 code suitable for a relocatable executable.) Closes ticket 23846.
1808 o Minor features (code correctness, testing):
1809 - Tor's build process now includes a "check-includes" make target to
1810 verify that no module of Tor relies on any headers from a higher-
1811 level module. We hope to use this feature over time to help
1812 refactor our codebase. Closes ticket 26447.
1814 o Minor features (code layout):
1815 - We have a new "lowest-level" error-handling API for use by code
1816 invoked from within the logging module. With this interface, the
1817 logging code is no longer at risk of calling into itself if a
1818 failure occurs while it is trying to log something. Closes
1821 o Minor features (compilation):
1822 - When possible, place our warning flags in a separate file, to
1823 avoid flooding verbose build logs. Closes ticket 28924.
1824 - Tor's configure script now supports a --with-malloc= option to
1825 select your malloc implementation. Supported options are
1826 "tcmalloc", "jemalloc", "openbsd" (deprecated), and "system" (the
1827 default). Addresses part of ticket 20424. Based on a patch from
1830 o Minor features (config):
1831 - The "auto" keyword in torrc is now case-insensitive. Closes
1834 o Minor features (continuous integration):
1835 - Add a Travis CI build for --enable-nss on Linux gcc. Closes
1837 - Add new CI job to Travis configuration to run stem-based
1838 integration tests. Closes ticket 27913.
1839 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
1840 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
1841 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
1842 - Report what program produced the mysterious core file that we
1843 occasionally see on Travis CI during make distcheck. Closes
1845 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
1846 Implements ticket 27252.
1847 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
1848 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
1849 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
1850 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
1851 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
1852 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
1853 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
1854 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
1855 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
1857 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows):
1858 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
1859 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
1861 - Build tor on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016 using
1862 Appveyor's CI. Closes ticket 28318.
1864 o Minor features (controller):
1865 - Emit CIRC_BW events as soon as we detect that we processed an
1866 invalid or otherwise dropped cell on a circuit. This allows
1867 vanguards and other controllers to react more quickly to dropped
1868 cells. Closes ticket 27678.
1869 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
1870 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
1871 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
1872 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
1874 - Implement a 'GETINFO md/all' controller command to enable getting
1875 all known microdescriptors. Closes ticket 8323.
1876 - The GETINFO command now support an "uptime" argument, to return
1877 Tor's uptime in seconds. Closes ticket 25132.
1879 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
1880 - Make our OOM handler aware of the DNS cache so that it doesn't
1881 fill up the memory. This check is important for our DoS mitigation
1882 subsystem. Closes ticket 18642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1884 o Minor features (development):
1885 - Tor's makefile now supports running the "clippy" Rust style tool
1886 on our Rust code. Closes ticket 22156.
1888 o Minor features (directory authority):
1889 - There is no longer an artificial upper limit on the length of
1890 bandwidth lines. Closes ticket 26223.
1891 - When a bandwidth file is used to obtain the bandwidth measurements,
1892 include this bandwidth file headers in the votes. Closes
1894 - Improved support for networks with only a single authority or a
1895 single fallback directory. Patch from Gabriel Somlo. Closes
1898 o Minor features (embedding API):
1899 - The Tor controller API now supports a function to launch Tor with
1900 a preconstructed owning controller FD, so that embedding
1901 applications don't need to manage controller ports and
1902 authentication. Closes ticket 24204.
1903 - The Tor controller API now has a function that returns the name
1904 and version of the backend implementing the API. Closes
1907 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
1908 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
1909 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
1910 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
1911 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
1913 o Minor features (geoip):
1914 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
1915 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
1917 o Minor features (memory management):
1918 - Get Libevent to use the same memory allocator as Tor, by calling
1919 event_set_mem_functions() during initialization. Resolves
1922 o Minor features (memory usage):
1923 - When not using them, store legacy TAP public onion keys in DER-
1924 encoded format, rather than as expanded public keys. This should
1925 save several megabytes on typical clients. Closes ticket 27246.
1927 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround):
1928 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
1929 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
1930 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
1931 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
1932 Closes ticket 28973.
1934 o Minor features (OpenSSL):
1935 - When possible, use RFC5869 HKDF implementation from OpenSSL rather
1936 than our own. Resolves ticket 19979.
1938 o Minor features (performance):
1939 - Remove about 96% of the work from the function that we run at
1940 startup to test our curve25519_basepoint implementation. Since
1941 this function has yet to find an actual failure, we now only run
1942 it for 8 iterations instead of 200. Based on our profile
1943 information, this change should save around 8% of our startup time
1944 on typical desktops, and may have a similar effect on other
1945 platforms. Closes ticket 28838.
1946 - Stop re-validating our hardcoded Diffie-Hellman parameters on
1947 every startup. Doing this wasted time and cycles, especially on
1948 low-powered devices. Closes ticket 28851.
1950 o Minor features (Rust, code quality):
1951 - Improve rust code quality in the rust protover implementation by
1952 making it more idiomatic. Includes changing an internal API to
1953 take &str instead of &String. Closes ticket 26492.
1955 o Minor features (testing):
1956 - Add scripts/test/chutney-git-bisect.sh, for bisecting using
1957 chutney. Implements ticket 27211.
1959 o Minor features (tor-resolve):
1960 - The tor-resolve utility can now be used with IPv6 SOCKS proxies.
1961 Side-effect of the refactoring for ticket 26526.
1963 o Minor features (UI):
1964 - Log each included configuration file or directory as we read it,
1965 to provide more visibility about where Tor is reading from. Patch
1966 from Unto Sten; closes ticket 27186.
1967 - Lower log level of "Scheduler type KIST has been enabled" to INFO.
1968 Closes ticket 26703.
1970 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing):
1971 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
1972 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
1973 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
1974 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
1976 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
1977 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
1978 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1979 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
1980 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
1983 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
1984 - Try harder to get descriptors in non-exit test networks, by using
1985 the mid weight for the third hop when there are no exits. Fixes
1986 bug 27237; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
1988 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
1989 - Avoid casting smartlist index to int implicitly, as it may trigger
1990 a warning (-Wshorten-64-to-32). Fixes bug 26282; bugfix on
1991 0.2.3.13-alpha, 0.2.7.1-alpha and 0.2.1.1-alpha.
1992 - Use time_t for all values in
1993 predicted_ports_prediction_time_remaining(). Rework the code that
1994 computes difference between durations/timestamps. Fixes bug 27165;
1995 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1997 o Minor bugfixes (client, memory usage):
1998 - When not running as a directory cache, there is no need to store
1999 the text of the current consensus networkstatus in RAM.
2000 Previously, however, clients would store it anyway, at a cost of
2001 over 5 MB. Now, they do not. Fixes bug 27247; bugfix
2004 o Minor bugfixes (client, ReachableAddresses):
2005 - Instead of adding a "reject *:*" line to ReachableAddresses when
2006 loading the configuration, add one to the policy after parsing it
2007 in parse_reachable_addresses(). This prevents extra "reject *.*"
2008 lines from accumulating on reloads. Fixes bug 20874; bugfix on
2009 0.1.1.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2011 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
2012 - Rename sandbox_getaddrinfo() and other functions to no longer
2013 misleadingly suggest that they are sandbox-only. Fixes bug 26525;
2014 bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
2016 o Minor bugfixes (code safety):
2017 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
2018 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
2021 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2022 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
2023 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
2024 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2026 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
2027 - Refuse to start with relative file paths and RunAsDaemon set
2028 (regression from the fix for bug 22731). Fixes bug 28298; bugfix
2031 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, Onion Services):
2032 - In rend_service_parse_port_config(), disallow any input to remain
2033 after address-port pair was parsed. This will catch address and
2034 port being whitespace-separated by mistake of the user. Fixes bug
2035 27044; bugfix on 0.2.9.10.
2037 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay):
2038 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
2039 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
2040 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
2041 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
2044 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
2045 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
2046 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2047 - Install only the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
2048 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
2049 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
2050 ships. Fixes bugs 27765 and 27943; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
2051 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
2052 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
2053 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
2054 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
2055 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
2056 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
2058 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
2059 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
2060 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2062 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
2063 - Consider all routerinfo errors other than "not a server" to be
2064 transient for the purpose of "GETINFO exit-policy/*" controller
2065 request. Print stacktrace in the unlikely case of failing to
2066 recompute routerinfo digest. Fixes bug 27034; bugfix
2069 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
2070 - Fix an unreached code path where we checked the value of
2071 "hostname" inside send_resolved_hostname_cell(). Previously, we
2072 used it before checking it; now we check it first. Fixes bug
2073 28879; bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
2075 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown):
2076 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
2077 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2079 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions):
2080 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
2081 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
2082 were the same, the default setting (0) for
2083 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
2084 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
2087 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
2088 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
2089 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
2092 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
2093 - In addrs_in_same_network_family(), we choose the subnet size based
2094 on the IP version (IPv4 or IPv6). Previously, we chose a fixed
2095 subnet size of /16 for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug
2096 15518; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2098 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
2099 - Permit the "shutdown()" system call, which is apparently used by
2100 OpenSSL under some circumstances. Fixes bug 28183; bugfix
2103 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2104 - Stop talking about the Named flag in log messages. Clients have
2105 ignored the Named flag since 0.3.2. Fixes bug 28441; bugfix
2107 - As a precaution, do an early return from log_addr_has_changed() if
2108 Tor is running as client. Also, log a stack trace for debugging as
2109 this function should only be called when Tor runs as server. Fixes
2110 bug 26892; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
2111 - Refrain from mentioning bug 21018 in the logs, as it is already
2112 fixed. Fixes bug 25477; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
2114 o Minor bugfixes (logging, documentation):
2115 - When SafeLogging is enabled, scrub IP address in
2116 channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(). Also, add a note to manpage
2117 that scrubbing is not guaranteed on loglevels below Notice. Fixes
2118 bug 26882; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
2120 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
2121 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
2122 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
2123 - Fix a small memory leak when calling Tor with --dump-config. Fixes
2124 bug 27893; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2126 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding):
2127 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
2128 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2130 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
2131 - Log at level "info", not "warning", in the case that we do not
2132 have a consensus when a .onion request comes in. This can happen
2133 normally while bootstrapping. Fixes bug 27040; bugfix
2136 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
2137 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
2138 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
2139 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
2140 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
2141 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2142 - Build the service descriptor's signing key certificate before
2143 uploading, so we always have a fresh one: leaving no chances for
2144 it to expire service side. Fixes bug 27838; bugfix
2146 - Stop dumping a stack trace when trying to connect to an intro
2147 point without having a descriptor for it. Fixes bug 27774; bugfix
2149 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
2150 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
2151 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
2152 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
2153 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2154 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
2155 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
2156 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
2157 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2158 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
2159 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
2161 - When replacing a descriptor in the client cache, make sure to
2162 close all client introduction circuits for the old descriptor, so
2163 we don't end up with unusable leftover circuits. Fixes bug 27471;
2164 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2166 o Minor bugfixes (OS compatibility):
2167 - Properly handle configuration changes that move a listener to/from
2168 wildcard IP address. If the first attempt to bind a socket fails,
2169 close the old listener and try binding the socket again. Fixes bug
2170 17873; bugfix on 0.0.8pre-1.
2172 o Minor bugfixes (performance)::
2173 - Rework node_is_a_configured_bridge() to no longer call
2174 node_get_all_orports(), which was performing too many memory
2175 allocations. Fixes bug 27224; bugfix on 0.2.3.9.
2177 o Minor bugfixes (protover):
2178 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
2179 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
2182 o Minor bugfixes (protover, rust):
2183 - Reject extra commas in version strings. Fixes bug 27197; bugfix
2185 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
2186 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
2187 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
2188 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
2189 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
2190 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
2191 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
2192 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
2193 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
2194 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2196 o Minor bugfixes (relay shutdown, systemd):
2197 - Notify systemd of ShutdownWaitLength so it can be set to longer
2198 than systemd's TimeoutStopSec. In Tor's systemd service file, set
2199 TimeoutSec to 60 seconds to allow Tor some time to shut down.
2200 Fixes bug 28113; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
2202 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
2203 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
2204 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
2205 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
2207 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
2208 - Consider the fact that we'll be making direct connections to our
2209 entry and guard nodes when computing the fraction of nodes that
2210 have their descriptors. Also, if we are using bridges and there is
2211 at least one bridge with a full descriptor, treat the fraction of
2212 guards available as 100%. Fixes bug 25886; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
2213 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2214 - Update the message logged on relays when DirCache is disabled.
2215 Since 0.3.3.5-rc, authorities require DirCache (V2Dir) for the
2216 Guard flag. Fixes bug 24312; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
2218 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
2219 - Stop running stem's unit tests as part of "make test-stem", but
2220 continue to run stem's unit and online tests during "make test-
2221 stem-full". Fixes bug 28568; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
2222 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
2223 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2224 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
2225 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
2226 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
2228 - Revise the "conditionvar_timeout" test so that it succeeds even on
2229 heavily loaded systems where the test threads are not scheduled
2230 within 200 msec. Fixes bug 27073; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
2231 - Fix two unit tests to work when HOME environment variable is not
2232 set. Fixes bug 27096; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2233 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
2234 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
2235 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
2236 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
2237 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
2238 - When logging a version mismatch in our openssl_version tests,
2239 report the actual offending version strings. Fixes bug 26152;
2240 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
2241 - Fix forking tests on Windows when there is a space somewhere in
2242 the path. Fixes bug 26437; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
2244 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
2245 - Correctly identify Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows Server
2246 2008 and later from their NT versions. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on
2247 0.2.2.34; reported by Keifer Bly.
2248 - On recent Windows versions, the GetVersionEx() function may report
2249 an earlier Windows version than the running OS. To avoid user
2250 confusion, add "[or later]" to Tor's version string on affected
2251 versions of Windows. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34; reported
2253 - Remove Windows versions that were never supported by the
2254 GetVersionEx() function. Stop duplicating the latest Windows
2255 version in get_uname(). Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34;
2256 reported by Keifer Bly.
2258 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2259 - When parsing a port configuration, make it more obvious to static
2260 analyzer tools that we always initialize the address. Closes
2262 - Divide more large Tor source files -- especially ones that span
2263 multiple areas of functionality -- into smaller parts, including
2264 onion.c and main.c. Closes ticket 26747.
2265 - Divide the "routerparse.c" module into separate modules for each
2266 group of parsed objects. Closes ticket 27924.
2267 - Move protover_rust.c to the same place protover.c was moved to.
2268 Closes ticket 27814.
2269 - Split directory.c into separate pieces for client, server, and
2270 common functionality. Closes ticket 26744.
2271 - Split the non-statistics-related parts from the rephist.c and
2272 geoip.c modules. Closes ticket 27892.
2273 - Split the router.c file into relay-only and shared components, to
2274 help with future modularization. Closes ticket 27864.
2275 - Divide the routerlist.c and dirserv.c modules into smaller parts.
2276 Closes ticket 27799.
2277 - 'updateFallbackDirs.py' now ignores the blacklist file, as it's not
2278 longer needed. Closes ticket 26502.
2279 - Include paths to header files within Tor are now qualified by
2280 directory within the top-level src directory.
2281 - Many structures have been removed from the centralized "or.h"
2282 header, and moved into their own headers. This will allow us to
2283 reduce the number of places in the code that rely on each
2284 structure's contents and layout. Closes ticket 26383.
2285 - Remove ATTR_NONNULL macro from codebase. Resolves ticket 26527.
2286 - Remove GetAdaptersAddresses_fn_t. The code that used it was
2287 removed as part of the 26481 refactor. Closes ticket 27467.
2288 - Rework Tor SOCKS server code to use Trunnel and benefit from
2289 autogenerated functions for parsing and generating SOCKS wire
2290 format. New implementation is cleaner, more maintainable and
2291 should be less prone to heartbleed-style vulnerabilities.
2292 Implements a significant fraction of ticket 3569.
2293 - Split sampled_guards_update_from_consensus() and
2294 select_entry_guard_for_circuit() into subfunctions. In
2295 entry_guards_update_primary() unite three smartlist enumerations
2296 into one and move smartlist comparison code out of the function.
2297 Closes ticket 21349.
2298 - Tor now assumes that you have standards-conformant stdint.h and
2299 inttypes.h headers when compiling. Closes ticket 26626.
2300 - Unify our bloom filter logic. Previously we had two copies of this
2301 code: one for routerlist filtering, and one for address set
2302 calculations. Closes ticket 26510.
2303 - Use the simpler strcmpstart() helper in
2304 rend_parse_v2_service_descriptor instead of strncmp(). Closes
2306 - Utility functions that can perform a DNS lookup are now wholly
2307 separated from those that can't, in separate headers and C
2308 modules. Closes ticket 26526.
2311 - In the tor-resolve(1) manpage, fix the reference to socks-
2312 extensions.txt by adding a web URL. Resolves ticket 27853.
2313 - Mention that we require Python to be 2.7 or newer for some
2314 integration tests that we ship with Tor. Resolves ticket 27677.
2315 - Copy paragraph and URL to Tor's code of conduct document from
2316 CONTRIBUTING to new CODE_OF_CONDUCT file. Resolves ticket 26638.
2317 - Remove old instructions from INSTALL document. Closes ticket 26588.
2318 - Warn users that they should not include MyFamily line(s) in their
2319 torrc when running Tor bridge. Closes ticket 26908.
2322 - Tor no longer supports building with the dmalloc library. For
2323 debugging memory issues, we suggest using gperftools or msan
2324 instead. Closes ticket 26426.
2325 - Tor no longer attempts to run on Windows environments without the
2326 GetAdaptersAddresses() function. This function has existed since
2327 Windows XP, which is itself already older than we support.
2328 - Remove Tor2web functionality for version 2 onion services. The
2329 Tor2webMode and Tor2webRendezvousPoints options are now obsolete.
2330 (This feature was never shipped in vanilla Tor and it was only
2331 possible to use this feature by building the support at compile
2332 time. Tor2webMode is not implemented for version 3 onion services.)
2333 Closes ticket 26367.
2336 - Increase logging and tag all log entries with timestamps in
2337 test_rebind.py. Provides diagnostics for issue 28229.
2339 o Code simplification and refactoring (shared random, dirauth):
2340 - Change many tor_assert() to use BUG() instead. The idea is to not
2341 crash a dirauth but rather scream loudly with a stacktrace and let
2342 it continue run. The shared random subsystem is very resilient and
2343 if anything wrong happens with it, at worst a non coherent value
2344 will be put in the vote and discarded by the other authorities.
2345 Closes ticket 19566.
2347 o Documentation (onion services):
2348 - Improve HSv3 client authorization by making some options more
2349 explicit and detailed. Closes ticket 28026. Patch by Mike Tigas.
2350 - Document in the man page that changing ClientOnionAuthDir value or
2351 adding a new file in the directory will not work at runtime upon
2352 sending a HUP if Sandbox 1. Closes ticket 28128.
2353 - Note in the man page that the only real way to fully revoke an
2354 onion service v3 client authorization is by restarting the tor
2355 process. Closes ticket 28275.
2358 Changes in version 0.3.4.9 - 2018-11-02
2359 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
2360 numerous fixes, including a fix for a bandwidth management bug that
2361 was causing memory exhaustion on relays. Anyone running an earlier
2362 version of Tor 0.3.4.9 should upgrade.
2364 o Major bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
2365 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
2366 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2368 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
2369 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
2370 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
2371 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
2372 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2374 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
2375 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
2376 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
2377 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
2378 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
2381 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
2382 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
2383 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
2384 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2386 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
2387 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
2388 Implements ticket 27252.
2389 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
2390 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
2391 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
2392 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
2393 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
2394 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
2395 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
2397 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
2398 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
2399 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
2400 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
2402 o Minor features (geoip):
2403 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
2404 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
2406 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
2407 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
2408 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
2409 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
2410 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
2412 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
2413 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
2414 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2415 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
2416 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
2419 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
2420 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
2421 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
2424 o Minor bugfixes (CI, appveyor, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
2425 - Only install the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
2426 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
2427 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
2428 ships. Fixes bugs 27943 and 27765; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
2430 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
2431 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
2432 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
2434 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
2435 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
2436 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2438 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
2439 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
2440 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
2441 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2443 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
2444 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
2445 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2447 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
2448 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
2449 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
2452 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
2453 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
2454 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2456 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
2457 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
2458 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
2461 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
2462 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
2463 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
2464 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
2465 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2467 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
2468 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
2469 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
2470 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
2471 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
2472 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2474 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
2475 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
2476 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
2479 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
2480 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
2481 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
2482 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
2483 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
2484 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
2485 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
2486 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2488 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
2489 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
2490 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
2491 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
2493 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
2494 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
2495 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
2496 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
2497 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
2499 o Minor bugfixes (rust, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
2500 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
2501 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2502 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
2503 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
2504 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2506 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
2507 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
2508 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
2509 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
2510 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
2511 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
2513 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
2514 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
2515 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
2516 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
2519 o Minor bugfixes (testing, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
2520 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
2521 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
2522 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
2523 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
2526 Changes in version 0.2.9.17 - 2018-09-10
2527 Tor 0.2.9.17 backports numerous bugfixes from later versions of Tor.
2529 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
2530 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
2531 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
2532 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
2534 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2535 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
2537 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
2538 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
2539 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
2540 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
2542 o Minor features (geoip):
2543 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
2544 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
2546 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2547 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
2548 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
2549 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
2551 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2552 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
2553 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
2554 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
2555 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
2556 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
2557 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
2558 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
2561 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2562 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
2563 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
2564 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2566 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2567 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
2568 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
2569 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
2571 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2572 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
2573 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
2574 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2576 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
2577 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
2578 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
2579 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
2580 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
2582 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2583 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
2584 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
2587 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2588 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
2589 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
2590 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
2591 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
2593 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
2594 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
2595 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
2598 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2599 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
2600 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
2601 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
2603 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2604 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
2605 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
2607 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
2608 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
2609 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
2612 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2613 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
2614 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
2615 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
2616 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2618 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2619 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
2620 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
2623 Changes in version 0.3.2.12 - 2018-09-10
2624 Tor 0.3.2.12 backport numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
2626 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
2627 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
2628 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
2629 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
2631 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2632 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
2634 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
2635 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
2636 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
2637 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
2639 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2640 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
2643 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2644 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
2645 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
2646 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
2648 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2649 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
2650 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
2651 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
2653 o Minor features (geoip):
2654 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
2655 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
2657 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2658 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
2659 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
2660 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
2661 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
2662 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
2663 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
2665 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2666 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
2667 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
2668 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
2669 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
2670 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
2671 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
2672 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
2675 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2676 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
2677 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
2678 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2680 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2681 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
2682 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
2683 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
2685 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2686 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
2687 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
2688 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
2689 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2691 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
2692 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
2693 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
2694 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
2695 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
2697 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2698 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
2699 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
2702 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2703 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
2704 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
2705 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
2706 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
2708 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2709 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
2710 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
2713 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2714 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
2715 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
2718 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
2719 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
2720 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
2723 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2724 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
2726 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
2727 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
2728 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
2729 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
2731 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2732 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
2733 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
2734 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
2736 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2737 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
2738 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
2740 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
2741 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
2742 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
2743 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
2744 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2745 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
2746 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
2749 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
2750 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on OpenSSL
2751 internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL behavior in
2752 a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p. Fixes bug 27226;
2753 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2755 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2756 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
2757 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
2758 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
2759 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2761 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2762 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
2763 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
2766 Changes in version 0.3.3.10 - 2018-09-10
2767 Tor 0.3.3.10 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
2769 o Minor features (bug workaround, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2770 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
2771 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
2772 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
2774 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
2775 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
2776 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
2777 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
2779 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2780 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
2781 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
2783 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
2784 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
2785 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
2786 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
2788 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2789 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
2792 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2793 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
2794 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
2795 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
2797 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2798 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
2799 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
2800 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
2802 o Minor features (geoip):
2803 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
2804 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
2806 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2807 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
2808 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
2809 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
2810 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
2811 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
2812 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
2814 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2815 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
2816 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
2817 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
2818 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
2819 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
2820 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
2821 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
2824 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2825 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
2826 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
2827 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2829 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2830 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
2831 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
2832 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
2834 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2835 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
2836 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
2837 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
2838 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2840 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
2841 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
2842 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
2843 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
2844 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
2846 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2847 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
2848 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
2851 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2852 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
2853 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
2854 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2856 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2857 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
2858 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
2859 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
2860 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
2862 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2863 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
2864 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
2867 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2868 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
2869 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
2872 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
2873 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
2874 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
2877 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2878 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
2879 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
2880 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2882 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2883 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
2884 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
2887 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2888 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
2890 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
2891 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
2892 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
2893 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
2894 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
2895 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
2896 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
2898 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
2899 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
2900 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
2901 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
2902 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
2904 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2905 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
2906 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
2907 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
2909 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2910 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
2911 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
2913 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
2914 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
2915 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
2916 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
2917 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2918 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
2919 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
2922 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2923 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
2924 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
2925 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
2926 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2928 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2929 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
2930 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
2931 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
2932 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
2934 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2935 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
2936 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
2939 Changes in version 0.3.4.8 - 2018-09-10
2940 Tor 0.3.4.8 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
2941 compilation and portability fixes.
2943 The Tor 0.3.4 series includes improvements for running Tor in
2944 low-power and embedded environments, which should help performance in
2945 general. We've begun work on better modularity, and included preliminary
2946 changes on the directory authority side to accommodate a new bandwidth
2947 measurement system. We've also integrated more continuous-integration
2948 systems into our development process, and made corresponding changes to
2949 Tor's testing infrastructure. Finally, we've continued to refine
2950 our anti-denial-of-service code.
2952 Below are the changes since 0.3.3.9. For a list of only the changes
2953 since 0.3.4.7-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
2955 o New system requirements:
2956 - Tor no longer tries to support old operating systems without
2957 mmap() or some local equivalent. Apparently, compilation on such
2958 systems has been broken for some time, without anybody noticing or
2959 complaining. Closes ticket 25398.
2961 o Major features (directory authority, modularization):
2962 - The directory authority subsystem has been modularized. The code
2963 is now located in src/or/dirauth/, and is compiled in by default.
2964 To disable the module, the configure option
2965 --disable-module-dirauth has been added. This module may be
2966 disabled by default in some future release. Closes ticket 25610.
2968 o Major features (main loop, CPU usage):
2969 - When Tor is disabled (via DisableNetwork or via hibernation), it
2970 no longer needs to run any per-second events. This change should
2971 make it easier for mobile applications to disable Tor while the
2972 device is sleeping, or Tor is not running. Closes ticket 26063.
2973 - Tor no longer enables all of its periodic events by default.
2974 Previously, Tor would enable all possible main loop events,
2975 regardless of whether it needed them. Furthermore, many of these
2976 events are now disabled when Tor is hibernating or DisableNetwork
2977 is set. This is a big step towards reducing client CPU usage by
2978 reducing the amount of wake-ups the daemon does. Closes tickets
2980 - The bandwidth-limitation logic has been refactored so that
2981 bandwidth calculations are performed on-demand, rather than every
2982 TokenBucketRefillInterval milliseconds. This change should improve
2983 the granularity of our bandwidth calculations, and limit the
2984 number of times that the Tor process needs to wake up when it is
2985 idle. Closes ticket 25373.
2986 - Move responsibility for many operations from a once-per-second
2987 callback to a callback that is only scheduled as needed. Moving
2988 this functionality has allowed us to disable the callback when
2989 Tor's network is disabled. Once enough items are removed from our
2990 once-per-second callback, we can eliminate it entirely to conserve
2991 CPU when idle. The functionality removed includes: closing
2992 connections, circuits, and channels (ticket 25932); consensus
2993 voting (25937); flushing log callbacks (25951); honoring delayed
2994 SIGNEWNYM requests (25949); rescanning the consensus cache
2995 (25931); saving the state file to disk (25948); warning relay
2996 operators about unreachable ports (25952); and keeping track of
2997 Tor's uptime (26009).
2999 o Minor features (accounting):
3000 - When Tor becomes dormant, it now uses a scheduled event to wake up
3001 at the right time. Previously, we would use the per-second timer
3002 to check whether to wake up, but we no longer have any per-second
3003 timers enabled when the network is disabled. Closes ticket 26064.
3005 o Minor features (bug workaround):
3006 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
3007 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
3008 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
3010 o Minor features (code quality):
3011 - Add optional spell-checking for the Tor codebase, using the
3012 "misspell" program. To use this feature, run "make check-typos".
3013 Closes ticket 25024.
3015 o Minor features (compatibility):
3016 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
3017 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
3018 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
3019 - Tor now detects versions of OpenSSL 1.1.0 and later compiled with
3020 the no-deprecated option, and builds correctly with them. Closes
3021 tickets 19429, 19981, and 25353.
3023 o Minor features (compilation):
3024 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
3025 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
3026 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
3027 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
3028 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
3029 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
3030 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
3031 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
3034 o Minor features (compression, zstd):
3035 - When running with zstd, Tor now considers using advanced functions
3036 that the zstd maintainers have labeled as potentially unstable. To
3037 prevent breakage, Tor will only use this functionality when the
3038 runtime version of the zstd library matches the version with which
3039 Tor was compiled. Closes ticket 25162.
3041 o Minor features (configuration):
3042 - The "DownloadSchedule" options have been renamed to end with
3043 "DownloadInitialDelay". The old names are still allowed, but will
3044 produce a warning. Comma-separated lists are still permitted for
3045 these options, but all values after the first are ignored (as they
3046 have been since 0.2.9). Closes ticket 23354.
3048 o Minor features (continuous integration):
3049 - Log the compiler path and version during Appveyor builds.
3050 Implements ticket 27449.
3051 - Show config.log and test-suite.log after failed Appveyor builds.
3052 Also upload the zipped full logs as a build artifact. Implements
3054 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
3055 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
3057 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
3058 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
3059 - Only post Appveyor IRC notifications when the build fails.
3060 Implements ticket 27275.
3061 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
3062 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
3063 - Add the necessary configuration files for continuous integration
3064 testing on Windows, via the Appveyor platform. Closes ticket
3065 25549. Patches from Marcin Cieślak and Isis Lovecruft.
3067 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust):
3068 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
3071 o Minor features (control port):
3072 - Introduce GETINFO "current-time/{local,utc}" to return the local
3073 and UTC times respectively in ISO format. This helps a controller
3074 like Tor Browser detect a time-related error. Closes ticket 25511.
3075 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3076 - Introduce new fields to the CIRC_BW event. There are two new
3077 fields in each of the read and written directions. The DELIVERED
3078 fields report the total valid data on the circuit, as measured by
3079 the payload sizes of verified and error-checked relay command
3080 cells. The OVERHEAD fields report the total unused bytes in each
3081 of these cells. Closes ticket 25903.
3083 o Minor features (controller):
3084 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
3085 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
3086 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
3088 o Minor features (directory authorities):
3089 - Stop warning about incomplete bw lines before the first complete
3090 bw line has been found, so that additional header lines can be
3091 ignored. Fixes bug 25960; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha
3092 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
3093 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
3094 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
3096 o Minor features (directory authority):
3097 - Directory authorities now open their key-pinning files as O_SYNC,
3098 to limit their chances of accidentally writing partial lines.
3099 Closes ticket 23909.
3101 o Minor features (directory authority, forward compatibility):
3102 - Make the lines of the measured bandwidth file able to contain
3103 their entries in any order. Previously, the node_id entry needed
3104 to come first. Closes ticket 26004.
3106 o Minor features (entry guards):
3107 - Introduce a new torrc option NumPrimaryGuards for controlling the
3108 number of primary guards. Closes ticket 25843.
3110 o Minor features (geoip):
3111 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
3112 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
3114 o Minor features (performance):
3115 - Avoid a needless call to malloc() when processing an incoming
3116 relay cell. Closes ticket 24914.
3117 - Make our timing-wheel code run a tiny bit faster on 32-bit
3118 platforms, by preferring 32-bit math to 64-bit. Closes
3120 - Avoid a needless malloc()/free() pair every time we handle an ntor
3121 handshake. Closes ticket 25150.
3123 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
3124 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
3126 o Minor features (testing):
3127 - Add a unit test for voting_schedule_get_start_of_next_interval().
3128 Closes ticket 26014, and helps make unit test coverage
3130 - A new unittests module specifically for testing the functions in
3131 the (new-ish) bridges.c module has been created with new
3132 unittests, raising the code coverage percentages. Closes 25425.
3133 - We now have improved testing for addressmap_get_virtual_address()
3134 function. This should improve our test coverage, and make our test
3135 coverage more deterministic. Closes ticket 25993.
3137 o Minor features (timekeeping, circuit scheduling):
3138 - When keeping track of how busy each circuit have been recently on
3139 a given connection, use coarse-grained monotonic timers rather
3140 than gettimeofday(). This change should marginally increase
3141 accuracy and performance. Implements part of ticket 25927.
3143 o Minor features (unit tests):
3144 - Test complete bandwidth measurements files, and test that
3145 incomplete bandwidth lines only give warnings when the end of the
3146 header has not been detected. Fixes bug 25947; bugfix
3149 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth management):
3150 - Consider ourselves "low on write bandwidth" if we have exhausted
3151 our write bandwidth some time in the last second. This was the
3152 documented behavior before, but the actual behavior was to change
3153 this value every TokenBucketRefillInterval. Fixes bug 25828;
3154 bugfix on 0.2.3.5-alpha.
3156 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
3157 - Add a missing lock acquisition in the shutdown code of the control
3158 subsystem. Fixes bug 25675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Found by
3159 Coverity; this is CID 1433643.
3161 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
3162 - Fixed multiple includes of transports.h in src/or/connection.c
3163 Fixes bug 25261; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3164 - Remove the unused variable n_possible from the function
3165 channel_get_for_extend(). Fixes bug 25645; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha
3167 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
3168 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
3169 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
3170 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
3171 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
3172 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
3173 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
3174 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
3176 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
3177 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
3178 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
3179 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
3180 - Refrain from compiling unit testing related object files when
3181 --disable-unittests is set to configure script. Fixes bug 24891;
3182 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3183 - The --enable-fatal-warnings flag now affects Rust code as well.
3184 Closes ticket 26245.
3185 - Avoid a compiler warning when casting the return value of
3186 smartlist_len() to double with DEBUG_SMARTLIST enabled. Fixes bug
3187 26283; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
3189 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows):
3190 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
3191 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
3192 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3194 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
3195 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
3196 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
3197 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
3198 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
3200 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
3201 - Respond with more human-readable error messages to GETINFO exit-
3202 policy/* requests. Also, let controller know if an error is
3203 transient (response code 551) or not (response code 552). Fixes
3204 bug 25852; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3205 - Parse the "HSADDRESS=" parameter in HSPOST commands properly.
3206 Previously, it was misparsed and ignored. Fixes bug 26523; bugfix
3207 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
3208 - Make CIRC_BW event reflect the total of all data sent on a
3209 circuit, including padding and dropped cells. Also fix a mis-
3210 counting bug when STREAM_BW events were enabled. Fixes bug 25400;
3211 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
3213 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
3214 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
3215 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
3218 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
3219 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
3220 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
3223 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
3224 - When unverified-consensus is verified, rename it to cached-
3225 consenus. Fixes bug 4187; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
3226 - Fixed launching a certificate fetch always during the scheduled
3227 periodic consensus fetch by fetching only in those cases when
3228 consensus are waiting for certs. Fixes bug 24740; bugfix
3231 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting):
3232 - Improve tolerance for directory authorities with skewed clocks.
3233 Previously, an authority with a clock more than 60 seconds ahead
3234 could cause a client with a correct clock to warn that the
3235 client's clock was behind. Now the clocks of a majority of
3236 directory authorities have to be ahead of the client before this
3237 warning will occur. Fixes bug 25756; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
3239 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart):
3240 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
3241 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
3242 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3244 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
3245 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
3246 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
3247 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
3248 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
3250 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3251 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
3252 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
3255 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
3256 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
3257 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
3259 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
3260 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
3262 - Recompute some consensus information after detecting a clock jump,
3263 or after transitioning from a non-live consensus to a live
3264 consensus. We do this to avoid having an outdated state, and
3265 miscalculating the index for next-generation onion services. Fixes
3266 bug 24977; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3268 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
3269 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
3270 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
3272 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
3273 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
3274 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3275 - Do not align mmap length, as it is not required by POSIX, and the
3276 getpagesize function is deprecated. Fixes bug 25399; bugfix
3279 o Minor bugfixes (portability, FreeBSD):
3280 - In have_enough_mem_for_dircache(), the variable DIRCACHE_MIN_MEM_MB
3281 does not stringify on FreeBSD, so we switch to tor_asprintf().
3282 Fixes bug 20887; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3284 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
3285 - When a relay is collecting internal statistics about how many
3286 create cell requests it has seen of each type, accurately count
3287 the requests from relays that temporarily fall out of the
3288 consensus. (To be extra conservative, we were already ignoring
3289 requests from clients in our counts, and we continue ignoring them
3290 here.) Fixes bug 24910; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
3292 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
3293 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
3295 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
3296 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
3297 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
3298 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
3299 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
3301 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
3302 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
3303 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
3304 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
3305 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
3307 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
3308 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web
3309 clients fail to authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes
3310 bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3312 o Minor bugfixes (test coverage tools):
3313 - Update our "cov-diff" script to handle output from the latest
3314 version of gcov, and to remove extraneous timestamp information
3315 from its output. Fixes bugs 26101 and 26102; bugfix
3318 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
3319 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
3320 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
3321 - When testing workqueue event-cancellation, make sure that we
3322 actually cancel an event, and that cancel each event with equal
3323 probability. (It was previously possible, though extremely
3324 unlikely, for our event-canceling test not to cancel any events.)
3325 Fixes bug 26008; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3326 - Repeat part of the test in test_client_pick_intro() a number of
3327 times, to give it consistent coverage. Fixes bug 25996; bugfix
3329 - Remove randomness from the hs_common/responsible_hsdirs test, so
3330 that it always takes the same path through the function it tests.
3331 Fixes bug 25997; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3332 - Change the behavior of the "channel/outbound" test so that it
3333 never causes a 10-second rollover for the EWMA circuitmux code.
3334 Previously, this behavior would happen randomly, and result in
3335 fluctuating test coverage. Fixes bug 25994; bugfix
3337 - Use X509_new() to allocate certificates that will be freed later
3338 with X509_free(). Previously, some parts of the unit tests had
3339 used tor_malloc_zero(), which is incorrect, and which caused test
3340 failures on Windows when they were built with extra hardening.
3341 Fixes bugs 25943 and 25944; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by
3343 - While running the circuit_timeout test, fix the PRNG to a
3344 deterministic AES stream, so that the test coverage from this test
3345 will itself be deterministic. Fixes bug 25995; bugfix
3348 o Minor bugfixes (testing, bootstrap):
3349 - When calculating bootstrap progress, check exit policies and the
3350 exit flag. Previously, Tor would only check the exit flag, which
3351 caused race conditions in small and fast networks like chutney.
3352 Fixes bug 27236; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3354 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney):
3355 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
3356 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
3357 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
3358 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3359 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
3360 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
3363 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
3364 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
3365 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
3366 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
3367 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3369 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
3370 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
3371 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
3372 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
3373 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
3375 o Minor bugfixes (vanguards):
3376 - Allow the last hop in a vanguard circuit to be the same as our
3377 first, to prevent the adversary from influencing guard node choice
3378 by choice of last hop. Also prevent the creation of A - B - A
3379 paths, or A - A paths, which are forbidden by relays. Fixes bug
3380 25870; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3382 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation):
3383 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
3384 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
3386 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3387 - Remove duplicate code in parse_{c,s}method_line and bootstrap
3388 their functionalities into a single function. Fixes bug 6236;
3389 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
3390 - We remove the PortForwsrding and PortForwardingHelper options,
3391 related functions, and the port_forwarding tests. These options
3392 were used by the now-deprecated Vidalia to help ordinary users
3393 become Tor relays or bridges. Closes ticket 25409. Patch by
3395 - In order to make the OR and dir checking function in router.c less
3396 confusing we renamed some functions and
3397 consider_testing_reachability() has been split into
3398 router_should_check_reachability() and
3399 router_do_reachability_checks(). Also we improved the documentation
3400 in some functions. Closes ticket 18918.
3401 - Initial work to isolate Libevent usage to a handful of modules in
3402 our codebase, to simplify our call structure, and so that we can
3403 more easily change event loops in the future if needed. Closes
3405 - Introduce a function to call getsockname() and return tor_addr_t,
3406 to save a little complexity throughout the codebase. Closes
3408 - Make hsdir_index in node_t a hsdir_index_t rather than a pointer
3409 as hsdir_index is always present. Also, we move hsdir_index_t into
3410 or.h. Closes ticket 23094. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3411 - Merge functions used for describing nodes and suppress the
3412 functions that do not allocate memory for the output buffer
3413 string. NODE_DESC_BUF_LEN constant and format_node_description()
3414 function cannot be used externally from router.c module anymore.
3415 Closes ticket 25432. Patch by valentecaio.
3416 - Our main loop has been simplified so that all important operations
3417 happen inside events. Previously, some operations had to happen
3418 outside the event loop, to prevent infinite sequences of event
3419 activations. Closes ticket 25374.
3420 - Put a SHA1 public key digest in hs_service_intro_point_t, and use
3421 it in register_intro_circ() and service_intro_point_new(). This
3422 prevents the digest from being re-calculated each time. Closes
3423 ticket 23107. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3424 - Refactor token-bucket implementations to use a common backend.
3425 Closes ticket 25766.
3426 - Remove extern declaration of stats_n_seconds_working variable from
3427 main, protecting its accesses with get_uptime() and reset_uptime()
3428 functions. Closes ticket 25081, patch by “valentecaio”.
3429 - Remove our previous logic for "cached gettimeofday()" -- our
3430 coarse monotonic timers are fast enough for this purpose, and far
3431 less error-prone. Implements part of ticket 25927.
3432 - Remove the return value for fascist_firewall_choose_address_base(),
3433 and sister functions such as fascist_firewall_choose_address_node()
3434 and fascist_firewall_choose_address_rs(). Also, while we're here,
3435 initialize the ap argument as leaving it uninitialized can pose a
3436 security hazard. Closes ticket 24734. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3437 - Rename two fields of connection_t struct. timestamp_lastwritten is
3438 renamed to timestamp_last_write_allowed and timestamp_lastread is
3439 renamed to timestamp_last_read_allowed. Closes ticket 24714, patch
3441 - Since Tor requires C99, remove our old workaround code for libc
3442 implementations where free(NULL) doesn't work. Closes ticket 24484.
3443 - Use our standard rate-limiting code to deal with excessive
3444 libevent failures, rather than the hand-rolled logic we had
3445 before. Closes ticket 26016.
3446 - We remove the return value of node_get_prim_orport() and
3447 node_get_prim_dirport(), and introduce node_get_prim_orport() in
3448 node_ipv6_or_preferred() and node_ipv6_dir_preferred() in order to
3449 check for a null address. Closes ticket 23873. Patch by
3451 - We switch to should_record_bridge_info() in
3452 geoip_note_client_seen() and options_need_geoip_info() instead of
3453 accessing the configuration values directly. Fixes bug 25290;
3454 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3456 o Deprecated features:
3457 - As we are not recommending 0.2.5 anymore, we require relays that
3458 once had an ed25519 key associated with their RSA key to always
3459 have that key, instead of allowing them to drop back to a version
3460 that didn't support ed25519. This means they need to use a new RSA
3461 key if they want to downgrade to an older version of tor without
3462 ed25519. Closes ticket 20522.
3465 - Directory authorities will no longer support voting according to
3466 any consensus method before consensus method 25. This keeps
3467 authorities compatible with all authorities running 0.2.9.8 and
3468 later, and does not break any clients or relays. Implements ticket
3469 24378 and proposal 290.
3470 - The PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper features have been
3471 removed. The reasoning is, given that implementations of NAT
3472 traversal protocols within common consumer grade routers are
3473 frequently buggy, and that the target audience for a NAT punching
3474 feature is a perhaps less-technically-inclined relay operator,
3475 when the helper fails to setup traversal the problems are usually
3476 deep, ugly, and very router specific, making them horrendously
3477 impossible for technical support to reliable assist with, and thus
3478 resulting in frustration all around. Unfortunately, relay
3479 operators who would like to run relays behind NATs will need to
3480 become more familiar with the port forwarding configurations on
3481 their local router. Closes 25409.
3482 - The TestingEnableTbEmptyEvent option has been removed. It was used
3483 in testing simulations to measure how often connection buckets
3484 were emptied, in order to improve our scheduling, but it has not
3485 been actively used in years. Closes ticket 25760.
3486 - The old "round-robin" circuit multiplexer (circuitmux)
3487 implementation has been removed, along with a fairly large set of
3488 code that existed to support it. It has not been the default
3489 circuitmux since we introduced the "EWMA" circuitmux in 0.2.4.x,
3490 but it still required an unreasonable amount of memory and CPU.
3491 Closes ticket 25268.
3494 Changes in version 0.3.3.9 - 2018-07-13
3495 Tor 0.3.3.9 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
3496 bridge relays should upgrade.
3498 o Directory authority changes:
3499 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
3500 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
3501 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
3504 Changes in version 0.3.2.11 - 2018-07-13
3505 Tor 0.3.2.11 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
3506 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
3509 o Directory authority changes:
3510 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
3511 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
3512 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
3514 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
3515 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
3516 Closes ticket 26343.
3518 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3519 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
3520 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
3521 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
3522 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
3524 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3525 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
3526 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
3528 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
3529 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
3530 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
3531 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
3533 o Minor feature (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
3534 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
3535 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
3537 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3538 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
3539 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
3540 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
3541 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
3542 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
3544 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
3545 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
3546 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
3547 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
3549 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
3550 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
3551 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
3554 o Minor features (geoip):
3555 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
3556 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
3558 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3559 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
3560 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
3561 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
3562 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
3564 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3565 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
3566 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3568 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
3569 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
3570 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
3571 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
3572 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3573 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
3574 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
3575 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
3578 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
3579 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
3580 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
3581 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
3582 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
3583 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
3585 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
3586 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
3587 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
3588 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
3589 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
3591 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
3592 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
3593 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
3594 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
3595 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
3597 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3598 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
3599 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
3602 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
3603 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
3604 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
3606 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
3607 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
3608 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
3609 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
3611 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3612 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
3613 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3614 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
3615 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
3616 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
3617 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3619 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
3620 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
3621 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
3622 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
3625 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3626 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
3627 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3629 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
3630 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
3631 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3633 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
3634 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
3635 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
3636 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
3639 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
3640 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
3641 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
3642 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
3644 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
3645 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
3646 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
3648 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
3649 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
3650 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
3653 Changes in version 0.2.9.16 - 2018-07-13
3654 Tor 0.2.9.16 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
3655 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
3658 o Directory authority changes:
3659 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
3660 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
3661 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
3663 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
3664 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
3665 Closes ticket 26343.
3667 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3668 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
3669 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
3670 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
3671 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
3673 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
3674 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
3675 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
3676 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
3678 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3679 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
3680 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
3681 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
3682 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
3683 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
3685 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
3686 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
3687 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
3690 o Minor features (geoip):
3691 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
3692 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
3694 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3695 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
3696 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
3697 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
3698 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
3700 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3701 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
3702 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3704 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
3705 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
3706 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
3707 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
3710 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
3711 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
3712 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
3713 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
3714 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
3715 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
3717 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
3718 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
3719 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
3720 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
3721 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
3723 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3724 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
3725 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
3728 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
3729 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
3730 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
3732 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
3733 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
3734 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
3735 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
3737 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
3738 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
3739 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
3741 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
3742 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
3743 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
3746 Changes in version 0.3.3.8 - 2018-07-09
3747 Tor 0.3.3.8 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
3748 fixes for a memory leak affecting directory authorities.
3750 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
3751 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
3752 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
3753 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
3755 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
3756 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
3757 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
3760 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
3761 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
3762 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
3765 o Minor features (geoip):
3766 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
3767 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
3769 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
3770 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
3771 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
3772 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
3774 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3775 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
3776 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
3777 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
3778 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
3781 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
3782 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
3783 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
3784 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
3785 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
3787 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
3788 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
3789 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
3790 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
3792 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
3793 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
3794 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
3796 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
3797 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
3798 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
3799 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
3802 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3803 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
3804 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
3805 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3807 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
3808 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
3809 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
3810 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
3811 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3812 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
3813 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
3814 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
3818 Changes in version 0.3.3.7 - 2018-06-12
3819 Tor 0.3.3.7 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
3820 fixes for bugs affecting compatibility and stability.
3822 o Directory authority changes:
3823 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
3824 Closes ticket 26343.
3826 o Minor features (geoip):
3827 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
3828 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
3830 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
3831 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
3832 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
3833 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
3834 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
3835 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
3837 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
3838 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
3839 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3841 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
3842 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
3843 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
3844 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
3845 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3847 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
3848 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
3849 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
3851 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3852 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
3853 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
3854 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
3855 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
3856 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
3859 Changes in version 0.3.3.6 - 2018-05-22
3860 Tor 0.3.3.6 is the first stable release in the 0.3.3 series. It
3861 backports several important fixes from the 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3863 The Tor 0.3.3 series includes controller support and other
3864 improvements for v3 onion services, official support for embedding Tor
3865 within other applications, and our first non-trivial module written in
3866 the Rust programming language. (Rust is still not enabled by default
3867 when building Tor.) And as usual, there are numerous other smaller
3868 bugfixes, features, and improvements.
3870 Below are the changes since 0.3.2.10. For a list of only the changes
3871 since 0.3.3.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
3873 o New system requirements:
3874 - When built with Rust, Tor now depends on version 0.2.39 of the
3875 libc crate. Closes tickets 25310 and 25664.
3877 o Major features (embedding):
3878 - There is now a documented stable API for programs that need to
3879 embed Tor. See tor_api.h for full documentation and known bugs.
3880 Closes ticket 23684.
3881 - Tor now has support for restarting in the same process.
3882 Controllers that run Tor using the "tor_api.h" interface can now
3883 restart Tor after Tor has exited. This support is incomplete,
3884 however: we fixed crash bugs that prevented it from working at
3885 all, but many bugs probably remain, including a possibility of
3886 security issues. Implements ticket 24581.
3888 o Major features (IPv6, directory documents):
3889 - Add consensus method 27, which adds IPv6 ORPorts to the microdesc
3890 consensus. This information makes it easier for IPv6 clients to
3891 bootstrap and choose reachable entry guards. Implements
3893 - Add consensus method 28, which removes IPv6 ORPorts from
3894 microdescriptors. Now that the consensus contains IPv6 ORPorts,
3895 they are redundant in microdescs. This change will be used by Tor
3896 clients on 0.2.8.x and later. (That is to say, with all Tor
3897 clients that have IPv6 bootstrap and guard support.) Implements
3899 - Expand the documentation for AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity when it is
3900 set by different numbers of authorities. Fixes 23870
3903 o Major features (onion service v3, control port):
3904 - The control port now supports commands and events for v3 onion
3905 services. It is now possible to create ephemeral v3 services using
3906 ADD_ONION. Additionally, several events (HS_DESC, HS_DESC_CONTENT,
3907 CIRC and CIRC_MINOR) and commands (GETINFO, HSPOST, ADD_ONION and
3908 DEL_ONION) have been extended to support v3 onion services. Closes
3909 ticket 20699; implements proposal 284.
3911 o Major features (onion services):
3912 - Provide torrc options to pin the second and third hops of onion
3913 service circuits to a list of nodes. The option HSLayer2Guards
3914 pins the second hop, and the option HSLayer3Guards pins the third
3915 hop. These options are for use in conjunction with experiments
3916 with "vanguards" for preventing guard enumeration attacks. Closes
3918 - When v3 onion service clients send introduce cells, they now
3919 include the IPv6 address of the rendezvous point, if it has one.
3920 Current v3 onion services running 0.3.2 ignore IPv6 addresses, but
3921 in future Tor versions, IPv6-only v3 single onion services will be
3922 able to use IPv6 addresses to connect directly to the rendezvous
3923 point. Closes ticket 23577. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3925 o Major features (relay):
3926 - Implement an option, ReducedExitPolicy, to allow an Tor exit relay
3927 operator to use a more reasonable ("reduced") exit policy, rather
3928 than the default one. If you want to run an exit node without
3929 thinking too hard about which ports to allow, this one is for you.
3930 Closes ticket 13605. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
3932 o Major features (rust, portability, experimental):
3933 - Tor now ships with an optional implementation of one of its
3934 smaller modules (protover.c) in the Rust programming language. To
3935 try it out, install a Rust build environment, and configure Tor
3936 with "--enable-rust --enable-cargo-online-mode". This should not
3937 cause any user-visible changes, but should help us gain more
3938 experience with Rust, and plan future Rust integration work.
3939 Implementation by Chelsea Komlo. Closes ticket 22840.
3941 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3942 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
3943 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
3944 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
3945 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
3947 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service):
3948 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
3949 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
3950 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
3951 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
3953 o Major bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3954 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
3955 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
3956 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
3958 o Major bugfixes (netflow padding):
3959 - Stop adding unneeded channel padding right after we finish
3960 flushing to a connection that has been trying to flush for many
3961 seconds. Instead, treat all partial or complete flushes as
3962 activity on the channel, which will defer the time until we need
3963 to add padding. This fix should resolve confusing and scary log
3964 messages like "Channel padding timeout scheduled 221453ms in the
3965 past." Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3967 o Major bugfixes (networking):
3968 - Tor will no longer reject IPv6 address strings from Tor Browser
3969 when they are passed as hostnames in SOCKS5 requests. Fixes bug
3970 25036, bugfix on Tor 0.3.1.2.
3972 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3973 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
3974 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
3976 o Major bugfixes (performance, load balancing):
3977 - Directory authorities no longer vote in favor of the Guard flag
3978 for relays without directory support. Starting in Tor
3979 0.3.0.1-alpha, clients have been avoiding using such relays in the
3980 Guard position, leading to increasingly broken load balancing for
3981 the 5%-or-so of Guards that don't advertise directory support.
3982 Fixes bug 22310; bugfix on 0.3.0.6.
3984 o Major bugfixes (relay):
3985 - If we have failed to connect to a relay and received a connection
3986 refused, timeout, or similar error (at the TCP level), do not try
3987 that same address/port again for 60 seconds after the failure has
3988 occurred. Fixes bug 24767; bugfix on 0.0.6.
3990 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3991 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
3992 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
3995 o Minor features (cleanup):
3996 - Tor now deletes the CookieAuthFile and ExtORPortCookieAuthFile
3997 when it stops. Closes ticket 23271.
3999 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
4000 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
4001 Closes ticket 26006.
4003 o Minor features (config options):
4004 - Change the way the default value for MaxMemInQueues is calculated.
4005 We now use 40% of the hardware RAM if the system has 8 GB RAM or
4006 more. Otherwise we use the former value of 75%. Closes
4009 o Minor features (continuous integration):
4010 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
4011 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
4013 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
4014 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
4015 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
4016 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
4017 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
4018 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
4020 o Minor features (defensive programming):
4021 - Most of the functions in Tor that free objects have been replaced
4022 with macros that free the objects and set the corresponding
4023 pointers to NULL. This change should help prevent a large class of
4024 dangling pointer bugs. Closes ticket 24337.
4025 - Where possible, the tor_free() macro now only evaluates its input
4026 once. Part of ticket 24337.
4027 - Check that microdesc ed25519 ids are non-zero in
4028 node_get_ed25519_id() before returning them. Implements ticket
4029 24001, patch by "aruna1234".
4031 o Minor features (directory authority):
4032 - When directory authorities are unable to add signatures to a
4033 pending consensus, log the reason why. Closes ticket 24849.
4035 o Minor features (embedding):
4036 - Tor can now start with a preauthenticated control connection
4037 created by the process that launched it. This feature is meant for
4038 use by programs that want to launch and manage a Tor process
4039 without allowing other programs to manage it as well. For more
4040 information, see the __OwningControllerFD option documented in
4041 control-spec.txt. Closes ticket 23900.
4042 - On most errors that would cause Tor to exit, it now tries to
4043 return from the tor_main() function, rather than calling the
4044 system exit() function. Most users won't notice a difference here,
4045 but it should be significant for programs that run Tor inside a
4046 separate thread: they should now be able to survive Tor's exit
4047 conditions rather than having Tor shut down the entire process.
4048 Closes ticket 23848.
4049 - Applications that want to embed Tor can now tell Tor not to
4050 register any of its own POSIX signal handlers, using the
4051 __DisableSignalHandlers option. Closes ticket 24588.
4053 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
4054 - Avoid selecting fallbacks that change their IP addresses too
4055 often. Select more fallbacks by ignoring the Guard flag, and
4056 allowing lower cutoffs for the Running and V2Dir flags. Also allow
4057 a lower bandwidth, and a higher number of fallbacks per operator
4058 (5% of the list). Implements ticket 24785.
4059 - Update the fallback whitelist and blacklist based on opt-ins and
4060 relay changes. Closes tickets 22321, 24678, 22527, 24135,
4063 o Minor features (fallback directory mirror configuration):
4064 - Add a nickname to each fallback in a C comment. This makes it
4065 easier for operators to find their relays, and allows stem to use
4066 nicknames to identify fallbacks. Implements ticket 24600.
4067 - Add a type and version header to the fallback directory mirror
4068 file. Also add a delimiter to the end of each fallback entry. This
4069 helps external parsers like stem and Relay Search. Implements
4071 - Add an extrainfo cache flag for each fallback in a C comment. This
4072 allows stem to use fallbacks to fetch extra-info documents, rather
4073 than using authorities. Implements ticket 22759.
4074 - Add the generateFallbackDirLine.py script for automatically
4075 generating fallback directory mirror lines from relay fingerprints.
4076 No more typos! Add the lookupFallbackDirContact.py script for
4077 automatically looking up operator contact info from relay
4078 fingerprints. Implements ticket 24706, patch by teor and atagar.
4079 - Reject any fallback directory mirror that serves an expired
4080 consensus. Implements ticket 20942, patch by "minik".
4081 - Remove commas and equals signs from external string inputs to the
4082 fallback list. This avoids format confusion attacks. Implements
4084 - Remove the "weight=10" line from fallback directory mirror
4085 entries. Ticket 24681 will maintain the current fallback weights
4086 by changing Tor's default fallback weight to 10. Implements
4088 - Stop logging excessive information about fallback netblocks.
4089 Implements ticket 24791.
4091 o Minor features (forward-compatibility):
4092 - If a relay supports some link authentication protocol that we do
4093 not recognize, then include that relay's ed25519 key when telling
4094 other relays to extend to it. Previously, we treated future
4095 versions as if they were too old to support ed25519 link
4096 authentication. Closes ticket 20895.
4098 o Minor features (geoip):
4099 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
4100 database. Closes ticket 26104.
4102 o Minor features (heartbeat):
4103 - Add onion service information to our heartbeat logs, displaying
4104 stats about the activity of configured onion services. Closes
4107 o Minor features (instrumentation, development):
4108 - Add the MainloopStats option to allow developers to get
4109 instrumentation information from the main event loop via the
4110 heartbeat messages. We hope to use this to improve Tor's behavior
4111 when it's trying to sleep. Closes ticket 24605.
4113 o Minor features (IPv6):
4114 - Make IPv6-only clients wait for microdescs for relays, even if we
4115 were previously using descriptors (or were using them as a bridge)
4116 and have a cached descriptor for them. Implements ticket 23827.
4117 - When a consensus has IPv6 ORPorts, make IPv6-only clients use
4118 them, rather than waiting to download microdescriptors. Implements
4121 o Minor features (log messages):
4122 - Improve log message in the out-of-memory handler to include
4123 information about memory usage from the different compression
4124 backends. Closes ticket 25372.
4125 - Improve a warning message that happens when we fail to re-parse an
4126 old router because of an expired certificate. Closes ticket 20020.
4127 - Make the log more quantitative when we hit MaxMemInQueues
4128 threshold exposing some values. Closes ticket 24501.
4130 o Minor features (logging):
4131 - Clarify the log messages produced when getrandom() or a related
4132 entropy-generation mechanism gives an error. Closes ticket 25120.
4133 - Added support for the Android logging subsystem. Closes
4136 o Minor features (performance):
4137 - Support predictive circuit building for onion service circuits
4138 with multiple layers of guards. Closes ticket 23101.
4139 - Use stdatomic.h where available, rather than mutexes, to implement
4140 atomic_counter_t. Closes ticket 23953.
4142 o Minor features (performance, 32-bit):
4143 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
4144 when calculating the timestamp in milliseconds for channel padding
4145 computations. Implements ticket 24613.
4146 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
4147 when timestamping cells and buffer chunks for OOM calculations.
4148 Implements ticket 24374.
4150 o Minor features (performance, OSX, iOS):
4151 - Use the mach_approximate_time() function (when available) to
4152 implement coarse monotonic time. Having a coarse time function
4153 should avoid a large number of system calls, and improve
4154 performance slightly, especially under load. Closes ticket 24427.
4156 o Minor features (performance, windows):
4157 - Improve performance on Windows Vista and Windows 7 by adjusting
4158 TCP send window size according to the recommendation from
4159 SIO_IDEAL_SEND_BACKLOG_QUERY. Closes ticket 22798. Patch
4162 o Minor features (sandbox):
4163 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
4164 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
4165 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
4167 o Minor features (storage, configuration):
4168 - Users can store cached directory documents somewhere other than
4169 the DataDirectory by using the CacheDirectory option. Similarly,
4170 the storage location for relay's keys can be overridden with the
4171 KeyDirectory option. Closes ticket 22703.
4173 o Minor features (testing):
4174 - Add a "make test-rust" target to run the rust tests only. Closes
4177 o Minor features (testing, debugging, embedding):
4178 - For development purposes, Tor now has a mode in which it runs for
4179 a few seconds, then stops, and starts again without exiting the
4180 process. This mode is meant to help us debug various issues with
4181 ticket 23847. To use this feature, compile with
4182 --enable-restart-debugging, and set the TOR_DEBUG_RESTART
4183 environment variable. This is expected to crash a lot, and is
4184 really meant for developers only. It will likely be removed in a
4185 future release. Implements ticket 24583.
4187 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust):
4188 - Fix output of autoconf checks to display success messages for Rust
4189 dependencies and a suitable rustc compiler version. Fixes bug
4190 24612; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
4191 - Don't pass the --quiet option to cargo: it seems to suppress some
4192 errors, which is not what we want to do when building. Fixes bug
4193 24518; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
4194 - Build correctly when building from outside Tor's source tree with
4195 the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES option set. Fixes bug 22768; bugfix
4198 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
4199 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
4200 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
4201 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
4203 o Minor bugfixes (channel, client):
4204 - Better identify client connection when reporting to the geoip
4205 client cache. Fixes bug 24904; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
4207 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, cannibalization):
4208 - Don't cannibalize preemptively-built circuits if we no longer
4209 recognize their first hop. This situation can happen if our Guard
4210 relay went off the consensus after the circuit was created. Fixes
4211 bug 24469; bugfix on 0.0.6.
4213 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
4214 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
4215 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
4218 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4219 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
4220 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
4221 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
4223 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
4224 - Restore the correct operation of the RESOLVE command, which had
4225 been broken since we added the ability to enable/disable DNS on
4226 specific listener ports. Fixes bug 25617; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
4227 - Avoid a (nonfatal) assertion failure when extending a one-hop
4228 circuit from the controller to become a multihop circuit. Fixes
4229 bug 24903; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
4231 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
4232 - Remove a nonworking, unnecessary check to see whether a circuit
4233 hop's identity digest was set when the circuit failed. Fixes bug
4234 24927; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4236 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
4237 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
4238 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
4239 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
4240 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
4242 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, IPv6):
4243 - When creating a routerstatus (vote) from a routerinfo (descriptor),
4244 set the IPv6 address to the unspecified IPv6 address, and
4245 explicitly initialize the port to zero. Fixes bug 24488; bugfix
4248 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
4249 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
4250 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
4251 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
4252 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
4254 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
4255 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
4256 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
4257 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
4258 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
4261 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay DNS retries):
4262 - Re-attempt timed-out DNS queries 3 times before failure, since our
4263 timeout is 5 seconds for them, but clients wait 10-15. Also allow
4264 slightly more timeouts per resolver when an exit has multiple
4265 resolvers configured. Fixes bug 21394; bugfix on 0.3.1.9.
4267 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
4268 - Make updateFallbackDirs.py search harder for python. (Some OSs
4269 don't put it in /usr/bin.) Fixes bug 24708; bugfix
4272 o Minor bugfixes (hibernation, bandwidth accounting, shutdown):
4273 - When hibernating, close connections normally and allow them to
4274 flush. Fixes bug 23571; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Also fixes
4276 - Do not attempt to launch self-reachability tests when entering
4277 hibernation. Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
4278 - Resolve several bugs related to descriptor fetching on bridge
4279 clients with bandwidth accounting enabled. (This combination is
4280 not recommended!) Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix
4282 - When hibernating, do not attempt to launch DNS checks. Fixes a
4283 case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
4284 - When hibernating, do not try to upload or download descriptors.
4285 Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
4287 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, bridges):
4288 - Tor now always sets IPv6 preferences for bridges. Fixes bug 24573;
4289 bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
4290 - Tor now sets IPv6 address in the routerstatus as well as in the
4291 router descriptors when updating addresses for a bridge. Closes
4292 ticket 24572; bugfix on 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
4294 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
4295 - When running with the sandbox enabled, reload configuration files
4296 correctly even when %include was used. Previously we would crash.
4297 Fixes bug 22605; bugfix on 0.3.1. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
4299 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
4300 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
4301 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
4303 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4304 - Fix a (mostly harmless) race condition when invoking
4305 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN message from a subthread while the torrc options
4306 are changing. Fixes bug 23954; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
4308 o Minor bugfixes (man page, SocksPort):
4309 - Remove dead code from the old "SocksSocket" option, and rename
4310 SocksSocketsGroupWritable to UnixSocksGroupWritable. The old
4311 option still works, but is deprecated. Fixes bug 24343; bugfix
4314 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
4315 - Avoid possible at-exit memory leaks related to use of Libevent's
4316 event_base_once() function. (This function tends to leak memory if
4317 the event_base is closed before the event fires.) Fixes bug 24584;
4318 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
4319 - Fix a harmless memory leak in tor-resolve. Fixes bug 24582; bugfix
4322 o Minor bugfixes (network IPv6 test):
4323 - Tor's test scripts now check if "ping -6 ::1" works when the user
4324 runs "make test-network-all". Fixes bug 24677; bugfix on
4325 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
4327 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
4328 - string_is_valid_hostname() will not consider IP strings to be
4329 valid hostnames. Fixes bug 25055; bugfix on Tor 0.2.5.5.
4331 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
4332 - Avoid an assertion failure when the next onion service descriptor
4333 rotation type is out of sync with the consensus's valid-after
4334 time. Instead, log a warning message with extra information, so we
4335 can better hunt down the cause of this assertion. Fixes bug 25306;
4336 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4338 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
4339 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
4340 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4341 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
4342 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
4343 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
4344 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4346 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
4347 - If we are configured to offer a single onion service, don't log
4348 long-term established one hop rendezvous points in the heartbeat.
4349 Fixes bug 25116; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
4351 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
4352 - Reduce the number of circuits that will be opened at once during
4353 the circuit build timeout phase. This is done by increasing the
4354 idle timeout to 3 minutes, and lowering the maximum number of
4355 concurrent learning circuits to 10. Fixes bug 24769; bugfix
4357 - Avoid calling protocol_list_supports_protocol() from inside tight
4358 loops when running with cached routerinfo_t objects. Instead,
4359 summarize the relevant protocols as flags in the routerinfo_t, as
4360 we do for routerstatus_t objects. This change simplifies our code
4361 a little, and saves a large amount of short-term memory allocation
4362 operations. Fixes bug 25008; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
4364 o Minor bugfixes (performance, timeouts):
4365 - Consider circuits for timeout as soon as they complete a hop. This
4366 is more accurate than applying the timeout in
4367 circuit_expire_building() because that function is only called
4368 once per second, which is now too slow for typical timeouts on the
4369 current network. Fixes bug 23114; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
4370 - Use onion service circuits (and other circuits longer than 3 hops)
4371 to calculate a circuit build timeout. Previously, Tor only
4372 calculated its build timeout based on circuits that planned to be
4373 exactly 3 hops long. With this change, we include measurements
4374 from all circuits at the point where they complete their third
4375 hop. Fixes bug 23100; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
4377 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
4378 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
4379 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4381 o Minor bugfixes (Rust FFI):
4382 - Fix a minor memory leak which would happen whenever the C code
4383 would call the Rust implementation of
4384 protover_get_supported_protocols(). This was due to the C version
4385 returning a static string, whereas the Rust version newly allocated
4386 a CString to pass across the FFI boundary. Consequently, the C
4387 code was not expecting to need to free() what it was given. Fixes
4388 bug 25127; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4390 o Minor bugfixes (spelling):
4391 - Use the "misspell" tool to detect and fix typos throughout the
4392 source code. Fixes bug 23650; bugfix on various versions of Tor.
4393 Patch from Deepesh Pathak.
4395 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4396 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
4397 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
4398 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
4400 - Give out Exit flags in bootstrapping networks. Fixes bug 24137;
4401 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4403 o Minor bugfixes (unit test, monotonic time):
4404 - Increase a constant (1msec to 10msec) in the monotonic time test
4405 that makes sure the nsec/usec/msec times read are synchronized.
4406 This change was needed to accommodate slow systems like armel or
4407 when the clock_gettime() is not a VDSO on the running kernel.
4408 Fixes bug 25113; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
4410 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4411 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
4412 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
4413 - Remove the old (deterministic) directory retry logic entirely:
4414 We've used exponential backoff exclusively for some time. Closes
4416 - Remove the unused nodelist_recompute_all_hsdir_indices(). Closes
4418 - Remove a series of counters used to track circuit extend attempts
4419 and connection status but that in reality we aren't using for
4420 anything other than stats logged by a SIGUSR1 signal. Closes
4422 - Remove /usr/athena from search path in configure.ac. Closes
4424 - Remove duplicate code in node_has_curve25519_onion_key() and
4425 node_get_curve25519_onion_key(), and add a check for a zero
4426 microdesc curve25519 onion key. Closes ticket 23966, patch by
4427 "aruna1234" and teor.
4428 - Rewrite channel_rsa_id_group_set_badness to reduce temporary
4429 memory allocations with large numbers of OR connections (e.g.
4430 relays). Closes ticket 24119.
4431 - Separate the function that deletes ephemeral files when Tor
4433 - Small changes to Tor's buf_t API to make it suitable for use as a
4434 general-purpose safe string constructor. Closes ticket 22342.
4435 - Switch -Wnormalized=id to -Wnormalized=nfkc in configure.ac to
4436 avoid source code identifier confusion. Closes ticket 24467.
4437 - The tor_git_revision[] constant no longer needs to be redeclared
4438 by everything that links against the rest of Tor. Done as part of
4439 ticket 23845, to simplify our external API.
4440 - We make extend_info_from_node() use node_get_curve25519_onion_key()
4441 introduced in ticket 23577 to access the curve25519 public keys
4442 rather than accessing it directly. Closes ticket 23760. Patch by
4444 - Add a function to log channels' scheduler state changes to aid
4445 debugging efforts. Closes ticket 24531.
4448 - Improved the documentation of AccountingStart parameter. Closes
4450 - Update the documentation for "Log" to include the current list of
4451 logging domains. Closes ticket 25378.
4452 - Add documentation on how to build tor with Rust dependencies
4453 without having to be online. Closes ticket 22907; bugfix
4455 - Clarify the behavior of RelayBandwidth{Rate,Burst} with client
4456 traffic. Closes ticket 24318.
4457 - Document that OutboundBindAddress doesn't apply to DNS requests.
4458 Closes ticket 22145. Patch from Aruna Maurya.
4460 o Code simplification and refactoring (channels):
4461 - Remove the incoming and outgoing channel queues. These were never
4462 used, but still took up a step in our fast path.
4463 - The majority of the channel unit tests have been rewritten and the
4464 code coverage has now been raised to 83.6% for channel.c. Closes
4466 - Remove other dead code from the channel subsystem: All together,
4467 this cleanup has removed more than 1500 lines of code overall and
4468 adding very little except for unit test.
4470 o Code simplification and refactoring (circuit rendezvous):
4471 - Split the client-side rendezvous circuit lookup into two
4472 functions: one that returns only established circuits and another
4473 that returns all kinds of circuits. Closes ticket 23459.
4475 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
4476 - Make most of the variables in networkstatus_getinfo_by_purpose()
4477 const. Implements ticket 24489.
4479 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
4480 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
4481 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
4483 o Documentation (man page):
4484 - The HiddenServiceVersion torrc option accepts only one number:
4485 either version 2 or 3. Closes ticket 25026; bugfix
4488 o Documentation (manpage, denial of service):
4489 - Provide more detail about the denial-of-service options, by
4490 listing each mitigation and explaining how they relate. Closes
4494 Changes in version 0.3.1.10 - 2018-03-03
4495 Tor 0.3.1.10 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for
4498 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
4499 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
4501 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
4502 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
4504 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
4507 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
4508 released today. Relays running 0.3.1.x may wish to update to one of
4509 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
4511 Please note: according to our release calendar, Tor 0.3.1 will no
4512 longer be supported after 1 July 2018. If you will be running Tor
4513 after that date, you should make sure to plan to upgrade to the latest
4514 stable version, or downgrade to 0.2.9 (which will receive long-term
4517 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
4518 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
4519 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
4520 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
4523 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
4524 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
4525 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
4526 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
4527 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
4528 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
4529 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
4530 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
4531 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
4532 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
4533 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
4534 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
4535 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
4537 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
4538 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
4539 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
4541 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
4542 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
4543 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
4544 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
4545 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
4546 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
4547 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
4549 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
4550 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
4551 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4553 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
4554 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
4555 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
4556 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
4557 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
4558 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
4559 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4561 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
4562 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
4563 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
4564 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
4566 o Minor feature (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
4567 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
4568 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
4569 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
4571 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
4572 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
4573 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
4574 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
4575 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
4576 Closes ticket 24978.
4578 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors, backport from 0.3.2.9):
4579 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
4580 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
4581 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
4582 information. Closes ticket 24801.
4583 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
4584 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
4585 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
4586 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
4588 o Minor features (geoip):
4589 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
4592 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
4593 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
4594 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
4595 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
4596 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
4598 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
4599 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
4600 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
4601 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
4602 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
4604 o Minor bugfixes (address selection, backport from 0.3.2.9):
4605 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
4606 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
4607 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
4608 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
4611 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
4612 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
4613 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
4614 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
4615 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
4616 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
4617 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
4618 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
4619 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
4620 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
4621 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
4624 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.7-rc):
4625 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
4626 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
4628 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
4629 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
4630 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
4633 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
4634 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
4635 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
4636 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
4637 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
4638 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
4639 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
4641 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
4642 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
4643 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4644 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
4645 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
4646 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
4647 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
4648 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
4649 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
4652 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
4653 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
4654 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
4655 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
4656 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
4657 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4659 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
4660 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
4661 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
4662 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4664 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage, backport from 0.3.2.8-rc):
4665 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
4666 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
4667 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
4668 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
4671 o Minor bugfixes (network layer, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
4672 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
4673 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
4674 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
4675 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
4676 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
4678 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
4679 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
4680 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
4681 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
4682 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
4683 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
4684 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
4685 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
4686 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
4687 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
4688 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
4689 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
4691 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
4692 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
4693 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
4694 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4696 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
4697 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
4698 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
4699 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
4701 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc, backport from 0.3.2.9):
4702 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
4703 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
4704 to cyptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
4707 o Minor bugfixes (relay, partial backport):
4708 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
4709 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
4710 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
4711 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
4713 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
4714 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
4716 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
4717 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
4719 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
4720 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
4721 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
4724 Changes in version 0.2.9.15 - 2018-03-03
4725 Tor 0.2.9.15 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
4728 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
4729 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
4731 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
4732 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
4734 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
4737 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
4738 released today. Relays running 0.2.9.x may wish to update to one of
4739 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
4741 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
4742 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
4743 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
4744 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
4747 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
4748 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
4749 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
4750 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
4751 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
4752 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
4753 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
4754 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
4755 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
4756 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
4757 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
4758 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
4759 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
4761 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
4762 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
4763 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
4764 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
4765 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
4766 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
4767 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
4768 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
4769 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
4771 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
4772 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
4773 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
4774 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
4775 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
4776 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
4777 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
4779 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
4780 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
4781 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
4782 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
4784 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
4785 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
4786 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
4787 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
4788 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
4789 Closes ticket 24978.
4791 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
4792 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
4793 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
4794 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
4796 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
4797 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
4798 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
4799 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
4800 information. Closes ticket 24801.
4801 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
4802 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
4803 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
4804 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
4806 o Minor features (geoip):
4807 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
4810 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
4811 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
4812 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
4814 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
4815 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
4816 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
4817 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
4818 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
4820 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
4821 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
4822 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
4823 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
4824 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
4826 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
4827 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
4828 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
4829 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
4830 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
4833 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4834 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
4835 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
4837 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
4838 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
4839 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
4842 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
4843 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
4844 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
4845 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
4846 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
4847 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
4848 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
4850 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
4851 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
4852 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
4853 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
4854 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
4857 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
4858 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
4859 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
4860 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
4861 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
4862 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
4864 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
4865 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
4866 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
4867 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
4869 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
4870 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
4871 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
4872 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
4873 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
4874 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
4875 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
4876 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
4877 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
4878 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
4879 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
4880 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
4882 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
4883 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
4884 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
4885 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
4888 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
4889 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
4890 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
4891 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
4892 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
4894 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
4895 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
4897 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
4898 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
4901 Changes in version 0.3.2.10 - 2018-03-03
4902 Tor 0.3.2.10 is the second stable release in the 0.3.2 series. It
4903 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for security
4906 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
4907 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
4909 Additionally, it backports a fix for a bug whose severity we have
4910 upgraded: Bug 24700, which was fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely
4911 triggered in order to crash relays with a use-after-free pattern. As
4912 such, we are now tracking that bug as TROVE-2018-002 and
4913 CVE-2018-0491, and backporting it to earlier releases. This bug
4914 affected versions 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as version
4917 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
4918 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
4920 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
4923 Relays running 0.3.2.x SHOULD upgrade to one of the versions released
4924 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
4925 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
4926 the DoS mitigations.)
4928 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
4929 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
4930 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
4931 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
4934 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, KIST, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
4935 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
4936 list, which could lead to remote denial-of-service use-after-free
4937 attacks against relays. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4939 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
4940 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
4941 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
4942 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
4943 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
4944 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
4945 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
4946 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
4947 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
4948 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
4949 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
4950 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
4951 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
4953 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
4954 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
4955 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
4956 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
4957 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
4958 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
4959 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
4960 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
4961 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
4962 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
4963 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4965 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
4966 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
4967 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4969 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
4970 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
4971 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
4972 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
4973 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
4974 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
4975 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4977 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
4978 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
4979 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
4980 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4982 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
4983 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
4984 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
4985 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
4987 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
4988 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
4989 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
4990 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
4991 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
4992 Closes ticket 24978.
4994 o Minor features (geoip):
4995 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
4998 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
4999 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
5000 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic
5003 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
5004 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
5005 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
5006 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
5007 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
5009 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
5010 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
5011 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
5012 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
5013 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
5014 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
5015 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
5017 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
5018 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
5019 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
5020 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
5021 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
5023 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
5024 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
5025 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
5026 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5028 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
5029 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
5030 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
5031 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
5032 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5034 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
5035 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
5036 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
5037 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5039 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
5040 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
5041 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
5042 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5044 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
5045 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
5046 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
5047 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
5049 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
5050 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
5052 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
5053 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
5055 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
5056 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
5057 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
5059 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
5060 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
5061 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
5062 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
5063 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5065 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
5066 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
5067 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
5069 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha)
5070 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
5071 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
5075 Changes in version 0.3.2.9 - 2018-01-09
5076 Tor 0.3.2.9 is the first stable release in the 0.3.2 series.
5078 The 0.3.2 series includes our long-anticipated new onion service
5079 design, with numerous security features. (For more information, see
5080 our blog post at https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest.) We also
5081 have a new circuit scheduler algorithm for improved performance on
5082 relays everywhere (see https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell),
5083 along with many smaller features and bugfixes.
5085 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
5086 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
5087 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
5088 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
5089 with the 0.2.9 series.
5091 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.1.7. For a list of all
5092 changes since 0.3.2.8-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
5094 o Directory authority changes:
5095 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
5096 Closes ticket 23910.
5097 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
5098 Closes ticket 23592.
5099 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
5100 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
5101 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
5102 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
5103 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
5106 o Major features (next-generation onion services):
5107 - Tor now supports the next-generation onion services protocol for
5108 clients and services! As part of this release, the core of
5109 proposal 224 has been implemented and is available for
5110 experimentation and testing by our users. This newer version of
5111 onion services ("v3") features many improvements over the legacy
5114 a) Better crypto (replaced SHA1/DH/RSA1024
5115 with SHA3/ed25519/curve25519)
5117 b) Improved directory protocol, leaking much less information to
5120 c) Improved directory protocol, with smaller surface for
5123 d) Better onion address security against impersonation.
5125 e) More extensible introduction/rendezvous protocol.
5127 f) A cleaner and more modular codebase.
5129 You can identify a next-generation onion address by its length:
5130 they are 56 characters long, as in
5131 "4acth47i6kxnvkewtm6q7ib2s3ufpo5sqbsnzjpbi7utijcltosqemad.onion".
5133 In the future, we will release more options and features for v3
5134 onion services, but we first need a testing period, so that the
5135 current codebase matures and becomes more robust. Planned features
5136 include: offline keys, advanced client authorization, improved
5137 guard algorithms, and statistics. For full details, see
5140 Legacy ("v2") onion services will still work for the foreseeable
5141 future, and will remain the default until this new codebase gets
5142 tested and hardened. Service operators who want to experiment with
5143 the new system can use the 'HiddenServiceVersion 3' torrc
5144 directive along with the regular onion service configuration
5145 options. For more information, see our blog post at
5146 "https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest". Enjoy!
5148 o Major feature (scheduler, channel):
5149 - Tor now uses new schedulers to decide which circuits should
5150 deliver cells first, in order to improve congestion at relays. The
5151 first type is called "KIST" ("Kernel Informed Socket Transport"),
5152 and is only available on Linux-like systems: it uses feedback from
5153 the kernel to prevent the kernel's TCP buffers from growing too
5154 full. The second new scheduler type is called "KISTLite": it
5155 behaves the same as KIST, but runs on systems without kernel
5156 support for inspecting TCP implementation details. The old
5157 scheduler is still available, under the name "Vanilla". To change
5158 the default scheduler preference order, use the new "Schedulers"
5159 option. (The default preference order is "KIST,KISTLite,Vanilla".)
5161 Matt Traudt implemented KIST, based on research by Rob Jansen,
5162 John Geddes, Christ Wacek, Micah Sherr, and Paul Syverson. For
5163 more information, see the design paper at
5164 http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf and the
5165 followup implementation paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01044.
5166 Closes ticket 12541. For more information, see our blog post at
5167 "https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell".
5169 o Major bugfixes (security, general):
5170 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
5171 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
5172 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
5173 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
5174 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
5175 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
5176 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
5178 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority):
5179 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
5180 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
5181 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
5184 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2):
5185 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
5186 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
5187 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
5188 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
5189 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
5190 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
5191 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
5192 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
5193 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
5194 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
5195 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
5198 o Major bugfixes (security, relay):
5199 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
5200 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
5201 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
5202 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
5203 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
5204 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
5205 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
5206 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
5208 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
5209 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
5210 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
5211 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
5212 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
5213 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
5214 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
5215 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
5216 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
5217 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
5218 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
5221 o Major bugfixes (circuit prediction):
5222 - Fix circuit prediction logic so that a client doesn't treat a port
5223 as being "handled" by a circuit if that circuit already has
5224 isolation settings on it. This change should make Tor clients more
5225 responsive by improving their chances of having a pre-created
5226 circuit ready for use when a request arrives. Fixes bug 18859;
5227 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
5229 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS):
5230 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
5231 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
5232 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
5233 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
5234 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
5237 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure):
5238 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
5239 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
5240 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
5242 o Major bugfixes (usability, control port):
5243 - Report trusted clock skew indications as bootstrap errors, so
5244 controllers can more easily alert users when their clocks are
5245 wrong. Fixes bug 23506; bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha.
5247 o Minor features (bridge):
5248 - Bridge relays can now set the BridgeDistribution config option to
5249 add a "bridge-distribution-request" line to their bridge
5250 descriptor, which tells BridgeDB how they'd like their bridge
5251 address to be given out. (Note that as of Oct 2017, BridgeDB does
5252 not yet implement this feature.) As a side benefit, this feature
5253 provides a way to distinguish bridge descriptors from non-bridge
5254 descriptors. Implements tickets 18329.
5255 - When handling the USERADDR command on an ExtOrPort, warn when the
5256 transports provides a USERADDR with no port. In a future version,
5257 USERADDR commands of this format may be rejected. Detects problems
5258 related to ticket 23080.
5260 o Minor features (bug detection):
5261 - Log a warning message with a stack trace for any attempt to call
5262 get_options() during option validation. This pattern has caused
5263 subtle bugs in the past. Closes ticket 22281.
5265 o Minor features (build, compilation):
5266 - The "check-changes" feature is now part of the "make check" tests;
5267 we'll use it to try to prevent misformed changes files from
5268 accumulating. Closes ticket 23564.
5269 - Tor builds should now fail if there are any mismatches between the
5270 C type representing a configuration variable and the C type the
5271 data-driven parser uses to store a value there. Previously, we
5272 needed to check these by hand, which sometimes led to mistakes.
5273 Closes ticket 23643.
5275 o Minor features (client):
5276 - You can now use Tor as a tunneled HTTP proxy: use the new
5277 HTTPTunnelPort option to open a port that accepts HTTP CONNECT
5278 requests. Closes ticket 22407.
5279 - Add an extra check to make sure that we always use the newer guard
5280 selection code for picking our guards. Closes ticket 22779.
5281 - When downloading (micro)descriptors, don't split the list into
5282 multiple requests unless we want at least 32 descriptors.
5283 Previously, we split at 4, not 32, which led to significant
5284 overhead in HTTP request size and degradation in compression
5285 performance. Closes ticket 23220.
5286 - Improve log messages when missing descriptors for primary guards.
5287 Resolves ticket 23670.
5289 o Minor features (command line):
5290 - Add a new commandline option, --key-expiration, which prints when
5291 the current signing key is going to expire. Implements ticket
5292 17639; patch by Isis Lovecruft.
5294 o Minor features (control port):
5295 - If an application tries to use the control port as an HTTP proxy,
5296 respond with a meaningful "This is the Tor control port" message,
5297 and log the event. Closes ticket 1667. Patch from Ravi
5299 - Provide better error message for GETINFO desc/(id|name) when not
5300 fetching router descriptors. Closes ticket 5847. Patch by
5302 - Add GETINFO "{desc,md}/download-enabled", to inform the controller
5303 whether Tor will try to download router descriptors and
5304 microdescriptors respectively. Closes ticket 22684.
5305 - Added new GETINFO targets "ip-to-country/{ipv4,ipv6}-available",
5306 so controllers can tell whether the geoip databases are loaded.
5307 Closes ticket 23237.
5308 - Adds a timestamp field to the CIRC_BW and STREAM_BW bandwidth
5309 events. Closes ticket 19254. Patch by "DonnchaC".
5311 o Minor features (development support):
5312 - Developers can now generate a call-graph for Tor using the
5313 "calltool" python program, which post-processes object dumps. It
5314 should work okay on many Linux and OSX platforms, and might work
5315 elsewhere too. To run it, install calltool from
5316 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/nickm/calltool.git and run
5317 "make callgraph". Closes ticket 19307.
5319 o Minor features (directory authority):
5320 - Make the "Exit" flag assignment only depend on whether the exit
5321 policy allows connections to ports 80 and 443. Previously relays
5322 would get the Exit flag if they allowed connections to one of
5323 these ports and also port 6667. Resolves ticket 23637.
5325 o Minor features (ed25519):
5326 - Add validation function to checks for torsion components in
5327 ed25519 public keys, used by prop224 client-side code. Closes
5328 ticket 22006. Math help by Ian Goldberg.
5330 o Minor features (exit relay, DNS):
5331 - Improve the clarity and safety of the log message from evdns when
5332 receiving an apparently spoofed DNS reply. Closes ticket 3056.
5334 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
5335 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
5336 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
5337 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
5338 information. Closes ticket 24801.
5339 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
5340 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
5341 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
5342 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
5344 o Minor features (geoip):
5345 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
5348 o Minor features (integration, hardening):
5349 - Add a new NoExec option to prevent Tor from running other
5350 programs. When this option is set to 1, Tor will never try to run
5351 another program, regardless of the settings of
5352 PortForwardingHelper, ClientTransportPlugin, or
5353 ServerTransportPlugin. Once NoExec is set, it cannot be disabled
5354 without restarting Tor. Closes ticket 22976.
5356 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
5357 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
5358 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
5360 o Minor features (logging):
5361 - Provide better warnings when the getrandom() syscall fails. Closes
5363 - Downgrade a pair of log messages that could occur when an exit's
5364 resolver gave us an unusual (but not forbidden) response. Closes
5366 - Improve the message we log when re-enabling circuit build timeouts
5367 after having received a consensus. Closes ticket 20963.
5368 - Log more circuit information whenever we are about to try to
5369 package a relay cell on a circuit with a nonexistent n_chan.
5370 Attempt to diagnose ticket 8185.
5371 - Improve info-level log identification of particular circuits, to
5372 help with debugging. Closes ticket 23645.
5373 - Improve the warning message for specifying a relay by nickname.
5374 The previous message implied that nickname registration was still
5375 part of the Tor network design, which it isn't. Closes
5377 - If the sandbox filter fails to load, suggest to the user that
5378 their kernel might not support seccomp2. Closes ticket 23090.
5380 o Minor features (onion service, circuit, logging):
5381 - Improve logging of many callsite in the circuit subsystem to print
5382 the circuit identifier(s).
5383 - Log when we cleanup an intro point from a service so we know when
5384 and for what reason it happened. Closes ticket 23604.
5386 o Minor features (portability):
5387 - Tor now compiles correctly on arm64 with libseccomp-dev installed.
5388 (It doesn't yet work with the sandbox enabled.) Closes
5390 - Check at configure time whether uint8_t is the same type as
5391 unsigned char. Lots of existing code already makes this
5392 assumption, and there could be strict aliasing issues if the
5393 assumption is violated. Closes ticket 22410.
5395 o Minor features (relay):
5396 - When choosing which circuits can be expired as unused, consider
5397 circuits from clients even if those clients used regular CREATE
5398 cells to make them; and do not consider circuits from relays even
5399 if they were made with CREATE_FAST. Part of ticket 22805.
5400 - Reject attempts to use relative file paths when RunAsDaemon is
5401 set. Previously, Tor would accept these, but the directory-
5402 changing step of RunAsDaemon would give strange and/or confusing
5403 results. Closes ticket 22731.
5405 o Minor features (relay statistics):
5406 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
5407 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
5408 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
5410 o Minor features (reverted deprecations):
5411 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can once again be set in
5412 non-testing Tor networks, so long as they do not use the default
5413 directory authorities. This change also removes the deprecation of
5414 this flag from 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 21031.
5416 o Minor features (robustness):
5417 - Change several fatal assertions when flushing buffers into non-
5418 fatal assertions, to prevent any recurrence of 23690.
5420 o Minor features (startup, safety):
5421 - When configured to write a PID file, Tor now exits if it is unable
5422 to do so. Previously, it would warn and continue. Closes
5425 o Minor features (static analysis):
5426 - The BUG() macro has been changed slightly so that Coverity no
5427 longer complains about dead code if the bug is impossible. Closes
5430 o Minor features (testing):
5431 - Our fuzzing tests now test the encrypted portions of v3 onion
5432 service descriptors. Implements more of 21509.
5433 - Add a unit test to make sure that our own generated platform
5434 string will be accepted by directory authorities. Closes
5436 - The default chutney network tests now include tests for the v3
5437 onion service design. Make sure you have the latest version of
5438 chutney if you want to run these. Closes ticket 22437.
5439 - Add a unit test to verify that we can parse a hardcoded v2 onion
5440 service descriptor. Closes ticket 15554.
5442 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
5443 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
5444 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
5445 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
5446 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
5449 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrapping):
5450 - When warning about state file clock skew, report the correct
5451 direction for the detected skew. Fixes bug 23606; bugfix
5454 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients, bootstrap):
5455 - Retry directory downloads when we get our first bridge descriptor
5456 during bootstrap or while reconnecting to the network. Keep
5457 retrying every time we get a bridge descriptor, until we have a
5458 reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
5459 - Stop delaying bridge descriptor fetches when we have cached bridge
5460 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when we
5461 have at least one reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367;
5462 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
5463 - Stop delaying directory fetches when we have cached bridge
5464 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when
5465 all our bridges are definitely unreachable. Fixes part of bug
5466 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
5468 o Minor bugfixes (bridge):
5469 - Overwrite the bridge address earlier in the process of retrieving
5470 its descriptor, to make sure we reach it on the configured
5471 address. Fixes bug 20532; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5473 o Minor bugfixes (build, compilation):
5474 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
5475 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
5476 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
5477 - When searching for OpenSSL, don't accept any OpenSSL library that
5478 lacks TLSv1_1_method(): Tor doesn't build with those versions.
5479 Additionally, look in /usr/local/opt/openssl, if it's present.
5480 These changes together repair the default build on OSX systems
5481 with Homebrew installed. Fixes bug 23602; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5482 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
5483 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
5484 - Fix a memory leak warning in one of the libevent-related
5485 configuration tests that could occur when manually specifying
5486 -fsanitize=address. Fixes bug 24279; bugfix on 0.3.0.2-alpha.
5487 Found and patched by Alex Xu.
5488 - Fix unused-variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
5489 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5491 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
5492 - Fix a time handling bug in Tor certificates set to expire after
5493 the year 2106. Fixes bug 23055; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Found by
5494 Coverity as CID 1415728.
5496 o Minor bugfixes (client):
5497 - By default, do not enable storage of client-side DNS values. These
5498 values were unused by default previously, but they should not have
5499 been cached at all. Fixes bug 24050; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
5501 o Minor bugfixes (client, usability):
5502 - Refrain from needlessly rejecting SOCKS5-with-hostnames and
5503 SOCKS4a requests that contain IP address strings, even when
5504 SafeSocks in enabled, as this prevents user from connecting to
5505 known IP addresses without relying on DNS for resolving. SafeSocks
5506 still rejects SOCKS connections that connect to IP addresses when
5507 those addresses are _not_ encoded as hostnames. Fixes bug 22461;
5508 bugfix on Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha.
5510 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
5511 - Call htons() in extend_cell_format() for encoding a 16-bit value.
5512 Previously we used ntohs(), which happens to behave the same on
5513 all the platforms we support, but which isn't really correct.
5514 Fixes bug 23106; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5515 - For defense-in-depth, make the controller's write_escaped_data()
5516 function robust to extremely long inputs. Fixes bug 19281; bugfix
5517 on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Reported by Guido Vranken.
5518 - Fix several places in our codebase where a C compiler would be
5519 likely to eliminate a check, based on assuming that undefined
5520 behavior had not happened elsewhere in the code. These cases are
5521 usually a sign of redundant checking or dubious arithmetic. Found
5522 by Georg Koppen using the "STACK" tool from Wang, Zeldovich,
5523 Kaashoek, and Solar-Lezama. Fixes bug 24423; bugfix on various
5526 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
5527 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
5528 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
5531 o Minor bugfixes (consensus expiry):
5532 - Check for adequate directory information correctly. Previously, Tor
5533 would reconsider whether it had sufficient directory information
5534 every 2 minutes. Fixes bug 23091; bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
5536 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
5537 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
5538 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
5541 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion services):
5542 - Report "FAILED" instead of "UPLOAD_FAILED" "FAILED" for the
5543 HS_DESC event when a service is not able to upload a descriptor.
5544 Fixes bug 24230; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
5546 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
5547 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
5548 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5549 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
5550 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
5551 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
5552 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
5553 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
5554 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
5557 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
5558 - On failure to download directory information, delay retry attempts
5559 by a random amount based on the "decorrelated jitter" algorithm.
5560 Our previous delay algorithm tended to produce extra-long delays
5561 too easily. Fixes bug 23816; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5563 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
5564 - Directory servers now include a "Date:" http header for response
5565 codes other than 200. Clients starting with a skewed clock and a
5566 recent consensus were getting "304 Not modified" responses from
5567 directory authorities, so without the Date header, the client
5568 would never hear about a wrong clock. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix
5570 - Make clients wait for 6 seconds before trying to download a
5571 consensus from an authority. Fixes bug 17750; bugfix
5574 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
5575 - Document better how to read gcov, and what our gcov postprocessing
5576 scripts do. Fixes bug 23739; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5577 - Fix manpage to not refer to the obsolete (and misspelled)
5578 UseEntryGuardsAsDirectoryGuards parameter in the description of
5579 NumDirectoryGuards. Fixes bug 23611; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5581 o Minor bugfixes (DoS-resistance):
5582 - If future code asks if there are any running bridges, without
5583 checking if bridges are enabled, log a BUG warning rather than
5584 crashing. Fixes bug 23524; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5586 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards):
5587 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
5588 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
5589 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
5590 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
5591 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5593 o Minor bugfixes (format strictness):
5594 - Restrict several data formats to decimal. Previously, the
5595 BuildTimeHistogram entries in the state file, the "bw=" entries in
5596 the bandwidth authority file, and the process IDs passed to the
5597 __OwningControllerProcess option could all be specified in hex or
5598 octal as well as in decimal. This was not an intentional feature.
5599 Fixes bug 22802; bugfixes on 0.2.2.1-alpha, 0.2.2.2-alpha,
5602 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
5603 - If we fail to write a heartbeat message, schedule a retry for the
5604 minimum heartbeat interval number of seconds in the future. Fixes
5605 bug 19476; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5607 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5608 - Suppress a log notice when relay descriptors arrive. We already
5609 have a bootstrap progress for this so no need to log notice
5610 everytime tor receives relay descriptors. Microdescriptors behave
5611 the same. Fixes bug 23861; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
5612 - Remove duplicate log messages regarding opening non-local
5613 SocksPorts upon parsing config and opening listeners at startup.
5614 Fixes bug 4019; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
5615 - Use a more comprehensible log message when telling the user
5616 they've excluded every running exit node. Fixes bug 7890; bugfix
5618 - When logging the number of descriptors we intend to download per
5619 directory request, do not log a number higher than then the number
5620 of descriptors we're fetching in total. Fixes bug 19648; bugfix
5622 - When warning about a directory owned by the wrong user, log the
5623 actual name of the user owning the directory. Previously, we'd log
5624 the name of the process owner twice. Fixes bug 23487; bugfix
5626 - Fix some messages on unexpected errors from the seccomp2 library.
5627 Fixes bug 22750; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
5628 - The tor specification says hop counts are 1-based, so fix two log
5629 messages that mistakenly logged 0-based hop counts. Fixes bug
5630 18982; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha and 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by teor.
5631 Credit to Xiaofan Li for reporting this issue.
5633 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance):
5634 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
5635 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
5636 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
5637 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
5638 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
5640 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, defensive programming):
5641 - Clear the target address when node_get_prim_orport() returns
5642 early. Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
5644 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
5645 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
5646 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
5647 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
5648 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
5651 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
5652 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
5653 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
5654 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
5655 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
5656 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
5658 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
5659 - The introduction circuit was being timed out too quickly while
5660 waiting for the rendezvous circuit to complete. Keep the intro
5661 circuit around longer instead of timing out and reopening new ones
5662 constantly. Fixes bug 23681; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5663 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
5664 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
5666 - When handling multiple SOCKS request for the same .onion address,
5667 only fetch the service descriptor once.
5668 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
5669 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
5670 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5671 - When reloading configured onion services, copy all information
5672 from the old service object. Previously, some data was omitted,
5673 causing delays in descriptor upload, and other bugs. Fixes bug
5674 23790; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
5676 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
5677 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
5678 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
5679 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
5680 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
5681 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
5682 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
5683 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
5684 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
5685 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
5686 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
5687 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
5689 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
5690 - Stop using the PATH_MAX variable, which is not defined on GNU
5691 Hurd. Fixes bug 23098; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5692 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
5693 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
5694 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
5697 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
5698 - When uploading our descriptor for the first time after startup,
5699 report the reason for uploading as "Tor just started" rather than
5700 leaving it blank. Fixes bug 22885; bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
5701 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
5702 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
5703 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
5704 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5705 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
5706 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
5707 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
5708 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
5710 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5711 - Fix a spurious fuzzing-only use of an uninitialized value. Found
5712 by Brian Carpenter. Fixes bug 24082; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
5713 - Test that IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors when running
5714 "make test-network-all". Requires chutney master 61c28b9 or later.
5715 Closes ticket 24109.
5716 - Prevent scripts/test/coverage from attempting to move gcov output
5717 to the root directory. Fixes bug 23741; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
5718 - Capture and detect several "Result does not fit" warnings in unit
5719 tests on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 21800; bugfix
5721 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
5722 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
5724 - Fix a bug in our fuzzing mock replacement for crypto_pk_checksig(),
5725 to correctly handle cases where a caller gives it an RSA key of
5726 under 160 bits. (This is not actually a bug in Tor itself, but
5727 rather in our fuzzing code.) Fixes bug 24247; bugfix on
5728 0.3.0.3-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz as issue 4177.
5729 - Fix a broken unit test for the OutboundAddress option: the parsing
5730 function was never returning an error on failure. Fixes bug 23366;
5731 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
5732 - Fix a signed-integer overflow in the unit tests for
5733 dir/download_status_random_backoff, which was untriggered until we
5734 fixed bug 17750. Fixes bug 22924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5736 o Minor bugfixes (usability, control port):
5737 - Stop making an unnecessary routerlist check in NETINFO clock skew
5738 detection; this was preventing clients from reporting NETINFO clock
5739 skew to controllers. Fixes bug 23532; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5741 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5742 - Remove various ways of testing circuits and connections for
5743 "clientness"; instead, favor channel_is_client(). Part of
5745 - Extract the code for handling newly-open channels into a separate
5746 function from the general code to handle channel state
5747 transitions. This change simplifies our callgraph, reducing the
5748 size of the largest strongly connected component by roughly a
5749 factor of two. Closes ticket 22608.
5750 - Remove dead code for largely unused statistics on the number of
5751 times we've attempted various public key operations. Fixes bug
5752 19871; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. Fix by Isis Lovecruft.
5753 - Remove several now-obsolete functions for asking about old
5754 variants directory authority status. Closes ticket 22311; patch
5756 - Remove some of the code that once supported "Named" and "Unnamed"
5757 routers. Authorities no longer vote for these flags. Closes
5759 - Rename the obsolete malleable hybrid_encrypt functions used in TAP
5760 and old hidden services, to indicate that they aren't suitable for
5761 new protocols or formats. Closes ticket 23026.
5762 - Replace our STRUCT_OFFSET() macro with offsetof(). Closes ticket
5763 22521. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
5764 - Split the enormous circuit_send_next_onion_skin() function into
5765 multiple subfunctions. Closes ticket 22804.
5766 - Split the portions of the buffer.c module that handle particular
5767 protocols into separate modules. Part of ticket 23149.
5768 - Use our test macros more consistently, to produce more useful
5769 error messages when our unit tests fail. Add coccinelle patches to
5770 allow us to re-check for test macro uses. Closes ticket 22497.
5772 o Deprecated features:
5773 - The ReachableDirAddresses and ClientPreferIPv6DirPort options are
5774 now deprecated; they do not apply to relays, and they have had no
5775 effect on clients since 0.2.8.x. Closes ticket 19704.
5776 - Deprecate HTTPProxy/HTTPProxyAuthenticator config options. They
5777 only applies to direct unencrypted HTTP connections to your
5778 directory server, which your Tor probably isn't using. Closes
5782 - Add notes in man page regarding OS support for the various
5783 scheduler types. Attempt to use less jargon in the scheduler
5784 section. Closes ticket 24254.
5785 - Clarify that the Address option is entirely about setting an
5786 advertised IPv4 address. Closes ticket 18891.
5787 - Clarify the manpage's use of the term "address" to clarify what
5788 kind of address is intended. Closes ticket 21405.
5789 - Document that onion service subdomains are allowed, and ignored.
5790 Closes ticket 18736.
5791 - Clarify in the manual that "Sandbox 1" is only supported on Linux
5792 kernels. Closes ticket 22677.
5793 - Document all values of PublishServerDescriptor in the manpage.
5794 Closes ticket 15645.
5795 - Improve the documentation for the directory port part of the
5796 DirAuthority line. Closes ticket 20152.
5797 - Restore documentation for the authorities' "approved-routers"
5798 file. Closes ticket 21148.
5801 - The AllowDotExit option has been removed as unsafe. It has been
5802 deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 23426.
5803 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can no longer be set on
5804 non-testing networks. It has been deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha.
5805 Closes ticket 21031.
5806 - The controller API no longer includes an AUTHDIR_NEWDESCS event:
5807 nobody was using it any longer. Closes ticket 22377.
5810 Changes in version 0.3.1.9 - 2017-12-01:
5811 Tor 0.3.1.9 backports important security and stability fixes from the
5812 0.3.2 development series. All Tor users should upgrade to this
5813 release, or to another of the releases coming out today.
5815 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
5816 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
5817 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
5818 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
5819 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
5820 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
5821 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
5822 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
5823 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
5824 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
5825 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
5827 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
5828 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
5829 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
5830 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
5831 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
5832 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
5833 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
5836 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
5837 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
5838 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
5839 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
5840 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
5842 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
5843 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
5844 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
5845 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
5846 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
5847 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
5848 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
5849 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
5850 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
5852 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
5853 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
5854 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
5855 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
5856 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
5857 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
5860 o Minor features (bridge):
5861 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
5862 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
5863 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
5864 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
5867 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
5868 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
5871 o Minor features (geoip):
5872 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5875 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
5876 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
5877 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
5878 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
5879 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5881 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
5882 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
5883 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5885 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
5886 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
5887 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
5888 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
5889 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
5890 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
5892 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
5893 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
5894 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
5897 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
5898 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
5899 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
5900 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
5901 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
5904 Changes in version 0.3.0.13 - 2017-12-01
5905 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
5906 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
5907 to another of the releases coming out today.
5909 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
5910 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
5911 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
5913 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
5914 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
5915 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
5916 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
5917 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
5918 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
5919 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
5920 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
5921 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
5922 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
5923 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
5925 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
5926 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
5927 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
5928 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
5929 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
5930 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
5931 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
5934 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
5935 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
5936 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
5937 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
5938 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
5940 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
5941 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
5942 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
5943 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
5944 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
5945 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
5946 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
5947 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
5948 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
5950 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
5951 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
5952 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
5953 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
5954 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
5955 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
5958 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
5959 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
5960 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
5961 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
5962 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
5963 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
5965 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
5966 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
5967 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
5968 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
5969 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
5972 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
5973 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
5976 o Minor features (geoip):
5977 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5980 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
5981 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
5982 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
5983 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
5984 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5986 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
5987 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
5988 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5990 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
5991 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
5992 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
5993 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
5994 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
5995 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
5997 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
5998 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
5999 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
6000 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
6001 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
6003 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
6004 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
6005 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
6008 Changes in version 0.2.9.14 - 2017-12-01
6009 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
6010 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
6011 to another of the releases coming out today.
6013 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
6014 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
6015 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
6016 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
6017 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
6018 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
6021 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
6022 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
6023 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
6024 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
6025 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
6026 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
6027 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
6028 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
6029 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
6030 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
6031 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
6033 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
6034 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
6035 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
6036 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
6037 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
6038 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
6039 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
6042 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
6043 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
6044 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
6045 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
6046 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
6048 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
6049 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
6050 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
6051 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
6052 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
6053 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
6055 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
6056 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
6057 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
6058 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
6059 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
6062 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
6063 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
6066 o Minor features (geoip):
6067 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6070 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
6071 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
6072 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
6073 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
6074 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
6075 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
6077 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
6078 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
6079 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
6080 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
6081 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
6083 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
6084 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
6085 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6087 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
6088 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
6089 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
6090 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
6091 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
6092 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6094 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
6095 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
6096 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
6097 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
6098 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
6100 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
6101 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
6102 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
6105 Changes in version 0.2.8.17 - 2017-12-01
6106 Tor 0.2.8.17 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
6107 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
6108 to another of the releases coming out today.
6110 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
6111 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade with
6112 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
6114 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
6115 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
6116 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
6117 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
6118 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
6119 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
6120 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
6121 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
6122 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
6123 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
6124 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
6125 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
6126 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
6127 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
6128 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
6131 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
6132 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
6133 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
6134 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
6135 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
6137 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
6138 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path through
6139 ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the version of
6140 our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part of bug 21534;
6141 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012
6144 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
6145 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
6146 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
6147 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
6148 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
6151 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
6152 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
6155 o Minor features (geoip):
6156 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6159 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
6160 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
6161 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
6164 Changes in version 0.2.5.16 - 2017-12-01
6165 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
6166 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
6167 to another of the releases coming out today.
6169 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
6170 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
6171 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
6173 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
6174 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
6175 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
6176 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
6177 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
6178 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
6179 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
6180 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
6181 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
6182 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
6183 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
6184 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
6185 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
6186 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
6187 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
6190 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
6191 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
6192 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
6193 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
6194 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
6195 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
6197 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
6198 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
6199 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
6200 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
6201 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
6204 o Minor features (geoip):
6205 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6209 Changes in version 0.2.5.15 - 2017-10-25
6210 Tor 0.2.5.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
6211 series. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
6213 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
6214 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
6215 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
6217 o Directory authority changes:
6218 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
6219 Closes ticket 23910.
6220 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
6221 Closes ticket 23592.
6223 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
6224 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
6225 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
6226 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
6227 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
6229 o Minor features (geoip):
6230 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6233 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
6234 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
6235 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
6236 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
6237 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
6238 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
6239 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
6240 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
6241 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
6243 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
6244 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
6245 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
6246 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
6247 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
6248 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
6249 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
6250 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
6251 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
6254 Changes in version 0.2.8.16 - 2017-10-25
6255 Tor 0.2.8.16 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
6256 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
6257 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
6259 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
6260 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
6261 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
6263 o Directory authority changes:
6264 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
6265 Closes ticket 23910.
6266 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
6267 Closes ticket 23592.
6269 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
6270 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
6271 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
6272 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
6274 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
6275 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
6276 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
6277 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
6278 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
6280 o Minor features (geoip):
6281 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6285 Changes in version 0.2.9.13 - 2017-10-25
6286 Tor 0.2.9.13 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
6287 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
6288 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
6290 o Directory authority changes:
6291 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
6292 Closes ticket 23910.
6293 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
6294 Closes ticket 23592.
6296 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
6297 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
6298 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
6299 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
6301 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
6302 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
6303 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
6304 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
6305 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
6307 o Minor features (geoip):
6308 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6311 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
6312 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
6313 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
6314 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
6315 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
6316 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
6317 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
6318 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
6321 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
6322 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
6323 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
6325 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
6326 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
6327 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
6328 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
6329 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
6330 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
6331 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
6334 Changes in version 0.3.0.12 - 2017-10-25
6335 Tor 0.3.0.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
6336 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
6337 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
6339 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
6340 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
6341 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
6343 o Directory authority changes:
6344 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
6345 Closes ticket 23910.
6346 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
6347 Closes ticket 23592.
6349 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
6350 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
6351 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
6352 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
6354 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
6355 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
6356 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
6357 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
6358 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
6360 o Minor features (geoip):
6361 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6364 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
6365 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
6366 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
6367 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
6368 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
6369 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
6370 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
6371 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
6374 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
6375 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
6376 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
6377 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6379 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
6380 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
6381 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
6383 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
6384 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
6385 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
6386 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
6387 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
6388 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
6389 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
6392 Changes in version 0.3.1.8 - 2017-10-25
6393 Tor 0.3.1.8 is the second stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
6394 It includes several bugfixes, including a bugfix for a crash issue
6395 that had affected relays under memory pressure. It also adds
6396 a new directory authority, Bastet.
6398 o Directory authority changes:
6399 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
6400 Closes ticket 23910.
6401 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
6402 Closes ticket 23592.
6404 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
6405 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
6406 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
6407 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
6409 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
6410 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
6411 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
6412 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
6413 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
6415 o Minor features (geoip):
6416 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6419 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
6420 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
6421 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
6422 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
6424 o Minor bugfixes (compression, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
6425 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
6426 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
6429 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
6430 - Remove the length limit on HTTP status lines that authorities can
6431 send in their replies. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix on 0.3.1.6-rc.
6433 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
6434 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
6435 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
6436 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6438 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
6439 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
6440 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
6442 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
6443 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
6444 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
6448 Changes in version 0.2.8.15 - 2017-09-18
6449 Tor 0.2.8.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
6452 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
6453 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
6454 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
6455 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
6457 Note that Tor 0.2.8.x will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
6458 2018. We suggest that you upgrade to the latest stable release if
6459 possible. If you can't, we recommend that you upgrade at least to
6460 0.2.9, which will be supported until 2020.
6462 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
6463 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
6464 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
6465 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
6466 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
6469 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6472 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
6473 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
6474 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
6477 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
6478 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
6479 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
6480 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
6481 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
6482 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
6483 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
6484 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
6485 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
6487 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
6488 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
6489 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
6490 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
6491 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
6492 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
6493 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
6494 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
6495 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
6498 Changes in version 0.2.9.12 - 2017-09-18
6499 Tor 0.2.9.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
6502 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
6503 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
6504 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
6505 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
6507 o Major features (security, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
6508 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
6509 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
6510 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
6511 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
6512 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
6513 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
6515 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
6516 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
6517 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
6518 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
6520 o Major bugfixes (DNS, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
6521 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
6522 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
6524 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
6525 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
6526 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
6527 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
6529 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
6530 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
6531 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
6532 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
6533 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
6535 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
6536 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
6537 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
6538 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
6540 o Minor features (geoip):
6541 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6544 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
6545 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
6546 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
6547 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
6549 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
6550 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
6551 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
6552 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt support
6553 on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6554 - When building with certain versions the mingw C header files, avoid
6555 float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions isfinite(),
6556 isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
6558 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
6559 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for running tor_sscanf()
6560 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
6562 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
6563 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
6564 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
6567 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
6568 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
6569 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
6570 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an
6571 empty body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6573 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
6574 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
6575 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
6576 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
6577 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
6578 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6580 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
6581 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
6582 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
6583 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
6584 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
6585 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
6586 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
6587 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
6588 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
6590 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
6591 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
6592 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
6593 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
6595 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
6596 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
6597 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6599 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
6600 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
6601 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
6602 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
6603 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6605 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
6606 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
6607 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
6610 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
6611 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
6612 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
6613 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
6614 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
6616 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
6617 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
6618 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
6619 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
6620 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
6621 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
6622 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
6623 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
6624 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
6627 Changes in version 0.3.0.11 - 2017-09-18
6628 Tor 0.3.0.11 backports a collection of bugfixes from Tor the 0.3.1
6631 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
6632 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
6633 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
6634 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
6636 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.7):
6637 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
6638 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
6639 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
6642 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6645 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
6646 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
6647 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
6649 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
6650 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
6651 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
6652 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
6653 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6655 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
6656 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
6657 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
6658 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
6660 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
6661 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
6662 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
6664 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
6665 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
6666 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
6667 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
6670 Changes in version 0.3.1.7 - 2017-09-18
6671 Tor 0.3.1.7 is the first stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
6673 With the 0.3.1 series, Tor now serves and downloads directory
6674 information in more compact formats, to save on bandwidth overhead. It
6675 also contains a new padding system to resist netflow-based traffic
6676 analysis, and experimental support for building parts of Tor in Rust
6677 (though no parts of Tor are in Rust yet). There are also numerous
6678 small features, bugfixes on earlier release series, and groundwork for
6679 the hidden services revamp of 0.3.2.
6681 This release also includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a security bug
6682 that affects hidden services running with the SafeLogging option
6683 disabled. For more information, see
6684 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
6686 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
6687 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
6688 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
6689 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
6690 with the 0.2.9 series.
6692 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.0. For a list of all
6693 changes since 0.3.1.6-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
6696 - To build with zstd and lzma support, Tor now requires the
6697 pkg-config tool at build time.
6699 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden services, loggging):
6700 - Fix a bug where we could log uninitialized stack when a certain
6701 hidden service error occurred while SafeLogging was disabled.
6702 Fixes bug #23490; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6703 This is also tracked as TROVE-2017-008 and CVE-2017-0380.
6705 o Major features (build system, continuous integration):
6706 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
6707 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
6708 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
6709 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
6710 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
6711 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
6712 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
6713 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
6715 o Major features (directory protocol):
6716 - Tor relays and authorities can now serve clients an abbreviated
6717 version of the consensus document, containing only the changes
6718 since an older consensus document that the client holds. Clients
6719 now request these documents when available. When both client and
6720 server use this new protocol, they will use far less bandwidth (up
6721 to 94% less) to keep the client's consensus up-to-date. Implements
6722 proposal 140; closes ticket 13339. Based on work by Daniel Martí.
6723 - Tor can now compress directory traffic with lzma or with zstd
6724 compression algorithms, which can deliver better bandwidth
6725 performance. Because lzma is computationally expensive, it's only
6726 used for documents that can be compressed once and served many
6727 times. Support for these algorithms requires that tor is built
6728 with the libzstd and/or liblzma libraries available. Implements
6729 proposal 278; closes ticket 21662.
6730 - Relays now perform the more expensive compression operations, and
6731 consensus diff generation, in worker threads. This separation
6732 avoids delaying the main thread when a new consensus arrives.
6734 o Major features (experimental):
6735 - Tor can now build modules written in Rust. To turn this on, pass
6736 the "--enable-rust" flag to the configure script. It's not time to
6737 get excited yet: currently, there is no actual Rust functionality
6738 beyond some simple glue code, and a notice at startup to tell you
6739 that Rust is running. Still, we hope that programmers and
6740 packagers will try building Tor with Rust support, so that we can
6741 find issues and solve portability problems. Closes ticket 22106.
6743 o Major features (traffic analysis resistance):
6744 - Connections between clients and relays now send a padding cell in
6745 each direction every 1.5 to 9.5 seconds (tunable via consensus
6746 parameters). This padding will not resist specialized
6747 eavesdroppers, but it should be enough to make many ISPs' routine
6748 network flow logging less useful in traffic analysis against
6751 Padding is negotiated using Tor's link protocol, so both relays
6752 and clients must upgrade for this to take effect. Clients may
6753 still send padding despite the relay's version by setting
6754 ConnectionPadding 1 in torrc, and may disable padding by setting
6755 ConnectionPadding 0 in torrc. Padding may be minimized for mobile
6756 users with the torrc option ReducedConnectionPadding. Implements
6757 Proposal 251 and Section 2 of Proposal 254; closes ticket 16861.
6758 - Relays will publish 24 hour totals of padding and non-padding cell
6759 counts to their extra-info descriptors, unless PaddingStatistics 0
6760 is set in torrc. These 24 hour totals are also rounded to
6763 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
6764 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
6765 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
6766 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6767 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
6768 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
6769 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
6772 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security):
6773 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
6774 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
6775 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
6776 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
6777 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
6779 o Major bugfixes (connection usage):
6780 - We use NETINFO cells to try to determine if both relays involved
6781 in a connection will agree on the canonical status of that
6782 connection. We prefer the connections where this is the case for
6783 extend cells, and try to close connections where relays disagree
6784 on their canonical status early. Also, we now prefer the oldest
6785 valid connection for extend cells. These two changes should reduce
6786 the number of long-term connections that are kept open between
6787 relays. Fixes bug 17604; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
6788 - Relays now log hourly statistics (look for
6789 "channel_check_for_duplicates" lines) on the total number of
6790 connections to other relays. If the number of connections per
6791 relay is unexpectedly large, this log message is at notice level.
6792 Otherwise it is at info.
6794 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
6795 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
6796 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
6797 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6798 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
6799 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
6800 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
6802 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support):
6803 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
6804 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
6805 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
6807 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service):
6808 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
6809 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
6810 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
6811 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
6813 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake):
6814 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
6815 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
6816 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
6817 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
6818 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
6819 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
6822 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management):
6823 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
6824 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
6825 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
6826 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
6827 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
6828 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
6829 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6830 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
6831 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
6832 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
6833 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
6834 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
6837 o Minor features (security, windows):
6838 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
6839 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
6840 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
6841 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
6842 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
6844 o Minor features (bridge authority):
6845 - Add "fingerprint" lines to the networkstatus-bridges file produced
6846 by bridge authorities. Closes ticket 22207.
6848 o Minor features (code style):
6849 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
6850 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
6851 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
6853 o Minor features (config options):
6854 - Allow "%include" directives in torrc configuration files. These
6855 directives import the settings from other files, or from all the
6856 files in a directory. Closes ticket 1922. Code by Daniel Pinto.
6857 - Make SAVECONF return an error when overwriting a torrc that has
6858 includes. Using SAVECONF with the FORCE option will allow it to
6859 overwrite torrc even if includes are used. Related to ticket 1922.
6860 - Add "GETINFO config-can-saveconf" to tell controllers if SAVECONF
6861 will work without the FORCE option. Related to ticket 1922.
6863 o Minor features (controller):
6864 - Warn the first time that a controller requests data in the long-
6865 deprecated 'GETINFO network-status' format. Closes ticket 21703.
6867 o Minor features (defaults):
6868 - The default value for UseCreateFast is now 0: clients which
6869 haven't yet received a consensus document will now use a proper
6870 ntor handshake to talk to their directory servers whenever they
6871 can. Closes ticket 21407.
6872 - Onion key rotation and expiry intervals are now defined as a
6873 network consensus parameter, per proposal 274. The default
6874 lifetime of an onion key is increased from 7 to 28 days. Old onion
6875 keys will expire after 7 days by default. This change will make
6876 consensus diffs much smaller, and save significant bandwidth.
6877 Closes ticket 21641.
6879 o Minor features (defensive programming):
6880 - Create a pair of consensus parameters, nf_pad_tor2web and
6881 nf_pad_single_onion, to disable netflow padding in the consensus
6882 for non-anonymous connections in case the overhead is high. Closes
6885 o Minor features (diagnostic):
6886 - Add a stack trace to the bug warnings that can be logged when
6887 trying to send an outgoing relay cell with n_chan == 0. Diagnostic
6888 attempt for bug 23105.
6889 - Add logging messages to try to diagnose a rare bug that seems to
6890 generate RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificates dated in the 1970s. We
6891 think this is happening because of incorrect system clocks, but
6892 we'd like to know for certain. Diagnostic for bug 22466.
6893 - Avoid an assertion failure, and log a better error message, when
6894 unable to remove a file from the consensus cache on Windows.
6895 Attempts to mitigate and diagnose bug 22752.
6897 o Minor features (directory authority):
6898 - Improve the message that authorities report to relays that present
6899 RSA/Ed25519 keypairs that conflict with previously pinned keys.
6900 Closes ticket 22348.
6902 o Minor features (directory cache, consensus diff):
6903 - Add a new MaxConsensusAgeForDiffs option to allow directory cache
6904 operators with low-resource environments to adjust the number of
6905 consensuses they'll store and generate diffs from. Most cache
6906 operators should leave it unchanged. Helps to work around
6909 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
6910 - Update the fallback directory mirror whitelist and blacklist based
6911 on operator emails. Closes task 21121.
6912 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
6913 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
6914 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
6915 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
6917 o Minor features (geoip):
6918 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6921 o Minor features (hidden services, logging):
6922 - Log a message when a hidden service descriptor has fewer
6923 introduction points than specified in
6924 HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints. Closes tickets 21598.
6925 - Log a message when a hidden service reaches its introduction point
6926 circuit limit, and when that limit is reset. Follow up to ticket
6927 21594; closes ticket 21622.
6928 - Warn user if multiple entries in EntryNodes and at least one
6929 HiddenService are used together. Pinning EntryNodes along with a
6930 hidden service can be possibly harmful; for instance see ticket
6931 14917 or 21155. Closes ticket 21155.
6933 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
6934 - We now have a document storage backend compatible with the Linux
6935 seccomp2 sandbox. This backend is used for consensus documents and
6936 diffs between them; in the long term, we'd like to use it for
6937 unparseable directory material too. Closes ticket 21645
6938 - Increase the maximum allowed size passed to mprotect(PROT_WRITE)
6939 from 1MB to 16MB. This was necessary with the glibc allocator in
6940 order to allow worker threads to allocate more memory -- which in
6941 turn is necessary because of our new use of worker threads for
6942 compression. Closes ticket 22096.
6944 o Minor features (logging):
6945 - Log files are no longer created world-readable by default.
6946 (Previously, most distributors would store the logs in a non-
6947 world-readable location to prevent inappropriate access. This
6948 change is an extra precaution.) Closes ticket 21729; patch
6951 o Minor features (performance):
6952 - Our Keccak (SHA-3) implementation now accesses memory more
6953 efficiently, especially on little-endian systems. Closes
6955 - Add an O(1) implementation of channel_find_by_global_id(), to
6956 speed some controller functions.
6958 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
6959 - The MyFamily option may now be repeated as many times as desired,
6960 for relays that want to configure large families. Closes ticket
6961 4998; patch by Daniel Pinto.
6963 o Minor features (relay, performance):
6964 - Always start relays with at least two worker threads, to prevent
6965 priority inversion on slow tasks. Part of the fix for bug 22883.
6966 - Allow background work to be queued with different priorities, so
6967 that a big pile of slow low-priority jobs will not starve out
6968 higher priority jobs. This lays the groundwork for a fix for
6971 o Minor features (safety):
6972 - Add an explicit check to extrainfo_parse_entry_from_string() for
6973 NULL inputs. We don't believe this can actually happen, but it may
6974 help silence a warning from the Clang analyzer. Closes
6977 o Minor features (testing):
6978 - Add more tests for compression backend initialization. Closes
6980 - Add a "--disable-memory-sentinels" feature to help with fuzzing.
6981 When Tor is compiled with this option, we disable a number of
6982 redundant memory-safety failsafes that are intended to stop bugs
6983 from becoming security issues. This makes it easier to hunt for
6984 bugs that would be security issues without the failsafes turned
6985 on. Closes ticket 21439.
6986 - Add a general event-tracing instrumentation support to Tor. This
6987 subsystem will enable developers and researchers to add fine-
6988 grained instrumentation to their Tor instances, for use when
6989 examining Tor network performance issues. There are no trace
6990 events yet, and event-tracing is off by default unless enabled at
6991 compile time. Implements ticket 13802.
6992 - Improve our version parsing tests: add tests for typical version
6993 components, add tests for invalid versions, including numeric
6994 range and non-numeric prefixes. Unit tests 21278, 21450, and
6995 21507. Partially implements 21470.
6997 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting):
6998 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
6999 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
7000 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
7002 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
7003 - Accurately identify client connections by their lack of peer
7004 authentication. This means that we bail out earlier if asked to
7005 extend to a client. Follow-up to 21407. Fixes bug 21406; bugfix
7008 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings):
7009 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug
7010 22915; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7011 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
7012 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7013 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
7014 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
7015 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
7018 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7019 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
7020 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
7022 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
7023 - When spooling compressed data to an output buffer, don't try to
7024 spool more data when there is no more data to spool and we are not
7025 trying to flush the input. Previously, we would sometimes launch
7026 compression requests with nothing to do, which interferes with our
7027 22672 checks. Fixes bug 22719; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
7029 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
7030 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
7031 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7033 o Minor bugfixes (connection lifespan):
7034 - Allow more control over how long TLS connections are kept open:
7035 unify CircuitIdleTimeout and PredictedPortsRelevanceTime into a
7036 single option called CircuitsAvailableTimeout. Also, allow the
7037 consensus to control the default values for both this preference
7038 and the lifespan of relay-to-relay connections. Fixes bug 17592;
7039 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
7040 - Increase the initial circuit build timeout testing frequency, to
7041 help ensure that ReducedConnectionPadding clients finish learning
7042 a timeout before their orconn would expire. The initial testing
7043 rate was set back in the days of TAP and before the Tor Browser
7044 updater, when we had to be much more careful about new clients
7045 making lots of circuits. With this change, a circuit build timeout
7046 is learned in about 15-20 minutes, instead of 100-120 minutes.
7048 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
7049 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
7050 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
7051 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
7052 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7053 - GETINFO onions/current and onions/detached no longer respond with
7054 551 on empty lists. Fixes bug 21329; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
7055 - Trigger HS descriptor events on the control port when the client
7056 fails to pick a hidden service directory for a hidden service.
7057 This can happen if all the hidden service directories are in
7058 ExcludeNodes, or they have all been queried within the last 15
7059 minutes. Fixes bug 22042; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7061 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
7062 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
7063 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
7065 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support):
7066 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
7067 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
7068 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
7069 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
7070 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7072 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming):
7073 - Detect and break out of infinite loops in our compression code. We
7074 don't think that any such loops exist now, but it's best to be
7075 safe. Closes ticket 22672.
7076 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
7077 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
7078 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
7079 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
7080 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
7081 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
7082 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
7083 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
7085 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
7086 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
7087 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
7088 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
7089 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
7090 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
7091 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
7092 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
7094 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
7095 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
7096 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7097 - Prevent the shared randomness subsystem from asserting when
7098 initialized by a bridge authority with an incomplete configuration
7099 file. Fixes bug 21586; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
7101 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting, windows):
7102 - When formatting Windows error messages, use the English format to
7103 avoid codepage issues. Fixes bug 22520; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-alpha.
7106 o Minor bugfixes (exit-side DNS):
7107 - Fix an untriggerable assertion that checked the output of a
7108 libevent DNS error, so that the assertion actually behaves as
7109 expected. Fixes bug 22244; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by Andrey
7110 Karpov using PVS-Studio.
7112 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
7113 - Make the usage example in updateFallbackDirs.py actually work, and
7114 explain what it does. Fixes bug 22270; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
7115 - Decrease the guard flag average required to be a fallback. This
7116 allows us to keep relays that have their guard flag removed when
7117 they restart. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7118 - Decrease the minimum number of fallbacks to 100. Fixes bug 20913;
7119 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7120 - Make sure fallback directory mirrors have the same address, port,
7121 and relay identity key for at least 30 days before they are
7122 selected. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7124 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx):
7125 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
7126 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
7127 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7129 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
7130 - Increase the number of circuits that a service is allowed to
7131 open over a specific period of time. The value was lower than it
7132 should be (8 vs 12) in the normal case of 3 introduction points.
7133 Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc.
7134 - Fix a BUG warning during HSv3 descriptor decoding that could be
7135 cause by a specially crafted descriptor. Fixes bug 23233; bugfix
7136 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Bug found by "haxxpop".
7137 - Stop printing a cryptic warning when a hidden service gets a
7138 request to connect to a virtual port that it hasn't configured.
7139 Fixes bug 16706; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
7140 - Simplify hidden service descriptor creation by using an existing
7141 flag to check if an introduction point is established. Fixes bug
7142 21599; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7144 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake):
7145 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
7146 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
7147 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
7148 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
7149 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
7150 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7152 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
7153 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
7154 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7155 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
7156 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
7157 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
7158 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
7160 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7161 - When decompressing, do not warn if we fail to decompress using a
7162 compression method that we merely guessed. Fixes part of bug
7163 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
7164 - When decompressing, treat mismatch between content-encoding and
7165 actual compression type as a protocol warning. Fixes part of bug
7166 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
7167 - Downgrade "assigned_to_cpuworker failed" message to info-level
7168 severity. In every case that can reach it, either a better warning
7169 has already been logged, or no warning is warranted. Fixes bug
7170 22356; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
7171 - Log a better message when a directory authority replies to an
7172 upload with an unexpected status code. Fixes bug 11121; bugfix
7174 - Downgrade a log statement about unexpected relay cells from "bug"
7175 to "protocol warning", because there is at least one use case
7176 where it can be triggered by a buggy tor implementation. Fixes bug
7177 21293; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
7179 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
7180 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
7181 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
7183 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
7184 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
7185 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
7186 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
7188 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
7189 - Inform the geoip and rephist modules about all requests, even on
7190 relays that are only fetching microdescriptors. Fixes a bug
7191 related to 21585; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7193 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
7194 - Fix a small memory leak at exit from the backtrace handler code.
7195 Fixes bug 21788; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
7196 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
7197 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
7198 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7199 - Fix a small memory leak when validating a configuration that uses
7200 two or more AF_UNIX sockets for the same port type. Fixes bug
7201 23053; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. This is CID 1415725.
7203 o Minor bugfixes (process behavior):
7204 - When exiting because of an error, always exit with a nonzero exit
7205 status. Previously, we would fail to report an error in our exit
7206 status in cases related to __OwningControllerProcess failure,
7207 lockfile contention, and Ed25519 key initialization. Fixes bug
7208 22720; bugfix on versions 0.2.1.6-alpha, 0.2.2.28-beta, and
7209 0.2.7.2-alpha respectively. Reported by "f55jwk4f"; patch
7212 o Minor bugfixes (robustness, error handling):
7213 - Improve our handling of the cases where OpenSSL encounters a
7214 memory error while encoding keys and certificates. We haven't
7215 observed these errors in the wild, but if they do happen, we now
7216 detect and respond better. Fixes bug 19418; bugfix on all versions
7217 of Tor. Reported by Guido Vranken.
7219 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7220 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
7221 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
7222 - Use unbuffered I/O for utility functions around the
7223 process_handle_t type. This fixes unit test failures reported on
7224 OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Fixes bug 21654; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
7225 - Make display of captured unit test log messages consistent. Fixes
7226 bug 21510; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7227 - Make test-network.sh always call chutney's test-network.sh.
7228 Previously, this only worked on systems which had bash installed,
7229 due to some bash-specific code in the script. Fixes bug 19699;
7230 bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc. Follow-up to ticket 21581.
7231 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
7232 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7233 - The unit tests now pass on systems where localhost is misconfigured
7234 to some IPv4 address other than 127.0.0.1. Fixes bug 6298; bugfix
7237 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency):
7238 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
7239 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
7240 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
7241 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
7243 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service):
7244 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
7245 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
7246 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
7247 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
7248 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
7249 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
7251 o Minor bugfixes (windows, relay):
7252 - Resolve "Failure from drain_fd: No error" warnings on Windows
7253 relays. Fixes bug 21540; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
7255 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7256 - Break up the 630-line function connection_dir_client_reached_eof()
7257 into a dozen smaller functions. This change should help
7258 maintainability and readability of the client directory code.
7259 - Isolate our use of the openssl headers so that they are only
7260 included from our crypto wrapper modules, and from tests that
7261 examine those modules' internals. Closes ticket 21841.
7262 - Simplify our API to launch directory requests, making it more
7263 extensible and less error-prone. Now it's easier to add extra
7264 headers to directory requests. Closes ticket 21646.
7265 - Our base64 decoding functions no longer overestimate the output
7266 space that they need when parsing unpadded inputs. Closes
7268 - Remove unused "ROUTER_ADDED_NOTIFY_GENERATOR" internal value.
7269 Resolves ticket 22213.
7270 - The logic that directory caches use to spool request to clients,
7271 serving them one part at a time so as not to allocate too much
7272 memory, has been refactored for consistency. Previously there was
7273 a separate spooling implementation per type of spoolable data. Now
7274 there is one common spooling implementation, with extensible data
7275 types. Closes ticket 21651.
7276 - Tor's compression module now supports multiple backends. Part of
7277 the implementation for proposal 278; closes ticket 21663.
7280 - Add a manpage description for the key-pinning-journal file. Closes
7282 - Correctly note that bandwidth accounting values are stored in the
7283 state file, and the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. Closes
7285 - Document more of the files in the Tor data directory, including
7286 cached-extrainfo, secret_onion_key{,_ntor}.old, hidserv-stats,
7287 approved-routers, sr-random, and diff-cache. Found while fixing
7289 - Clarify the manpage for the (deprecated) torify script. Closes
7291 - Clarify the behavior of the KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth sub-option.
7292 Closes ticket 21873.
7293 - Correct documentation about the default DataDirectory value.
7294 Closes ticket 21151.
7295 - Document the default behavior of NumEntryGuards and
7296 NumDirectoryGuards correctly. Fixes bug 21715; bugfix
7298 - Document key=value pluggable transport arguments for Bridge lines
7299 in torrc. Fixes bug 20341; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7300 - Note that bandwidth-limiting options don't affect TCP headers or
7301 DNS. Closes ticket 17170.
7303 o Removed features (configuration options, all in ticket 22060):
7304 - These configuration options are now marked Obsolete, and no longer
7305 have any effect: AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
7306 AllowSingleHopExits, ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK,
7307 TLSECGroup, WarnUnsafeSocks. They were first marked as deprecated
7308 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and have now been removed. The previous default
7309 behavior is now always chosen; the previous (less secure) non-
7310 default behavior is now unavailable.
7311 - CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout and
7312 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout were deprecated in
7313 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. HS circuits never close
7314 on circuit build timeout; they have a longer timeout period.
7315 - {Control,DNS,Dir,Socks,Trans,NATD,OR}ListenAddress were deprecated
7316 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. Use the ORPort option
7317 (and others) to configure listen-only and advertise-only addresses.
7319 o Removed features (tools):
7320 - We've removed the tor-checkkey tool from src/tools. Long ago, we
7321 used it to help people detect RSA keys that were generated by
7322 versions of Debian affected by CVE-2008-0166. But those keys have
7323 been out of circulation for ages, and this tool is no longer
7324 required. Closes ticket 21842.
7327 Changes in version 0.3.0.10 - 2017-08-02
7328 Tor 0.3.0.10 backports a collection of small-to-medium bugfixes
7329 from the current Tor alpha series. OpenBSD users and TPROXY users
7330 should upgrade; others are probably okay sticking with 0.3.0.9.
7332 o Major features (build system, continuous integration, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
7333 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
7334 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
7335 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
7336 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
7337 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
7338 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
7339 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
7340 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
7342 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
7343 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
7344 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
7345 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
7347 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
7348 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
7349 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
7350 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
7351 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
7353 o Minor features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
7354 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7357 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
7358 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
7359 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
7360 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
7362 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
7363 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
7364 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7365 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
7366 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7367 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
7368 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
7369 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
7372 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
7373 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
7374 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
7377 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
7378 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
7379 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
7380 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
7381 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
7382 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7384 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
7385 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
7386 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
7387 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7389 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
7390 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
7391 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7393 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha)
7394 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
7395 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7398 Changes in version 0.3.0.9 - 2017-06-29
7399 Tor 0.3.0.9 fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
7400 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
7401 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
7402 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9 or
7405 This release also backports several other bugfixes from the 0.3.1.x
7408 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
7409 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
7410 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
7411 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
7412 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
7413 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
7415 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
7416 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
7417 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
7418 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
7420 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
7421 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
7422 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
7423 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7425 o Minor features (geoip):
7426 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7429 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
7430 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
7431 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
7432 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
7433 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
7435 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
7436 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
7437 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
7438 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
7439 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
7441 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
7442 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
7443 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
7444 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
7445 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
7446 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
7447 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
7448 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
7449 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
7452 Changes in version 0.3.0.8 - 2017-06-08
7453 Tor 0.3.0.8 fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
7454 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
7455 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
7456 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
7458 Tor 0.3.0.8 also includes fixes for several key management bugs
7459 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
7460 bugfixes described below.
7462 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
7463 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
7464 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
7465 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
7466 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7467 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
7468 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
7469 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
7472 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
7473 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
7474 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
7475 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
7476 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
7477 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
7478 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
7481 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
7482 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
7483 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
7484 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
7485 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
7486 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
7487 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
7488 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7489 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
7490 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
7491 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
7492 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
7493 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
7496 o Major bugfixes (hidden service v3, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
7497 - Stop rejecting v3 hidden service descriptors because their size
7498 did not match an old padding rule. Fixes bug 22447; bugfix on
7501 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
7502 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
7503 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
7504 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
7505 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
7507 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
7508 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
7509 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7511 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
7512 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
7513 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
7515 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
7516 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
7517 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
7518 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
7519 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
7520 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
7521 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7523 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport from
7525 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
7526 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
7527 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7530 Changes in version 0.2.9.11 - 2017-06-08
7531 Tor 0.2.9.11 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
7532 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
7533 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
7534 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
7535 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
7537 Tor 0.2.9.11 also backports fixes for several key management bugs
7538 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
7539 bugfixes described below.
7541 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
7542 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
7543 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
7544 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
7545 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
7548 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
7549 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
7550 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
7551 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
7552 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
7553 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
7554 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
7557 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
7558 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
7559 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
7560 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
7561 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
7563 o Minor features (future-proofing, backport from 0.3.0.7):
7564 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors if
7565 they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
7566 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
7567 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
7568 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
7569 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
7571 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.0.4-rc)
7572 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
7573 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
7574 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
7575 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
7577 o Minor features (geoip):
7578 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7581 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.0.6):
7582 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
7583 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
7584 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7586 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
7587 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
7588 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
7590 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.0.7):
7591 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
7592 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
7593 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
7594 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
7597 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport
7598 from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
7599 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
7600 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
7601 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7603 Changes in version 0.2.8.14 - 2017-06-08
7604 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
7605 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
7606 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
7607 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
7608 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
7610 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
7611 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
7612 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
7613 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
7616 o Minor features (geoip):
7617 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7620 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
7621 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
7622 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
7623 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
7624 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
7626 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
7627 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
7628 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
7630 Changes in version 0.2.7.8 - 2017-06-08
7631 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
7632 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
7633 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
7634 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
7635 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
7637 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
7638 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
7639 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
7640 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
7643 o Minor features (geoip):
7644 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7647 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
7648 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
7649 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
7652 Changes in version 0.2.6.12 - 2017-06-08
7653 Tor 0.2.6.12 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
7654 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
7655 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
7656 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
7657 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
7659 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
7660 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
7661 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
7662 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
7665 o Minor features (geoip):
7666 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7669 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
7670 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
7671 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
7673 Changes in version 0.2.5.14 - 2017-06-08
7674 Tor 0.2.5.14 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
7675 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
7676 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
7677 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
7678 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
7680 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
7681 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
7682 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
7683 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
7686 o Minor features (geoip):
7687 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7690 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
7691 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
7692 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
7694 Changes in version 0.2.4.29 - 2017-06-08
7695 Tor 0.2.4.29 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
7696 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
7697 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
7698 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
7699 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
7701 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
7702 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
7703 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
7704 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
7707 o Minor features (geoip):
7708 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7711 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
7712 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
7713 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
7716 Changes in version 0.3.0.7 - 2017-05-15
7717 Tor 0.3.0.7 fixes a medium-severity security bug in earlier versions
7718 of Tor 0.3.0.x, where an attacker could cause a Tor relay process
7719 to exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade;
7720 clients are not affected.
7722 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory, security):
7723 - Fix an assertion failure in the hidden service directory code, which
7724 could be used by an attacker to remotely cause a Tor relay process to
7725 exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade.
7726 should upgrade. This security issue is tracked as TROVE-2017-002.
7727 Fixes bug 22246; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7730 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7733 o Minor features (future-proofing):
7734 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors
7735 if they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
7736 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
7737 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
7738 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
7739 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
7741 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
7742 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
7743 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
7744 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
7745 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
7749 Changes in version 0.3.0.6 - 2017-04-26
7750 Tor 0.3.0.6 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.3.0 series.
7752 With the 0.3.0 series, clients and relays now use Ed25519 keys to
7753 authenticate their link connections to relays, rather than the old
7754 RSA1024 keys that they used before. (Circuit crypto has been
7755 Curve25519-authenticated since 0.2.4.8-alpha.) We have also replaced
7756 the guard selection and replacement algorithm to behave more robustly
7757 in the presence of unreliable networks, and to resist guard-
7760 This series also includes numerous other small features and bugfixes,
7761 along with more groundwork for the upcoming hidden-services revamp.
7763 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support the Tor 0.3.0
7764 release series for at least the next nine months, or for three months
7765 after the first stable release of the 0.3.1 series: whichever is
7766 longer. If you need a release with long-term support, we recommend
7767 that you stay with the 0.2.9 series.
7769 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.10. For a list of only the changes
7770 since 0.3.0.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
7772 o Major features (directory authority, security):
7773 - The default for AuthDirPinKeys is now 1: directory authorities
7774 will reject relays where the RSA identity key matches a previously
7775 seen value, but the Ed25519 key has changed. Closes ticket 18319.
7777 o Major features (guard selection algorithm):
7778 - Tor's guard selection algorithm has been redesigned from the
7779 ground up, to better support unreliable networks and restrictive
7780 sets of entry nodes, and to better resist guard-capture attacks by
7781 hostile local networks. Implements proposal 271; closes
7784 o Major features (next-generation hidden services):
7785 - Relays can now handle v3 ESTABLISH_INTRO cells as specified by
7786 prop224 aka "Next Generation Hidden Services". Service and clients
7787 don't use this functionality yet. Closes ticket 19043. Based on
7788 initial code by Alec Heifetz.
7789 - Relays now support the HSDir version 3 protocol, so that they can
7790 can store and serve v3 descriptors. This is part of the next-
7791 generation onion service work detailed in proposal 224. Closes
7794 o Major features (protocol, ed25519 identity keys):
7795 - Clients now support including Ed25519 identity keys in the EXTEND2
7796 cells they generate. By default, this is controlled by a consensus
7797 parameter, currently disabled. You can turn this feature on for
7798 testing by setting ExtendByEd25519ID in your configuration. This
7799 might make your traffic appear different than the traffic
7800 generated by other users, however. Implements part of ticket
7801 15056; part of proposal 220.
7802 - Relays now understand requests to extend to other relays by their
7803 Ed25519 identity keys. When an Ed25519 identity key is included in
7804 an EXTEND2 cell, the relay will only extend the circuit if the
7805 other relay can prove ownership of that identity. Implements part
7806 of ticket 15056; part of proposal 220.
7807 - Relays now use Ed25519 to prove their Ed25519 identities and to
7808 one another, and to clients. This algorithm is faster and more
7809 secure than the RSA-based handshake we've been doing until now.
7810 Implements the second big part of proposal 220; Closes
7813 o Major features (security):
7814 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
7815 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
7816 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
7817 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
7818 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
7819 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
7821 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service, also in 0.2.9.9):
7822 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
7823 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
7824 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
7825 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
7826 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
7827 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
7828 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
7829 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
7830 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
7831 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7833 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections):
7834 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
7835 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
7836 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
7838 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
7839 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
7840 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
7841 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
7844 o Major bugfixes (DNS):
7845 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
7846 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
7848 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits):
7849 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
7850 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
7851 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
7852 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
7853 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
7854 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
7856 o Major bugfixes (parsing):
7857 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
7858 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
7859 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
7860 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
7861 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
7862 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
7863 - When parsing a malformed content-length field from an HTTP
7864 message, do not read off the end of the buffer. This bug was a
7865 potential remote denial-of-service attack against Tor clients and
7866 relays. A workaround was released in October 2016, to prevent this
7867 bug from crashing Tor. This is a fix for the underlying issue,
7868 which should no longer matter (if you applied the earlier patch).
7869 Fixes bug 20894; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Bug found by fuzzing
7870 using AFL (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).
7872 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
7873 - Actually compare circuit policies in ewma_cmp_cmux(). This bug
7874 caused the channel scheduler to behave more or less randomly,
7875 rather than preferring channels with higher-priority circuits.
7876 Fixes bug 20459; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
7878 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.9.9):
7879 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
7880 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
7881 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes--and having it
7882 on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
7883 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
7884 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7886 o Minor feature (client):
7887 - Enable IPv6 traffic on the SocksPort by default. To disable this,
7888 a user will have to specify "NoIPv6Traffic". Closes ticket 21269.
7890 o Minor feature (fallback scripts):
7891 - Add a check_existing mode to updateFallbackDirs.py, which checks
7892 if fallbacks in the hard-coded list are working. Closes ticket
7893 20174. Patch by haxxpop.
7895 o Minor feature (protocol versioning):
7896 - Add new protocol version for proposal 224. HSIntro now advertises
7897 version "3-4" and HSDir version "1-2". Fixes ticket 20656.
7899 o Minor features (ciphersuite selection):
7900 - Allow relays to accept a wider range of ciphersuites, including
7901 chacha20-poly1305 and AES-CCM. Closes the other part of 15426.
7902 - Clients now advertise a list of ciphersuites closer to the ones
7903 preferred by Firefox. Closes part of ticket 15426.
7905 o Minor features (controller):
7906 - Add "GETINFO sr/current" and "GETINFO sr/previous" keys, to expose
7907 shared-random values to the controller. Closes ticket 19925.
7908 - When HSFETCH arguments cannot be parsed, say "Invalid argument"
7909 rather than "unrecognized." Closes ticket 20389; patch from
7912 o Minor features (controller, configuration):
7913 - Each of the *Port options, such as SocksPort, ORPort, ControlPort,
7914 and so on, now comes with a __*Port variant that will not be saved
7915 to the torrc file by the controller's SAVECONF command. This
7916 change allows TorBrowser to set up a single-use domain socket for
7917 each time it launches Tor. Closes ticket 20956.
7918 - The GETCONF command can now query options that may only be
7919 meaningful in context-sensitive lists. This allows the controller
7920 to query the mixed SocksPort/__SocksPort style options introduced
7921 in feature 20956. Implements ticket 21300.
7923 o Minor features (diagnostic, directory client):
7924 - Warn when we find an unexpected inconsistency in directory
7925 download status objects. Prevents some negative consequences of
7928 o Minor features (directory authorities):
7929 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
7930 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
7932 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
7933 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
7934 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
7936 o Minor features (directory authority):
7937 - Add a new authority-only AuthDirTestEd25519LinkKeys option (on by
7938 default) to control whether authorities should try to probe relays
7939 by their Ed25519 link keys. This option will go away in a few
7940 releases--unless we encounter major trouble in our ed25519 link
7941 protocol rollout, in which case it will serve as a safety option.
7943 o Minor features (directory cache):
7944 - Relays and bridges will now refuse to serve the consensus they
7945 have if they know it is too old for a client to use. Closes
7948 o Minor features (ed25519 link handshake):
7949 - Advertise support for the ed25519 link handshake using the
7950 subprotocol-versions mechanism, so that clients can tell which
7951 relays can identity themselves by Ed25519 ID. Closes ticket 20552.
7953 o Minor features (entry guards):
7954 - Add UseEntryGuards to TEST_OPTIONS_DEFAULT_VALUES in order to not
7955 break regression tests.
7956 - Require UseEntryGuards when UseBridges is set, in order to make
7957 sure bridges aren't bypassed. Resolves ticket 20502.
7959 o Minor features (fallback directories):
7960 - Allow 3 fallback relays per operator, which is safe now that we
7961 are choosing 200 fallback relays. Closes ticket 20912.
7962 - Annotate updateFallbackDirs.py with the bandwidth and consensus
7963 weight for each candidate fallback. Closes ticket 20878.
7964 - Display the relay fingerprint when downloading consensuses from
7965 fallbacks. Closes ticket 20908.
7966 - Exclude relays affected by bug 20499 from the fallback list.
7967 Exclude relays from the fallback list if they are running versions
7968 known to be affected by bug 20499, or if in our tests they deliver
7969 a stale consensus (i.e. one that expired more than 24 hours ago).
7970 Closes ticket 20539.
7971 - Make it easier to change the output sort order of fallbacks.
7972 Closes ticket 20822.
7973 - Reduce the minimum fallback bandwidth to 1 MByte/s. Part of
7975 - Require fallback directories to have the same address and port for
7976 7 days (now that we have enough relays with this stability).
7977 Relays whose OnionOO stability timer is reset on restart by bug
7978 18050 should upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.7 or later, which has a fix for
7979 this issue. Closes ticket 20880; maintains short-term fix
7981 - Require fallbacks to have flags for 90% of the time (weighted
7982 decaying average), rather than 95%. This allows at least 73% of
7983 clients to bootstrap in the first 5 seconds without contacting an
7984 authority. Part of ticket 18828.
7985 - Select 200 fallback directories for each release. Closes
7988 o Minor features (fingerprinting resistance, authentication):
7989 - Extend the length of RSA keys used for TLS link authentication to
7990 2048 bits. (These weren't used for forward secrecy; for forward
7991 secrecy, we used P256.) Closes ticket 13752.
7993 o Minor features (geoip):
7994 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7997 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.9.9):
7998 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8001 o Minor features (infrastructure):
8002 - Implement smartlist_add_strdup() function. Replaces the use of
8003 smartlist_add(sl, tor_strdup(str)). Closes ticket 20048.
8005 o Minor features (linting):
8006 - Enhance the changes file linter to warn on Tor versions that are
8007 prefixed with "tor-". Closes ticket 21096.
8009 o Minor features (logging):
8010 - In several places, describe unset ed25519 keys as "<unset>",
8011 rather than the scary "AAAAAAAA...AAA". Closes ticket 21037.
8013 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
8014 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
8015 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
8017 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
8018 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
8020 o Minor features (relay):
8021 - We now allow separation of exit and relay traffic to different
8022 source IP addresses, using the OutboundBindAddressExit and
8023 OutboundBindAddressOR options respectively. Closes ticket 17975.
8024 Written by Michael Sonntag.
8026 o Minor features (reliability, crash):
8027 - Try better to detect problems in buffers where they might grow (or
8028 think they have grown) over 2 GB in size. Diagnostic for
8031 o Minor features (testing):
8032 - During 'make test-network-all', if tor logs any warnings, ask
8033 chutney to output them. Requires a recent version of chutney with
8034 the 21572 patch. Implements 21570.
8036 o Minor bugfix (control protocol):
8037 - The reply to a "GETINFO config/names" request via the control
8038 protocol now spells the type "Dependent" correctly. This is a
8039 breaking change in the control protocol. (The field seems to be
8040 ignored by the most common known controllers.) Fixes bug 18146;
8041 bugfix on 0.1.1.4-alpha.
8042 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
8043 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
8044 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8046 o Minor bugfix (logging):
8047 - Don't recommend the use of Tor2web in non-anonymous mode.
8048 Recommending Tor2web is a bad idea because the client loses all
8049 anonymity. Tor2web should only be used in specific cases by users
8050 who *know* and understand the issues. Fixes bug 21294; bugfix
8053 o Minor bugfixes (bug resilience):
8054 - Fix an unreachable size_t overflow in base64_decode(). Fixes bug
8055 19222; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Found by Guido Vranken; fixed by
8056 Hans Jerry Illikainen.
8058 o Minor bugfixes (build):
8059 - Replace obsolete Autoconf macros with their modern equivalent and
8060 prevent similar issues in the future. Fixes bug 20990; bugfix
8063 o Minor bugfixes (certificate expiration time):
8064 - Avoid using link certificates that don't become valid till some
8065 time in the future. Fixes bug 21420; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha
8067 o Minor bugfixes (client):
8068 - Always recover from failures in extend_info_from_node(), in an
8069 attempt to prevent any recurrence of bug 21242. Fixes bug 21372;
8070 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
8071 - When clients that use bridges start up with a cached consensus on
8072 disk, they were ignoring it and downloading a new one. Now they
8073 use the cached one. Fixes bug 20269; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
8075 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
8076 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
8077 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
8079 o Minor bugfixes (config):
8080 - Don't assert on startup when trying to get the options list and
8081 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is set to 0: we are currently parsing the
8082 options so of course they aren't ready yet. Fixes bug 21062;
8083 bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8085 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
8086 - Accept non-space whitespace characters after the severity level in
8087 the `Log` option. Fixes bug 19965; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
8088 - Support "TByte" and "TBytes" units in options given in bytes.
8089 "TB", "terabyte(s)", "TBit(s)" and "terabit(s)" were already
8090 supported. Fixes bug 20622; bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
8092 o Minor bugfixes (configure, autoconf):
8093 - Rename the configure option --enable-expensive-hardening to
8094 --enable-fragile-hardening. Expensive hardening makes the tor
8095 daemon abort when some kinds of issues are detected. Thus, it
8096 makes tor more at risk of remote crashes but safer against RCE or
8097 heartbleed bug category. We now try to explain this issue in a
8098 message from the configure script. Fixes bug 21290; bugfix
8101 o Minor bugfixes (consensus weight):
8102 - Add new consensus method that initializes bw weights to 1 instead
8103 of 0. This prevents a zero weight from making it all the way to
8104 the end (happens in small testing networks) and causing an error.
8105 Fixes bug 14881; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
8107 o Minor bugfixes (crash prevention):
8108 - Fix an (currently untriggerable, but potentially dangerous) crash
8109 bug when base32-encoding inputs whose sizes are not a multiple of
8110 5. Fixes bug 21894; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8112 o Minor bugfixes (dead code):
8113 - Remove a redundant check for PidFile changes at runtime in
8114 options_transition_allowed(): this check is already performed
8115 regardless of whether the sandbox is active. Fixes bug 21123;
8116 bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
8118 o Minor bugfixes (descriptors):
8119 - Correctly recognise downloaded full descriptors as valid, even
8120 when using microdescriptors as circuits. This affects clients with
8121 FetchUselessDescriptors set, and may affect directory authorities.
8122 Fixes bug 20839; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
8124 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
8125 - Allow relays to use directory mirrors without a DirPort: these
8126 relays need to be contacted over their ORPorts using a begindir
8127 connection. Fixes one case of bug 20711; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
8128 - Clarify the message logged when a remote relay is unexpectedly
8129 missing an ORPort or DirPort: users were confusing this with a
8130 local port. Fixes another case of bug 20711; bugfix
8133 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
8134 - Bridges and relays now use microdescriptors (like clients do)
8135 rather than old-style router descriptors. Now bridges will blend
8136 in with clients in terms of the circuits they build. Fixes bug
8137 6769; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
8138 - Download all consensus flavors, descriptors, and authority
8139 certificates when FetchUselessDescriptors is set, regardless of
8140 whether tor is a directory cache or not. Fixes bug 20667; bugfix
8141 on all recent tor versions.
8143 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
8144 - Update the tor manual page to document every option that can not
8145 be changed while tor is running. Fixes bug 21122.
8147 o Minor bugfixes (ed25519 certificates):
8148 - Correctly interpret ed25519 certificates that would expire some
8149 time after 19 Jan 2038. Fixes bug 20027; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8151 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
8152 - Avoid checking fallback candidates' DirPorts if they are down in
8153 OnionOO. When a relay operator has multiple relays, this
8154 prioritizes relays that are up over relays that are down. Fixes
8155 bug 20926; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
8156 - Stop failing when OUTPUT_COMMENTS is True in updateFallbackDirs.py.
8157 Fixes bug 20877; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
8158 - Stop failing when a relay has no uptime data in
8159 updateFallbackDirs.py. Fixes bug 20945; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8161 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
8162 - Clean up the code for expiring intro points with no associated
8163 circuits. It was causing, rarely, a service with some expiring
8164 introduction points to not open enough additional introduction
8165 points. Fixes part of bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8166 - Resolve two possible underflows which could lead to creating and
8167 closing a lot of introduction point circuits in a non-stop loop.
8168 Fixes bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8169 - Stop setting the torrc option HiddenServiceStatistics to "0" just
8170 because we're not a bridge or relay. Instead, we preserve whatever
8171 value the user set (or didn't set). Fixes bug 21150; bugfix
8174 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
8175 - Make hidden services check for failed intro point connections,
8176 even when they have exceeded their intro point creation limit.
8177 Fixes bug 21596; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
8178 - Make hidden services with 8 to 10 introduction points check for
8179 failed circuits immediately after startup. Previously, they would
8180 wait for 5 minutes before performing their first checks. Fixes bug
8181 21594; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
8182 - Stop ignoring misconfigured hidden services. Instead, refuse to
8183 start tor until the misconfigurations have been corrected. Fixes
8184 bug 20559; bugfix on multiple commits in 0.2.7.1-alpha
8187 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
8188 - Make IPv6-using clients try harder to find an IPv6 directory
8189 server. Fixes bug 20999; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
8190 - When IPv6 addresses have not been downloaded yet (microdesc
8191 consensus documents don't list relay IPv6 addresses), use hard-
8192 coded addresses for authorities, fallbacks, and configured
8193 bridges. Now IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors. Fixes bug
8194 20996; bugfix on b167e82 from 19608 in 0.2.8.5-alpha.
8196 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak at exit):
8197 - Fix a small harmless memory leak at exit of the previously unused
8198 RSA->Ed identity cross-certificate. Fixes bug 17779; bugfix
8201 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
8202 - Allow the number of introduction points to be as low as 0, rather
8203 than as low as 3. Fixes bug 21033; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8205 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
8206 - Use "OpenBSD" compiler macro instead of "OPENBSD" or "__OpenBSD__".
8207 It is supported by OpenBSD itself, and also by most OpenBSD
8208 variants (such as Bitrig). Fixes bug 20980; bugfix
8211 o Minor bugfixes (portability, also in 0.2.9.9):
8212 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
8213 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
8214 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
8216 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
8217 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8219 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
8220 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
8221 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
8223 - Honor DataDirectoryGroupReadable when tor is a relay. Previously,
8224 initializing the keys would reset the DataDirectory to 0700
8225 instead of 0750 even if DataDirectoryGroupReadable was set to 1.
8226 Fixes bug 19953; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16. Patch by "redfish".
8228 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8229 - Fix Raspbian build issues related to missing socket errno in
8230 test_util.c. Fixes bug 21116; bugfix on 0.2.8.2. Patch by "hein".
8231 - Remove undefined behavior from the backtrace generator by removing
8232 its signal handler. Fixes bug 21026; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8233 - Use bash in src/test/test-network.sh. This ensures we reliably
8234 call chutney's newer tools/test-network.sh when available. Fixes
8235 bug 21562; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8237 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
8238 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
8239 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
8240 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
8241 Patch by "junglefowl".
8243 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
8244 - Allow the unit tests to pass even when DNS lookups of bogus
8245 addresses do not fail as expected. Fixes bug 20862 and 20863;
8246 bugfix on unit tests introduced in 0.2.8.1-alpha
8247 through 0.2.9.4-alpha.
8249 o Minor bugfixes (util):
8250 - When finishing writing a file to disk, if we were about to replace
8251 the file with the temporary file created before and we fail to
8252 replace it, remove the temporary file so it doesn't stay on disk.
8253 Fixes bug 20646; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch by fk.
8255 o Minor bugfixes (Windows services):
8256 - Be sure to initialize the monotonic time subsystem before using
8257 it, even when running as an NT service. Fixes bug 21356; bugfix
8260 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
8261 - Check for getpagesize before using it to mmap files. This fixes
8262 compilation in some MinGW environments. Fixes bug 20530; bugfix on
8263 0.1.2.1-alpha. Reported by "ice".
8265 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8266 - Abolish all global guard context in entrynodes.c; replace with new
8267 guard_selection_t structure as preparation for proposal 271.
8268 Closes ticket 19858.
8269 - Extract magic numbers in circuituse.c into defined variables.
8270 - Introduce rend_service_is_ephemeral() that tells if given onion
8271 service is ephemeral. Replace unclear NULL-checkings for service
8272 directory with this function. Closes ticket 20526.
8273 - Refactor circuit_is_available_for_use to remove unnecessary check.
8274 - Refactor circuit_predict_and_launch_new for readability and
8275 testability. Closes ticket 18873.
8276 - Refactor code to manipulate global_origin_circuit_list into
8277 separate functions. Closes ticket 20921.
8278 - Refactor large if statement in purpose_needs_anonymity to use
8279 switch statement instead. Closes part of ticket 20077.
8280 - Refactor the hashing API to return negative values for errors, as
8281 is done as throughout the codebase. Closes ticket 20717.
8282 - Remove data structures that were used to index or_connection
8283 objects by their RSA identity digests. These structures are fully
8284 redundant with the similar structures used in the
8285 channel abstraction.
8286 - Remove duplicate code in the channel_write_*cell() functions.
8287 Closes ticket 13827; patch from Pingl.
8288 - Remove redundant behavior of is_sensitive_dir_purpose, refactor to
8289 use only purpose_needs_anonymity. Closes part of ticket 20077.
8290 - The code to generate and parse EXTEND and EXTEND2 cells has been
8291 replaced with code automatically generated by the
8294 o Documentation (formatting):
8295 - Clean up formatting of tor.1 man page and HTML doc, where <pre>
8296 blocks were incorrectly appearing. Closes ticket 20885.
8298 o Documentation (man page):
8299 - Clarify many options in tor.1 and add some min/max values for
8300 HiddenService options. Closes ticket 21058.
8303 - Change '1' to 'weight_scale' in consensus bw weights calculation
8304 comments, as that is reality. Closes ticket 20273. Patch
8306 - Clarify that when ClientRejectInternalAddresses is enabled (which
8307 is the default), multicast DNS hostnames for machines on the local
8308 network (of the form *.local) are also rejected. Closes
8310 - Correct the value for AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee in the manpage, from
8311 250 KBytes to 2 MBytes. Fixes bug 20435; bugfix on 0.2.5.6-alpha.
8312 - Include the "TBits" unit in Tor's man page. Fixes part of bug
8313 20622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8314 - Small fixes to the fuzzing documentation. Closes ticket 21472.
8315 - Stop the man page from incorrectly stating that HiddenServiceDir
8316 must already exist. Fixes 20486.
8317 - Update the description of the directory server options in the
8318 manual page, to clarify that a relay no longer needs to set
8319 DirPort in order to be a directory cache. Closes ticket 21720.
8322 - The AuthDirMaxServersPerAuthAddr option no longer exists: The same
8323 limit for relays running on a single IP applies to authority IP
8324 addresses as well as to non-authority IP addresses. Closes
8326 - The UseDirectoryGuards torrc option no longer exists: all users
8327 that use entry guards will also use directory guards. Related to
8328 proposal 271; implements part of ticket 20831.
8331 - Add tests for networkstatus_compute_bw_weights_v10.
8332 - Add unit tests circuit_predict_and_launch_new.
8333 - Extract dummy_origin_circuit_new so it can be used by other
8335 - New unit tests for tor_htonll(). Closes ticket 19563. Patch
8336 from "overcaffeinated".
8337 - Perform the coding style checks when running the tests and fail
8338 when coding style violations are found. Closes ticket 5500.
8341 Changes in version 0.2.8.13 - 2017-03-03
8342 Tor 0.2.8.13 backports a security fix from later Tor
8343 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.8.12 or earlier should upgrade to this
8344 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
8345 release series, and if they build Tor with the --enable-expensive-hardening
8348 Note that support for Tor 0.2.8.x is ending next year: we will not issue
8349 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.8.x series after 1 Jan 2018. If you need
8350 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
8352 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
8353 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
8354 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
8355 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
8356 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
8357 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
8358 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
8360 o Minor features (geoip):
8361 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8365 Changes in version 0.2.7.7 - 2017-03-03
8366 Tor 0.2.7.7 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
8367 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.7.6 or earlier should upgrade to
8368 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
8371 Note that support for Tor 0.2.7.x is ending this year: we will not issue
8372 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.7.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
8373 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
8375 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
8376 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
8378 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
8379 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
8380 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
8382 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
8383 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
8384 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
8387 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
8388 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
8389 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
8390 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
8391 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
8392 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
8393 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
8394 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
8395 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
8397 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
8398 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
8399 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
8400 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
8401 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
8402 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
8403 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
8404 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
8405 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
8406 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
8407 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
8408 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
8409 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
8411 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
8412 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
8413 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
8414 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
8415 Reported by Guido Vranken.
8417 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
8418 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
8419 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
8421 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
8422 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
8423 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
8424 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
8425 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
8426 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
8427 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
8430 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
8431 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
8432 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
8433 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
8434 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
8435 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
8436 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
8438 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
8439 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
8440 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
8441 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
8444 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
8445 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
8446 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
8447 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
8449 o Minor features (geoip):
8450 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8454 Changes in version 0.2.6.11 - 2017-03-03
8455 Tor 0.2.6.11 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
8456 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.6.10 or earlier should upgrade to
8457 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
8460 Note that support for Tor 0.2.6.x is ending this year: we will not issue
8461 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.6.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
8462 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
8464 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
8465 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
8467 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
8468 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
8469 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
8471 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
8472 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
8473 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
8476 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
8477 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
8478 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
8479 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
8480 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
8481 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
8482 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
8483 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
8484 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
8486 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
8487 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
8488 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
8489 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
8490 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
8491 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
8492 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
8493 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
8494 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
8496 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
8497 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
8498 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
8499 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
8500 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
8502 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
8503 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
8504 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
8505 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
8506 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
8509 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
8510 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
8511 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
8512 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
8513 Reported by Guido Vranken.
8515 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
8516 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
8517 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
8519 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
8520 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
8521 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
8522 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
8523 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
8524 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
8527 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
8528 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
8529 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
8530 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
8531 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
8532 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
8533 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
8536 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
8537 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
8538 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
8539 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
8540 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
8541 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
8542 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
8544 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
8545 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
8546 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
8547 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
8550 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
8551 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
8552 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
8553 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
8555 o Minor features (geoip):
8556 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8559 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
8560 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
8561 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
8564 Changes in version 0.2.5.13 - 2017-03-03
8565 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
8566 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.5.13 or earlier should upgrade to
8567 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
8570 Note that support for Tor 0.2.5.x is ending next year: we will not issue
8571 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.5.x series after 1 May 2018. If you need
8572 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
8574 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
8575 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
8577 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
8578 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
8579 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
8581 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
8582 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
8583 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
8586 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
8587 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
8588 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
8589 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
8590 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
8591 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
8592 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
8593 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
8594 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
8596 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
8597 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
8598 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
8599 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
8600 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
8601 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
8602 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
8603 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
8604 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
8606 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
8607 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
8608 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
8609 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
8610 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
8612 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
8613 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
8614 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
8615 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
8616 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
8619 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
8620 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
8621 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
8622 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
8623 Reported by Guido Vranken.
8625 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
8626 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
8627 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
8629 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
8630 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
8631 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
8632 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
8633 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
8634 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
8637 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
8638 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
8639 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
8640 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
8641 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
8642 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
8643 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
8646 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
8647 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
8648 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
8649 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
8650 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
8651 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
8652 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
8654 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
8655 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
8656 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
8657 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
8660 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
8661 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
8662 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
8663 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
8665 o Minor features (geoip):
8666 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8669 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
8670 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
8671 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
8673 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, backport from 0.2.7.2-alpha):
8674 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
8675 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
8676 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
8677 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
8678 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
8680 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
8681 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
8682 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
8686 Changes in version 0.2.4.28 - 2017-03-03
8687 Tor 0.2.4.28 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
8688 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.4.27 or earlier should upgrade to
8689 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
8692 Note that support for Tor 0.2.4.x is ending soon: we will not issue
8693 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.4.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
8694 a Tor release series with long-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
8696 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
8697 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
8699 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
8700 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
8701 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
8703 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
8704 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
8705 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
8708 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
8709 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
8710 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
8711 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
8712 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
8713 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
8714 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
8715 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
8716 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
8718 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
8719 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
8720 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
8721 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
8722 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
8723 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
8724 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
8725 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
8726 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
8728 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
8729 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
8730 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
8731 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
8732 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
8735 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
8736 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
8737 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
8738 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
8739 Reported by Guido Vranken.
8741 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
8742 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
8743 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
8745 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
8746 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
8747 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
8748 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
8749 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
8750 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
8753 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
8754 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
8755 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
8756 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
8757 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
8758 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
8759 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
8762 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
8763 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
8764 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
8765 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
8766 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
8767 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
8768 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
8770 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
8771 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
8772 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
8773 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
8776 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
8777 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
8778 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
8779 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
8781 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
8782 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
8783 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
8784 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
8786 o Minor features (geoip):
8787 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8790 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
8791 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
8792 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
8794 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
8795 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
8796 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
8800 Changes in version 0.2.9.10 - 2017-03-01
8801 Tor 0.2.9.10 backports a security fix from later Tor release. It also
8802 includes fixes for some major issues affecting directory authorities,
8803 LibreSSL compatibility, and IPv6 correctness.
8805 The Tor 0.2.9.x release series is now marked as a long-term-support
8806 series. We intend to backport security fixes to 0.2.9.x until at
8807 least January of 2020.
8809 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, 0.3.0.3-alpha):
8810 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
8811 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
8812 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
8815 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
8816 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
8817 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
8818 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
8819 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
8820 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
8821 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
8823 o Major bugfixes (parsing, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
8824 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
8825 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
8826 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
8827 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
8828 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
8829 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
8831 o Minor features (directory authorities, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
8832 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
8833 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
8835 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
8836 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
8837 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
8839 o Minor features (geoip):
8840 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8843 o Minor features (portability, compilation, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
8844 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
8845 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
8847 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
8848 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
8850 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
8851 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
8852 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
8854 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
8855 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
8856 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
8857 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
8858 Patch by "junglefowl".
8861 Changes in version 0.2.9.9 - 2017-01-23
8862 Tor 0.2.9.9 fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
8863 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
8864 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
8865 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
8866 version should upgrade.
8868 This release also resolves a client-side onion service reachability
8869 bug, and resolves a pair of small portability issues.
8871 o Major bugfixes (security):
8872 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
8873 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
8874 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes -- and having
8875 it on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
8876 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
8877 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8879 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service):
8880 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
8881 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
8882 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
8883 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
8884 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
8885 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
8886 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
8887 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
8888 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
8889 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8891 o Minor features (geoip):
8892 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8895 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
8896 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
8897 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
8898 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
8900 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
8901 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8904 Changes in version 0.2.8.12 - 2016-12-19
8905 Tor 0.2.8.12 backports a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug 21018
8906 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
8907 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
8908 become available for their systems.
8910 It also includes an updated list of fallback directories, backported
8913 Now that the Tor 0.2.9 series is stable, only major bugfixes will be
8914 backported to 0.2.8 in the future.
8916 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backported from 0.2.9.8):
8917 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
8918 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
8919 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
8920 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
8921 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
8922 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
8923 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
8924 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
8926 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backported from 0.2.9.8):
8927 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
8928 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
8929 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
8930 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
8932 o Minor features (geoip, backported from 0.2.9.7-rc):
8933 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
8937 Changes in version 0.2.9.8 - 2016-12-19
8938 Tor 0.2.9.8 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.2.9 series.
8940 The Tor 0.2.9 series makes mandatory a number of security features
8941 that were formerly optional. It includes support for a new shared-
8942 randomness protocol that will form the basis for next generation
8943 hidden services, includes a single-hop hidden service mode for
8944 optimizing .onion services that don't actually want to be hidden,
8945 tries harder not to overload the directory authorities with excessive
8946 downloads, and supports a better protocol versioning scheme for
8947 improved compatibility with other implementations of the Tor protocol.
8949 And of course, there are numerous other bugfixes and improvements.
8951 This release also includes a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug
8952 21018 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
8953 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
8954 become available for their systems.
8956 Below are listed the changes since Tor 0.2.8.11. For a list of
8957 changes since 0.2.9.7-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
8959 o New system requirements:
8960 - When building with OpenSSL, Tor now requires version 1.0.1 or
8961 later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 and earlier are no longer supported by the
8962 OpenSSL team, and should not be used. Closes ticket 20303.
8963 - Tor now requires Libevent version 2.0.10-stable or later. Older
8964 versions of Libevent have less efficient backends for several
8965 platforms, and lack the DNS code that we use for our server-side
8966 DNS support. This implements ticket 19554.
8967 - Tor now requires zlib version 1.2 or later, for security,
8968 efficiency, and (eventually) gzip support. (Back when we started,
8969 zlib 1.1 and zlib 1.0 were still found in the wild. 1.2 was
8970 released in 2003. We recommend the latest version.)
8972 o Deprecated features:
8973 - A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now
8974 deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future
8975 version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS caching is a bad
8976 idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options
8977 are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache,
8978 UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache.
8979 - A number of options are deprecated for security reasons, and may
8980 be removed in a future version of Tor. The options are:
8981 AllowDotExit, AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
8982 AllowSingleHopExits, ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses,
8983 CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
8984 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
8985 ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK, TLSECGroup,
8986 UseNTorHandshake, and WarnUnsafeSocks.
8987 - The *ListenAddress options are now deprecated as unnecessary: the
8988 corresponding *Port options should be used instead. These options
8989 may someday be removed. The affected options are:
8990 ControlListenAddress, DNSListenAddress, DirListenAddress,
8991 NATDListenAddress, ORListenAddress, SocksListenAddress,
8992 and TransListenAddress.
8994 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, new since 0.2.9.7-rc):
8995 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
8996 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
8997 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
8998 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
8999 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
9000 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
9001 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
9002 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
9004 o Major features (build, hardening):
9005 - Tor now builds with -ftrapv by default on compilers that support
9006 it. This option detects signed integer overflow (which C forbids),
9007 and turns it into a hard-failure. We do not apply this option to
9008 code that needs to run in constant time to avoid side-channels;
9009 instead, we use -fwrapv in that code. Closes ticket 17983.
9010 - When --enable-expensive-hardening is selected, stop applying the
9011 clang/gcc sanitizers to code that needs to run in constant time.
9012 Although we are aware of no introduced side-channels, we are not
9013 able to prove that there are none. Related to ticket 17983.
9015 o Major features (circuit building, security):
9016 - Authorities, relays, and clients now require ntor keys in all
9017 descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol
9018 cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of
9020 - Authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for
9021 rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163.
9023 o Major features (compilation):
9024 - Our big list of extra GCC warnings is now enabled by default when
9025 building with GCC (or with anything like Clang that claims to be
9026 GCC-compatible). To make all warnings into fatal compilation
9027 errors, pass --enable-fatal-warnings to configure. Closes
9029 - Use the Autoconf macro AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to automatically
9030 turn on C and POSIX extensions. (Previously, we attempted to do
9031 this on an ad hoc basis.) Closes ticket 19139.
9033 o Major features (directory authorities, hidden services):
9034 - Directory authorities can now perform the shared randomness
9035 protocol specified by proposal 250. Using this protocol, directory
9036 authorities generate a global fresh random value every day. In the
9037 future, this value will be used by hidden services to select
9038 HSDirs. This release implements the directory authority feature;
9039 the hidden service side will be implemented in the future as part
9040 of proposal 224. Resolves ticket 16943; implements proposal 250.
9042 o Major features (downloading, random exponential backoff):
9043 - When we fail to download an object from a directory service, wait
9044 for an (exponentially increasing) randomized amount of time before
9045 retrying, rather than a fixed interval as we did before. This
9046 prevents a group of Tor instances from becoming too synchronized,
9047 or a single Tor instance from becoming too predictable, in its
9048 download schedule. Closes ticket 15942.
9050 o Major features (resource management):
9051 - Tor can now notice it is about to run out of sockets, and
9052 preemptively close connections of lower priority. (This feature is
9053 off by default for now, since the current prioritizing method is
9054 yet not mature enough. You can enable it by setting
9055 "DisableOOSCheck 0", but watch out: it might close some sockets
9056 you would rather have it keep.) Closes ticket 18640.
9058 o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services):
9059 - Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and
9060 HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1,
9061 every hidden service on that Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous
9062 Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct)
9063 connections to their introduction and rendezvous points. One-hop
9064 circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients
9065 remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing
9066 hidden service implementation, and works on the current Tor
9067 network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements
9068 proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn.
9070 o Major features (subprotocol versions):
9071 - Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended
9072 "subprotocol versions", and on a set of required subprotocol
9073 versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_
9074 subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a
9075 _recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade.
9076 This change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s)
9077 to exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with
9078 particular releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements
9079 part of proposal 264.
9081 o Major bugfixes (circuit building):
9082 - Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous-
9083 point circuits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid
9084 epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc.
9086 o Major bugfixes (download scheduling):
9087 - Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we
9088 already have another, smarter retry mechanism. Fixes bug 8625;
9089 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
9090 - If a consensus expires while we are waiting for certificates to
9091 download, stop waiting for certificates.
9092 - If we stop waiting for certificates less than a minute after we
9093 started downloading them, do not consider the certificate download
9094 failure a separate failure. Fixes bug 20533; bugfix
9096 - When using exponential backoff in test networks, use a lower
9097 exponent, so the delays do not vary as much. This helps test
9098 networks bootstrap consistently. Fixes bug 20597; bugfix on 20499.
9100 o Major bugfixes (exit policies):
9101 - Avoid disclosing exit outbound bind addresses, configured port
9102 bind addresses, and local interface addresses in relay descriptors
9103 by default under ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. Instead, only reject
9104 these (otherwise unlisted) addresses if
9105 ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces is set. Fixes bug 18456; bugfix on
9106 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
9108 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
9109 - Allow Tor clients with appropriate controllers to work with
9110 FetchHidServDescriptors set to 0. Previously, this option also
9111 disabled descriptor cache lookup, thus breaking hidden services
9112 entirely. Fixes bug 18704; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Patch by "twim".
9113 - Clients now require hidden services to include the TAP keys for
9114 their intro points in the hidden service descriptor. This prevents
9115 an inadvertent upgrade to ntor, which a malicious hidden service
9116 could use to distinguish clients by consensus version. Fixes bug
9117 20012; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
9119 o Major bugfixes (relay, resolver, logging):
9120 - For relays that don't know their own address, avoid attempting a
9121 local hostname resolve for each descriptor we download. This
9122 will cut down on the number of "Success: chose address 'x.x.x.x'"
9123 log lines, and also avoid confusing clock jumps if the resolver
9124 is slow. Fixes bugs 20423 and 20610; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9126 o Minor features (port flags):
9127 - Add new flags to the *Port options to give finer control over which
9128 requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic,
9129 and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to
9130 NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement
9131 18693; patch by "teor".
9133 o Minor features (build, hardening):
9134 - Detect and work around a libclang_rt problem that would prevent
9135 clang from finding __mulodi4() on some 32-bit platforms, and thus
9136 keep -ftrapv from linking on those systems. Closes ticket 19079.
9137 - When building on a system without runtime support for the runtime
9138 hardening options, try to log a useful warning at configuration
9139 time, rather than an incomprehensible warning at link time. If
9140 expensive hardening was requested, this warning becomes an error.
9141 Closes ticket 18895.
9143 o Minor features (client, directory):
9144 - Since authorities now omit all routers that lack the Running and
9145 Valid flags, we assume that any relay listed in the consensus must
9146 have those flags. Closes ticket 20001; implements part of
9149 o Minor features (code safety):
9150 - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that the maximum value we
9151 allow is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063;
9152 patch from "U+039b".
9154 o Minor features (compilation, portability):
9155 - Compile correctly on MacOS 10.12 (aka "Sierra"). Closes
9158 o Minor features (config):
9159 - Warn users when descriptor and port addresses are inconsistent.
9160 Mitigates bug 13953; patch by teor.
9162 o Minor features (controller):
9163 - Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on
9164 hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION controller
9165 command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special".
9166 - Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation
9167 status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685.
9168 - Implement new GETINFO queries for all downloads that use
9169 download_status_t to schedule retries. This allows controllers to
9170 examine the schedule for pending downloads. Closes ticket 19323.
9172 o Minor features (development tools, etags):
9173 - Teach the "make tags" Makefile target how to correctly find
9174 "MOCK_IMPL" function definitions. Patch from nherring; closes
9177 o Minor features (directory authority):
9178 - After voting, if the authorities decide that a relay is not
9179 "Valid", they no longer include it in the consensus at all. Closes
9180 ticket 20002; implements part of proposal 272.
9181 - Directory authorities now only give the Guard flag to a relay if
9182 they are also giving it the Stable flag. This change allows us to
9183 simplify path selection for clients. It should have minimal effect
9184 in practice, since >99% of Guards already have the Stable flag.
9185 Implements ticket 18624.
9186 - Directory authorities now write their v3-status-votes file out to
9187 disk earlier in the consensus process, so we have a record of the
9188 votes even if we abort the consensus process. Resolves
9191 o Minor features (fallback directory list, new since 0.2.9.7-rc):
9192 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
9193 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
9194 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
9195 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
9197 o Minor features (hidden service):
9198 - Stop being so strict about the payload length of "rendezvous1"
9199 cells. We used to be locked in to the "TAP" handshake length, and
9200 now we can handle better handshakes like "ntor". Resolves
9203 o Minor features (infrastructure, time):
9204 - Tor now includes an improved timer backend, so that we can
9205 efficiently support tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent
9206 timers, as will be needed for some of our planned anti-traffic-
9207 analysis work. This code is based on William Ahern's "timeout.c"
9208 project, which implements a "tickless hierarchical timing wheel".
9209 Closes ticket 18365.
9210 - Tor now uses the operating system's monotonic timers (where
9211 available) for internal fine-grained timing. Previously we would
9212 look at the system clock, and then attempt to compensate for the
9213 clock running backwards. Closes ticket 18908.
9215 o Minor features (logging):
9216 - Add a set of macros to check nonfatal assertions, for internal
9217 use. Migrating more of our checks to these should help us avoid
9218 needless crash bugs. Closes ticket 18613.
9219 - Provide a more useful warning message when configured with an
9220 invalid Nickname. Closes ticket 18300; patch from "icanhasaccount".
9221 - When dumping unparseable router descriptors, optionally store them
9222 in separate files, named by digest, up to a configurable size
9223 limit. You can change the size limit by setting the
9224 MaxUnparseableDescSizeToLog option, and disable this feature by
9225 setting that option to 0. Closes ticket 18322.
9227 o Minor features (performance):
9228 - Change the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to
9229 "on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a
9230 consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the
9231 first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option
9232 from. Changing this default saves a round-trip during startup.
9233 Closes ticket 18815.
9235 o Minor features (relay, usability):
9236 - When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor,
9237 encourage the relay operator to contact us. Many relay operators
9238 won't notice this line in their logs, but it's a win if even a few
9239 learn why we don't like what their relay was doing. Resolves
9242 o Minor features (security, TLS):
9243 - Servers no longer support clients that lack AES ciphersuites.
9244 (3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe
9245 that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required
9246 OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998.
9248 o Minor features (testing):
9249 - Disable memory protections on OpenBSD when performing our unit
9250 tests for memwipe(). The test deliberately invokes undefined
9251 behavior, and the OpenBSD protections interfere with this. Patch
9252 from "rubiate". Closes ticket 20066.
9253 - Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test-
9254 network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available.
9255 Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor.
9256 - Use the lcov convention for marking lines as unreachable, so that
9257 we don't count them when we're generating test coverage data.
9258 Update our coverage tools to understand this convention. Closes
9260 - Our link-handshake unit tests now check that when invalid
9261 handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected.
9262 - Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer
9263 prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them
9264 (by passing --debug or --info or --notice or --warn to the "test"
9265 binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log
9266 messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to
9268 - The unit tests now log all warning messages with the "BUG" flag.
9269 Previously, they only logged errors by default. This change will
9270 help us make our testing code more correct, and make sure that we
9271 only hit this code when we mean to. In the meantime, however,
9272 there will be more warnings in the unit test logs than before.
9273 This is preparatory work for ticket 19999.
9274 - The unit tests now treat any failure of a "tor_assert_nonfatal()"
9275 assertion as a test failure.
9276 - We've done significant work to make the unit tests run faster.
9278 o Minor features (testing, ipv6):
9279 - Add the hs-ipv6 chutney target to make test-network-all's IPv6
9280 tests. Remove bridges+hs, as it's somewhat redundant. This
9281 requires a recent chutney version that supports IPv6 clients,
9282 relays, and authorities. Closes ticket 20069; patch by teor.
9283 - Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to
9284 "make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version
9285 with the single onion network flavors (git c72a652 or later).
9286 Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor.
9288 o Minor features (Tor2web):
9289 - Make Tor2web clients respect ReachableAddresses. This feature was
9290 inadvertently enabled in 0.2.8.6, then removed by bugfix 19973 on
9291 0.2.8.7. Implements feature 20034. Patch by teor.
9293 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
9294 - When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort,
9295 ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in
9296 quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix
9297 domain socket paths to contain spaces. Resolves ticket 18753.
9299 o Minor features (user interface):
9300 - Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so
9301 that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously, this
9302 was done in an ad-hoc way. There is a new --list-deprecated-options
9303 command-line option to list all of the deprecated options. Closes
9306 o Minor features (virtual addresses):
9307 - Increase the maximum number of bits for the IPv6 virtual network
9308 prefix from 16 to 104. In this way, the condition for address
9309 allocation is less restrictive. Closes ticket 20151; feature
9312 o Minor bug fixes (circuits):
9313 - Use the CircuitBuildTimeout option whenever
9314 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled. Previously, we would respect
9315 the option when a user disabled it, but not when it was disabled
9316 because some other option was set. Fixes bug 20073; bugfix on
9317 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch by teor.
9319 o Minor bugfixes (build):
9320 - The current Git revision when building from a local repository is
9321 now detected correctly when using git worktrees. Fixes bug 20492;
9322 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
9324 o Minor bugfixes (relay address discovery):
9325 - Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it
9326 more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every
9327 time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027.
9328 Reported by René Mayrhofer, patch by "cypherpunks".
9330 o Minor bugfixes (memory allocation):
9331 - Change how we allocate memory for large chunks on buffers, to
9332 avoid a (currently impossible) integer overflow, and to waste less
9333 space when allocating unusually large chunks. Fixes bug 20081;
9334 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Issue identified by Guido Vranken.
9336 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
9337 - Remember the directory server we fetched the consensus or previous
9338 certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority
9339 certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance.
9340 Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9342 o Minor bugfixes (circuits):
9343 - Make sure extend_info_from_router() is only called on servers.
9344 Fixes bug 19639; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9346 o Minor bugfixes (client, fascistfirewall):
9347 - Avoid spurious warnings when ReachableAddresses or FascistFirewall
9348 is set. Fixes bug 20306; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9350 o Minor bugfixes (client, unix domain sockets):
9351 - Disable IsolateClientAddr when using AF_UNIX backed SocksPorts as
9352 the client address is meaningless. Fixes bug 20261; bugfix
9355 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
9356 - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion
9357 tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha.
9359 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9360 - Build correctly on versions of libevent2 without support for
9361 evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes(). Fixes bug 19904; bugfix
9363 - When building with Clang, use a full set of GCC warnings.
9364 (Previously, we included only a subset, because of the way we
9365 detected them.) Fixes bug 19216; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
9366 - Detect Libevent2 functions correctly on systems that provide
9367 libevent2, but where libevent1 is linked with -levent. Fixes bug
9368 19904; bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. Patch from Rubiate.
9369 - Run correctly when built on Windows build environments that
9370 require _vcsprintf(). Fixes bug 20560; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
9372 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
9373 - When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file,
9374 handle Windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on
9375 0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl".
9377 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
9378 - Authorities now sort the "package" lines in their votes, for ease
9379 of debugging. (They are already sorted in consensus documents.)
9380 Fixes bug 18840; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9381 - Die with a more useful error when the operator forgets to place
9382 the authority_signing_key file into the keys directory. This
9383 avoids an uninformative assert & traceback about having an invalid
9384 key. Fixes bug 20065; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
9385 - When allowing private addresses, mark Exits that only exit to
9386 private locations as such. Fixes bug 20064; bugfix
9388 - When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of
9389 the digest algorithm instead of a hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in
9390 order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest
9391 length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
9393 o Minor bugfixes (getpass):
9394 - Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass()
9395 to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug
9396 19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch
9399 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection):
9400 - Don't mark guards as unreachable if connection_connect() fails.
9401 That function fails for local reasons, so it shouldn't reveal
9402 anything about the status of the guard. Fixes bug 14334; bugfix
9404 - Use a single entry guard even if the NumEntryGuards consensus
9405 parameter is not provided. Fixes bug 17688; bugfix
9408 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
9409 - Increase the minimum number of internal circuits we preemptively
9410 build from 2 to 3, so a circuit is available when a client
9411 connects to another onion service. Fixes bug 13239; bugfix
9413 - Allow hidden services to run on IPv6 addresses even when the
9414 IPv6Exit option is not set. Fixes bug 18357; bugfix
9416 - Stop logging intro point details to the client log on certain
9417 error conditions. Fixed as part of bug 20012; bugfix on
9418 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
9419 - When deleting an ephemeral hidden service, close its intro points
9420 even if they are not completely open. Fixes bug 18604; bugfix
9422 - When configuring hidden services, check every hidden service
9423 directory's permissions. Previously, we only checked the last
9424 hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
9426 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, testing):
9427 - Check for IPv6 correctly on Linux when running test networks.
9428 Fixes bug 19905; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc; patch by teor.
9430 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9431 - Add permission to run the sched_yield() and sigaltstack() system
9432 calls, in order to support versions of Tor compiled with asan or
9433 ubsan code that use these calls. Now "sandbox 1" and
9434 "--enable-expensive-hardening" should be compatible on more
9435 systems. Fixes bug 20063; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9437 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
9438 - Downgrade a harmless log message about the
9439 pending_entry_connections list from "warn" to "info". Mitigates
9441 - Log a more accurate message when we fail to dump a microdescriptor.
9442 Fixes bug 17758; bugfix on 0.2.2.8-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
9443 - When logging a directory ownership mismatch, log the owning
9444 username correctly. Fixes bug 19578; bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta.
9445 - When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn
9446 if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist.
9447 Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from pastly.
9449 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
9450 - Fix a series of slow memory leaks related to parsing torrc files
9451 and options. Fixes bug 19466; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
9452 - Avoid a small memory leak when informing worker threads about
9453 rotated onion keys. Fixes bug 20401; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9454 - Fix a small memory leak when receiving AF_UNIX connections on a
9455 SocksPort. Fixes bug 20716; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9456 - When moving a signed descriptor object from a source to an
9457 existing destination, free the allocated memory inside that
9458 destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
9459 - Fix a memory leak and use-after-free error when removing entries
9460 from the sandbox's getaddrinfo() cache. Fixes bug 20710; bugfix on
9461 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
9462 - Fix a small, uncommon memory leak that could occur when reading a
9463 truncated ed25519 key file. Fixes bug 18956; bugfix
9466 o Minor bugfixes (option parsing):
9467 - Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans,
9468 NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behavior changes: these
9469 options are set once, and never read. Required for correct
9470 behavior in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on
9471 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
9473 o Minor bugfixes (options):
9474 - Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more
9475 reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch
9477 - Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on
9478 authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on
9479 commits 51fc6799 in 0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in 0.2.4.3-alpha.
9482 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
9483 - Ensure relays don't make multiple connections during bootstrap.
9484 Fixes bug 20591; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9485 - Do not try to parallelize workers more than 16x without the user
9486 explicitly configuring us to do so, even if we do detect more than
9487 16 CPU cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
9489 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9490 - The test-stem and test-network makefile targets now depend only on
9491 the tor binary that they are testing. Previously, they depended on
9492 "make all". Fixes bug 18240; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Based on a
9493 patch from "cypherpunks".
9494 - Allow clients to retry HSDirs much faster in test networks. Fixes
9495 bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
9496 - Avoid a unit test failure on systems with over 16 detectable CPU
9497 cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
9498 - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer:
9499 disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running
9500 test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace
9501 generation code works. Fixes bug 18934; bugfix
9502 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
9503 - Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the
9504 correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix
9506 - Stop spurious failures in the local interface address discovery
9507 unit tests. Fixes bug 20634; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by
9509 - Use ECDHE ciphers instead of ECDH in tortls tests. LibreSSL has
9510 removed the ECDH ciphers which caused the tests to fail on
9511 platforms which use it. Fixes bug 20460; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9512 - The tor_tls_server_info_callback unit test no longer crashes when
9513 debug-level logging is turned on. Fixes bug 20041; bugfix
9516 o Minor bugfixes (time):
9517 - Improve overflow checks in tv_udiff and tv_mdiff. Fixes bug 19483;
9518 bugfix on all released tor versions.
9519 - When computing the difference between two times in milliseconds,
9520 we now round to the nearest millisecond correctly. Previously, we
9521 could sometimes round in the wrong direction. Fixes bug 19428;
9522 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9524 o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web):
9525 - Prevent Tor2web clients from running hidden services: these services
9526 are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug
9527 19678. Patch by teor.
9529 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
9530 - Display a more accurate number of suppressed messages in the log
9531 rate-limiter. Previously, there was a potential integer overflow
9532 in the counter. Now, if the number of messages hits a maximum, the
9533 rate-limiter doesn't count any further. Fixes bug 19435; bugfix
9535 - Fix a typo in the passphrase prompt for the ed25519 identity key.
9536 Fixes bug 19503; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9538 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9539 - Remove redundant declarations of the MIN macro. Closes
9541 - Rename tor_dup_addr() to tor_addr_to_str_dup() to avoid confusion.
9542 Closes ticket 18462; patch from "icanhasaccount".
9543 - Split the 600-line directory_handle_command_get function into
9544 separate functions for different URL types. Closes ticket 16698.
9547 - Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that
9548 previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket 20385.
9549 - Correct the IPv6 syntax in our documentation for the
9550 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6 torrc option. Closes ticket 19743.
9551 - Correct the minimum bandwidth value in torrc.sample, and queue a
9552 corresponding change for torrc.minimal. Closes ticket 20085.
9553 - Fix spelling of "--enable-tor2web-mode" in the manpage. Closes
9554 ticket 19153. Patch from "U+039b".
9555 - Module-level documentation for several more modules. Closes
9556 tickets 19287 and 19290.
9557 - Document the --passphrase-fd option in the tor manpage. Fixes bug
9558 19504; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
9559 - Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used
9560 by clients when the directory authorities don't set
9561 min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
9562 Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V.
9563 - Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID.
9564 Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have
9566 - Fix the description of the --passphrase-fd option in the
9567 tor-gencert manpage. The option is used to pass the number of a
9568 file descriptor to read the passphrase from, not to read the file
9569 descriptor from. Fixes bug 19505; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-alpha.
9572 - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in
9573 Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from "U+039b".
9576 - Remove support for "GET /tor/bytes.txt" DirPort request, and
9577 "GETINFO dir-usage" controller request, which were only available
9578 via a compile-time option in Tor anyway. Feature was added in
9579 0.2.2.1-alpha. Resolves ticket 19035.
9580 - There is no longer a compile-time option to disable support for
9581 TransPort. (If you don't want TransPort, just don't use it.) Patch
9582 from "U+039b". Closes ticket 19449.
9585 - Run more workqueue tests as part of "make check". These had
9586 previously been implemented, but you needed to know special
9587 command-line options to enable them.
9588 - We now have unit tests for our code to reject zlib "compression
9589 bombs". (Fortunately, the code works fine.)
9592 Changes in version 0.2.8.11 - 2016-12-08
9593 Tor 0.2.8.11 backports fixes for additional portability issues that
9594 could prevent Tor from building correctly on OSX Sierra, or with
9595 OpenSSL 1.1. Affected users should upgrade; others can safely stay
9598 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
9599 - Avoid compilation errors when building on OSX Sierra. Sierra began
9600 to support the getentropy() and clock_gettime() APIs, but created
9601 a few problems in doing so. Tor 0.2.9 has a more thorough set of
9602 workarounds; in 0.2.8, we are just using the /dev/urandom and mach
9603 monotonic time interfaces. Fixes bug 20865. Bugfix
9606 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
9607 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
9608 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
9611 Changes in version 0.2.8.10 - 2016-12-02
9612 Tor 0.2.8.10 backports a fix for a bug that would sometimes make clients
9613 unusable after they left standby mode. It also backports fixes for
9614 a few portability issues and a small but problematic memory leak.
9616 o Major bugfixes (client reliability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
9617 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
9618 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
9619 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
9622 o Major bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
9623 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
9624 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
9625 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
9628 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.6-rc):
9629 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
9630 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
9633 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
9634 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
9635 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
9637 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
9638 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
9639 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
9641 o Minor features (geoip):
9642 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
9646 Changes in version 0.2.8.9 - 2016-10-17
9647 Tor 0.2.8.9 backports a fix for a security hole in previous versions
9648 of Tor that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client,
9649 hidden service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to
9650 this version, or to 0.2.9.4-alpha. Patches will be released for older
9653 o Major features (security fixes, also in 0.2.9.4-alpha):
9654 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
9655 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
9656 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
9657 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
9658 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
9659 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
9660 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
9661 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
9663 o Minor features (geoip):
9664 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
9668 Changes in version 0.2.8.8 - 2016-09-23
9669 Tor 0.2.8.8 fixes two crash bugs present in previous versions of the
9670 0.2.8.x series. Relays running 0.2.8.x should upgrade, as should users
9671 who select public relays as their bridges.
9673 o Major bugfixes (crash):
9674 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
9675 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
9676 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
9677 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
9678 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9680 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler):
9681 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
9682 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
9683 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
9684 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
9687 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
9688 - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory
9689 list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
9691 o Minor features (geoip):
9692 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
9696 Changes in version 0.2.8.7 - 2016-08-24
9697 Tor 0.2.8.7 fixes an important bug related to the ReachableAddresses
9698 option in 0.2.8.6, and replaces a retiring bridge authority. Everyone
9699 who sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
9700 encouraged to upgrade.
9702 o Directory authority changes:
9703 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
9704 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
9706 o Major bugfixes (client, security):
9707 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
9708 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
9709 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
9710 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
9711 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9713 o Minor features (geoip):
9714 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
9717 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9718 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
9719 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
9722 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
9723 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
9724 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
9725 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
9728 Changes in version 0.2.8.6 - 2016-08-02
9730 Tor 0.2.8.6 is the first stable version of the Tor 0.2.8 series.
9732 The Tor 0.2.8 series improves client bootstrapping performance,
9733 completes the authority-side implementation of improved identity
9734 keys for relays, and includes numerous bugfixes and performance
9735 improvements throughout the program. This release continues to
9736 improve the coverage of Tor's test suite. For a full list of
9737 changes since Tor 0.2.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
9739 Below is a list of the changes since Tor 0.2.7.
9741 o New system requirements:
9742 - Tor no longer attempts to support platforms where the "time_t"
9743 type is unsigned. (To the best of our knowledge, only OpenVMS does
9744 this, and Tor has never actually built on OpenVMS.) Closes
9746 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL with a broken
9747 implementation of counter mode. (This bug was present in OpenSSL
9748 1.0.0, and was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a.) Tor still detects, but no
9749 longer runs with, these versions.
9750 - Tor now uses Autoconf version 2.63 or later, and Automake 1.11 or
9751 later (released in 2008 and 2009 respectively). If you are
9752 building Tor from the git repository instead of from the source
9753 distribution, and your tools are older than this, you will need to
9754 upgrade. Closes ticket 17732.
9756 o Directory authority changes:
9757 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
9758 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
9760 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
9762 o Major features (directory system):
9763 - Include a trial list of default fallback directories, based on an
9764 opt-in survey of suitable relays. Doing this should make clients
9765 bootstrap more quickly and reliably, and reduce the load on the
9766 directory authorities. Closes ticket 15775. Patch by teor.
9767 Candidates identified using an OnionOO script by weasel, teor,
9768 gsathya, and karsten.
9769 - Previously only relays that explicitly opened a directory port
9770 (DirPort) accepted directory requests from clients. Now all
9771 relays, with and without a DirPort, accept and serve tunneled
9772 directory requests that they receive through their ORPort. You can
9773 disable this behavior using the new DirCache option. Closes
9775 - When bootstrapping multiple consensus downloads at a time, use the
9776 first one that starts downloading, and close the rest. This
9777 reduces failures when authorities or fallback directories are slow
9778 or down. Together with the code for feature 15775, this feature
9779 should reduces failures due to fallback churn. Implements ticket
9780 4483. Patch by teor. Implements IPv4 portions of proposal 210 by
9783 o Major features (security, Linux):
9784 - When Tor starts as root on Linux and is told to switch user ID, it
9785 can now retain the capability to bind to low ports. By default,
9786 Tor will do this only when it's switching user ID and some low
9787 ports have been configured. You can change this behavior with the
9788 new option KeepBindCapabilities. Closes ticket 8195.
9790 o Major bugfixes (client, bootstrapping):
9791 - Check if bootstrap consensus downloads are still needed when the
9792 linked connection attaches. This prevents tor making unnecessary
9793 begindir-style connections, which are the only directory
9794 connections tor clients make since the fix for 18483 was merged.
9795 - Fix some edge cases where consensus download connections may not
9796 have been closed, even though they were not needed. Related to fix
9798 - Make relays retry consensus downloads the correct number of times,
9799 rather than the more aggressive client retry count. Fixes part of
9802 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash):
9803 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
9804 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
9806 o Major bugfixes (ed25519, voting):
9807 - Actually enable support for authorities to match routers by their
9808 Ed25519 identities. Previously, the code had been written, but
9809 some debugging code that had accidentally been left in the
9810 codebase made it stay turned off. Fixes bug 17702; bugfix
9812 - When collating votes by Ed25519 identities, authorities now
9813 include a "NoEdConsensus" flag if the ed25519 value (or lack
9814 thereof) for a server does not reflect the majority consensus.
9815 Related to bug 17668; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9816 - When generating a vote with keypinning disabled, never include two
9817 entries for the same ed25519 identity. This bug was causing
9818 authorities to generate votes that they could not parse when a
9819 router violated key pinning by changing its RSA identity but
9820 keeping its Ed25519 identity. Fixes bug 17668; fixes part of bug
9821 18318. Bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9823 o Major bugfixes (key management):
9824 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
9825 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
9826 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
9827 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
9828 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
9829 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
9832 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy):
9833 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
9834 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
9835 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
9836 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
9838 o Major bugfixes (security, compilation):
9839 - Correctly detect compiler flags on systems where _FORTIFY_SOURCE
9840 is predefined. Previously, our use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE would
9841 cause a compiler warning, thereby making other checks fail, and
9842 needlessly disabling compiler-hardening support. Fixes one case of
9843 bug 18841; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. Patch from "trudokal".
9844 - Repair hardened builds under the clang compiler. Previously, our
9845 use of _FORTIFY_SOURCE would conflict with clang's address
9846 sanitizer. Fixes bug 14821; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
9848 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers):
9849 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
9850 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
9851 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
9852 Reported by Guido Vranken.
9854 o Major bugfixes (testing):
9855 - Fix a bug that would block 'make test-network-all' on systems where
9856 IPv6 packets were lost. Fixes bug 19008; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
9858 o Major bugfixes (user interface):
9859 - Correctly give a warning in the cases where a relay is specified
9860 by nickname, and one such relay is found, but it is not officially
9861 Named. Fixes bug 19203; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
9863 o Minor features (accounting):
9864 - Added two modes to the AccountingRule option: One for limiting
9865 only the number of bytes sent ("AccountingRule out"), and one for
9866 limiting only the number of bytes received ("AccountingRule in").
9867 Closes ticket 15989; patch from "unixninja92".
9869 o Minor features (bug-resistance):
9870 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
9871 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
9872 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
9873 - Use tor_snprintf() and tor_vsnprintf() even in external and low-
9874 level code, to harden against accidental failures to NUL-
9875 terminate. Part of ticket 17852. Patch from jsturgix. Found
9878 o Minor features (build):
9879 - Detect systems with FreeBSD-derived kernels (such as GNU/kFreeBSD)
9880 as having possible IPFW support. Closes ticket 18448. Patch from
9882 - Since our build process now uses "make distcheck", we no longer
9883 force "make dist" to depend on "make check". Closes ticket 17893;
9884 patch from "cypherpunks".
9885 - Tor now builds once again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
9886 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre5 and 1.1.0-pre6-dev). We have been
9887 tracking OpenSSL 1.1 development as it has progressed, and fixing
9888 numerous compatibility issues as they arose. See tickets
9889 17549, 17921, 17984, 19499, and 18286.
9890 - When building manual pages, set the timezone to "UTC", so that the
9891 output is reproducible. Fixes bug 19558; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
9892 Patch from intrigeri.
9894 o Minor features (clients):
9895 - Make clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an
9896 encrypted begindir connection for directory requests. Resolves
9897 ticket 18483. Patch by teor.
9899 o Minor features (controller):
9900 - Add 'GETINFO exit-policy/reject-private/[default,relay]', so
9901 controllers can examine the the reject rules added by
9902 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. This makes it easier for stem to display
9904 - Adds the FallbackDir entries to 'GETINFO config/defaults'. Closes
9905 tickets 16774 and 17817. Patch by George Tankersley.
9906 - New 'GETINFO hs/service/desc/id/' command to retrieve a hidden
9907 service descriptor from a service's local hidden service
9908 descriptor cache. Closes ticket 14846.
9910 o Minor features (crypto):
9911 - Add SHA3 and SHAKE support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17783.
9912 - Add SHA512 support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17663; patch from
9914 - Improve performance when hashing non-multiple of 8 sized buffers,
9915 based on Andrew Moon's public domain SipHash-2-4 implementation.
9916 Fixes bug 17544; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
9917 - Validate the hard-coded Diffie-Hellman parameters and ensure that
9918 p is a safe prime, and g is a suitable generator. Closes
9920 - When allocating a digest state object, allocate no more space than
9921 we actually need. Previously, we would allocate as much space as
9922 the state for the largest algorithm would need. This change saves
9923 up to 672 bytes per circuit. Closes ticket 17796.
9925 o Minor features (directory downloads):
9926 - Add UseDefaultFallbackDirs, which enables any hard-coded fallback
9927 directory mirrors. The default is 1; set it to 0 to disable
9928 fallbacks. Implements ticket 17576. Patch by teor.
9929 - Wait for busy authorities and fallback directories to become non-
9930 busy when bootstrapping. (A similar change was made in 6c443e987d
9931 for directory caches chosen from the consensus.) Closes ticket
9932 17864; patch by teor.
9934 o Minor features (geoip):
9935 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
9938 o Minor features (hidden service directory):
9939 - Streamline relay-side hsdir handling: when relays consider whether
9940 to accept an uploaded hidden service descriptor, they no longer
9941 check whether they are one of the relays in the network that is
9942 "supposed" to handle that descriptor. Implements ticket 18332.
9944 o Minor features (IPv6):
9945 - Add ClientPreferIPv6DirPort, which is set to 0 by default. If set
9946 to 1, tor prefers IPv6 directory addresses.
9947 - Add ClientUseIPv4, which is set to 1 by default. If set to 0, tor
9948 avoids using IPv4 for client OR and directory connections.
9949 - Add address policy assume_action support for IPv6 addresses.
9950 - Add an argument 'ipv6=address:orport' to the DirAuthority and
9951 FallbackDir torrc options, to specify an IPv6 address for an
9952 authority or fallback directory. Add hard-coded ipv6 addresses for
9953 directory authorities that have them. Closes ticket 17327; patch
9954 from Nick Mathewson and teor.
9955 - Allow users to configure directory authorities and fallback
9956 directory servers with IPv6 addresses and ORPorts. Resolves
9958 - Limit IPv6 mask bits to 128.
9959 - Make tor_ersatz_socketpair work on IPv6-only systems. Fixes bug
9960 17638; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Patch by teor.
9961 - Try harder to obey the IP version restrictions "ClientUseIPv4 0",
9962 "ClientUseIPv6 0", "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort", and
9963 "ClientPreferIPv6DirPort". Closes ticket 17840; patch by teor.
9964 - Warn when comparing against an AF_UNSPEC address in a policy, it's
9965 almost always a bug. Closes ticket 17863; patch by teor.
9966 - routerset_parse now accepts IPv6 literal addresses. Fixes bug
9967 17060; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
9969 o Minor features (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9970 - Reject attempts to change our Address with "Sandbox 1" enabled.
9971 Changing Address with Sandbox turned on would never actually work,
9972 but previously it would fail in strange and confusing ways. Found
9975 o Minor features (logging):
9976 - When logging to syslog, allow a tag to be added to the syslog
9977 identity (the string prepended to every log message). The tag can
9978 be configured with SyslogIdentityTag and defaults to none. Setting
9979 it to "foo" will cause logs to be tagged as "Tor-foo". Closes
9982 o Minor features (portability):
9983 - Use timingsafe_memcmp() where available. Closes ticket 17944;
9984 patch from <logan@hackers.mu>.
9986 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
9987 - Add a family argument to get_interface_addresses_raw() and
9988 subfunctions to make network interface address interogation more
9989 efficient. Now Tor can specifically ask for IPv4, IPv6 or both
9990 types of interfaces from the operating system. Resolves
9992 - When get_interface_address6_list(.,AF_UNSPEC,.) is called and
9993 fails to enumerate interface addresses using the platform-specific
9994 API, have it rely on the UDP socket fallback technique to try and
9995 find out what IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6) our machine has.
9996 Resolves ticket 17951.
9998 o Minor features (replay cache):
9999 - The replay cache now uses SHA256 instead of SHA1. Implements
10000 feature 8961. Patch by teor, issue reported by rransom.
10002 o Minor features (robustness):
10003 - Exit immediately with an error message if the code attempts to use
10004 Libevent without having initialized it. This should resolve some
10005 frequently-made mistakes in our unit tests. Closes ticket 18241.
10007 o Minor features (security, clock):
10008 - Warn when the system clock appears to move back in time (when the
10009 state file was last written in the future). Tor doesn't know that
10010 consensuses have expired if the clock is in the past. Patch by
10011 teor. Implements ticket 17188.
10013 o Minor features (security, exit policies):
10014 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now rejects more private addresses by
10015 default. Specifically, it now rejects the relay's outbound bind
10016 addresses (if configured), and the relay's configured port
10017 addresses (such as ORPort and DirPort). Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on
10018 0.2.0.11-alpha. Patch by teor.
10020 o Minor features (security, memory erasure):
10021 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
10022 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
10023 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
10025 - Set the unused entries in a smartlist to NULL. This helped catch
10026 a (harmless) bug, and shouldn't affect performance too much.
10027 Implements ticket 17026.
10028 - Use SecureMemoryWipe() function to securely clean memory on
10029 Windows. Previously we'd use OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function.
10030 Implements feature 17986.
10031 - Use explicit_bzero or memset_s when present. Previously, we'd use
10032 OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function. Closes ticket 7419; patches
10033 from <logan@hackers.mu> and <selven@hackers.mu>.
10035 o Minor features (security, RNG):
10036 - Adjust Tor's use of OpenSSL's RNG APIs so that they absolutely,
10037 positively are not allowed to fail. Previously we depended on
10038 internal details of OpenSSL's behavior. Closes ticket 17686.
10039 - Never use the system entropy output directly for anything besides
10040 seeding the PRNG. When we want to generate important keys, instead
10041 of using system entropy directly, we now hash it with the PRNG
10042 stream. This may help resist certain attacks based on broken OS
10043 entropy implementations. Closes part of ticket 17694.
10044 - Use modern system calls (like getentropy() or getrandom()) to
10045 generate strong entropy on platforms that have them. Closes
10048 o Minor features (security, win32):
10049 - Set SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Win32 to avoid a local port-stealing
10050 attack. Fixes bug 18123; bugfix on all tor versions. Patch
10053 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
10054 - Add a new per-socket option, RelaxDirModeCheck, to allow creating
10055 Unix domain sockets without checking the permissions on the parent
10056 directory. (Tor checks permissions by default because some
10057 operating systems only check permissions on the parent directory.
10058 However, some operating systems do look at permissions on the
10059 socket, and tor's default check is unneeded.) Closes ticket 18458.
10062 o Minor features (unix file permissions):
10063 - Defer creation of Unix sockets until after setuid. This avoids
10064 needing CAP_CHOWN and CAP_FOWNER when using systemd's
10065 CapabilityBoundingSet, or chown and fowner when using SELinux.
10066 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
10067 - If any directory created by Tor is marked as group readable, the
10068 filesystem group is allowed to be either the default GID or the
10069 root user. Allowing root to read the DataDirectory prevents the
10070 need for CAP_READ_SEARCH when using systemd's
10071 CapabilityBoundingSet, or dac_read_search when using SELinux.
10072 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
10073 - Introduce a new DataDirectoryGroupReadable option. If it is set to
10074 1, the DataDirectory will be made readable by the default GID.
10075 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
10077 o Minor bugfixes (accounting):
10078 - The max bandwidth when using 'AccountRule sum' is now correctly
10079 logged. Fixes bug 18024; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch
10080 from "unixninja92".
10082 o Minor bugfixes (assert, portability):
10083 - Fix an assertion failure in memarea.c on systems where "long" is
10084 shorter than the size of a pointer. Fixes bug 18716; bugfix
10087 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
10088 - Consistently use the consensus download schedule for authority
10089 certificates. Fixes bug 18816; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
10091 o Minor bugfixes (build):
10092 - Avoid spurious failures from configure files related to calling
10093 exit(0) in TOR_SEARCH_LIBRARY. Fixes bug 18626; bugfix on
10094 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
10095 - Do not link the unit tests against both the testing and non-
10096 testing versions of the static libraries. Fixes bug 18490; bugfix
10098 - Resolve warnings when building on systems that are concerned with
10099 signed char. Fixes bug 18728; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha
10101 - Silence spurious clang-scan warnings in the ed25519_donna code by
10102 explicitly initializing some objects. Fixes bug 18384; bugfix on
10103 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
10104 - When libscrypt.h is found, but no libscrypt library can be linked,
10105 treat libscrypt as absent. Fixes bug 19161; bugfix
10107 - Cause the unit tests to compile correctly on mingw64 versions that
10108 lack sscanf. Fixes bug 19213; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
10109 - Don't try to use the pthread_condattr_setclock() function unless
10110 it actually exists. Fixes compilation on NetBSD-6.x. Fixes bug
10111 17819; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10112 - Fix backtrace compilation on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 17827; bugfix
10114 - Fix search for libevent libraries on OpenBSD (and other systems
10115 that install libevent 1 and libevent 2 in parallel). Fixes bug
10116 16651; bugfix on 0.1.0.7-rc. Patch from "rubiate".
10117 - Isolate environment variables meant for tests from the rest of the
10118 build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
10119 - Mark all object files that include micro-revision.i as depending
10120 on it, so as to make parallel builds more reliable. Fixes bug
10121 17826; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10122 - Remove config.log only from make distclean, not from make clean.
10123 Fixes bug 17924; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
10124 - Replace usage of 'INLINE' with 'inline'. Fixes bug 17804; bugfix
10126 - Remove an #endif from configure.ac so that we correctly detect the
10127 presence of in6_addr.s6_addr32. Fixes bug 17923; bugfix
10130 o Minor bugfixes (client, bootstrap):
10131 - Count receipt of new microdescriptors as progress towards
10132 bootstrapping. Previously, with EntryNodes set, Tor might not
10133 successfully repopulate the guard set on bootstrapping. Fixes bug
10134 16825; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
10136 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
10137 - Fix a bad memory handling bug that would occur if we had queued a
10138 cell on a channel's incoming queue. Fortunately, we can't actually
10139 queue a cell like that as our code is constructed today, but it's
10140 best to avoid this kind of error, even if there isn't any code
10141 that triggers it today. Fixes bug 18570; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
10142 - Assert that allocated memory held by the reputation code is freed
10143 according to its internal counters. Fixes bug 17753; bugfix
10145 - Assert when the TLS contexts fail to initialize. Fixes bug 17683;
10147 - Update to the latest version of Trunnel, which tries harder to
10148 avoid generating code that can invoke memcpy(p,NULL,0). Bug found
10149 by clang address sanitizer. Fixes bug 18373; bugfix
10151 - When closing an entry connection, generate a warning if we should
10152 have sent an end cell for it but we haven't. Fixes bug 17876;
10153 bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
10155 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
10156 - Fix a tiny memory leak when parsing a port configuration ending in
10157 ":auto". Fixes bug 18374; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
10159 o Minor bugfixes (containers):
10160 - If we somehow attempt to construct a heap with more than
10161 1073741822 elements, avoid an integer overflow when maintaining
10162 the heap property. Fixes bug 18296; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
10164 o Minor bugfixes (controller, microdescriptors):
10165 - Make GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus conform to the
10166 control specification by returning "551 Could not open cached
10167 consensus..." when not caching consensuses. Fixes bug 18920;
10168 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
10170 o Minor bugfixes (crypto):
10171 - Check the return value of HMAC() and assert on failure. Fixes bug
10172 17658; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by teor.
10174 o Minor bugfixes (directories):
10175 - When fetching extrainfo documents, compare their SHA256 digests
10176 and Ed25519 signing key certificates with the routerinfo that led
10177 us to fetch them, rather than with the most recent routerinfo.
10178 Otherwise we generate many spurious warnings about mismatches.
10179 Fixes bug 17150; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10180 - When generating a URL for a directory server on an IPv6 address,
10181 wrap the IPv6 address in square brackets. Fixes bug 18051; bugfix
10182 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Malek.
10184 o Minor bugfixes (downloading):
10185 - Predict more correctly whether we'll be downloading over HTTP when
10186 we determine the maximum length of a URL. This should avoid a
10187 "BUG" warning about the Squid HTTP proxy and its URL limits. Fixes
10190 o Minor bugfixes (exit policies, security):
10191 - Refresh an exit relay's exit policy when interface addresses
10192 change. Previously, tor only refreshed the exit policy when the
10193 configured external address changed. Fixes bug 18208; bugfix on
10194 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
10196 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
10197 - Mark fallbacks as "too busy" when they return a 503 response,
10198 rather than just marking authorities. Fixes bug 17572; bugfix on
10199 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by teor.
10200 - When requesting extrainfo descriptors from a trusted directory
10201 server, check whether it is an authority or a fallback directory
10202 which supports extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 18489; bugfix on
10203 0.2.4.7-alpha. Reported by atagar, patch by teor.
10205 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, client):
10206 - Handle the case where the user makes several fast consecutive
10207 requests to the same .onion address. Previously, the first six
10208 requests would each trigger a descriptor fetch, each picking a
10209 directory (there are 6 overall) and the seventh one would fail
10210 because no directories were left, thereby triggering a close on
10211 all current directory connections asking for the hidden service.
10212 The solution here is to not close the connections if we have
10213 pending directory fetches. Fixes bug 15937; bugfix
10216 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, control port):
10217 - Add the onion address to the HS_DESC event for the UPLOADED action
10218 both on success or failure. It was previously hardcoded with
10219 UNKNOWN. Fixes bug 16023; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10221 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, directory):
10222 - Bridges now refuse "rendezvous2" (hidden service descriptor)
10223 publish attempts. Suggested by ticket 18332.
10225 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
10226 - Update the limits in max_dl_per_request for IPv6 address length.
10227 Fixes bug 17573; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
10229 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10230 - Allow more syscalls when running with "Sandbox 1" enabled:
10231 sysinfo, getsockopt(SO_SNDBUF), and setsockopt(SO_SNDBUFFORCE). On
10232 some systems, these are required for Tor to start. Fixes bug
10233 18397; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
10234 - Allow IPPROTO_UDP datagram sockets when running with "Sandbox 1",
10235 so that get_interface_address6_via_udp_socket_hack() can work.
10236 Fixes bug 19660; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10237 - Allow the setrlimit syscall, and the prlimit and prlimit64
10238 syscalls, which some libc implementations use under the hood.
10239 Fixes bug 15221; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10240 - Avoid a 10-second delay when starting as a client with "Sandbox 1"
10241 enabled and no DNS resolvers configured. This should help TAILS
10242 start up faster. Fixes bug 18548; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10243 - Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux
10244 seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
10245 - Allow statistics to be written to disk when "Sandbox 1" is
10246 enabled. Fixes bugs 19556 and 19957; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
10247 0.2.6.1-alpha respectively.
10249 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
10250 - In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__
10251 instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. In GCC, these are synonymous, but
10252 with clang __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ has extra information we don't
10253 need. Fixes bug 16563; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Fix by Tom van
10255 - Remove needless quotes from a log message about unparseable
10256 addresses. Fixes bug 17843; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
10257 - Scrub service name in "unrecognized service ID" log messages.
10258 Fixes bug 18600; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha.
10259 - When logging information about an unparsable networkstatus vote or
10260 consensus, do not say "vote" when we mean consensus. Fixes bug
10261 18368; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
10262 - When we can't generate a signing key because OfflineMasterKey is
10263 set, do not imply that we should have been able to load it. Fixes
10264 bug 18133; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10265 - When logging a malformed hostname received through socks4, scrub
10266 it if SafeLogging says we should. Fixes bug 17419; bugfix
10269 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety):
10270 - Avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer when opening a socket fails
10271 in get_interface_addresses_ioctl(). Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on
10272 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by toralf and "cypherpunks", patch
10274 - Fix a memory leak in "tor --list-fingerprint". Fixes part of bug
10275 18672; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10276 - Fix a memory leak in tor-gencert. Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix
10279 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
10280 - Avoid reporting a spurious error when we decide that we don't need
10281 to terminate a pluggable transport because it has already exited.
10282 Fixes bug 18686; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
10284 o Minor bugfixes (pointer arithmetic):
10285 - Fix a bug in memarea_alloc() that could have resulted in remote
10286 heap write access, if Tor had ever passed an unchecked size to
10287 memarea_alloc(). Fortunately, all the sizes we pass to
10288 memarea_alloc() are pre-checked to be less than 128 kilobytes.
10289 Fixes bug 19150; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. Bug found by
10292 o Minor bugfixes (private directory):
10293 - Prevent a race condition when creating private directories. Fixes
10294 part of bug 17852; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13. Part of ticket 17852.
10295 Patch from jsturgix. Found with Flawfinder.
10297 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
10298 - Check that both the ORPort and DirPort (if present) are reachable
10299 before publishing a relay descriptor. Otherwise, relays publish a
10300 descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes
10301 longer than the ORPort reachability test. Fixes bug 18050; bugfix
10302 on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "starlight", patch by teor.
10303 - Resolve some edge cases where we might launch an ORPort
10304 reachability check even when DisableNetwork is set. Noticed while
10305 fixing bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
10307 o Minor bugfixes (relays, hidden services):
10308 - Refuse connection requests to private OR addresses unless
10309 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set. Previously, tor would connect,
10310 then refuse to send any cells to a private address. Fixes bugs
10311 17674 and 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by teor.
10313 o Minor bugfixes (security, hidden services):
10314 - Prevent hidden services connecting to client-supplied rendezvous
10315 addresses that are reserved as internal or multicast. Fixes bug
10316 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by dgoulet and teor.
10318 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
10319 - Consistently check for overflow in round_*_to_next_multiple_of
10320 functions, and add unit tests with additional and maximal values.
10321 Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
10322 - Handle edge cases in the laplace functions: avoid division by
10323 zero, avoid taking the log of zero, and silence clang type
10324 conversion warnings using round and trunc. Add unit tests for edge
10325 cases with maximal values. Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix
10327 - We now include consensus downloads via IPv6 in our directory-
10328 request statistics. Fixes bug 18460; bugfix on 0.2.3.14-alpha.
10330 o Minor bugfixes (test networks, IPv6):
10331 - Allow internal IPv6 addresses in descriptors in test networks.
10332 Fixes bug 17153; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Patch by teor, reported
10335 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10336 - Check the full results of SHA256 and SHA512 digests in the unit
10337 tests. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. Patch by teor.
10338 - Fix a memory leak in the ntor test. Fixes bug 17778; bugfix
10340 - Fix a small memory leak that would occur when the
10341 TestingEnableCellStatsEvent option was turned on. Fixes bug 18673;
10342 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10343 - Make unit tests pass on IPv6-only systems, and systems without
10344 localhost addresses (like some FreeBSD jails). Fixes bug 17632;
10345 bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
10346 - The test for log_heartbeat was incorrectly failing in timezones
10347 with non-integer offsets. Instead of comparing the end of the time
10348 string against a constant, compare it to the output of
10349 format_local_iso_time when given the correct input. Fixes bug
10350 18039; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
10351 - We no longer disable assertions in the unit tests when coverage is
10352 enabled. Instead, we require you to say --disable-asserts-in-tests
10353 to the configure script if you need assertions disabled in the
10354 unit tests (for example, if you want to perform branch coverage).
10355 Fixes bug 18242; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
10357 o Minor bugfixes (time handling):
10358 - When correcting a corrupt 'struct tm' value, fill in the tm_wday
10359 field. Otherwise, our unit tests crash on Windows. Fixes bug
10360 18977; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
10361 - Avoid overflow in tor_timegm when parsing dates in and after 2038
10362 on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 18479; bugfix on
10363 0.0.2pre14. Patch by teor.
10365 o Minor bugfixes (tor-gencert):
10366 - Correctly handle the case where an authority operator enters a
10367 passphrase but sends an EOF before sending a newline. Fixes bug
10368 17443; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by junglefowl.
10370 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10371 - Clean up a little duplicated code in
10372 crypto_expand_key_material_TAP(). Closes ticket 17587; patch
10374 - Decouple the list of streams waiting to be attached to circuits
10375 from the overall connection list. This change makes it possible to
10376 attach streams quickly while simplifying Tor's callgraph and
10377 avoiding O(N) scans of the entire connection list. Closes
10379 - Extract the more complicated parts of circuit_mark_for_close()
10380 into a new function that we run periodically before circuits are
10381 freed. This change removes more than half of the functions
10382 currently in the "blob". Closes ticket 17218.
10383 - Move logging of redundant policy entries in
10384 policies_parse_exit_policy_internal into its own function. Closes
10385 ticket 17608; patch from "juce".
10386 - Quote all the string interpolations in configure.ac -- even those
10387 which we are pretty sure can't contain spaces. Closes ticket
10388 17744. Patch from zerosion.
10389 - Remove code for configuring OpenSSL dynamic locks; OpenSSL doesn't
10390 use them. Closes ticket 17926.
10391 - Remove specialized code for non-inplace AES_CTR. 99% of our AES is
10392 inplace, so there's no need to have a separate implementation for
10393 the non-inplace code. Closes ticket 18258. Patch from Malek.
10394 - Simplify return types for some crypto functions that can't
10395 actually fail. Patch from Hassan Alsibyani. Closes ticket 18259.
10396 - When a direct directory request fails immediately on launch,
10397 instead of relaunching that request from inside the code that
10398 launches it, instead mark the connection for teardown. This change
10399 simplifies Tor's callback and prevents the directory-request
10400 launching code from invoking itself recursively. Closes
10404 - Add a description of the correct use of the '--keygen' command-
10405 line option. Closes ticket 17583; based on text by 's7r'.
10406 - Change build messages to refer to "Fedora" instead of "Fedora
10407 Core", and "dnf" instead of "yum". Closes tickets 18459 and 18426.
10408 Patches from "icanhasaccount" and "cypherpunks".
10409 - Document the contents of the 'datadir/keys' subdirectory in the
10410 manual page. Closes ticket 17621.
10411 - Document the minimum HeartbeatPeriod value. Closes ticket 15638.
10412 - Explain actual minima for BandwidthRate. Closes ticket 16382.
10413 - Fix a minor formatting typo in the manpage. Closes ticket 17791.
10414 - Mention torspec URL in the manpage and point the reader to it
10415 whenever we mention a document that belongs in torspce. Fixes
10417 - Stop recommending use of nicknames to identify relays in our
10418 MapAddress documentation. Closes ticket 18312.
10420 o Removed features:
10421 - Remove client-side support for connecting to Tor relays running
10422 versions of Tor before 0.2.3.6-alpha. These relays didn't support
10423 the v3 TLS handshake protocol, and are no longer allowed on the
10424 Tor network. Implements the client side of ticket 11150. Based on
10425 patches by Tom van der Woerdt.
10426 - We no longer maintain an internal freelist in memarea.c.
10427 Allocators should be good enough to make this code unnecessary,
10428 and it's doubtful that it ever had any performance benefit.
10431 - Add unit tests to check for common RNG failure modes, such as
10432 returning all zeroes, identical values, or incrementing values
10433 (OpenSSL's rand_predictable feature). Patch by teor.
10434 - Always test both ed25519 backends, so that we can be sure that our
10435 batch-open replacement code works. Part of ticket 16794.
10436 - Cover dns_resolve_impl() in dns.c with unit tests. Implements a
10437 portion of ticket 16831.
10438 - Fix several warnings from clang's address sanitizer produced in
10440 - Log more information when the backtrace tests fail. Closes ticket
10441 17892. Patch from "cypherpunks."
10442 - More unit tests for compat_libevent.c, procmon.c, tortls.c,
10443 util_format.c, directory.c, and options_validate.c. Closes tickets
10444 17075, 17082, 17084, 17003, and 17076 respectively. Patches from
10446 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on FreeBSD until we
10447 solve bug 17808. Closes ticket 18204.
10448 - Unit tests for directory_handle_command_get. Closes ticket 17004.
10449 Patch from Reinaldo de Souza Jr.
10452 Changes in version 0.2.7.6 - 2015-12-10
10453 Tor version 0.2.7.6 fixes a major bug in entry guard selection, as
10454 well as a minor bug in hidden service reliability.
10456 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
10457 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
10458 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
10459 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
10460 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
10461 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
10464 o Minor features (geoip):
10465 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
10468 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10469 - When checking for net/pfvar.h, include netinet/in.h if possible.
10470 This fixes transparent proxy detection on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
10471 17551; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Patch from "rubiate".
10472 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
10473 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
10475 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
10476 - When displaying an IPv6 exit policy, include the mask bits
10477 correctly even when the number is greater than 31. Fixes bug
10478 16056; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch from "gturner".
10479 - The wrong list was used when looking up expired intro points in a
10480 rend service object, causing what we think could be reachability
10481 issues for hidden services, and triggering a BUG log. Fixes bug
10482 16702; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10483 - Fix undefined behavior in the tor_cert_checksig function. Fixes
10484 bug 17722; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10487 Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
10488 The Tor 0.2.7 release series is dedicated to the memory of Tor user
10489 and privacy advocate Caspar Bowden (1961-2015). Caspar worked
10490 tirelessly to advocate human rights regardless of national borders,
10491 and oppose the encroachments of mass surveillance. He opposed national
10492 exceptionalism, he brought clarity to legal and policy debates, he
10493 understood and predicted the impact of mass surveillance on the world,
10494 and he laid the groundwork for resisting it. While serving on the Tor
10495 Project's board of directors, he brought us his uncompromising focus
10496 on technical excellence in the service of humankind. Caspar was an
10497 inimitable force for good and a wonderful friend. He was kind,
10498 humorous, generous, gallant, and believed we should protect one
10499 another without exception. We honor him here for his ideals, his
10500 efforts, and his accomplishments. Please honor his memory with works
10501 that would make him proud.
10503 Tor 0.2.7.5 is the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.7 series.
10505 The 0.2.7 series adds a more secure identity key type for relays,
10506 improves cryptography performance, resolves several longstanding
10507 hidden-service performance issues, improves controller support for
10508 hidden services, and includes small bugfixes and performance
10509 improvements throughout the program. This release series also includes
10510 more tests than before, and significant simplifications to which parts
10511 of Tor invoke which others. For a full list of changes, see below.
10513 o New system requirements:
10514 - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions
10515 before 1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes
10517 - Tor no longer supports copies of OpenSSL that are missing support
10518 for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (We began using ECC when
10519 available in 0.2.4.8-alpha, for more safe and efficient key
10520 negotiation.) In particular, support for at least one of P256 or
10521 P224 is now required, with manual configuration needed if only
10522 P224 is available. Resolves ticket 16140.
10523 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL before 1.0. (If you are
10524 on an operating system that has not upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0 or
10525 later, and you compile Tor from source, you will need to install a
10526 more recent OpenSSL to link Tor against.) These versions of
10527 OpenSSL are still supported by the OpenSSL, but the numerous
10528 cryptographic improvements in later OpenSSL releases makes them a
10529 clear choice. Resolves ticket 16034.
10531 o Major features (controller):
10532 - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
10533 and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
10535 - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached"
10536 commands to get information about hidden services created via the
10537 controller. Part of ticket 6411.
10538 - New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
10539 descriptor. Closes ticket 14847.
10540 - New HSPOST command to upload a hidden service descriptor. Closes
10541 ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
10543 o Major features (Ed25519 identity keys, Proposal 220):
10544 - Add support for offline encrypted Ed25519 master keys. To use this
10545 feature on your tor relay, run "tor --keygen" to make a new master
10546 key (or to make a new signing key if you already have a master
10547 key). Closes ticket 13642.
10548 - All relays now maintain a stronger identity key, using the Ed25519
10549 elliptic curve signature format. This master key is designed so
10550 that it can be kept offline. Relays also generate an online
10551 signing key, and a set of other Ed25519 keys and certificates.
10552 These are all automatically regenerated and rotated as needed.
10553 Implements part of ticket 12498.
10554 - Directory authorities now vote on Ed25519 identity keys along with
10555 RSA1024 keys. Implements part of ticket 12498.
10556 - Directory authorities track which Ed25519 identity keys have been
10557 used with which RSA1024 identity keys, and do not allow them to
10558 vary freely. Implements part of ticket 12498.
10559 - Microdescriptors now include Ed25519 identity keys. Implements
10560 part of ticket 12498.
10561 - Add a --newpass option to allow changing or removing the
10562 passphrase of an encrypted key with tor --keygen. Implements part
10564 - Add a new OfflineMasterKey option to tell Tor never to try loading
10565 or generating a secret Ed25519 identity key. You can use this in
10566 combination with tor --keygen to manage offline and/or encrypted
10567 Ed25519 keys. Implements ticket 16944.
10568 - On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519
10569 signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790.
10570 - Significant usability improvements for Ed25519 key management. Log
10571 messages are better, and the code can recover from far more
10572 failure conditions. Thanks to "s7r" for reporting and diagnosing
10575 o Major features (ECC performance):
10576 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 signature verification by
10577 using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support. Implements
10579 - Improve the speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519 keypair
10580 generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with SSE2
10581 available. Implements ticket 16535.
10582 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations by using the
10583 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry").
10584 Implements ticket 16467.
10585 - Improve the runtime speed of the ntor handshake by using an
10586 optimized curve25519 basepoint scalarmult implementation from the
10587 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"), based on
10588 ideas by Adam Langley. Implements ticket 9663.
10590 o Major features (Hidden services):
10591 - Hidden services, if using the EntryNodes option, are required to
10592 use more than one EntryNode, in order to avoid a guard discovery
10593 attack. (This would only affect people who had configured hidden
10594 services and manually specified the EntryNodes option with a
10595 single entry-node. The impact was that it would be easy to
10596 remotely identify the guard node used by such a hidden service.
10597 See ticket for more information.) Fixes ticket 14917.
10598 - Add the torrc option HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints, to
10599 specify a fixed number of introduction points. Its maximum value
10600 is 10 and default is 3. Using this option can increase a hidden
10601 service's reliability under load, at the cost of making it more
10602 visible that the hidden service is facing extra load. Closes
10604 - Remove the adaptive algorithm for choosing the number of
10605 introduction points, which used to change the number of
10606 introduction points (poorly) depending on the number of
10607 connections the HS sees. Closes ticket 4862.
10609 o Major features (onion key cross-certification):
10610 - Relay descriptors now include signatures of their own identity
10611 keys, made using the TAP and ntor onion keys. These signatures
10612 allow relays to prove ownership of their own onion keys. Because
10613 of this change, microdescriptors will no longer need to include
10614 RSA identity keys. Implements proposal 228; closes ticket 12499.
10616 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy, also in 0.2.6.9):
10617 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
10618 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group
10619 was being overwritten by a default value when the listener
10620 connection was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on
10621 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by "jojelino".
10623 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
10624 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
10625 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
10626 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
10627 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
10628 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
10629 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
10630 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
10633 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
10634 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
10635 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
10636 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
10638 - When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always
10639 extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit).
10640 Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which
10641 changed the original choice of introduction point, and could cause
10642 the hidden service to skip excluded introduction points or
10643 reconnect to a skipped introduction point. Fixes bug 16260; bugfix
10646 o Major bugfixes (memory leaks):
10647 - Fix a memory leak in ed25519 batch signature checking. Fixes bug
10648 17398; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
10650 o Major bugfixes (open file limit):
10651 - The open file limit wasn't checked before calling
10652 tor_accept_socket_nonblocking(), which would make Tor exceed the
10653 limit. Now, before opening a new socket, Tor validates the open
10654 file limit just before, and if the max has been reached, return an
10655 error. Fixes bug 16288; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
10657 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness):
10658 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
10659 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
10660 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
10661 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
10664 o Major bugfixes (stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
10665 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
10666 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
10667 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
10668 by "cypherpunks_backup".
10669 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
10670 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
10671 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
10674 o Minor features (client, SOCKS):
10675 - Add GroupWritable and WorldWritable options to unix-socket based
10676 SocksPort and ControlPort options. These options apply to a single
10677 socket, and override {Control,Socks}SocketsGroupWritable. Closes
10679 - Relax the validation done to hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, and
10680 allow a single trailing '.' to cope with clients that pass FQDNs
10681 using that syntax to explicitly indicate that the domain name is
10682 fully-qualified. Fixes bug 16674; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
10683 - Relax the validation of hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, allowing the
10684 character '_' to appear, in order to cope with domains observed in
10685 the wild that are serving non-RFC compliant records. Resolves
10688 o Minor features (client-side privacy):
10689 - New KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option to indefinitely extend circuit
10690 lifespan when IsolateSOCKSAuth and streams with SOCKS
10691 authentication are attached to the circuit. This allows
10692 applications like TorBrowser to manage circuit lifetime on their
10693 own. Implements feature 15482.
10694 - When logging malformed hostnames from SOCKS5 requests, respect
10695 SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
10697 o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
10698 - Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
10699 happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
10700 hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
10701 fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
10703 o Minor features (command-line interface):
10704 - Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
10705 Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
10706 - Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
10707 as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
10709 o Minor features (compilation):
10710 - Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an
10711 unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901.
10712 - Use C99 variadic macros when the compiler is not GCC. This avoids
10713 failing compilations on MSVC, and fixes a log-file-based race
10714 condition in our old workarounds. Original patch from Gisle Vanem.
10716 o Minor features (control protocol):
10717 - Support network-liveness GETINFO key and NETWORK_LIVENESS event in
10718 the control protocol. Resolves ticket 15358.
10720 o Minor features (controller):
10721 - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the
10722 output of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
10723 present. Implements ticket 14840.
10724 - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to
10725 retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache.
10726 Closes ticket 14845.
10727 - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-
10728 descs" to fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on
10729 demand just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
10731 o Minor features (directory authorities):
10732 - Directory authorities no longer vote against the "Fast", "Stable",
10733 and "HSDir" flags just because they were going to vote against
10734 "Running": if the consensus turns out to be that the router was
10735 running, then the authority's vote should count. Patch from Peter
10736 Retzlaff; closes issue 8712.
10738 o Minor features (directory authorities, security, also in 0.2.6.9):
10739 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
10740 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
10741 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
10742 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable to
10743 require at the very least 7 days, while maintaining the 96 hours
10744 uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
10746 o Minor features (DoS-resistance):
10747 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
10748 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
10749 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
10751 o Minor features (geoip):
10752 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
10755 o Minor features (hidden services):
10756 - Add the new options "HiddenServiceMaxStreams" and
10757 "HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit" to allow hidden services to
10758 limit the maximum number of simultaneous streams per circuit, and
10759 optionally tear down the circuit when the limit is exceeded. Part
10761 - Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when
10762 to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache. Previously, failures
10763 were recorded implicitly, but not explicitly remembered. Closes
10765 - Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this
10766 is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14%
10767 drop. This change should make some attacks against the hidden
10768 service directory system harder. Fixes ticket 15963.
10769 - Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc
10770 option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. (This keeps
10771 track only of the fraction of traffic used by hidden services, and
10772 the total number of hidden services in existence.) Closes
10774 - To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
10775 when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
10776 cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
10777 making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
10778 clients that have used the introduction point for a specific HS.
10779 Closes ticket 15745.
10781 o Minor features (logging):
10782 - Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people
10783 tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements
10786 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
10787 - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
10788 attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
10789 pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
10791 - When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open
10792 stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has
10793 terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" environment variable
10794 can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior.
10795 Resolves ticket 15435.
10797 o Minor bugfixes (torrc exit policies):
10798 - In each instance above, usage advice is provided to avoid the
10799 message. Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug
10800 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
10801 - In torrc, "accept6 *" and "reject6 *" ExitPolicy lines now only
10802 produce IPv6 wildcard addresses. Previously they would produce
10803 both IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Patch by "teor". Fixes part
10804 of bug 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
10805 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now issue an info-level
10806 message when expanding an "accept/reject *" line to include both
10807 IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Related to ticket 16069.
10808 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now warn for a number of cases
10809 where the user's intent is likely to differ from Tor's actual
10810 behavior. These include: using an IPv4 address with an accept6 or
10811 reject6 line; using "private" on an accept6 or reject6 line; and
10812 including any ExitPolicy lines after accept *:* or reject *:*.
10813 Related to ticket 16069.
10815 o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface):
10816 - When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not
10817 write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix
10819 - When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use
10820 stderr, not stdout.
10821 - Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without
10822 an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording
10823 and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix
10826 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10827 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
10828 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
10829 - Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha)
10830 vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237.
10832 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.6.9):
10833 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
10834 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
10835 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
10837 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests):
10838 - Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities,
10839 AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options
10840 are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is
10841 currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behavior when it
10842 has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for
10843 consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on
10844 90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
10846 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
10847 - Add the descriptor ID in each HS_DESC control event. It was
10848 missing, but specified in control-spec.txt. Fixes bug 15881;
10849 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10851 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
10852 - For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
10853 handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix
10855 - Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
10856 because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
10857 unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36,
10859 - When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove()
10860 while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit
10861 17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was
10862 incorrectly removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
10864 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, also in 0.2.6.10):
10865 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
10866 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
10867 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
10868 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
10869 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
10871 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
10872 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
10873 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
10875 - Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden
10876 service descriptors. Fixes bug 15296; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
10878 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10879 - Use the sandbox in tor_open_cloexec whether or not O_CLOEXEC is
10880 defined. Patch by "teor". Fixes bug 16515; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
10881 - Allow bridge authorities to run correctly under the seccomp2
10882 sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10883 - Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
10884 HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
10885 bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
10887 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10):
10888 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
10889 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
10890 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
10892 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.9):
10893 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
10894 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
10896 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay, by allowing the
10897 renaming of secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex
10898 syscalls. Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by
10901 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
10902 - When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of
10903 parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug
10904 15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with
10905 recent enough Clang.
10907 o Minor bugfixes (network):
10908 - When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface
10909 lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are
10910 unsuitable for public communications.
10912 o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
10913 - Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
10914 limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug
10915 16274; bugfix on tor- 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
10917 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
10918 - Check correctly for Windows socket errors in the workqueue
10919 backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10920 - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
10921 standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
10923 - Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD to enable backtrace support. Fixes part
10924 of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Marcin Cieślak.
10926 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
10927 - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
10928 shutdown is indicated. This fix doesn't currently affect the
10929 behavior of Tor, because Tor workers never indicates fatal error
10930 or shutdown except in the unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix
10932 - Fix a rarely-encountered memory leak when failing to initialize
10933 the thread pool. Fixes bug 16631; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
10934 from "cypherpunks".
10935 - Unblock threads before releasing the work queue mutex to ensure
10936 predictable scheduling behavior. Fixes bug 16644; bugfix
10939 o Minor bugfixes (security, exit policies):
10940 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now also rejects the relay's published
10941 IPv6 address (if any), and any publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6
10942 addresses on any local interfaces. ticket 17027. Patch by "teor".
10943 Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 0.2.0.11-alpha.
10945 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
10946 - Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
10947 not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
10948 being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
10949 when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay.
10950 Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
10952 o Minor bugfixes (systemd):
10953 - Tor's systemd unit file no longer contains extraneous spaces.
10954 These spaces would sometimes confuse tools like deb-systemd-
10955 helper. Fixes bug 16162; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
10957 o Minor bugfixes (test networks):
10958 - When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to
10959 determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The
10960 previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
10961 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configurations
10962 where ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is
10963 not. Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor",
10964 issue discovered by CJ Ess.
10966 o Minor bugfixes (tests, also in 0.2.6.9):
10967 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
10968 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
10970 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10971 - Change the function that's called when we need to retry all
10972 downloads so that it only reschedules the downloads to happen
10973 immediately, rather than launching them all at once itself. This
10974 further simplifies Tor's callgraph.
10975 - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order
10976 to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere.
10977 - Move some format-parsing functions out of crypto.c and
10978 crypto_curve25519.c into crypto_format.c and/or util_format.c.
10979 - Move the client-only parts of init_keys() into a separate
10980 function. Closes ticket 16763.
10981 - Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into
10982 separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
10984 - Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently
10985 report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases
10986 involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391.
10987 - Remove some vestigial workarounds for the MSVC6 compiler. We
10988 haven't supported that in ages.
10989 - Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup().
10990 - Simplify the microdesc_free() implementation so that it no longer
10991 appears (to code analysis tools) to potentially invoke a huge
10992 suite of other microdesc functions.
10993 - Simply the control graph further by deferring the inner body of
10994 directory_all_unreachable() into a callback. Closes ticket 16762.
10995 - The link authentication code has been refactored for better
10996 testability and reliability. It now uses code generated with the
10997 "trunnel" binary encoding generator, to reduce the risk of bugs
10998 due to programmer error. Done as part of ticket 12498.
10999 - Treat the loss of an owning controller as equivalent to a SIGTERM
11000 signal. This removes a tiny amount of duplicated code, and
11001 simplifies our callgraph. Closes ticket 16788.
11002 - Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more
11003 control over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
11004 - When generating an event to send to the controller, we no longer
11005 put the event over the network immediately. Instead, we queue
11006 these events, and use a Libevent callback to deliver them. This
11007 change simplifies Tor's callgraph by reducing the number of
11008 functions from which all other Tor functions are reachable. Closes
11010 - Wrap Windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools
11011 that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that
11015 - Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609.
11016 - Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in
11017 the manpage to describe rationale and possible uses cases. Fixes
11019 - Improve the layout and formatting of ./configure --help messages.
11020 Closes ticket 15024. Patch from "cypherpunks".
11021 - Include a specific and (hopefully) accurate documentation of the
11022 torrc file's meta-format in doc/torrc_format.txt. This is mainly
11023 of interest to people writing programs to parse or generate torrc
11024 files. This document is not a commitment to long-term
11025 compatibility; some aspects of the current format are a bit
11026 ridiculous. Closes ticket 2325.
11027 - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
11028 to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
11030 - Note that HiddenServicePorts can take a unix domain socket. Closes
11032 - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
11033 than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
11034 - Standardize on the term "server descriptor" in the manual page.
11035 Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor",
11036 and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987.
11037 - Advise users on how to configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 exit
11038 policies in the manpage and sample torrcs. Related to ticket 16069.
11039 - Fix an error in the manual page and comments for
11040 TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir
11041 required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no
11042 way unique to the HSDir flag. Of all the flags, only HSDirs need a
11043 DirPort configured in order for the authorities to assign that
11044 particular flag. Patch by "teor". Fixed as part of 14882; bugfix
11046 - Fix the usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
11047 the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
11050 - Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
11051 and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
11052 has been part of tor since 0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
11053 be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
11054 - Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
11055 Closes ticket 14922.
11056 - Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller
11057 connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in
11058 0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding
11059 their limits. But there is no longer a maximum output buffer size,
11060 and flushing data in this way caused some undesirable recursions
11061 in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480.
11062 - The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor
11063 distribution, in favor of the pure-Go clone available from
11064 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/ . The libraries
11065 used by the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very
11066 confidence- inspiring in their secure-programming techniques.
11067 Closes ticket 13338.
11069 o Removed features:
11070 - Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti-
11071 fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward-
11072 secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736.
11073 - Remove the HidServDirectoryV2 option. Now all relays offer to
11074 store hidden service descriptors. Related to 16543.
11075 - Remove the VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 option, since all
11076 authorities have long set it to 1. Closes ticket 16543.
11077 - Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It
11078 complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on
11079 multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
11080 including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742.
11081 - Tor no longer contains checks for ancient directory cache versions
11082 that didn't know about microdescriptors.
11083 - Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by
11084 super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly.
11087 - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing.
11088 Requires corresponding chutney performance testing changes. Patch
11089 by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
11090 - Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to
11091 produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which
11092 other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify
11093 our code structure by identifying illogical dependencies.
11094 - Add new 'test-full' and 'test-full-online' targets to run all
11095 tests, including integration tests with stem and chutney.
11096 - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and Tor sources are side-
11097 by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
11099 - Document use of coverity, clang static analyzer, and clang dynamic
11100 undefined behavior and address sanitizers in doc/HACKING. Include
11101 detailed usage instructions in the blacklist. Patch by "teor".
11102 Closes ticket 15817.
11103 - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
11104 tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
11105 to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
11106 test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor) and 16946
11107 (chutney). Patches by "teor".
11108 - Make the test-workqueue test work on Windows by initializing the
11109 network before we begin.
11110 - New make target (make test-network-all) to run multiple applicable
11111 chutney test cases. Patch from Teor; closes 16953.
11112 - Now that OpenSSL has its own scrypt implementation, add an unit
11113 test that checks for interoperability between libscrypt_scrypt()
11114 and OpenSSL's EVP_PBE_scrypt() so that we could not use libscrypt
11115 and rely on EVP_PBE_scrypt() whenever possible. Resolves
11117 - The link authentication protocol code now has extensive tests.
11118 - The relay descriptor signature testing code now has
11120 - The test_workqueue program now runs faster, and is enabled by
11121 default as a part of "make check".
11122 - Unit test dns_resolve(), dns_clip_ttl() and dns_get_expiry_ttl()
11123 functions in dns.c. Implements a portion of ticket 16831.
11124 - Use environment variables rather than autoconf substitutions to
11125 send variables from the build system to the test scripts. This
11126 change should be easier to maintain, and cause 'make distcheck' to
11127 work better than before. Fixes bug 17148.
11128 - When building Tor with testing coverage enabled, run Chutney tests
11129 (if any) using the 'tor-cov' coverage binary.
11130 - When running test-network or test-stem, check for the absence of
11131 stem/chutney before doing any build operations.
11132 - Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our
11133 memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377.
11134 - Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes
11135 files. Closes ticket 15180.
11136 - Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile-
11137 time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity
11138 of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for
11139 bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor".
11140 - Command-line argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806.
11141 - Integrate the ntor, backtrace, and zero-length keys tests into the
11142 automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344.
11143 - Remove assertions during builds to determine Tor's test coverage.
11144 We don't want to trigger these even in assertions, so including
11145 them artificially makes our branch coverage look worse than it is.
11146 This patch provides the new test-stem-full and coverage-html-full
11147 configure options. Implements ticket 15400.
11148 - New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags to
11149 explicitly manage consensus flags in testing networks. Patch by
11150 "robgjansen", modified by "teor". Implements part of ticket 14882.
11151 - Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes
11152 bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
11154 - Set the severity correctly when testing
11155 get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and
11156 get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
11157 instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
11158 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
11160 Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12
11161 Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden
11162 service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and
11163 fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of
11164 Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version
11165 of 0.2.6, should upgrade.
11167 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability):
11168 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
11169 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
11170 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
11171 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
11172 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
11173 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
11174 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
11177 o Major bugfixes (stability):
11178 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
11179 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
11180 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
11181 by "cypherpunks_backup".
11182 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
11183 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
11184 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
11187 o Minor features (geoip):
11188 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
11189 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
11191 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling):
11192 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
11193 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
11194 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
11195 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
11196 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
11198 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11199 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
11200 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
11201 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
11204 Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11
11205 Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the
11206 requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small
11207 bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation
11208 should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade.
11210 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
11211 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
11212 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was
11213 being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection
11214 was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
11217 o Minor feature (directory authorities, security):
11218 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
11219 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
11220 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
11221 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which
11222 takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96
11223 hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
11225 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11226 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
11227 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
11228 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
11230 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11231 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of
11232 secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes
11233 bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader.
11234 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
11235 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
11238 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
11239 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
11240 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
11243 Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
11244 Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
11245 fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
11246 authorities should upgrade.
11248 o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
11249 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
11250 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
11251 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
11254 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
11255 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
11256 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
11259 o Minor features (geoip):
11260 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
11261 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
11265 Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06
11266 Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an
11267 attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden
11268 services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients
11269 should upgrade whenever packages become available.
11271 This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden
11272 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
11274 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
11275 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
11276 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
11277 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
11278 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
11279 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
11280 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
11282 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
11283 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
11284 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
11285 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
11286 Resolves ticket 15515.
11287 - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs
11288 when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational
11289 cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves
11293 Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06
11294 Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
11295 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
11296 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
11297 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
11299 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
11300 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
11302 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
11303 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
11304 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
11305 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
11306 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
11307 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
11308 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
11310 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
11311 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
11312 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
11313 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
11314 Resolves ticket 15515.
11317 Changes in version 0.2.4.27 - 2015-04-06
11318 Tor 0.2.4.27 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
11319 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
11320 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
11321 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
11323 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
11324 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
11326 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
11327 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
11328 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
11329 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
11330 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
11331 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
11332 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
11334 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
11335 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
11336 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
11337 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
11338 Resolves ticket 15515.
11341 Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24
11342 Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series.
11344 It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance
11345 improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of
11346 sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is
11347 improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much
11348 higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is
11349 improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports
11350 should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance
11351 bugs should be addressed.
11353 o New compiler and system requirements:
11354 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
11355 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
11356 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
11357 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
11359 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
11360 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
11361 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
11362 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
11363 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
11364 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
11365 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
11366 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
11367 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
11369 o Deprecated versions and removed support:
11370 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
11371 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
11372 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
11373 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
11374 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
11375 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
11377 o Directory authority changes:
11378 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
11379 closes ticket 14487.
11380 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
11381 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
11382 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
11384 o Major features (bridges):
11385 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
11386 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
11387 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
11390 o Major features (changed defaults):
11391 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
11392 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
11393 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
11394 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
11395 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
11396 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
11398 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
11399 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
11400 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
11401 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
11404 o Major features (directory system):
11405 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
11406 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
11407 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
11408 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
11409 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
11410 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
11411 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
11412 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
11413 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
11414 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
11415 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
11416 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
11417 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
11418 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
11419 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
11420 227. Closes ticket 10395.
11422 o Major features (guards):
11423 - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
11424 guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
11425 guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
11426 a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
11427 months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
11429 o Major features (hidden services):
11430 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
11431 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
11432 Closes ticket 13667.
11433 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
11434 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
11435 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
11436 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
11437 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
11438 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
11439 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
11440 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
11441 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
11442 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
11443 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
11445 o Major features (performance):
11446 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
11447 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
11448 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
11449 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
11450 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
11451 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
11452 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
11453 Implements ticket 9682.
11455 o Major features (relay):
11456 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
11457 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
11458 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
11459 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
11460 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
11461 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
11462 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
11463 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
11465 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
11466 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
11467 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
11468 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
11469 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
11470 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
11471 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
11474 o Major features (sample torrc):
11475 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
11476 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
11477 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
11478 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
11479 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
11480 generally useful "sample torrc".
11482 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
11483 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
11484 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
11485 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
11486 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
11487 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
11489 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
11490 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
11491 Implements ticket 11485.
11493 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
11494 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
11495 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
11496 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
11497 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
11498 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
11501 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
11502 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
11503 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
11506 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
11507 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
11508 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
11510 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
11511 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
11512 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
11513 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
11514 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
11516 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
11517 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
11518 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
11519 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
11521 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
11522 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
11523 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
11526 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
11527 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
11528 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
11529 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
11530 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
11531 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
11533 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11534 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
11535 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
11536 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
11538 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
11539 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
11540 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
11541 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
11542 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
11543 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
11544 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
11546 o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
11547 - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
11548 launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
11549 that occurred when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
11550 authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
11551 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11553 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
11554 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
11555 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
11556 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
11557 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
11558 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
11559 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
11560 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
11562 o Minor features (build):
11563 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
11564 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
11565 Resolves ticket 13037.
11567 o Minor features (client):
11568 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
11569 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
11570 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
11571 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
11573 o Minor features (client):
11574 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
11575 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
11576 Resolves ticket 13315.
11578 o Minor features (controller):
11579 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
11580 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
11582 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
11583 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
11585 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
11586 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
11587 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
11588 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
11589 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
11590 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
11591 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
11592 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
11593 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
11595 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
11596 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
11597 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
11598 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
11599 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
11600 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
11601 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
11602 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
11603 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
11604 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
11606 o Minor features (directory authorities):
11607 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
11608 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
11609 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
11610 argument more than once.
11611 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
11612 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
11613 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
11614 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
11615 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
11616 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
11618 o Minor features (geoip):
11619 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
11620 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
11623 o Minor features (guard nodes):
11624 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
11625 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
11626 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
11628 o Minor features (heartbeat):
11629 - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
11630 version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
11631 know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
11632 protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
11634 o Minor features (hidden service):
11635 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
11636 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
11637 hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
11638 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
11639 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
11640 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
11641 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
11642 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
11643 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
11644 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
11645 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
11646 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
11647 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
11648 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
11650 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
11651 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
11652 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
11654 o Minor features (interface):
11655 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
11656 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
11657 the file system. Implements feature 13865.
11659 o Minor features (logging):
11660 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
11661 Resolves ticket 6852.
11662 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
11663 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
11664 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
11666 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
11667 INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
11668 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
11669 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
11670 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
11671 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
11672 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
11673 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
11674 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
11675 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
11676 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
11677 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
11680 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
11681 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
11682 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
11683 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
11685 o Minor features (relay):
11686 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
11687 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
11688 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
11690 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
11691 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
11692 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
11693 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
11694 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
11695 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
11696 document. Implements feature 10427.
11698 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
11699 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
11700 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
11701 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
11703 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
11704 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
11705 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
11706 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
11707 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
11708 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
11710 o Minor features (stability):
11711 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
11712 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
11715 o Minor features (systemd):
11716 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
11717 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
11718 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
11719 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
11720 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
11721 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
11723 o Minor features (testing networks):
11724 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
11725 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
11726 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
11727 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
11728 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
11730 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
11731 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
11732 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
11733 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
11734 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
11735 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
11737 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
11738 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
11739 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
11740 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
11741 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
11743 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
11744 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
11745 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
11746 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
11747 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
11749 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
11750 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
11751 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
11752 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
11753 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
11756 o Minor features (validation):
11757 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
11758 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
11759 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
11760 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
11761 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
11762 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
11763 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
11764 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
11765 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
11766 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
11767 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
11770 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
11771 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
11772 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
11773 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
11775 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
11776 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
11777 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
11778 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
11780 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
11781 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
11782 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
11784 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
11785 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
11786 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
11788 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
11789 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
11790 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
11791 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
11792 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
11793 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
11794 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
11796 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
11797 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
11798 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
11799 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
11800 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
11801 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
11802 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
11803 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
11804 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
11806 o Minor bugfixes (client):
11807 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
11808 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
11809 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
11810 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
11811 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
11812 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
11813 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
11814 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
11816 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
11817 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
11818 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
11819 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
11820 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
11821 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
11822 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
11823 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
11825 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
11826 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
11827 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
11830 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
11831 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
11832 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
11833 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
11834 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
11836 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNS):
11837 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
11838 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
11839 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
11840 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
11841 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
11842 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
11843 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11845 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
11846 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
11847 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
11848 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
11849 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
11851 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
11852 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
11853 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
11854 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
11855 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
11857 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
11858 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
11859 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
11861 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
11862 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
11863 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
11864 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
11865 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
11867 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
11868 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
11869 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
11871 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11872 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
11874 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
11875 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
11876 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
11877 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
11879 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
11880 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
11882 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
11883 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
11884 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
11885 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
11886 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
11887 Addresses ticket 14188.
11888 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
11889 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
11890 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
11891 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
11892 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
11893 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
11894 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
11895 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
11896 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
11897 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
11898 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
11901 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11902 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
11903 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
11904 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
11905 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
11906 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
11908 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11909 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
11910 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
11911 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
11912 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
11914 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
11915 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
11916 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
11917 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
11918 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
11919 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
11920 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
11921 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11922 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
11923 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11924 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
11925 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
11926 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
11927 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
11928 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
11929 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11931 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
11932 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
11933 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
11934 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11935 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
11936 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
11937 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
11938 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
11941 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
11942 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
11943 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
11944 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
11945 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
11946 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
11947 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
11948 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
11949 state, and key files.
11950 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
11951 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
11954 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
11955 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
11956 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
11957 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
11958 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
11959 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
11960 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
11961 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
11962 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
11963 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
11964 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
11965 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
11966 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
11967 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
11968 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
11969 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
11970 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
11971 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
11974 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11975 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
11976 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
11977 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
11978 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
11979 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
11980 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
11981 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
11982 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
11983 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11985 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11986 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
11987 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
11988 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
11989 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
11990 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
11992 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
11993 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
11995 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
11996 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
11997 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
11998 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
11999 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
12001 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
12002 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
12003 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
12004 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
12005 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
12006 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
12008 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
12009 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
12010 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
12012 - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent
12013 compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436;
12014 bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
12016 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
12017 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
12018 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
12019 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
12020 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
12022 - Clear all memory targeted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
12023 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
12024 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
12027 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
12028 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
12029 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
12030 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
12031 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
12034 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
12035 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
12036 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
12037 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
12040 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
12041 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
12042 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
12045 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
12046 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
12047 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
12049 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
12050 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
12051 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
12052 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
12053 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
12056 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
12057 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
12058 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
12059 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
12060 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
12061 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
12063 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
12064 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
12065 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
12066 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
12067 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
12068 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
12070 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
12071 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
12072 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
12073 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
12074 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
12075 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
12076 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
12077 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
12078 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
12079 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
12080 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
12081 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
12082 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
12083 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
12084 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
12085 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
12086 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
12087 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
12088 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
12089 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
12090 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
12091 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
12092 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
12093 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
12094 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
12095 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
12096 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
12097 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
12098 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
12099 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
12100 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
12101 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
12103 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
12104 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
12105 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
12106 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
12107 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
12109 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12110 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
12111 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
12112 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
12113 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
12114 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
12115 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
12116 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
12117 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
12119 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
12120 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
12121 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
12123 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
12124 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
12125 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
12128 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
12129 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
12130 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
12131 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
12134 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
12135 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
12136 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
12138 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12139 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
12140 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
12142 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
12143 Resolves ticket 12205.
12144 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
12145 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
12146 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
12147 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
12149 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
12150 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
12151 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
12153 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
12154 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
12156 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
12157 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
12158 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
12159 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
12160 or_options_t structure.
12161 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
12162 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
12163 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
12164 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
12165 the past. Closes ticket 8546.
12166 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
12167 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
12168 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
12170 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
12171 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
12173 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
12175 - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
12176 easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
12177 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
12178 with a function instead.
12179 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
12180 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
12181 Closes ticket 13172.
12182 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
12183 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
12184 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
12185 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
12186 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
12187 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
12188 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
12189 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
12190 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
12191 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
12192 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
12193 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
12197 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
12198 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
12199 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
12200 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
12202 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
12203 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
12204 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
12205 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
12206 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
12207 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
12208 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
12209 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
12210 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
12211 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
12212 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
12213 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
12214 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
12215 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
12216 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
12217 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
12218 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
12219 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
12221 o Distribution (systemd):
12222 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
12223 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
12224 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
12225 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
12226 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
12228 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
12229 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
12231 o Downgraded warnings:
12232 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
12233 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
12236 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
12237 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
12238 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
12241 o Removed features (directory authorities):
12242 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
12243 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
12244 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
12245 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
12246 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
12247 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
12248 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
12249 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
12250 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
12252 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
12253 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
12254 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
12255 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
12258 o Removed features:
12259 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
12260 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
12261 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
12262 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
12263 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
12265 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
12266 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
12267 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
12268 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
12269 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
12270 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
12271 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
12272 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
12273 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
12275 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
12276 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
12278 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
12279 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
12280 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
12281 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
12282 anymore, and ignore it.
12284 o Removed platform support:
12285 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
12286 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
12287 Closes ticket 11446.
12289 o Testing (test-network.sh):
12290 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
12291 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
12293 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
12295 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
12296 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
12297 Partially implements ticket 13161.
12300 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
12301 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
12302 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
12303 (existing behavior).
12304 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
12305 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
12306 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
12307 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
12308 Closes ticket 14107.
12309 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
12310 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
12311 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
12312 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
12314 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
12315 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
12316 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
12317 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
12318 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
12319 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
12321 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
12323 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
12324 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
12325 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
12326 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
12327 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
12328 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
12329 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
12330 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
12331 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
12332 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
12333 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
12334 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
12336 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
12337 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
12338 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
12340 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
12341 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
12343 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
12344 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
12345 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
12347 o Directory authority changes:
12348 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
12349 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
12350 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
12351 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
12352 closes ticket 14487.
12354 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
12355 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
12356 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
12359 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
12360 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
12361 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
12362 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
12363 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
12364 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
12365 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
12366 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
12368 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
12369 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
12370 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
12371 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
12373 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12374 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
12375 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
12376 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
12378 o Minor features (controller):
12379 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
12380 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
12381 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
12383 o Minor features (geoip):
12384 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
12385 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
12388 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
12389 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
12390 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
12391 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
12392 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
12393 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
12395 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
12396 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
12397 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
12398 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
12400 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
12401 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
12402 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
12403 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
12404 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
12405 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
12406 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
12407 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
12409 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
12410 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
12411 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
12413 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
12414 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
12415 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
12416 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
12417 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
12421 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
12422 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
12423 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
12426 o Directory authority changes:
12427 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
12428 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
12429 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
12430 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
12431 closes ticket 14487.
12433 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
12434 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
12435 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
12436 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
12438 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
12439 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
12440 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
12441 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
12442 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
12443 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
12444 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
12445 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
12447 o Minor features (geoip):
12448 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
12449 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
12452 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
12453 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
12455 It adds several new security features, including improved
12456 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
12457 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
12458 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
12459 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
12460 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
12461 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
12462 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
12463 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
12464 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
12465 and features mentioned below.
12467 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
12468 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
12470 o Major features (security):
12471 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
12472 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
12473 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
12474 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
12475 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
12476 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
12477 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
12478 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
12479 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
12480 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
12482 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
12483 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
12484 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
12485 streams attached to each circuit.
12487 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
12488 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
12489 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
12490 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
12491 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
12492 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
12493 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
12494 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
12495 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
12496 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
12497 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
12498 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
12499 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
12501 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
12502 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
12503 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
12504 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
12506 o Major features (bridges and pluggable transports):
12507 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
12508 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
12509 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
12510 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
12511 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
12513 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
12514 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
12515 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
12516 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
12517 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
12518 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
12519 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
12520 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
12523 o Major features (controller):
12524 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
12525 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
12526 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
12527 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
12528 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
12529 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
12531 o Major features (relay performance):
12532 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
12533 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
12534 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
12535 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
12536 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
12537 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
12538 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
12539 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
12540 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
12541 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
12543 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
12544 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
12545 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
12546 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
12547 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
12548 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
12549 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
12550 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
12551 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
12552 Google Summer of Code. Resolves tickets 11351 and 11465.
12554 o Major features (testing networks):
12555 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
12556 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
12557 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
12558 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
12559 Implements ticket 8530.
12561 o Major features (other):
12562 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
12563 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
12564 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
12565 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
12566 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
12567 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
12569 o Deprecated versions:
12570 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
12571 attention for some while.
12573 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
12574 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
12575 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
12577 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
12578 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
12579 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
12580 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
12581 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
12582 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
12583 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
12584 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
12585 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
12586 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
12587 router's identity is not forgeable.
12589 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
12590 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
12591 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes
12592 bug 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
12594 o Major bugfixes (client):
12595 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
12596 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
12597 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
12598 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
12599 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
12600 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
12601 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
12602 to build circuits".
12604 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
12605 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
12606 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
12607 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
12610 o Major bugfixes (relay denial of service):
12611 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
12612 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
12613 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
12614 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
12615 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
12616 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12618 o Major bugfixes (relay):
12619 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
12620 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
12621 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
12622 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
12623 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
12624 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
12625 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
12626 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
12627 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
12628 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
12629 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
12630 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
12631 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
12632 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
12633 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
12634 bugfix on every version of Tor.
12636 o Minor features (security):
12637 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
12638 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
12639 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
12640 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
12642 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
12643 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
12644 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
12645 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
12646 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
12647 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
12648 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
12650 o Minor features (security, memory management):
12651 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
12652 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
12653 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
12654 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
12655 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
12656 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
12658 o Minor features (bridge client):
12659 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
12660 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
12661 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
12663 o Minor features (bridge):
12664 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
12665 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
12667 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
12668 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
12669 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
12670 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
12671 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
12672 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
12673 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
12674 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
12675 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
12676 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
12677 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
12678 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
12679 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
12680 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
12681 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
12683 o Minor features (build):
12684 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
12685 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
12686 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
12687 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
12688 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
12689 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
12690 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
12691 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
12692 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
12693 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
12694 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
12695 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
12696 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
12697 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
12698 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
12701 o Minor features (client):
12702 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
12703 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
12704 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
12705 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
12707 o Minor features (config options and command line):
12708 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
12709 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
12710 Implements ticket 10060.
12711 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
12712 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
12713 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
12715 o Minor features (config options):
12716 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
12717 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
12718 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
12719 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
12720 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
12721 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
12722 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
12723 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
12724 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
12725 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
12726 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
12727 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
12728 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
12729 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
12730 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
12731 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
12732 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
12735 o Minor features (controller):
12736 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
12737 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
12739 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
12740 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
12741 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
12742 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
12743 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
12744 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
12745 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
12746 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
12748 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
12749 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
12750 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
12752 o Minor features (diagnostic):
12753 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
12754 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
12755 help diagnose bug 7164.
12756 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
12757 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
12758 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
12759 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
12760 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
12762 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
12763 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
12764 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
12765 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
12766 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
12767 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
12768 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
12769 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
12770 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
12771 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
12772 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
12773 still referenced by a live node_t object.
12774 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
12775 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
12776 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
12778 o Minor features (geoip):
12779 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
12782 o Minor features (interface):
12783 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
12784 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
12785 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
12786 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
12788 o Minor features (kernel API usage):
12789 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
12790 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
12792 o Minor features (log messages):
12793 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
12794 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
12795 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
12796 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
12797 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
12798 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
12799 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
12800 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
12802 o Minor features (log verbosity):
12803 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
12804 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
12805 Resolves ticket 5286.
12806 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
12807 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
12808 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
12809 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
12810 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
12811 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
12813 o Minor features (performance):
12814 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
12815 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
12816 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
12817 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
12818 Closes ticket 8109.
12820 o Minor features (relay):
12821 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
12822 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
12823 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
12825 o Minor features (testing):
12826 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
12827 the unit test scripts.
12828 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
12829 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
12830 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
12831 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
12833 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
12834 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
12835 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
12836 10267; patch from "yurivict".
12837 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
12838 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
12839 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
12840 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
12841 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
12842 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
12844 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
12845 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
12846 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
12847 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12849 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
12850 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
12851 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
12852 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
12853 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
12854 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
12855 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
12856 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
12857 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
12858 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
12860 o Minor bugfixes (build, auxiliary programs):
12861 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
12862 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
12864 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
12865 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
12866 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
12867 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
12868 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12870 o Minor bugfixes (client):
12871 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
12872 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
12873 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
12874 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
12875 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
12876 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
12877 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
12878 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
12879 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
12880 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
12881 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
12883 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
12884 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
12885 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
12886 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
12887 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
12888 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
12889 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
12890 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
12891 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
12892 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
12893 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
12894 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
12896 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
12897 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
12898 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
12899 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
12901 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
12902 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
12903 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
12904 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
12907 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
12908 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
12909 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
12910 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
12911 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
12912 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
12915 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
12916 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
12917 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
12918 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
12919 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
12921 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
12922 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
12923 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
12926 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
12927 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
12928 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
12929 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
12930 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
12931 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
12932 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
12933 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
12934 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
12935 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
12937 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
12938 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
12939 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
12940 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
12941 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
12943 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
12944 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
12946 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
12947 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
12948 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
12949 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
12950 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
12951 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
12952 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
12953 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
12954 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
12955 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
12956 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
12957 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
12958 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
12960 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
12961 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
12962 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
12963 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
12964 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
12965 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
12966 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
12967 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
12968 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
12969 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
12970 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
12971 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
12972 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
12974 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
12975 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
12976 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
12978 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
12979 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
12980 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
12981 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
12982 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
12983 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
12985 o Minor bugfixes (directory server):
12986 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
12987 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
12988 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
12989 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
12990 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
12991 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
12992 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
12993 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
12994 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
12996 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
12997 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
12998 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
13000 o Minor bugfixes (interface):
13001 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
13002 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
13003 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
13004 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
13006 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
13007 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
13008 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
13009 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
13010 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
13011 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
13012 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
13013 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
13014 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
13015 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
13016 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
13017 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
13018 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
13019 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
13021 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
13022 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
13023 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
13024 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
13025 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
13026 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
13027 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
13028 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
13029 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
13031 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
13032 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
13033 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
13034 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
13035 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
13036 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
13037 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
13039 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
13040 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
13042 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
13043 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
13044 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
13045 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
13047 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
13048 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
13049 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
13050 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13051 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
13052 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
13053 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
13054 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
13055 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
13056 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
13057 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
13058 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
13059 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
13060 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
13061 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
13062 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
13063 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
13065 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
13066 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
13067 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
13068 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
13069 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
13070 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
13071 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
13072 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
13075 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
13076 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
13077 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
13078 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
13079 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
13080 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
13081 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13082 Reported by "mr-4".
13083 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
13084 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
13085 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
13086 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
13088 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
13089 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
13090 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
13091 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
13092 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
13093 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
13094 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
13095 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
13096 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
13097 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
13098 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
13099 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
13101 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
13102 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
13103 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
13105 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
13106 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
13107 early. Fixes bug 10081.
13109 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
13110 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
13111 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
13112 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
13115 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
13116 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
13117 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
13118 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
13121 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
13122 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
13123 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
13124 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
13126 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
13127 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
13128 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
13130 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
13131 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
13132 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
13133 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
13134 versions. Found by "skruffy".
13135 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
13136 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
13137 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
13140 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
13141 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
13142 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
13143 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
13144 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
13145 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
13146 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
13147 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
13148 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
13149 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
13150 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
13152 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
13153 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
13154 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
13155 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
13156 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
13158 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
13159 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
13160 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
13161 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
13164 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
13165 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
13166 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
13167 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
13168 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
13169 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
13170 should never have affected anyone in practice.
13172 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13173 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
13174 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
13175 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
13176 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
13177 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
13178 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
13179 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
13180 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
13181 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
13182 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
13183 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
13184 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
13185 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
13186 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
13187 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
13188 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
13189 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
13190 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
13191 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
13192 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
13193 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
13194 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
13195 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
13197 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
13198 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
13199 embarrassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
13200 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
13201 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
13202 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
13203 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
13204 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
13205 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
13207 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
13208 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
13211 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
13212 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
13214 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
13216 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
13217 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
13218 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
13219 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
13220 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
13221 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
13223 - Correct the documentation so that it lists the correct directory
13224 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
13226 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
13227 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
13228 caches don't get confused.
13229 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
13230 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
13231 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
13232 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
13233 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
13234 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
13235 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
13236 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
13237 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
13238 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
13239 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
13240 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
13241 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
13242 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
13243 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
13244 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
13245 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
13246 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
13249 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
13250 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
13251 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
13252 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
13253 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
13255 o Removed code and features:
13256 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
13257 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
13258 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
13259 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
13260 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
13261 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
13263 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
13264 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
13265 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
13266 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
13267 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
13268 part of a fix for bug 10841.
13269 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
13270 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes bug 11742.
13271 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
13272 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
13273 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
13274 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
13276 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
13277 Resolves ticket 11070.
13278 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
13279 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
13280 the rest of bug 10841.
13281 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
13282 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
13283 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
13284 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
13286 o Test infrastructure:
13287 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
13288 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
13289 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
13290 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
13291 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
13292 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
13293 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
13294 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
13295 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
13296 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
13298 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
13299 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
13300 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
13301 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
13302 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
13303 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
13304 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
13305 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
13306 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
13307 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
13308 invoking the other functions it calls.
13311 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
13312 Patch from Dana Koch.
13313 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
13314 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
13315 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
13316 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
13318 o Distribution (systemd):
13319 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
13320 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
13321 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
13322 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
13323 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
13324 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
13325 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
13326 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
13327 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
13328 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
13329 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
13330 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
13331 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
13335 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
13336 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
13337 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
13338 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
13339 (which does affect Tor).
13341 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
13342 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
13343 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
13344 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
13346 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
13347 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
13348 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
13349 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
13352 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
13353 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
13354 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
13355 the directory authorities.
13358 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
13359 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
13360 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
13361 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
13362 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
13363 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
13364 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
13365 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
13366 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
13367 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
13368 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
13369 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
13371 o Directory authority changes:
13372 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
13374 o Minor features (geoip):
13375 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
13379 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
13380 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
13381 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
13382 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
13385 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
13386 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
13387 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
13388 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
13389 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
13390 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
13391 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
13392 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
13393 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
13394 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
13397 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
13398 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
13399 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
13400 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
13401 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
13402 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
13403 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
13404 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
13408 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
13409 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
13410 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
13411 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
13412 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
13413 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
13414 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
13415 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
13416 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13417 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
13418 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
13419 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
13420 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
13423 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
13427 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
13428 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
13429 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
13430 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
13431 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
13432 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
13433 of RAM, and several others.
13435 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
13436 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
13437 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
13438 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
13439 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
13441 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
13442 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
13443 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
13444 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
13447 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
13448 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
13449 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
13450 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
13451 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
13452 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
13453 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
13454 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
13455 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
13456 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
13457 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
13458 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
13459 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
13460 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
13461 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
13462 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
13463 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
13464 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
13465 Resolves ticket 11438.
13467 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
13468 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
13469 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
13470 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
13471 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
13472 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
13474 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
13475 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
13476 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
13478 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
13479 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
13480 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
13482 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
13483 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
13484 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
13485 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
13487 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
13488 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
13489 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
13491 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13492 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
13493 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
13496 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
13497 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
13498 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
13499 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
13502 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
13503 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
13504 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
13505 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
13507 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
13508 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
13509 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
13510 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
13512 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
13513 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
13514 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
13518 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
13519 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
13520 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
13521 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
13523 o Major features (client security):
13524 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
13525 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
13526 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
13527 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
13528 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
13529 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
13532 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
13533 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
13534 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
13535 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
13537 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13538 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
13539 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
13540 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
13541 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
13544 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
13545 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
13547 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
13548 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
13549 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
13550 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
13551 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
13552 GeoLite2 Country database.
13555 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
13556 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
13557 bugfix on every released Tor.
13558 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
13559 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
13560 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
13561 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
13562 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
13563 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
13564 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
13565 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
13566 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
13567 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
13568 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
13569 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
13570 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
13571 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
13572 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
13574 o Documentation fixes:
13575 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
13576 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
13579 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
13580 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
13581 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
13582 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
13583 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
13584 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
13585 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
13587 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
13588 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
13591 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
13592 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
13593 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
13594 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
13595 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
13596 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
13597 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
13598 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
13600 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
13601 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
13602 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
13603 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
13604 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
13605 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
13608 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
13609 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
13610 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
13611 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
13612 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
13615 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
13616 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
13617 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
13618 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
13619 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
13620 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
13621 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
13622 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
13624 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
13625 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
13626 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
13627 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
13628 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
13629 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
13630 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
13631 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
13632 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
13633 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
13634 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
13635 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
13636 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
13637 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
13638 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
13639 security, and privacy fixes.
13641 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
13642 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
13643 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
13644 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
13645 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
13646 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
13647 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
13648 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
13649 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
13650 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
13651 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
13653 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
13654 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
13655 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
13657 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
13659 o Major features (better link encryption):
13660 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
13661 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
13662 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
13663 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
13664 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
13665 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
13668 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
13669 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
13670 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
13671 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
13673 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
13675 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
13676 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
13677 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
13678 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
13679 them to solve bug 6033.)
13681 o Major features (relay performance):
13682 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
13683 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
13684 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
13685 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
13686 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
13687 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
13688 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
13689 - Relays process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
13690 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
13691 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
13692 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
13693 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
13694 Implements ticket 9574.
13696 o Major features (client bootstrapping resilience):
13697 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
13698 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
13699 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
13700 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
13701 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
13702 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
13703 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
13704 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
13705 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
13706 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
13707 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
13708 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
13709 95th-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
13710 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
13711 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
13713 o Major features (use of guards):
13714 - Support directory guards (proposal 207): when possible, clients now
13715 use their entry guards for non-anonymous directory requests. This
13716 can help prevent client enumeration. Note that this behavior only
13717 works when we have a usable consensus directory, and when options
13718 about what to download are more or less standard. In the future we
13719 should re-bootstrap from our guards, rather than re-bootstrapping
13720 from the preconfigured list of directory sources that ships with
13721 Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
13722 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
13723 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
13724 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
13725 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
13726 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
13727 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
13729 o Major features (bridges with pluggable transports):
13730 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
13731 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
13732 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
13734 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
13735 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
13738 o Major features (geoip database):
13739 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
13740 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
13741 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
13742 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
13743 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
13744 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
13746 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
13748 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
13750 o Major features (IPv6):
13751 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
13752 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
13753 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
13754 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
13755 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
13756 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
13757 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
13758 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
13759 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
13760 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait for enough
13761 exits to support IPv6, apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort,
13762 and use Socks5. Closes ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as
13763 revised in proposal 208.
13764 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
13765 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
13766 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports. Implements ticket 6363.
13768 o Major features (directory authorities):
13769 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
13770 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
13772 - Directory authorities that vote measured bandwidths about more
13773 than a threshold number of relays now treat relays with
13774 unmeasured bandwidths as having bandwidth 0 when computing their
13775 flags. Resolves ticket 8435.
13776 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
13777 where they cap the published bandwidth of relays for which
13778 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
13779 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
13780 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
13781 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
13782 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
13784 o Major features (build and portability):
13785 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
13786 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
13787 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
13788 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
13789 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
13790 fixes by Jim Meyering.
13791 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
13792 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
13793 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
13794 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
13795 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
13796 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
13798 o Security features:
13799 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
13800 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
13801 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
13802 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
13803 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
13804 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
13805 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
13806 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
13807 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
13810 o Major bugfixes (relay denial of service):
13811 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
13812 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits that have the oldest
13813 queued cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for
13814 us running low on memory. This prevents us from running out of
13815 memory as a relay if circuits fill up faster than they can be
13816 drained. Fixes bugs 9063 and 9093; bugfix on the 54th commit of
13817 Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was
13818 merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
13819 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
13820 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
13821 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
13822 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
13823 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
13824 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
13825 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
13826 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
13827 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
13829 o Major bugfixes (asserts, crashes, leaks):
13830 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
13831 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
13832 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
13834 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
13835 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
13836 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
13838 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
13839 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
13840 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
13841 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
13842 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
13843 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
13844 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
13845 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
13846 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
13848 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
13849 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
13851 o Major bugfixes (relay rate limiting):
13852 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
13853 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
13854 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug 7708;
13855 bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
13856 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
13857 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
13858 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
13859 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
13860 last time we raised it).
13861 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
13862 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
13863 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
13865 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
13866 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
13867 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
13868 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
13869 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
13870 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
13871 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
13872 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
13873 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
13874 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
13875 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
13876 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
13877 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
13879 o Major bugfixes (stream isolation):
13880 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
13881 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
13882 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
13883 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
13884 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
13885 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
13886 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
13887 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
13888 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
13889 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
13890 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
13891 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
13893 o Major bugfixes (client circuit building):
13894 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
13895 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
13896 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
13897 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
13898 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
13899 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
13900 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
13901 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
13903 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
13904 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
13905 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
13906 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
13907 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
13908 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
13909 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
13910 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
13911 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
13912 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
13913 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
13914 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
13915 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
13916 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
13917 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
13918 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
13919 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
13922 o Major bugfixes (hidden service privacy):
13923 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
13924 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
13925 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
13927 o Major bugfixes (directory fetching):
13928 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
13929 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
13930 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
13932 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
13933 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
13934 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
13935 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
13936 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
13937 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
13940 o Major bugfixes (bridge reachability):
13941 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
13942 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
13943 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
13944 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
13945 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
13946 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
13948 o Major bugfixes (control interface):
13949 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
13950 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
13951 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
13953 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
13954 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
13955 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
13956 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
13957 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
13958 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
13959 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
13960 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
13962 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
13963 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
13964 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
13966 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
13967 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
13968 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
13970 o Internal abstraction features:
13971 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
13972 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
13973 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
13974 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
13975 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
13976 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
13977 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
13978 - Make a channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it to the
13979 existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
13980 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
13981 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
13982 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
13983 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
13984 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
13985 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
13986 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
13987 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
13989 o New build requirements:
13990 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
13991 strongly recommended.
13992 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
13993 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
13994 from a source distribution.)
13996 o Minor features (protocol):
13997 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
13998 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
14000 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
14001 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
14002 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
14003 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
14004 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
14005 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
14006 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
14007 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
14008 closes ticket 7199.
14009 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
14010 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
14012 o Minor features (security):
14013 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
14014 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
14015 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
14016 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
14017 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
14018 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
14019 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
14020 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
14021 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
14023 o Minor features (control protocol):
14024 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
14026 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
14027 Implements ticket 4971.
14028 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
14029 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
14030 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
14031 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
14032 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
14034 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
14035 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
14037 o Minor features (path selection):
14038 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
14039 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
14040 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
14041 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
14042 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
14043 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
14044 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
14045 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
14046 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
14047 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
14048 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
14049 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
14050 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
14051 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
14053 o Minor features (hidden services):
14054 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
14055 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
14056 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
14057 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
14058 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
14059 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
14060 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
14061 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
14062 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
14063 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
14064 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
14065 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
14066 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
14068 o Minor features (clients):
14069 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2.x bridges when making
14070 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
14071 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
14072 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
14073 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
14074 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
14075 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
14076 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
14077 the ORPort and the DirPort.
14079 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
14080 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
14081 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
14082 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
14083 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
14084 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
14085 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
14086 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
14087 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
14088 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
14089 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
14090 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
14091 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
14092 Implements part of proposal 222.
14094 o Minor features (bridges):
14095 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
14096 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
14097 bugs 1913 and 1992.
14098 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
14099 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
14100 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
14101 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
14102 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
14103 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
14104 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
14105 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
14106 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
14107 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
14108 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
14110 o Minor features (relays):
14111 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
14112 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
14114 o Minor features (IPv6, client side):
14115 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
14116 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
14117 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
14118 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
14119 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
14120 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
14121 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
14122 connect to the wrong addresses.
14123 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
14124 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
14125 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
14126 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
14129 o Minor features (IPv6, relay/authority side):
14130 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
14131 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
14132 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
14133 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
14134 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
14136 o Minor features (directory authorities):
14137 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
14138 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
14139 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
14141 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
14142 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
14143 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
14144 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
14145 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
14146 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
14148 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
14149 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
14150 Implements ticket 8151.
14151 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
14152 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
14153 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
14154 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
14156 o Minor features (path bias detection):
14157 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
14158 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
14159 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
14160 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
14161 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
14162 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
14163 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
14164 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
14165 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
14166 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
14167 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
14168 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
14169 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
14170 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
14171 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
14172 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
14173 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
14174 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
14175 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
14176 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
14177 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
14178 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
14179 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
14180 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
14181 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
14182 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
14183 detection capability loss.
14185 o Minor features (build):
14186 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
14187 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
14188 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
14190 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
14191 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
14192 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
14194 o Build improvements (autotools):
14195 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
14196 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
14197 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
14199 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
14200 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
14201 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
14202 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
14204 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
14205 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
14206 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
14207 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
14208 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
14209 than to perform erroneously.
14210 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
14212 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
14213 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
14214 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
14216 o Minor features (log messages, warnings):
14217 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
14218 one we compiled with. This conflict has occasionally given people
14219 hard-to-track-down errors.
14220 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
14221 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
14222 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
14223 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
14224 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
14225 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
14226 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
14227 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
14228 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
14229 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
14230 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
14232 o Minor features (log messages, notices):
14233 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
14234 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
14235 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
14236 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
14237 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
14238 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
14239 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
14240 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
14241 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
14243 o Minor features (log messages, diagnostics):
14244 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
14245 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
14246 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
14247 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
14248 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
14249 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
14250 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
14251 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
14252 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
14253 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
14254 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
14255 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
14257 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
14258 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
14259 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
14260 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
14261 or at least make it more diagnosable.
14262 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
14263 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
14264 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
14265 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
14267 o Minor features (log messages, quieter bootstrapping):
14268 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
14269 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
14270 part of ticket 6736.
14271 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
14272 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
14273 Resolves ticket 6758.
14274 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
14275 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
14276 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
14277 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
14278 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
14279 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
14280 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
14282 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
14283 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
14284 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
14285 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
14287 o Minor features (testing):
14288 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
14289 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
14291 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
14292 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
14293 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
14296 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
14297 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
14299 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
14300 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
14301 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
14302 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
14303 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
14304 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
14305 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
14306 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
14307 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
14308 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
14309 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
14310 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
14311 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
14312 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
14313 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
14314 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
14315 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy".
14317 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls and disk interaction):
14318 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
14319 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
14320 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
14321 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
14322 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
14323 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
14324 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
14325 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
14326 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
14327 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors that
14328 include an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on
14329 0.2.0.1-alpha. Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
14330 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
14331 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
14332 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
14333 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
14334 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
14335 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
14336 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
14339 o Minor fixes (config options):
14340 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
14341 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
14342 or we just won't work.)
14343 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
14344 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
14345 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
14346 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
14347 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
14348 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
14349 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
14350 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14351 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
14352 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
14353 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
14354 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14355 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
14356 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
14357 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
14358 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
14359 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
14360 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
14361 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
14363 o Minor bugfixes (control protocol):
14364 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
14365 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
14367 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
14368 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
14369 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
14370 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha.
14372 o Minor bugfixes (clients / edges):
14373 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
14374 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
14375 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
14376 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
14377 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
14378 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
14379 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
14380 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
14381 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
14382 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
14383 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
14384 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
14385 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
14386 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
14387 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
14390 o Minor bugfixes (path bias detection):
14391 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
14392 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
14393 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
14394 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
14395 Should help resolve bug 8235.
14396 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
14397 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
14398 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
14399 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
14400 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
14401 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
14402 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
14403 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
14404 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
14405 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
14406 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
14408 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
14409 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
14410 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
14411 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
14412 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
14413 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
14414 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
14415 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
14417 o Minor bugfixes (blocking resistance):
14418 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
14419 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
14420 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
14422 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
14423 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
14424 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
14425 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
14426 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
14428 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
14429 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
14430 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
14431 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14432 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
14433 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
14435 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
14436 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
14437 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
14438 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
14439 on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 7816.
14440 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
14441 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha; fixes bug 7816.
14442 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
14443 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
14445 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
14446 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
14447 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
14448 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
14449 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14450 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
14451 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
14452 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
14453 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
14454 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
14455 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
14456 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
14458 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
14459 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
14460 this is CID 718634.
14461 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
14462 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
14463 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
14464 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
14466 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
14467 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
14469 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
14470 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
14471 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
14472 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
14473 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
14474 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
14475 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
14476 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14477 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
14478 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
14479 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
14480 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
14481 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
14482 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
14483 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
14484 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
14485 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
14486 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
14488 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, warnings):
14489 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
14490 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
14491 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
14492 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
14493 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
14494 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
14495 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
14496 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
14497 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
14498 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
14499 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
14500 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
14503 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, other):
14504 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
14505 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
14506 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
14507 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
14509 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
14510 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
14511 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
14512 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
14513 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
14514 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14515 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
14516 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
14517 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
14520 o Minor bugfixes (build):
14521 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
14522 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
14523 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14525 o Documentation fixes:
14526 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
14527 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
14528 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
14529 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
14530 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
14531 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
14532 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
14534 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
14535 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
14536 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
14537 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
14538 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
14539 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
14540 message is logged at notice, not at info.
14541 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
14542 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
14543 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
14544 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
14545 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
14546 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
14548 o Removed features:
14549 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
14550 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
14551 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
14553 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
14554 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer; warning
14555 the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket 6826.
14556 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
14557 need to work around their missing features. Remove a bunch of
14558 compatibility code.
14561 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
14562 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
14564 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
14565 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
14567 o Code simplification:
14568 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
14569 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
14570 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
14571 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
14573 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
14574 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
14576 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
14577 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
14578 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
14579 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
14580 present the same extensions.)
14581 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
14583 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
14584 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
14585 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
14586 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
14588 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
14589 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
14590 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
14591 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
14594 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
14596 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
14597 and the different handshakes it supports.
14598 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
14599 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
14600 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
14601 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
14603 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
14604 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
14605 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
14606 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
14607 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
14608 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
14609 testable, and a little less fragile too.
14610 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
14611 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
14612 Implements ticket 5529.
14613 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
14614 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
14615 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
14618 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
14619 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
14620 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
14621 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
14622 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
14623 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14624 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
14625 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
14626 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
14627 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
14628 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
14629 any encoding is overkill.
14630 - Remove the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
14631 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
14632 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
14633 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
14634 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
14635 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
14636 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
14637 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
14638 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
14641 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
14642 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
14643 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
14644 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
14645 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
14646 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
14647 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
14648 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
14650 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
14651 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
14652 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
14653 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
14654 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
14655 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
14656 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
14657 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
14658 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
14659 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
14660 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
14662 Major features (v3 directory protocol):
14663 - Clients now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
14664 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
14665 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change very
14666 rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is designed
14667 to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
14668 connections. Use "UseMicrodescriptors 0" to disable it.
14669 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors, as well
14670 as multiple "flavors" of the consensus, including a flavor that
14671 describes microdescriptors.
14673 o Major features (build hardening):
14674 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
14676 o Major features (relay scaling):
14677 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
14678 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
14679 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
14680 much faster than other AES implementations.
14681 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
14682 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
14683 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
14684 Resolves ticket 4526.
14685 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
14686 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
14688 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
14689 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
14690 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
14691 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
14693 o Major features (blocking resistance):
14694 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
14696 - Remove support for clients falsely claiming to support standard
14697 ciphersuites that they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL
14698 versions, it's not necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite,
14699 and doing so prevents us from using better ciphersuites in the
14700 future, since servers can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite
14701 is really supported or not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very
14702 old versions of OpenSSL or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC
14703 disabled -- will stand out because of this change; TBB users should
14704 not be affected. Implements the client side of proposal 198.
14705 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
14706 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
14707 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
14708 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
14709 - Allow variable-length padding cells, to disguise the length of
14710 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
14711 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
14712 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
14713 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
14714 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
14716 o Major features (pluggable transports):
14717 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
14718 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
14719 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins.
14720 Implements proposal 180 (tickets 2841 and 3472).
14722 o Major features (DoS resistance):
14723 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
14724 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
14725 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
14726 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
14727 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
14728 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
14729 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
14730 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
14731 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
14732 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
14733 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0.
14735 o Major features (hidden services):
14736 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
14737 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
14738 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
14740 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
14741 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
14742 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
14743 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
14744 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
14745 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
14747 o Major features (IPv6):
14748 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
14749 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
14750 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
14751 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
14752 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
14754 o Major features (directory authorities):
14755 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
14756 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
14757 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
14758 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
14759 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
14760 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
14761 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
14762 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
14763 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
14764 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
14766 o Major features (performance):
14767 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
14768 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the
14769 stream was connected, which slowed down all connections. This
14770 change will enable clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams
14771 and send data without having to wait for a confirmation that the
14772 stream has opened. Patch from Ian Goldberg; implements the server
14773 side of Proposal 174.
14774 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
14775 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
14776 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
14777 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
14778 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
14779 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
14780 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
14781 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
14782 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
14783 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
14784 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
14785 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
14787 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
14788 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
14789 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
14790 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
14791 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
14794 o Major features (relays):
14795 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
14796 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
14797 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
14798 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
14799 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
14800 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
14801 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
14803 o Major features (stream isolation):
14804 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
14805 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
14806 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
14807 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
14808 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
14809 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
14810 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
14811 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
14812 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
14813 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
14814 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
14815 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
14816 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
14817 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
14819 o Major features (bufferevents):
14820 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
14821 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
14822 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
14823 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
14824 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
14825 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
14826 zero-copy transports where available.
14827 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
14828 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
14829 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
14830 no effect unless Tor has been built with bufferevents enabled,
14831 you're running on Windows, and you've set "DisableIOCP 0". In the
14832 long run, this may help solve or mitigate bug 98.
14834 o Major features (path selection):
14835 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
14836 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these
14837 options because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up
14838 to date. Addresses ticket 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved
14841 o Major features (port forwarding):
14842 - Add support for automatic port mapping on the many home routers
14843 that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. To build the support code, you'll
14844 need to have the libnatpnp library and/or the libminiupnpc library,
14845 and you'll need to enable the feature specifically by passing
14846 "--enable-upnp" and/or "--enable-natpnp" to ./configure. To turn
14847 it on, use the new PortForwarding option.
14849 o Major features (logging):
14850 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
14851 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
14852 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
14853 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
14854 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
14855 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
14856 Implements enhancement 1668.
14858 o Major features (other):
14859 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
14860 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
14861 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
14862 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
14863 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
14864 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
14865 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
14866 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
14867 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
14868 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
14869 software warned about binding to UDP sockets regardless of
14870 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
14871 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
14872 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
14873 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
14874 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
14875 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
14876 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
14877 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
14878 reloads both files. Implements task 4552.
14880 o New directory authorities:
14881 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
14882 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
14884 o Security/privacy fixes:
14885 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
14886 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
14887 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14888 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
14889 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
14890 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
14891 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
14892 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the TLS
14893 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
14894 - The advertised platform of a relay now includes only its operating
14895 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not
14896 its service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture
14897 (for Unix). Also drop the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Packagers
14898 can insert an extra string in the platform line by setting the
14899 preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG. Resolves bug 2988.
14900 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
14901 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
14902 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
14903 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
14904 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
14905 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
14906 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
14907 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
14908 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
14909 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
14910 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
14911 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
14912 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
14913 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
14914 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
14915 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
14917 o Major bugfixes (crashes and asserts):
14918 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
14919 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
14920 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
14921 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
14922 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
14923 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
14924 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14925 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
14926 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
14927 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
14928 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
14929 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
14930 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
14933 o Major bugfixes (clients):
14934 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
14935 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
14936 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
14937 which introduced predicted ports.
14938 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
14939 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
14940 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
14941 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
14942 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
14943 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
14944 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
14945 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
14946 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
14948 o Major bugfixes (directory voting):
14949 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
14950 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
14951 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
14952 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
14953 but would let it pass otherwise. Partially fixes bug 5786; bugfix
14955 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
14956 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
14957 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
14958 value; now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Fixes the
14959 rest of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
14960 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
14961 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
14962 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
14963 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
14964 documents entirely.
14966 o Major bugfixes (relays):
14967 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
14968 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
14969 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
14970 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
14971 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
14972 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
14973 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
14974 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
14975 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by Bryon Eldridge, who also helped
14976 immensely in tracking this bug down.
14977 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
14978 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
14979 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
14980 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
14981 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
14982 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
14983 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
14985 o Major bugfixes (blocking resistance):
14986 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
14987 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
14988 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
14989 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
14990 cells were introduced.
14991 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
14992 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
14993 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
14994 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
14996 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
14997 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
14998 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
14999 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
15000 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
15001 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
15002 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
15003 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
15004 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
15005 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
15006 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
15007 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
15008 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
15009 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
15010 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
15011 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
15012 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
15013 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
15014 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
15015 Fixes part of bug 3825.
15017 o Changes to default torrc file:
15018 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
15019 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
15021 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
15022 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
15023 - Document unit of bandwidth-related options in sample torrc.
15025 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
15026 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
15027 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
15029 o Minor features (directory authorities):
15030 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
15031 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
15032 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
15033 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
15034 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
15035 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
15036 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
15037 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
15038 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
15039 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
15040 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
15041 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
15042 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
15043 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
15044 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
15047 o Minor features (bridges / bridge authorities):
15048 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
15049 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
15050 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
15051 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
15052 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
15053 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
15054 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
15055 sure. Closes bug 5139.
15056 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
15057 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
15058 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
15059 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
15060 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
15062 o Minor features (IPv6):
15063 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
15064 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
15065 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
15066 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
15067 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
15068 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
15070 o Minor features (hidden services):
15071 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
15072 Required by fix for bug 3460.
15073 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
15074 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
15075 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
15076 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
15077 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
15078 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
15079 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
15080 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
15081 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
15083 o Minor features (relays):
15084 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
15085 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
15086 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
15087 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
15088 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
15089 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
15090 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
15091 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
15092 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
15093 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
15094 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
15097 o Minor features (new config options):
15098 - New config option "DynamicDHGroups" (disabled by default) provides
15099 each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus to be used during
15100 SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help against censors
15101 who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static identifier for
15102 bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
15103 - New config option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
15104 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
15105 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
15106 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
15107 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
15108 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
15109 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
15111 o Minor features (different behavior for old config options):
15112 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
15113 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
15114 Implements issue 933.
15115 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
15116 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
15117 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
15118 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
15119 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
15120 implements ticket 3439.
15121 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
15122 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
15123 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
15124 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
15125 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
15126 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
15127 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
15128 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
15130 o Minor features (new command-line config behavior):
15131 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
15132 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
15133 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
15134 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
15135 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
15136 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
15137 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
15138 appending to the list.
15139 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
15140 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
15141 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
15142 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
15145 o Minor features (controller, new events):
15146 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
15147 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
15148 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
15149 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
15150 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
15151 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
15153 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
15154 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
15155 circuit-status' control-port command.
15156 - Add a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
15157 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
15158 user. Implements ticket 1692.
15159 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
15160 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
15161 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
15163 o Minor features (controller, new getinfo options):
15164 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
15165 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
15166 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
15167 it's dormant (bug 4718). Resolves ticket 5954.
15168 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
15169 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
15170 - Implement new GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
15171 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
15173 o Minor features (controller, other):
15174 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
15175 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
15176 part of ticket 3457.
15177 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
15178 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
15179 file. Resolves bug 1101.
15180 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
15181 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
15183 o Minor features (log messages):
15184 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
15185 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
15186 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
15187 please let us know about it.
15188 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
15189 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
15190 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
15191 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
15192 Resolves ticket 2474.
15193 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
15194 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
15196 o Minor features (other):
15197 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
15198 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
15199 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
15200 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
15202 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
15203 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
15204 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
15205 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
15206 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
15207 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
15208 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
15210 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
15211 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
15212 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
15213 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
15214 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
15216 o Minor bugfixes (code security):
15217 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
15218 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
15219 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
15220 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
15221 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
15222 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
15223 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
15224 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
15225 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
15226 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
15227 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
15228 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
15229 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
15230 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
15231 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
15234 o Minor bugfixes (wrapper functions):
15235 - Abort if tor_vasprintf() fails in connection_printf_to_buf() (a
15236 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
15237 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
15238 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
15239 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
15240 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
15241 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
15242 tor_inet_ntop(). Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
15244 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
15245 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
15246 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
15247 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
15248 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
15249 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
15250 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
15251 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
15252 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
15253 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
15255 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
15256 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
15257 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15258 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
15259 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
15260 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
15261 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
15262 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
15263 nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes bug 5916; bugfix on Tor
15265 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
15266 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
15267 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
15268 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
15269 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
15270 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
15271 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
15272 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
15273 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
15275 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
15276 - Allow one-hop directory-fetching circuits the full "circuit build
15277 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
15278 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
15279 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
15280 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
15281 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
15283 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
15284 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
15285 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
15286 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
15288 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
15289 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
15290 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
15291 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
15292 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
15293 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
15294 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
15295 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
15296 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
15297 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
15298 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
15299 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
15302 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority / mirrors):
15303 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
15304 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15305 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
15306 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
15307 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
15309 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
15310 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
15311 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
15312 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
15313 and relays all have an uptime of zero, so the private Tor network
15314 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
15315 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
15316 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
15317 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
15318 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
15319 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
15320 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
15321 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
15322 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
15323 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
15325 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services, client-side):
15326 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
15327 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
15328 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
15329 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
15330 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
15332 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
15333 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
15334 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
15335 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
15336 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
15337 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
15338 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
15339 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
15340 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
15341 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
15342 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
15343 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
15344 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
15345 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
15346 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
15348 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services, service-side):
15349 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
15350 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
15351 be disabled using the new
15352 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
15353 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
15354 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
15355 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
15356 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
15357 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
15358 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
15360 o Minor bugfixes (config option behavior):
15361 - If the user tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
15362 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
15363 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
15364 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
15365 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
15366 the absence of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
15368 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
15369 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
15370 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
15371 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
15372 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
15373 - Make "LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0" work more reliably. Specifically,
15374 don't depend on the consensus parameters or compute adaptive
15375 timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049; bugfix on
15377 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
15378 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
15379 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
15380 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
15381 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
15382 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
15383 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
15384 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
15386 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
15387 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
15388 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
15389 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
15390 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
15391 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
15392 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
15393 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
15395 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
15396 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
15397 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
15398 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
15400 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
15401 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
15402 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
15404 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
15405 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36.
15407 o Minor bugfixes (network reading/writing):
15408 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
15409 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
15410 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
15411 case for flushing marked connections.
15412 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
15413 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
15414 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
15415 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
15416 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
15417 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
15418 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
15419 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
15420 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
15421 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
15423 o Minor bugfixes (other):
15424 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
15425 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
15426 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
15427 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
15428 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
15429 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
15430 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
15431 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
15432 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
15433 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
15435 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
15436 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
15437 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
15438 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
15439 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
15441 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, path selection):
15442 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
15443 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
15444 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
15445 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
15446 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
15447 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
15448 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
15449 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
15450 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
15451 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
15452 - Issue a log message if a guard completes less than 40% of your
15453 circuits. Threshold is configurable by torrc option
15454 PathBiasNoticeRate and consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is
15455 additional, off-by-default code to disable guards which fail too
15456 many circuits. Addresses ticket 5458.
15458 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, client):
15459 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
15460 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
15461 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
15462 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
15463 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
15464 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
15465 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
15466 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
15467 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
15468 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
15469 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
15470 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
15471 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
15472 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
15473 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
15474 Implements ticket 3264.
15475 - We now log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements
15477 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
15478 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
15479 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
15480 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
15481 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
15482 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
15484 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, non-client):
15485 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
15486 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
15487 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
15488 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
15489 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
15490 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
15491 them from the other auths.
15492 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
15493 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
15494 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
15495 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15496 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
15497 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
15498 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
15499 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
15503 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
15504 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
15505 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
15507 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
15508 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
15509 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
15510 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
15511 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
15512 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal() function.
15513 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
15514 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
15516 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
15517 ./src/test/bench binary.
15518 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
15519 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
15520 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
15521 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
15524 o Build improvements:
15525 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
15526 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
15527 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
15528 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
15529 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
15530 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
15531 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
15532 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
15533 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
15534 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
15535 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
15536 - Our autogen.sh script now uses autoreconf to launch autoconf,
15537 automake, and so on. This is more robust against some of the failure
15538 modes associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
15539 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
15540 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
15541 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
15542 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
15543 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
15544 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
15545 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
15547 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
15549 o Build requirements:
15550 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
15551 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
15552 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
15553 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
15554 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
15555 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
15556 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
15557 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
15558 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
15559 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
15560 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
15561 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
15562 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
15564 o Build fixes (compile/link):
15565 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
15566 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
15568 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
15569 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
15570 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
15571 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
15572 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
15573 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
15574 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
15575 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
15576 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
15578 o Build fixes (other):
15579 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
15580 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
15582 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
15583 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
15584 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
15585 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15586 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
15587 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
15588 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
15589 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
15591 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
15592 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
15595 o Packaging (RPM) changes:
15596 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
15597 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
15598 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
15599 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
15600 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
15601 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it
15602 is not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
15604 o Code refactoring (safety):
15605 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
15606 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
15607 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
15608 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
15609 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
15610 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
15611 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
15612 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
15613 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
15614 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
15615 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
15616 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
15618 o Code refactoring (consolidate):
15619 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
15620 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
15621 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
15622 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
15623 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
15624 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
15625 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
15626 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
15627 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
15628 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
15629 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
15630 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
15631 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
15632 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
15633 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
15634 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
15635 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
15637 o Code refactoring (separate):
15638 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
15639 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
15640 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
15642 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
15643 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
15646 o Code refactoring (name changes):
15647 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
15648 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
15649 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
15650 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
15651 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
15652 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
15653 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
15655 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
15656 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
15657 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
15658 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
15659 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
15660 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
15661 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
15662 invalid value, rather than just -1.
15663 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
15664 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
15665 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
15667 o Code refactoring (other):
15668 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
15669 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
15671 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
15672 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
15673 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
15674 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
15675 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
15676 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
15677 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
15678 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
15679 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
15680 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
15681 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
15682 our library structure used to force them to link it.
15684 o Removed features and files:
15685 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
15686 it would be a bad idea to start.
15687 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
15689 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
15690 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
15691 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
15692 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
15693 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
15694 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
15695 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
15696 are no longer in use as relays.
15697 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
15698 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
15699 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
15700 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
15701 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
15702 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
15706 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
15707 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
15708 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
15710 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new semantics for
15711 overriding, extending, and clearing lists of options. Closes
15713 - Add missing man page documentation for consensus and microdesc
15714 files. Resolves ticket 6732.
15715 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
15717 o Documentation fixes:
15718 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
15719 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
15720 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
15721 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
15722 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
15723 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
15724 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
15725 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
15728 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
15729 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
15733 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
15734 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
15735 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
15736 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
15737 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
15738 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
15739 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
15743 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
15744 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
15745 attack that could in theory leak path information.
15748 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
15749 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
15750 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
15751 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
15752 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
15753 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
15754 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
15755 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
15756 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
15757 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
15758 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
15759 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
15760 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
15761 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
15764 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
15765 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
15766 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
15770 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
15771 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
15772 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
15773 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
15774 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
15775 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
15776 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
15777 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
15778 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
15779 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
15780 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15783 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
15784 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
15787 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
15788 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
15791 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
15792 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
15793 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
15794 and fixes several crash bugs.
15796 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
15797 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
15798 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
15799 those packages and upgrade anyway.
15801 o Directory authority changes:
15802 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
15803 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
15807 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
15808 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
15809 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
15810 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
15811 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
15812 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
15813 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
15814 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
15815 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
15816 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
15817 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
15818 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
15819 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
15820 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
15821 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
15822 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
15823 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
15824 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
15825 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
15826 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
15827 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
15828 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
15829 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
15830 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
15831 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
15832 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
15833 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
15836 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
15837 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
15838 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
15839 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
15841 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
15842 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
15844 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
15845 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
15846 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
15847 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
15848 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
15849 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
15850 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
15851 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
15854 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
15855 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
15856 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
15857 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
15858 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
15859 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
15860 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
15861 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
15862 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
15863 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
15864 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
15865 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
15866 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
15867 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
15868 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
15869 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
15870 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
15871 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
15872 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
15873 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
15874 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
15875 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
15876 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
15877 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
15878 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
15879 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
15880 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
15881 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
15882 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
15883 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
15884 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
15885 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
15886 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
15887 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
15888 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
15889 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
15890 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
15891 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
15892 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
15893 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
15894 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
15895 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
15896 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
15897 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
15898 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
15899 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
15901 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
15902 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
15903 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
15904 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
15905 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
15906 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
15907 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
15908 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
15909 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
15910 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
15911 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15912 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
15913 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
15914 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
15915 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
15918 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
15919 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
15920 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
15921 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
15923 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
15926 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
15927 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
15928 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
15929 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
15930 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
15931 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
15932 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
15935 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
15936 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
15937 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
15939 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
15940 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
15941 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
15942 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
15943 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
15944 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
15945 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
15946 (which Tor does not do by default).
15948 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
15949 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
15950 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
15951 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
15952 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
15954 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
15955 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
15956 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
15959 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
15960 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
15961 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
15962 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
15963 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
15965 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
15966 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
15969 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
15970 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
15971 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
15972 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
15973 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
15974 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
15975 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
15976 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
15978 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
15979 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
15980 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
15981 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
15982 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
15983 close based on processing a cell on it.
15984 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
15985 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
15986 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
15987 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
15988 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
15989 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
15990 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
15991 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
15992 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
15993 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
15994 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
15995 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
15996 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
15997 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
15998 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
16001 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
16002 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
16003 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
16004 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
16005 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
16006 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
16007 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
16009 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
16010 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
16011 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
16012 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
16013 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
16014 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
16015 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
16016 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
16017 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16018 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
16019 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
16020 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
16021 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
16022 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
16023 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
16024 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
16025 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
16026 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
16027 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
16028 Reported by "troll_un".
16029 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
16030 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
16031 Reported by "troll_un".
16032 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
16033 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
16034 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
16035 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
16038 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
16039 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
16040 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
16041 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
16042 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
16043 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
16044 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
16045 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
16046 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
16047 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
16048 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
16050 o Packaging changes:
16051 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
16052 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
16055 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
16056 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
16057 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
16058 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
16059 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
16061 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
16062 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
16064 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
16065 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
16066 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
16067 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
16068 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
16069 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
16070 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
16071 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
16072 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
16075 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
16078 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
16079 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
16080 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
16082 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
16083 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
16084 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
16085 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
16086 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
16087 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
16088 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
16089 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
16090 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
16091 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
16092 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
16093 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
16094 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
16096 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
16097 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
16098 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
16099 currently connected to them.
16101 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
16102 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
16103 remain; see for example proposal 188.
16105 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
16106 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
16107 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
16108 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
16109 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
16110 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
16111 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
16112 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
16113 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
16114 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
16115 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
16116 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
16117 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
16118 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
16119 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
16120 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
16121 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
16122 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
16125 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
16126 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
16127 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
16128 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
16129 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
16130 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
16131 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
16132 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
16133 when bridges were introduced.
16134 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
16135 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
16136 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
16137 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
16138 Found by "frosty_un".
16141 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
16142 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
16144 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
16145 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
16146 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
16147 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
16148 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
16149 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
16150 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
16153 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
16154 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
16155 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
16156 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
16157 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
16158 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
16159 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
16160 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
16161 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
16162 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
16163 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
16164 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
16165 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
16166 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
16167 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
16168 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
16169 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
16170 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
16172 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
16173 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
16174 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
16175 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
16176 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
16177 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
16178 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
16179 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
16180 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
16181 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
16182 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
16183 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
16186 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
16187 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
16188 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
16189 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
16192 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
16193 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
16194 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
16195 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
16196 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
16198 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
16199 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
16200 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
16201 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
16202 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
16203 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
16204 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
16205 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
16206 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
16207 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
16209 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
16210 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
16211 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
16212 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
16213 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
16214 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
16215 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
16216 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
16217 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
16218 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
16219 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
16220 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
16221 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
16222 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
16223 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
16224 Found by "frosty_un".
16225 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
16226 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
16227 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
16228 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
16229 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
16230 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
16231 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
16232 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
16233 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
16234 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
16235 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
16236 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
16237 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
16238 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
16239 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
16240 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
16241 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
16242 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
16243 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
16245 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
16246 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
16247 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
16248 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
16249 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
16250 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
16251 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
16252 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
16254 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
16255 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
16256 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
16257 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
16258 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
16259 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
16260 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
16261 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
16262 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
16263 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
16264 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
16265 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
16267 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
16268 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16269 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
16270 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16271 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
16272 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16273 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
16274 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
16275 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
16277 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
16279 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
16280 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
16281 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
16282 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
16283 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
16284 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
16285 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
16286 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
16288 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
16289 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
16290 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
16291 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
16292 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
16294 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
16295 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
16296 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
16297 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
16298 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
16301 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
16302 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
16303 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
16304 reachable from Iran again.
16307 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
16308 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
16309 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
16311 o Minor features (security):
16312 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
16313 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
16314 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
16315 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
16316 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
16317 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
16318 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
16319 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
16320 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
16321 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
16324 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
16325 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
16326 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
16327 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
16328 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
16329 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
16330 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
16331 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
16332 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
16334 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
16335 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
16336 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
16337 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
16338 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
16339 raised by bug 3898.
16340 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
16341 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
16342 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
16343 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
16344 fixes part of bug 2442.
16345 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
16346 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
16347 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
16349 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
16350 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
16351 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
16352 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
16353 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
16356 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
16357 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
16358 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
16359 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
16360 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
16361 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
16364 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
16365 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
16366 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
16367 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
16368 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
16369 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
16370 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
16371 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
16372 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
16373 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
16375 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
16376 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
16377 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
16378 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
16379 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
16380 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
16381 many many other features and bugfixes.
16383 o Major features (client performance):
16384 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays now favor circuits
16385 that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency for
16386 low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
16387 feature based on a setting in the consensus. They can override
16388 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
16389 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
16391 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
16392 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
16393 and no flag. Clients use these weightings to distribute network load
16394 more evenly across these different relay types. The weightings are
16395 in the consensus so we can change them globally in the future. Extra
16396 thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty security bugs in
16397 the first implementation of this feature.
16399 o Major features (client performance, circuit build timeout):
16400 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
16401 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
16402 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
16403 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
16404 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
16405 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
16406 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
16407 - Circuit build timeout constants can be controlled by consensus
16408 parameters. We set good defaults for these parameters based on
16409 experimentation on broadband and simulated high-latency links.
16410 - Circuit build time learning can be disabled via consensus parameter
16411 or by the client via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. We
16412 also automatically disable circuit build time calculation if either
16413 AuthoritativeDirectory is set, or if we fail to write our state
16414 file. Implements ticket 1296.
16416 o Major features (relays use their capacity better):
16417 - Set SO_REUSEADDR socket option on all sockets, not just
16418 listeners. This should help busy exit nodes avoid running out of
16419 useable ports just because all the ports have been used in the
16420 near past. Resolves issue 2850.
16421 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
16422 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved),
16423 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
16424 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
16425 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
16426 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
16427 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
16428 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
16429 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
16430 they first get the Guard flag.
16431 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
16432 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
16433 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
16434 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
16435 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
16436 change would take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
16437 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
16438 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
16440 o Major features (relays control their load better):
16441 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
16442 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
16443 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
16444 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
16445 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751;
16446 based on a variant of proposal 163.
16447 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
16448 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
16449 but never per-conn write limits.
16450 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
16451 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
16452 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
16453 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
16455 o Major features (controllers):
16456 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
16457 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
16458 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
16459 contributions to the network.
16460 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
16461 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
16462 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
16464 o Major features (directory authorities):
16465 - Directory authorities now create, vote on, and serve multiple
16466 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
16467 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
16469 - Directory authorities now agree on and publish small summaries
16470 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
16471 server descriptors. This transition will allow Tor 0.2.3 clients
16472 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
16473 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
16474 download consensus + microdescriptors".
16475 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
16476 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
16477 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
16478 hash algorithm in the future.
16479 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitrary integer values as
16480 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
16481 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
16483 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
16484 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
16485 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and Strict*Nodes
16486 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
16487 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
16488 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
16489 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
16490 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
16491 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
16492 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
16493 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
16494 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
16495 connections to directory servers.
16496 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
16497 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
16498 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
16499 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
16500 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
16501 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
16502 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
16503 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
16504 information, or fetch directory information.
16505 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
16506 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
16507 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
16508 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
16509 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
16511 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
16512 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
16513 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
16514 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
16515 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
16516 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
16517 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
16518 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
16519 the network changes.
16520 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
16521 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
16523 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
16524 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
16525 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
16526 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
16527 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
16528 unless you really want your Tor to break.
16529 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
16530 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
16531 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
16532 - When StrictNodes is 1:
16533 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
16534 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
16535 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
16536 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
16537 reachability self-tests.
16538 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
16539 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
16540 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
16541 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
16542 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
16544 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
16545 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
16546 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
16548 o Major features (misc):
16549 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
16550 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
16551 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
16552 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
16553 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
16554 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
16555 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
16556 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
16557 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
16558 part of ticket 3076.
16559 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
16560 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
16561 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
16563 o Code security improvements:
16564 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
16565 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
16566 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
16567 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
16568 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
16569 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
16570 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
16571 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
16572 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
16573 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
16574 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
16575 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
16576 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
16577 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
16578 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
16579 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
16580 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
16581 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
16582 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
16583 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
16584 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
16585 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
16586 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
16587 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
16588 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
16589 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
16590 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
16591 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
16593 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
16594 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
16595 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
16596 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
16597 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
16598 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
16599 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
16600 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
16601 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
16602 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
16603 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
16604 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
16605 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
16607 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
16608 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
16609 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
16611 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
16612 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
16614 o Major bugfixes (stability):
16615 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
16616 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
16617 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
16618 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
16619 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16620 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
16621 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
16622 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
16623 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
16624 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
16625 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
16626 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
16627 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
16628 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
16629 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
16630 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
16632 o Privacy fixes (relays/bridges):
16633 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
16634 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
16636 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
16637 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
16638 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
16639 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
16640 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
16641 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
16642 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
16643 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
16644 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
16645 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
16646 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
16647 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
16648 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
16649 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
16650 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
16651 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
16652 requests for "all descriptors". It used to include bridge
16653 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
16654 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
16656 o Privacy fixes (clients):
16657 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
16658 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
16659 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
16660 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
16661 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
16662 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
16663 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
16664 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
16665 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
16667 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
16668 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
16669 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
16670 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
16671 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
16672 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
16673 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
16674 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
16675 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
16676 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
16678 o Privacy fixes (newnym):
16679 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
16680 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
16681 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
16682 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
16683 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
16684 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
16685 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
16686 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
16687 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
16688 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
16689 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
16690 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
16692 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth accounting):
16693 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
16694 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
16695 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
16696 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
16697 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
16698 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
16699 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
16700 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
16701 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
16703 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
16704 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
16705 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Fixes bug 1113.
16706 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
16707 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
16708 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
16709 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
16711 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
16712 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
16713 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it
16714 should be able to advertise those addresses independently and
16715 any non-blocked addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor
16716 0.2.0.3-alpha. Fixes bug 2510.
16717 - If you configure Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
16718 configure Tor to use bridge B instead (or if you change Tor
16719 to use bridge B via the controller), it would happily continue
16720 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
16721 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
16722 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
16723 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
16724 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
16725 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
16727 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
16728 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
16729 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
16730 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
16731 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
16732 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
16733 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
16735 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
16736 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
16737 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
16738 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
16739 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
16740 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
16741 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
16742 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
16744 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
16745 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
16746 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
16747 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
16748 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
16749 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
16750 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
16751 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
16752 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
16753 the longest-lived bug prize.
16754 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
16755 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
16756 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
16757 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
16758 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
16759 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
16760 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
16761 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
16762 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
16763 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
16765 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
16766 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
16767 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
16768 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
16769 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
16770 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
16773 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
16774 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
16775 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
16776 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
16777 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
16778 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
16779 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
16780 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
16781 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
16782 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
16783 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
16784 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16785 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
16786 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
16787 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
16788 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
16789 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
16790 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
16791 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
16792 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
16793 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
16794 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
16795 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
16796 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
16797 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
16798 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
16800 o Major bugfixes (misc):
16801 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
16802 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
16803 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
16804 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
16805 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
16806 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
16807 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
16808 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
16810 o Minor features (relays):
16811 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
16812 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
16813 - When bandwidth accounting is enabled, be more generous with how
16814 much bandwidth we'll use up before entering "soft hibernation".
16815 Previously, we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd
16816 used up 95% of our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment,
16817 AND make sure that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of
16818 expected traffic, whichever is lower) remaining before we enter
16820 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
16821 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
16822 Resolves ticket 3252.
16823 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
16824 accepting new connections (e.g. due to hibernating). Resolves
16826 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
16827 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
16828 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
16829 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
16830 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
16832 o Minor features (network statistics):
16833 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
16834 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
16835 "--enable-geoip-stats" ./configure flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few
16836 improvements: 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours;
16837 2) estimated shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean
16838 values, not at the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved
16839 requests are listed with country code '??'; 4) directories also
16840 measure download times.
16841 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
16842 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
16844 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
16845 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
16846 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
16847 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
16849 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
16850 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
16851 their extra-info documents. Implements proposal 166.
16853 o Minor features (GeoIP and statistics):
16854 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
16855 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
16856 Implements ticket 2432.
16857 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
16858 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
16859 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
16860 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
16861 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
16862 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
16863 Implements enhancement 1790.
16864 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
16865 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
16867 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
16868 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
16869 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
16870 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
16871 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
16872 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
16873 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes
16875 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
16877 o Minor features (clients):
16878 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
16879 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
16880 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
16881 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
16883 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
16884 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
16885 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
16886 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
16887 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
16888 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
16889 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
16890 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
16892 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
16893 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
16894 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
16895 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
16896 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
16897 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
16898 SSL handshake issues.
16900 o Minor features (directory authorities):
16901 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
16902 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
16903 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
16904 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
16905 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
16906 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
16907 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
16908 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
16909 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
16910 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
16911 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
16912 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
16913 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
16914 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
16915 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
16916 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
16917 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
16918 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
16919 hour of their uptime.
16920 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
16921 networkstatus vote, so we can track failures better.
16922 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
16923 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
16925 o Minor features (hidden services):
16926 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
16927 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
16928 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
16929 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
16930 Required by fix for bug 3000.
16931 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
16932 by fix for bug 3000.
16933 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
16934 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
16935 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
16936 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
16937 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
16939 o Minor features (controller interface):
16940 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
16941 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
16942 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
16943 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
16944 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
16945 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
16946 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
16947 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
16948 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
16949 over our stored history.
16950 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
16951 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
16952 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
16954 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
16955 to the circuit build timeout.
16956 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
16957 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
16958 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
16960 o Minor features (controller protocol):
16961 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
16962 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
16963 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
16965 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
16966 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
16967 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
16968 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
16969 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
16970 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
16971 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
16972 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
16973 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
16974 arguments we do not recognize.
16976 o Minor features (more useful logging):
16977 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
16978 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
16979 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
16980 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
16981 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
16982 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
16983 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
16984 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
16985 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
16986 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
16987 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
16988 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
16989 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
16990 got suppressed since the last warning.
16991 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
16992 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
16993 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
16994 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
16995 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
16996 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
16997 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
16999 o Minor features (log domains):
17000 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
17001 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
17002 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
17004 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
17005 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
17007 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
17008 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
17009 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
17011 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
17012 during the TLS handshake.
17014 o Minor features (build process):
17015 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
17016 "--enable-gcc-warnings" by removing two warning options that clang
17017 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Resolves
17019 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
17020 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
17021 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
17023 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
17024 "--enable-static-zlib", to go with our support for statically
17025 linking openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
17026 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
17027 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
17028 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
17030 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
17031 source files Tor was built with.
17032 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
17033 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
17034 produce nicer HTML. The build process fails if asciidoc cannot
17035 be found and building with asciidoc isn't disabled (via the
17036 "--disable-asciidoc" argument to ./configure. Skipping the manpage
17037 speeds up the build considerably.
17039 o Minor features (options / torrc):
17040 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
17041 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
17042 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
17043 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
17044 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
17045 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
17046 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
17047 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
17048 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
17049 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
17050 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
17051 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
17052 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
17053 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
17054 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
17055 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
17056 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
17057 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
17058 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
17059 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
17060 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
17061 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
17062 generated while acting as a relay. Specify "SafeLogging relay" if
17063 you want to ensure that only messages known to originate from
17064 client use of the Tor process will be logged unsafely.
17065 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
17066 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
17068 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
17069 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
17070 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
17073 o Minor features (unit tests):
17074 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
17075 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
17076 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
17077 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
17078 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
17079 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
17081 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
17082 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch
17085 o Minor features (misc):
17086 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
17087 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
17088 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
17089 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
17091 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
17092 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
17093 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
17094 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
17095 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
17097 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
17098 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
17099 open() without checking it.
17100 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
17101 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
17102 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
17103 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
17105 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
17106 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
17107 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
17108 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
17109 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
17110 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
17111 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
17112 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
17113 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
17114 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
17115 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
17116 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
17117 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
17118 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
17119 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
17120 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
17121 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
17122 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
17123 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
17124 based on the time during which we were active and not in
17125 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
17126 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
17127 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
17128 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
17129 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
17130 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
17131 someone tries to talk to their ORPort. It is not the operator's
17132 fault, nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
17134 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
17135 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
17136 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
17137 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
17139 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
17140 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
17141 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
17142 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
17143 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
17145 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
17146 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
17147 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
17148 - Users couldn't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It
17149 didn't work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
17150 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
17151 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
17152 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
17153 0.1.1.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1776.
17154 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
17155 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
17156 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
17157 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
17159 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
17160 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
17161 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
17162 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
17163 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
17164 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
17165 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
17166 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
17167 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
17168 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
17169 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
17170 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
17171 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
17172 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
17173 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
17174 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
17175 two-hop circuits are actually created.
17176 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
17177 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
17178 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
17179 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
17181 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
17182 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
17183 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
17184 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
17185 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
17186 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
17187 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
17188 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
17189 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
17191 - Directory authorities will now attempt to download consensuses
17192 if their own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This
17193 change means authorities that restart will fetch a valid
17194 consensus, and it means authorities that didn't agree with the
17195 current consensus will still fetch and serve it if it has enough
17196 signatures. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
17197 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
17198 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
17199 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
17200 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
17201 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
17202 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
17203 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
17206 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
17207 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
17208 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
17209 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
17210 info-level messages. Fixes bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17211 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
17212 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
17213 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
17214 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
17215 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
17216 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
17218 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
17219 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
17221 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
17222 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
17223 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
17224 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
17225 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
17226 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
17227 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
17228 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
17230 o Minor bugfixes (controllers):
17231 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
17232 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
17233 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17234 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
17235 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
17236 discovered by katmagic.
17237 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
17238 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
17240 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP controller command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
17241 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
17242 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
17243 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
17244 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
17245 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
17246 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
17247 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
17248 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
17250 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
17251 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
17253 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
17254 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
17256 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
17257 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
17259 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
17260 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
17261 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
17262 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
17263 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
17264 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
17265 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
17266 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
17267 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
17268 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
17269 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
17270 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
17271 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
17272 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
17273 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
17275 o Minor bugfixes (config options):
17276 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
17277 Change the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
17278 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
17279 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
17280 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
17281 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
17282 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
17283 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
17285 o Minor bugfixes (log subsystem fixes):
17286 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
17287 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
17289 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
17290 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
17291 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
17292 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
17294 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
17295 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
17296 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
17297 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
17298 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
17299 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
17300 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
17302 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
17303 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
17304 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
17305 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
17306 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
17307 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
17309 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
17310 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
17311 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
17312 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
17313 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
17314 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
17315 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
17316 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17317 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
17319 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
17320 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
17321 "parakeep". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
17322 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
17323 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
17324 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
17325 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
17326 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
17327 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
17328 control-spec.txt said they were.
17330 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
17331 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
17332 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
17334 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
17335 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17336 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
17337 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
17338 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
17340 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
17341 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
17343 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
17344 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
17345 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
17346 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
17347 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
17348 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
17349 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
17351 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
17352 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
17353 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
17354 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17355 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produce during
17356 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
17357 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
17358 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
17361 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
17362 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
17363 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
17364 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
17365 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
17366 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
17367 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
17368 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
17369 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
17370 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
17371 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
17372 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17373 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
17374 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
17375 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows.
17377 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
17378 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on 0.2.1.23,
17379 where we introduced the "--with-static-libevent" configure option.
17380 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
17381 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
17382 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
17383 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
17385 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
17386 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
17389 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
17390 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
17391 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
17392 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
17393 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
17394 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
17395 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
17396 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
17397 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
17398 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
17399 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
17400 fixes part of bug 3407.
17401 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
17402 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
17403 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
17404 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
17405 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
17406 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
17407 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
17408 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
17409 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
17410 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
17412 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
17413 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
17414 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
17415 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
17416 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
17417 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
17418 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
17419 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
17420 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
17421 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
17422 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
17423 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
17424 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
17425 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
17426 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
17427 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
17428 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
17430 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
17431 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
17432 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
17433 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
17434 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
17435 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
17436 Tor 0.1.1.11-alpha.
17437 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
17438 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
17439 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
17440 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
17441 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
17443 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
17444 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
17445 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
17446 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
17447 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
17449 o Minor bugfixes (code improvements):
17450 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
17451 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
17452 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
17454 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
17455 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
17456 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
17457 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
17458 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
17459 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
17460 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
17461 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
17462 structures and defines in or.h for now.
17463 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
17465 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
17466 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
17467 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
17468 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
17469 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
17470 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
17471 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
17472 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
17474 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
17475 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
17476 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
17478 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
17479 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
17480 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
17481 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
17482 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
17483 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
17484 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
17485 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
17486 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
17487 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
17489 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
17491 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
17492 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
17493 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
17494 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
17495 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
17496 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
17497 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
17498 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
17499 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
17500 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
17502 o Documentation changes:
17503 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
17504 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
17506 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
17507 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
17508 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
17509 what should go in a patch.
17510 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
17512 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
17513 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
17514 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
17515 projects directory in svn.
17517 o Deprecated and removed features (config):
17518 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
17519 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
17520 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
17521 service authorities could use to track statistics of overall v0
17522 hidden service usage.
17523 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
17524 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
17525 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
17526 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
17527 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
17530 o Deprecated and removed features (controller):
17531 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
17532 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
17533 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
17534 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
17537 o Deprecated and removed features (misc):
17538 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
17539 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
17540 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
17541 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
17542 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
17543 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
17544 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
17545 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
17546 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
17547 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
17548 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
17549 via application-level web tricks.
17550 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
17551 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
17552 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
17553 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
17554 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
17555 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
17556 send a body too). Since only server versions before
17557 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
17558 keep the workaround in place.
17559 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
17560 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
17561 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
17562 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
17563 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
17564 want to do it differently.
17565 - Remove the "--enable-iphone" option to ./configure. According to
17566 reports from Marco Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special
17567 tweaking on recent iPhone SDK versions.
17570 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
17571 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
17572 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
17573 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
17574 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
17575 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
17578 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
17579 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
17580 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
17581 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
17582 the rest of bug 1074.
17583 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
17584 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
17585 Found by "piebeer".
17586 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
17587 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
17588 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
17589 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
17590 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
17591 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
17592 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17595 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
17597 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
17600 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
17601 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
17602 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
17603 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
17604 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
17605 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
17606 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
17607 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
17608 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
17609 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
17610 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
17612 o Packaging changes:
17613 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
17614 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
17615 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
17616 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
17617 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
17618 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
17621 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
17622 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
17623 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
17624 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
17625 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
17627 o Major bugfixes (security):
17628 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
17629 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
17630 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
17632 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
17633 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
17634 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
17635 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
17636 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
17637 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
17638 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
17639 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
17641 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
17642 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
17643 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
17644 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
17645 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
17646 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
17647 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
17648 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
17649 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
17650 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
17651 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
17652 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
17653 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
17654 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
17657 o Minor bugfixes (other):
17658 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
17659 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
17660 bug reported by doorss.
17661 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
17662 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
17663 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
17664 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
17665 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
17667 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
17668 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
17669 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
17670 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
17671 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
17674 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
17675 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
17678 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
17679 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
17680 Automake 1.7 or later.
17681 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
17682 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
17683 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
17684 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
17687 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
17688 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
17689 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
17690 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
17694 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
17695 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
17696 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
17697 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
17699 o Directory authority changes:
17700 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
17703 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
17706 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
17707 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
17708 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
17709 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
17710 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
17713 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
17714 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
17715 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
17716 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
17717 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
17718 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
17719 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
17720 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
17721 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
17722 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
17723 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
17724 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
17725 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
17726 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
17727 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
17728 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
17729 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
17730 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
17731 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
17732 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
17733 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
17734 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
17735 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
17738 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
17739 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
17740 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
17741 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
17743 o New directory authorities:
17744 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
17748 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
17749 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
17750 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
17752 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
17753 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
17754 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
17755 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
17756 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
17757 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
17759 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
17760 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
17761 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
17764 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
17765 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
17766 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
17767 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
17768 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
17769 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
17770 Patch from mingw-san.
17773 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
17774 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
17775 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
17776 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
17777 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
17778 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
17781 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
17782 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
17783 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
17784 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
17785 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
17787 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
17788 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
17791 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
17792 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
17793 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
17794 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
17795 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
17796 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
17797 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
17798 their directory fetches over TLS).
17799 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
17800 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
17801 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
17802 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
17803 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
17804 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
17805 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
17806 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
17809 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
17810 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
17814 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
17815 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
17816 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
17817 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
17818 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
17819 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
17820 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17823 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
17824 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
17825 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
17826 several minor potential security bugs.
17829 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
17830 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
17831 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
17832 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
17833 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
17834 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
17835 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
17838 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
17839 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
17841 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
17842 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
17843 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
17844 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
17847 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
17848 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
17852 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
17853 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
17854 customized patches to run/build.
17857 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
17858 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
17859 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
17862 o Major bugfixes (performance):
17863 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
17864 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
17865 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
17866 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
17867 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
17868 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
17869 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
17872 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
17873 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
17874 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
17875 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
17876 libraries in a security patch.
17877 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
17878 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
17879 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
17880 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
17884 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
17885 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
17888 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
17889 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
17890 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
17891 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
17892 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
17895 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
17896 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
17897 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
17898 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
17899 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
17901 o Directory authority changes:
17902 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
17906 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
17907 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
17908 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
17911 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
17912 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
17913 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
17914 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
17915 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
17918 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
17919 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
17920 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
17921 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
17922 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
17923 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
17924 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
17927 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
17928 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
17929 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17930 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
17931 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
17932 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
17934 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
17935 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
17938 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
17939 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
17940 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
17941 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
17943 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
17944 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
17946 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
17947 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
17948 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
17949 in the Vidalia Settings window.
17952 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
17953 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
17954 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
17955 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
17956 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
17958 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
17959 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
17961 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
17962 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
17963 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
17966 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
17967 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
17968 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
17970 o New directory authorities:
17971 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
17973 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
17976 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
17977 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
17979 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
17980 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
17981 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
17982 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
17983 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
17984 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
17985 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
17986 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
17987 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
17988 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
17989 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
17990 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
17991 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
17992 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
17993 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
17994 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
17995 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
17997 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
17998 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
17999 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
18001 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
18002 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
18006 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
18007 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
18008 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
18009 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
18010 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
18013 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
18014 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
18018 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
18019 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
18020 part of patch provided by "optimist".
18023 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
18024 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
18025 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
18026 and confuse fewer users.
18029 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
18030 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
18031 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
18032 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
18033 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
18034 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
18035 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
18038 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
18039 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
18040 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
18041 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
18042 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
18043 other features and bug fixes.
18045 o Major features (clients):
18046 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
18047 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
18048 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
18049 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
18051 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
18052 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
18053 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
18054 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
18055 - Network status consensus documents and votes now contain bandwidth
18056 information for each relay. Clients use the bandwidth values
18057 in the consensus, rather than the bandwidth values in each
18058 relay descriptor. This approach opens the door to more accurate
18059 bandwidth estimates once the directory authorities start doing
18060 active measurements. Implements part of proposal 141.
18062 o Major features (relays):
18063 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
18064 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
18065 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Also,
18066 disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
18067 data. Found by Jacob.
18068 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
18069 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
18070 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
18071 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
18073 o Major features (hidden services):
18074 - Make it possible to build hidden services that only certain clients
18075 are allowed to connect to. This is enforced at several points,
18076 so that unauthorized clients are unable to send INTRODUCE cells
18077 to the service, or even (depending on the type of authentication)
18078 to learn introduction points. This feature raises the bar for
18079 certain kinds of active attacks against hidden services. Design
18080 and code by Karsten Loesing. Implements proposal 121.
18081 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
18082 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
18083 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
18084 lookups more reliable.
18086 o Major features (path selection):
18087 - ExitNodes and Exclude*Nodes config options now allow you to restrict
18088 by country code ("{US}") or IP address or address pattern
18089 ("255.128.0.0/16"). Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
18090 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
18091 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
18093 o Major features (misc):
18094 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
18095 This cuts down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements proposal
18097 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
18098 previously constant values that could slow bootstrapping. Implements
18099 proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
18100 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
18101 IPv6 addresses. Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol
18102 elements. Make resolver code handle nameservers located at IPv6
18104 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
18105 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
18106 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
18107 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
18109 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
18112 o Security fixes (anonymity/entropy):
18113 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
18114 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
18115 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
18116 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
18117 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
18118 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
18119 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
18120 certain kinds of denial-of-service attack by requiring that EXTEND
18121 commands must be sent using an "early" cell.
18122 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
18123 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
18124 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
18125 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
18126 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
18127 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
18128 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
18129 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
18130 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
18131 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
18132 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
18133 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
18134 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
18135 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
18136 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
18137 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
18138 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
18139 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
18140 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
18141 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
18142 Implements proposal 148.
18144 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
18145 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
18146 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
18147 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
18148 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
18149 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
18151 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
18152 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
18153 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
18154 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
18155 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
18156 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
18157 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
18158 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
18159 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
18161 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
18162 a lot and end up filling up the disk. Resolves bug 748.
18163 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
18164 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
18166 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
18167 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
18168 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
18169 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
18170 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
18171 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
18172 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
18173 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
18174 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18176 o Major bugfixes (clients):
18177 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
18178 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
18179 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion keys
18180 in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Fixes bug 887.
18181 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
18182 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
18183 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
18184 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
18185 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
18186 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
18187 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
18188 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
18189 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
18190 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
18191 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
18194 o Major bugfixes (relays):
18195 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
18196 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
18197 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
18198 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
18199 if BandwidthRate or BandwidthBurst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
18200 patch by Sebastian.
18201 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
18202 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
18203 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
18204 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
18205 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
18206 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
18207 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
18208 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu" and
18209 "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable flags
18210 wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and 969. Bugfix
18213 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
18214 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
18215 originate from cannibalized circuits were completely ignored
18216 and not included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might
18217 have been another reason for delay in making a hidden service
18218 available. Bugfix from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
18220 o Major bugfixes (memory and resource management):
18221 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
18222 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
18223 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
18224 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
18225 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
18226 on a typical directory cache.
18227 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
18228 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
18229 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
18230 and may reduce fragmentation.
18232 o New/changed config options:
18233 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
18234 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
18235 Suggested by Lucky Green.
18236 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
18237 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
18238 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
18239 locked down these days.
18240 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
18241 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
18242 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
18243 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
18244 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
18245 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
18246 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
18247 output to messages of warning and error severity.
18248 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
18249 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
18250 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
18251 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
18252 directory requests we should expect to see.
18253 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
18254 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
18255 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
18256 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
18257 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
18258 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
18259 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
18261 o Minor features (relays):
18262 - Raise the minimum rate limiting to be a relay from 20000 bytes
18263 to 20480 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also
18264 update directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag
18265 to relays with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't
18266 suddenly find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets
18268 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
18269 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
18270 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
18271 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
18272 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
18273 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
18274 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
18275 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
18276 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
18277 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
18278 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
18279 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
18280 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
18282 o Minor features (directory authorities):
18283 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
18284 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
18285 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
18286 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
18287 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate. Start
18288 serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
18289 pairs. Implements proposal 157.
18290 - When a directory authority downloads a descriptor that it then
18291 immediately rejects, do not retry downloading it right away. Should
18292 save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug 888. Patch by
18294 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
18295 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
18296 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
18297 fingerprints with or without space.
18299 o Minor features (directory mirrors):
18300 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
18301 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
18302 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
18303 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
18304 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
18305 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
18306 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
18307 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
18309 o Minor features (bridges):
18310 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
18311 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
18313 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
18314 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
18317 o Minor features (hidden services):
18318 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
18319 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
18320 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
18321 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
18322 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
18323 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
18324 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
18325 faster after restart.
18326 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
18327 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
18329 o Minor features (build and packaging):
18330 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the User
18332 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
18333 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
18335 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
18336 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
18337 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
18338 entirely. Patch from coderman.
18339 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later that
18340 are built without support for deprecated functions.
18341 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
18342 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
18343 system to do it for us.
18344 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
18345 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
18346 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
18347 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
18348 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
18349 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
18350 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
18351 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
18352 the letter of C99's alias rules.
18353 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
18354 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
18355 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
18356 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
18357 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
18358 with log.h on Android.
18359 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
18360 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
18362 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
18363 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
18364 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
18365 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
18367 o Minor features (controllers):
18368 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
18369 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
18370 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
18371 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
18372 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
18373 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
18374 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
18375 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
18376 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
18377 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
18379 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
18380 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
18381 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
18382 been fetched and validated.
18383 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
18384 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the configuration.
18386 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status.
18388 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
18389 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
18390 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
18391 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
18392 partway through and wants to catch up.
18393 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
18395 o Minor features (tools):
18396 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
18397 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
18398 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
18399 people find host:port too confusing.
18400 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
18401 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
18403 o Minor bugfixes (memory and resource management):
18404 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
18405 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
18406 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
18407 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
18408 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
18409 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
18410 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
18411 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
18413 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
18414 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
18415 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
18416 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
18417 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
18419 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
18420 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
18421 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
18423 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
18424 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18425 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
18426 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
18427 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
18428 have already been marked for close.
18429 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
18430 memory performance during directory parsing.
18432 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
18433 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
18434 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
18435 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
18436 done that for a long time.
18437 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
18438 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
18439 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
18440 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
18441 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
18442 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
18443 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
18444 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
18445 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
18446 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
18447 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
18448 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
18449 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
18450 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
18451 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
18452 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
18453 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
18454 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
18455 because of a pending download.
18456 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
18457 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
18458 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
18459 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
18460 bug 820, reported by seeess.
18462 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
18463 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
18464 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
18465 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
18466 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
18467 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
18468 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
18469 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
18470 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
18472 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
18473 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
18475 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
18476 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
18477 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
18478 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
18479 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
18480 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
18481 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
18482 of 0. Suggested by lark.
18483 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
18484 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
18485 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
18486 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
18487 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
18489 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
18490 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
18491 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
18493 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
18494 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
18496 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
18497 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
18498 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
18499 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
18500 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
18501 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
18502 rest, and don't automatically fail.
18503 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
18504 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
18505 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
18506 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
18507 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
18508 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
18510 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
18511 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
18512 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
18513 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
18514 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
18515 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
18516 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
18518 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
18519 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18521 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
18522 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
18523 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
18524 Workaround for bug 1024.
18525 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
18526 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
18527 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
18528 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
18529 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
18530 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
18531 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
18532 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
18535 o Minor bugfixes (tools):
18536 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
18539 o Minor bugfixes (controllers):
18540 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
18541 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
18542 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
18543 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
18544 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
18545 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
18547 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
18548 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
18549 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
18550 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fix a spurious
18551 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
18552 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
18553 by Marcus Griep. Fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
18554 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
18557 o Deprecated and removed features:
18558 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
18559 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
18560 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
18562 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
18564 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
18565 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
18566 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
18567 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
18568 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
18569 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
18570 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
18571 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
18572 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
18573 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
18574 and nobody seems to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
18575 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
18576 - Remove all backward-compatibility code for relays running
18577 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
18580 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
18581 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
18582 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
18583 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
18584 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
18586 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
18587 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
18588 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
18589 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
18590 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
18591 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
18592 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
18593 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
18594 actual mistakes we're making here.
18595 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
18596 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
18597 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
18598 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
18599 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
18600 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
18601 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
18602 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
18603 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
18604 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
18605 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
18606 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
18607 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
18608 or for every cell. On systems like Windows where time() is a
18609 slow syscall, this fix will be slightly helpful.
18612 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
18614 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
18615 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
18616 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
18617 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
18618 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
18621 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
18622 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
18623 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
18624 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
18625 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
18626 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
18627 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
18628 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
18629 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
18630 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
18633 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
18634 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
18635 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
18636 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
18637 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
18638 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
18639 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
18640 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
18643 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
18644 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
18645 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
18646 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
18647 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
18649 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
18650 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
18651 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
18652 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
18655 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
18656 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
18657 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
18658 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
18659 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
18660 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
18661 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
18662 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
18665 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
18666 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
18667 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
18668 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
18671 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
18672 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
18673 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
18674 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
18676 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
18677 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
18678 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
18681 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
18682 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
18685 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
18686 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
18687 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
18688 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
18689 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
18690 reported by "wood".
18691 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
18692 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
18693 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
18694 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
18695 identify a connection.
18696 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
18697 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
18698 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
18699 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
18700 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
18701 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
18702 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
18703 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
18704 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
18705 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
18707 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
18708 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
18709 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
18710 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
18711 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
18712 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
18713 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
18716 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
18717 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
18719 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
18720 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
18721 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
18722 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
18723 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
18724 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
18725 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
18726 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
18728 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
18729 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
18730 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
18731 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
18732 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
18733 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
18734 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
18735 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
18736 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
18737 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
18738 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
18739 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
18740 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
18741 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
18742 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
18743 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
18744 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
18745 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
18746 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
18747 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
18748 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
18749 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
18750 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
18751 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
18752 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
18753 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
18754 840. Patch from rovv.
18755 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
18756 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
18757 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
18759 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
18760 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
18761 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
18762 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
18763 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
18764 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
18765 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
18767 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
18768 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
18769 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
18772 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
18773 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
18775 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
18776 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
18777 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
18778 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
18779 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
18780 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
18781 ServerDNSRamdomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
18782 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
18783 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
18785 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
18787 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
18788 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
18792 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
18793 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
18794 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
18795 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
18796 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
18797 variety of other issues.
18800 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
18801 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
18802 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
18803 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
18804 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
18805 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
18806 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
18807 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
18808 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
18809 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
18810 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
18811 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
18814 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
18815 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
18817 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
18818 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
18819 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
18820 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
18821 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
18822 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
18823 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18824 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
18825 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
18826 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
18827 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
18828 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
18829 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
18830 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
18831 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
18835 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
18836 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
18837 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
18838 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
18839 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
18840 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
18841 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
18842 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
18843 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
18844 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
18845 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
18846 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
18847 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
18848 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
18849 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
18850 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
18851 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
18852 list. It has been gone for many months.
18853 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
18854 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
18855 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
18858 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
18859 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
18860 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
18863 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
18864 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
18865 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
18866 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
18869 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
18870 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
18871 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
18872 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
18873 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
18874 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
18876 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
18877 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
18878 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
18879 pointed out by rovv.
18882 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
18883 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18884 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
18885 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
18886 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
18887 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
18888 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
18889 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
18890 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
18891 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18892 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
18893 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
18894 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
18895 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
18896 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
18897 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
18898 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
18899 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
18900 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
18901 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
18902 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
18905 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
18906 This new stable release switches to a more efficient directory
18907 distribution design, adds features to make connections to the Tor
18908 network harder to block, allows Tor to act as a DNS proxy, adds separate
18909 rate limiting for relayed traffic to make it easier for clients to
18910 become relays, fixes a variety of potential anonymity problems, and
18911 includes the usual huge pile of other features and bug fixes.
18913 o New v3 directory design:
18914 - Tor now uses a new way to learn about and distribute information
18915 about the network: the directory authorities vote on a common
18916 network status document rather than each publishing their own
18917 opinion. Now clients and caches download only one networkstatus
18918 document to bootstrap, rather than downloading one for each
18919 authority. Clients only download router descriptors listed in
18920 the consensus. Implements proposal 101; see doc/spec/dir-spec.txt
18922 - Set up moria1, tor26, and dizum as v3 directory authorities
18923 in addition to being v2 authorities. Also add three new ones:
18924 ides (run by Mike Perry), gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing), and
18925 dannenberg (run by CCC).
18926 - Switch to multi-level keys for directory authorities: now their
18927 long-term identity key can be kept offline, and they periodically
18928 generate a new signing key. Clients fetch the "key certificates"
18929 to keep up to date on the right keys. Add a standalone tool
18930 "tor-gencert" to generate key certificates. Implements proposal 103.
18931 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey config option to make it easier for
18932 v3 authorities to change their identity keys if another bug like
18933 Debian's OpenSSL RNG flaw appears.
18934 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
18935 less often, now that v3 is recommended.
18937 o Make Tor connections stand out less on the wire:
18938 - Use an improved TLS handshake designed by Steven Murdoch in proposal
18939 124, as revised in proposal 130. The new handshake is meant to
18940 be harder for censors to fingerprint, and it adds the ability
18941 to detect certain kinds of man-in-the-middle traffic analysis
18942 attacks. The new handshake format includes version negotiation for
18943 OR connections as described in proposal 105, which will allow us
18944 to improve Tor's link protocol more safely in the future.
18945 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
18946 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
18947 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
18948 certain censored countries by default again.
18949 - Stop including recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
18950 Tor's x509 certificates.
18952 o Implement bridge relays:
18953 - Bridge relays (or "bridges" for short) are Tor relays that aren't
18954 listed in the main Tor directory. Since there is no complete public
18955 list of them, even an ISP that is filtering connections to all the
18956 known Tor relays probably won't be able to block all the bridges.
18957 See doc/design-paper/blocking.pdf and proposal 125 for details.
18958 - New config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to be a
18959 bridge relay rather than a normal relay. When BridgeRelay is set
18960 to 1, then a) you cache dir info even if your DirPort ins't on,
18961 and b) the default for PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge"
18962 rather than "v2,v3".
18963 - New config option "UseBridges 1" for clients that want to use bridge
18964 relays instead of ordinary entry guards. Clients then specify
18965 bridge relays by adding "Bridge" lines to their config file. Users
18966 can learn about a bridge relay either manually through word of
18967 mouth, or by one of our rate-limited mechanisms for giving out
18968 bridge addresses without letting an attacker easily enumerate them
18969 all. See https://www.torproject.org/bridges for details.
18970 - Bridge relays behave like clients with respect to time intervals
18971 for downloading new v3 consensus documents -- otherwise they
18972 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
18973 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
18975 o Implement bridge directory authorities:
18976 - Bridge authorities are like normal directory authorities, except
18977 they don't serve a list of known bridges. Therefore users that know
18978 a bridge's fingerprint can fetch a relay descriptor for that bridge,
18979 including fetching updates e.g. if the bridge changes IP address,
18980 yet an attacker can't just fetch a list of all the bridges.
18981 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
18982 - Bridge authorities refuse to serve bridge descriptors or other
18983 bridge information over unencrypted connections (that is, when
18984 responding to direct DirPort requests rather than begin_dir cells.)
18985 - Bridge directory authorities do reachability testing on the
18986 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
18987 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
18988 to a file periodically, so we can keep internal stats about which
18989 bridges are functioning.
18990 - If bridge users set the UpdateBridgesFromAuthority config option,
18991 but the digest they ask for is a 404 on the bridge authority,
18992 they fall back to contacting the bridge directly.
18993 - Bridges always use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
18994 the bridge authority using an anonymous encrypted tunnel.
18995 - Early work on a "bridge community" design: if bridge authorities set
18996 the BridgePassword config option, they will serve a snapshot of
18997 known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to anybody who
18998 knows that password. Unset by default.
18999 - Tor now includes an IP-to-country GeoIP file, so bridge relays can
19000 report sanitized aggregated summaries in their extra-info documents
19001 privately to the bridge authority, listing which countries are
19002 able to reach them. We hope this mechanism will let us learn when
19003 certain countries start trying to block bridges.
19004 - Bridge authorities write bridge descriptors to disk, so they can
19005 reload them after a reboot. They can also export the descriptors
19006 to other programs, so we can distribute them to blocked users via
19007 the BridgeDB interface, e.g. via https://bridges.torproject.org/
19008 and bridges@torproject.org.
19010 o Tor can be a DNS proxy:
19011 - The new client-side DNS proxy feature replaces the need for
19012 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
19013 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
19014 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
19015 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
19016 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
19017 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
19018 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
19019 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
19020 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
19021 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
19022 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
19023 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
19024 longer a completely silly thing to do.
19026 o Major features (relay usability):
19027 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
19028 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
19029 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
19030 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them. See
19031 proposal 111 for details.
19032 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
19033 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
19034 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
19035 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
19037 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
19038 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
19039 on "vserver" accounts. Patch from coderman.
19041 o Major features (directory authorities):
19042 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime and weighted
19043 mean-time-between failures for relays. WFU is suitable for deciding
19044 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
19045 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
19046 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
19047 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
19048 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
19049 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
19050 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
19051 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
19052 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
19053 to advertise as Stable: when we have 4 or more days of data, use
19054 median measured MTBF rather than median declared uptime. Implements
19056 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
19057 routers. Routers now publish their bandwidth-history lines in the
19058 extra-info docs rather than the main descriptor. This step saves
19059 60% (!) on compressed router descriptor downloads. Servers upload
19060 extra-info docs to any authority that accepts them; directory
19061 authorities now allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
19062 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. Authorities, and
19063 caches that have been configured to download extra-info documents,
19064 download them as needed. Implements proposal 104.
19065 - Authorities now list relays who have the same nickname as
19066 a different named relay, but list them with a new flag:
19067 "Unnamed". Now we can make use of relays that happen to pick the
19068 same nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
19069 disappeared. Implements proposal 122.
19070 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
19071 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
19072 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
19073 annotations along with descriptors, to record the time we received
19074 each descriptor, its source, and its purpose: currently one of
19075 general, controller, or bridge.
19077 o Major features (other):
19078 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
19079 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
19080 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
19081 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any. Based on proposal 129
19082 by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
19083 - Integrate Karsten Loesing's Google Summer of Code project to publish
19084 hidden service descriptors on a set of redundant relays that are a
19085 function of the hidden service address. Now we don't have to rely
19086 on three central hidden service authorities for publishing and
19087 fetching every hidden service descriptor. Implements proposal 114.
19088 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
19089 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
19090 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
19091 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
19094 o Major bugfixes (crashes and assert failures):
19095 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
19096 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
19098 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
19099 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set.
19100 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
19101 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
19102 list as it's being freed. Fixes the very rare bug 575, which is
19103 kind of the revenge of bug 222.
19104 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
19105 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
19106 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
19107 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
19108 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
19110 o Major bugfixes (code security fixes):
19111 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
19113 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
19114 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup.
19115 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
19116 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
19118 o Major bugfixes (anonymity fixes):
19119 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
19120 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
19121 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
19122 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
19124 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
19125 address maps to an internal address space.
19126 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
19127 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
19128 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
19129 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
19130 complements proposal 107.
19131 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 2 servers per IP as
19132 Valid and Running (or 5 on addresses shared by authorities).
19133 Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
19134 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
19135 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
19136 reported by taranis and lodger.
19137 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
19138 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
19139 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
19140 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
19141 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
19142 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
19143 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
19144 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
19145 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
19146 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
19147 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
19148 enough directory information. This was causing us to discard all our
19149 guards on startup if we hadn't been running for a few weeks. Fixes
19151 - When our directory information has been expired for a while, stop
19152 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401.
19154 o Major bugfixes (peace of mind for relay operators)
19155 - Non-exit relays no longer answer "resolve" relay cells, so they
19156 can't be induced to do arbitrary DNS requests. (Tor clients already
19157 avoid using non-exit relays for resolve cells, but now servers
19158 enforce this too.) Fixes bug 619. Patch from lodger.
19159 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
19160 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
19162 o Major bugfixes (other):
19163 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
19164 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
19165 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
19167 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
19168 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
19169 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
19170 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
19171 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
19172 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
19173 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
19174 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
19175 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
19176 IP address X. Otherwise this would screw up our address detection.
19177 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
19178 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
19179 clog everything up. Suggested by Aljosha Judmayer.
19180 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
19181 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
19182 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
19183 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
19184 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
19185 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
19187 o Rate limiting and load balancing improvements:
19188 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
19189 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
19190 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
19191 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
19192 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
19193 eat all of our bandwidth.
19194 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
19195 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
19196 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
19197 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
19198 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
19199 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
19200 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
19201 bug 688, reported by mfr.
19202 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few seconds.
19203 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
19204 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
19205 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
19207 o Bootstrapping faster and building circuits more intelligently:
19208 - Fix bug 660 that was preventing us from knowing that we should
19209 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
19210 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
19211 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
19212 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
19213 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
19214 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
19215 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
19216 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
19217 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
19218 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
19220 o Performance improvements (memory):
19221 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from "phk" as an optional malloc
19222 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly with
19223 Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass --enable-openbsd-malloc to
19224 ./configure to get the replacement malloc code.
19225 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
19226 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
19227 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
19228 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
19229 memory fragmentation.
19230 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
19231 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
19232 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
19233 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
19234 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
19236 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
19237 of them were actually distinct.
19238 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
19240 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
19241 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
19242 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
19243 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
19244 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
19245 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
19246 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
19247 performance-intensive.
19248 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it exists.
19249 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
19250 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
19251 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
19252 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for non-system
19255 o Performance improvements (socket management):
19256 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number of
19257 active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
19258 our allocated connection limit.
19259 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
19260 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
19261 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
19262 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
19263 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
19265 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
19266 cached-descriptors file. Patch by "freddy77".
19268 o Performance improvements (CPU use):
19269 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log target
19270 is interested in a given message.
19271 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
19272 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
19273 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
19274 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
19275 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
19277 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
19278 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
19279 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
19281 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
19282 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
19283 network-order and host-order counters on big-endian hosts (where
19284 they are the same).
19285 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
19286 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
19287 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
19288 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
19291 o Performance improvements (bandwidth use):
19292 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
19293 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
19294 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
19295 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
19296 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
19297 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
19299 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
19300 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
19301 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
19302 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
19303 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
19304 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
19305 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
19306 directories, running-routers documents, and v2 and v3 networkstatus
19307 documents. (There's no need to support it for router descriptors,
19308 since those are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
19309 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
19310 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
19311 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
19314 o Changed config option behavior (features):
19315 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
19316 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
19317 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
19318 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
19319 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
19320 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
19321 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
19322 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
19323 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
19324 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
19325 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
19326 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
19327 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
19328 and are reaching it.
19329 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
19330 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
19331 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
19332 stop using it. Fixes bug 437.
19334 o Changed config option behavior (bugfixes):
19335 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
19336 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
19337 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
19338 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
19339 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
19340 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
19341 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
19342 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bug reported by tup
19344 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
19345 BandwidthRate or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth were below a threshold. Now
19346 they look only at BandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthRate.
19347 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
19348 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
19349 - Make "TrackHostExits ." actually work. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
19350 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
19351 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
19353 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
19354 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
19356 o New config options:
19357 - New configuration options AuthDirMaxServersPerAddr and
19358 AuthDirMaxServersperAuthAddr to override default maximum number
19359 of servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
19360 running a test network on a single host.
19361 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
19362 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
19363 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
19364 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
19365 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
19366 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
19367 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
19368 the approved-routers file.
19369 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all v2 directory
19370 authorities must set. This lets v3 authorities choose not to serve
19371 v2 directory information.
19373 o Minor features (other):
19374 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
19375 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
19376 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
19377 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
19378 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
19379 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial steps for
19381 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
19382 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
19383 we can start out knowing some directory caches. We don't ship with
19384 a fallback consensus by default though, because it was making
19385 bootstrapping take too long while we tried many down relays.
19386 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
19387 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
19389 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
19390 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
19391 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
19393 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
19394 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
19395 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
19396 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
19397 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
19399 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
19400 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
19401 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
19402 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
19403 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
19404 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
19405 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
19407 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
19408 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
19409 logging information that would be as useful to an attacker.
19410 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
19411 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
19412 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
19413 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
19414 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
19415 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
19418 o Minor bugfixes (other):
19419 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
19420 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
19422 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
19423 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
19424 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
19425 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
19426 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
19427 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
19429 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
19430 bandwidthburst values.
19431 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
19432 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
19433 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
19434 to mark all our entry points down.
19435 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
19436 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
19437 supposed to tolerate these servers now.
19438 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
19439 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
19441 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
19442 more often than they are allowed to appear.
19443 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
19444 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
19445 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
19446 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
19447 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
19448 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
19449 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
19451 o Controller features:
19452 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
19453 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
19454 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
19455 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
19456 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
19457 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
19459 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
19460 multiple controller passwords.
19461 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
19462 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
19463 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
19464 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
19466 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
19467 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
19468 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
19469 cookie authentication file, and config option
19470 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
19471 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
19472 match requests to applications. Patch from Robert Hogan.
19473 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. Original patch
19475 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
19476 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. Patch from Tup.
19477 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
19478 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
19479 support them. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
19480 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
19481 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
19483 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
19484 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
19486 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
19487 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
19488 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
19489 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
19490 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
19491 are good, and how many authorities agree. Patch from "shibz".
19492 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
19493 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
19494 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
19495 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
19496 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
19497 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
19498 report the value as a "minimum skew."
19500 o Controller bugfixes:
19501 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
19502 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
19503 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length, so rogue
19504 processes can't run us out of memory.
19505 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
19506 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
19507 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
19509 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
19510 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
19511 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
19512 "OBSOLETE" in both cases.
19513 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
19514 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
19515 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
19516 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
19517 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
19518 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
19519 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
19520 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
19521 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
19522 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
19523 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
19525 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
19526 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
19528 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
19529 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
19530 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
19531 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
19532 WARN-severity events.
19534 o Portability / building / compiling:
19535 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
19536 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
19537 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
19538 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
19539 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
19540 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
19541 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
19542 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
19543 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
19544 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
19545 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
19546 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
19547 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
19549 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
19550 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
19551 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
19552 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
19553 Use this version consistently in log messages.
19554 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
19555 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
19556 partial results on small file reads.
19557 - Build without verbose warnings even on gcc 4.2 and 4.3.
19558 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
19559 a directory. Fix from lodger.
19560 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
19561 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
19562 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
19564 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
19565 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
19566 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
19567 logging for the unit tests.
19568 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
19569 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
19571 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
19572 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
19574 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
19575 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
19576 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
19577 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
19580 o Logging improvements:
19581 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
19582 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors.
19583 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
19584 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
19585 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
19586 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
19587 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
19589 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
19590 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
19591 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
19592 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
19593 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
19594 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
19595 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
19596 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
19597 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
19598 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
19599 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
19600 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
19601 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
19602 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
19603 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
19604 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
19605 Good in combination with --hash-password.
19606 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
19607 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
19609 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
19610 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533.
19611 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
19612 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
19614 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
19615 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
19616 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
19617 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
19618 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
19620 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
19621 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
19622 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
19623 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
19624 makes the log messages nicer.
19625 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
19626 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
19628 o Contributed scripts and tools:
19629 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
19630 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
19632 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
19633 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
19634 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
19635 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
19636 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
19637 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
19638 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
19639 connections to that address. Resolves bug 405.
19640 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
19641 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
19643 o Newly deprecated features:
19644 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
19645 GETINFO controller options are no longer useful in the v3 directory
19646 protocol: treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
19647 - The RedirectExits config option is now deprecated.
19649 o Removed features:
19650 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
19651 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
19652 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
19653 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
19654 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers are using the new
19656 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
19657 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
19658 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
19659 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
19660 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
19661 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
19662 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
19663 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
19665 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
19666 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
19667 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
19668 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
19669 - Remove the tor_strpartition() function: its logic was confused,
19670 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
19672 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
19673 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
19674 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
19675 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
19676 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
19677 patch from Karsten Loesing.
19678 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
19679 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
19680 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
19681 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
19682 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
19683 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
19684 code), this assumption no longer holds.
19685 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
19689 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
19690 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
19691 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
19692 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
19695 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
19696 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
19697 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
19698 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
19699 on network address.
19702 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
19703 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
19704 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
19705 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
19706 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
19707 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
19708 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
19709 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
19710 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
19711 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
19712 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
19713 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
19716 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
19717 rebuild our server descriptor.
19718 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
19719 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
19720 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
19721 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
19722 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
19723 nonstandard integer types.
19724 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
19725 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
19726 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
19727 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
19728 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
19730 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
19731 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
19732 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
19733 when they receive them.
19734 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
19735 This includes some 64-bit systems.
19736 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
19737 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
19738 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
19739 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
19740 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
19741 router_get_by_hexdigest().
19742 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
19743 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
19747 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
19748 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
19749 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
19750 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
19751 lists for a few hours each day.
19753 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
19754 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
19755 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
19756 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
19757 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
19758 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
19759 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
19760 rend_process_relay_cell().
19762 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
19763 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
19764 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
19765 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
19766 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
19767 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
19768 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
19769 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
19771 o Major bugfixes (other):
19772 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
19773 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
19774 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
19775 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
19776 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
19777 circuit cannibalization).
19778 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
19779 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
19780 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
19781 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
19782 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
19783 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
19786 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
19787 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
19789 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
19790 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
19791 absent. Resolves bug 467.
19792 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
19793 a way to trigger this remotely.)
19794 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
19795 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
19796 were reporting the dir port.)
19797 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
19798 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
19799 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
19800 the future. Fixes bug 434.
19801 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
19803 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
19804 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
19805 the onion key from getting rotated.
19806 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
19807 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
19808 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
19809 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
19810 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
19811 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
19812 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
19815 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
19816 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
19817 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
19818 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
19819 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
19822 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
19823 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
19826 o Major bugfixes (security):
19827 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
19828 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
19829 become more of a headache than it's worth.
19831 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
19832 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
19833 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
19835 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
19836 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
19837 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
19838 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
19839 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
19840 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
19842 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
19843 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
19844 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
19845 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
19846 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
19848 o Minor features (controller):
19849 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
19850 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
19851 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
19852 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
19854 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
19855 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
19856 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
19857 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
19858 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
19859 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
19860 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
19861 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
19863 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
19864 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
19865 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
19866 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
19867 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
19868 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
19869 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
19870 if we ran off the end of the list.
19871 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
19872 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
19873 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
19874 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
19875 every time we change any piece of our config.
19876 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
19877 encourage people using them to stop.
19878 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
19880 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
19881 servers to choose a circuit.
19882 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
19883 unparseable piece of it.
19886 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
19887 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
19888 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
19889 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
19890 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
19891 TorK, etc. Or worse.
19893 o Major security fixes:
19894 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
19895 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
19898 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
19899 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
19900 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
19901 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
19903 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
19904 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
19906 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
19907 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
19908 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
19909 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
19910 routerlist while inserting a new router.
19911 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
19912 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
19914 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
19915 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
19916 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
19918 o Major bugfixes (security):
19919 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
19921 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
19922 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
19923 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
19924 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
19925 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
19926 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
19927 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
19928 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
19929 guard list unless we need to.
19931 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
19932 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
19933 don't get overused as guards.
19935 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
19936 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
19937 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
19938 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
19939 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
19941 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
19942 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
19943 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
19946 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
19947 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
19948 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
19949 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
19950 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
19951 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
19952 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
19953 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
19956 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
19957 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
19958 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
19959 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
19961 o Directory authority changes:
19962 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
19963 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
19964 or use hidden services.
19966 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
19967 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
19968 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
19969 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
19970 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
19971 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
19972 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
19973 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
19974 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
19977 o Major bugfixes (security):
19978 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
19979 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
19980 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
19982 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
19983 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
19984 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
19985 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
19986 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
19987 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
19988 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
19989 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
19990 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
19991 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
19994 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
19995 purpose=controller.
19996 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
19997 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
19999 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
20000 having a hard time downloading.
20001 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
20002 partial results on small file reads.
20003 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
20004 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
20005 the gaps in the store get very large.
20008 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
20009 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
20011 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
20012 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
20015 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
20016 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
20017 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
20018 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
20019 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
20020 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
20022 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
20023 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
20024 free speech on the Internet.
20026 o Major features, client performance:
20027 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
20028 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
20029 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
20030 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
20031 - Stop overloading exit nodes -- avoid choosing them for entry or
20032 middle hops when the total bandwidth available from non-exit nodes
20033 is much higher than the total bandwidth available from exit nodes.
20034 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
20035 application connections, we wait only 10 seconds for the first,
20036 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
20037 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
20038 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
20039 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
20040 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
20041 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
20043 o Major features, client functionality:
20044 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to a directory
20045 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
20046 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
20047 config options if you like. For now, this feature only works if
20048 you already have a descriptor for the destination dirserver.
20049 - Add support for transparent application connections: this basically
20050 bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor into the Tor
20051 mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter implementations
20052 can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor without diverting
20053 through SOCKS. (Based on patch from tup.)
20054 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
20055 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
20056 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
20058 o Major features, servers:
20059 - Setting up a dyndns name for your server is now optional: servers
20060 with no hostname or IP address will learn their IP address by
20061 asking the directory authorities. This code only kicks in when you
20062 would normally have exited with a "no address" error. Nothing's
20063 authenticated, so use with care.
20064 - Directory servers now spool server descriptors, v1 directories,
20065 and v2 networkstatus objects to buffers as needed rather than en
20066 masse. They also mmap the cached-routers files. These steps save
20068 - Stop requiring clients to have well-formed certificates, and stop
20069 checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients have certificates so
20070 that they can look like Tor servers, but in the future we might want
20071 to allow them to look like regular TLS clients instead. Nicknames
20072 in certificates serve no purpose other than making our protocol
20073 easier to recognize on the wire.) Implements proposal 106.
20075 o Improvements on DNS support:
20076 - Add "eventdns" asynchronous dns library originally based on code
20077 from Adam Langley. Now we can discard the old rickety dnsworker
20078 concept, and support a wider variety of DNS functions. Allows
20079 multithreaded builds on NetBSD and OpenBSD again.
20080 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
20081 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
20082 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
20083 now announce in their descriptors if they don't support eventdns.
20084 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
20085 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
20086 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
20087 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
20088 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
20089 lets you turn it off.
20090 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
20091 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
20092 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
20093 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
20094 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
20095 useful to the network.
20096 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
20097 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
20098 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
20099 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt). Also cache them.
20100 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
20101 our tests for DNS hijacking.
20103 o Improvements on reachability testing:
20104 - Servers send out a burst of long-range padding cells once they've
20105 established that they're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits,
20106 so hopefully a few will be fast. This exercises bandwidth and
20107 bootstraps them into the directory more quickly.
20108 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
20109 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
20110 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
20111 if their identity keys are as expected.
20112 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
20113 chews through many circuits before giving up.
20114 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
20115 to test via a server that's on the same /24 network as us.
20116 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
20117 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
20118 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
20119 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
20120 - Routers no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
20121 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
20122 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
20123 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
20124 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
20125 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
20127 o Improvements on rate limiting:
20128 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
20129 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
20130 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
20131 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
20132 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
20134 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
20135 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
20136 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
20137 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
20138 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
20139 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
20140 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
20141 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
20143 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
20144 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
20146 o Major features, NT services:
20147 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
20148 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
20149 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
20150 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
20151 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
20152 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the "hardwire the user's appdata
20153 directory" trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
20155 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
20156 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
20157 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
20159 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
20160 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
20161 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the
20163 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
20164 stop. (Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.)
20166 o Directory authority improvements:
20167 - Stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect uptime and
20169 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
20170 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
20171 too much load to the exit nodes.
20172 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
20173 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
20174 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
20175 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
20176 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
20177 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
20178 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
20179 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
20180 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
20181 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
20182 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
20183 broken. Not used yet.
20184 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits in their
20185 approved-routers file by fingerprint or by address. If most
20186 authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients don't think
20187 of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider authorities
20188 that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
20189 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
20190 non-versioning dirservers.
20191 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
20192 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
20193 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
20195 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
20196 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
20197 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
20198 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
20200 o Directory mirrors and clients:
20201 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
20202 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
20203 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
20204 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
20205 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
20206 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we no
20207 longer count the failure against the total number of failures
20208 allowed for the object we're trying to download.
20209 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
20210 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
20211 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
20212 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
20213 routers for even longer.
20214 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
20215 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
20216 caching HTTP proxies.
20217 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
20218 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. (This currently
20219 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
20220 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.)
20222 o Major fixes, crashes:
20223 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
20224 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
20225 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when we run
20226 out of DNS worker processes, if we're not using eventdns. (Resolves
20228 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
20229 cleared EntryNodes. (Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.)
20230 - Avoid crash when telling controller about stream-status and a
20231 stream is detached.
20232 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
20233 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
20234 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
20235 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
20236 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
20237 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
20238 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
20239 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
20240 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
20241 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
20243 o Major fixes, anonymity/security:
20244 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
20245 /16 network when constructing a circuit. Add an
20246 "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to let people disable it if they
20247 want to operate private test networks on a single subnet.
20248 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
20249 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
20250 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
20251 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
20252 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
20253 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
20254 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
20255 could return an unnamed server instead.
20256 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
20257 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
20258 a more attractive target for compromise.)
20259 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
20260 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
20261 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
20262 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
20264 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
20265 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
20267 o Major fixes, other:
20268 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
20269 uptime in the descriptor.
20270 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
20271 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
20272 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
20273 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
20274 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
20275 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
20276 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
20277 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
20278 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
20279 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
20280 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
20281 our DirPort now, etc.
20282 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
20283 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
20284 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
20286 o New config options or behaviors:
20287 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
20288 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
20289 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
20290 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
20291 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
20292 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
20293 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
20294 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
20295 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
20296 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
20297 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
20298 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
20300 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
20301 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
20302 - Make PIDFile work on Windows.
20303 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
20304 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
20306 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
20307 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
20308 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
20309 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
20310 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
20311 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
20312 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well,
20313 and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can override this by
20314 setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
20315 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
20316 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
20317 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
20318 to set log options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as obsolete.
20319 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
20320 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
20321 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
20322 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
20323 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
20324 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
20325 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
20326 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
20327 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
20328 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
20329 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
20330 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
20331 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
20332 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
20333 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
20334 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
20335 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
20337 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
20338 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
20339 your ORPort is set.
20342 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
20343 new ChangeLog file now includes the notes for all development
20345 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
20346 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
20347 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
20348 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
20350 o Packaging, porting, and contrib
20351 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
20352 whether the config options are bad or good.
20353 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
20354 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
20355 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
20356 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
20357 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
20358 result more than once.
20359 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
20360 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
20361 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
20362 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
20363 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
20364 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
20365 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
20366 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
20367 before we check for libevent.
20368 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.2.
20369 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
20370 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
20371 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
20372 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
20373 recommendation system saner.)
20374 - Build with recent (1.3+) libevents on platforms that do not
20375 define the nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
20376 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
20377 now universal binaries.
20378 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
20379 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
20381 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi
20383 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
20384 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
20385 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
20386 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
20387 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable
20388 bandwidth to INT32_MAX.
20390 o Minor features, controller:
20391 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
20392 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
20393 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
20395 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
20396 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
20397 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
20398 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
20399 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
20400 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
20401 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
20403 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
20404 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
20405 connected or resolved cell.
20406 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
20407 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
20408 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
20409 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
20410 - Specify and implement some of the controller status events.
20411 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
20412 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
20414 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
20415 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
20416 entry guard status as it changes.
20417 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
20418 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
20419 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
20420 watching for STREAM events.
20421 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
20422 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
20423 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
20424 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
20426 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
20427 controller why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
20428 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
20429 working much like those for circuit events.
20430 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
20431 about the current status of a router.
20432 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
20433 a router's status has changed.
20434 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
20435 can tell which events and features are supported.
20436 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
20437 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
20438 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
20439 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
20440 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
20441 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
20442 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
20443 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
20444 for more information.
20445 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
20446 best guess to the user.
20447 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
20448 descriptor has changed.
20449 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
20450 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
20451 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
20453 o Minor bugfixes, controller:
20454 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
20455 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
20456 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
20457 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'. Reported by daejees.
20458 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
20459 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
20460 ask for GUARDS too. Reported by daejees.
20461 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
20462 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
20463 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. (Resolves part
20465 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
20466 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
20468 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
20469 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
20470 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
20472 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
20473 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
20474 the controller from learning about current events.
20475 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
20476 reported by Mike Perry.
20477 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
20478 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
20479 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
20480 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
20481 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
20482 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
20483 long nicknames where appropriate.
20484 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
20485 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
20487 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
20488 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
20489 - Respond to SIGNAL command before we execute the signal, in case
20490 the signal shuts us down. Suggested by Karsten Loesing.
20491 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
20493 o Minor features, code performance:
20494 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
20495 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
20496 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
20498 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
20499 some profiles, but not others.)
20500 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
20501 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
20502 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
20503 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
20504 operations, for profiling.
20505 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
20506 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
20507 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
20508 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
20509 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
20510 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
20511 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
20512 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
20514 o Minor features, descriptors and descriptor handling:
20515 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
20516 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
20517 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
20518 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
20519 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
20520 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
20521 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
20522 family lists conveniently.
20524 o Minor fixes, confusing/misleading log messages:
20525 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
20526 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
20527 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
20528 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate.
20529 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
20530 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
20531 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
20532 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
20533 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
20534 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
20535 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
20536 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
20537 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
20538 of it), is not therefore "up".
20540 o Minor fixes, old/obsolete behavior:
20541 - Start assuming we can use a create_fast cell if we don't know
20542 what version a router is running.
20543 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
20544 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
20545 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
20546 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
20548 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
20549 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
20550 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
20551 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
20552 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
20555 o Minor fixes, misc client-side behavior:
20556 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
20557 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
20559 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
20560 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
20562 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
20563 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
20564 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
20565 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
20566 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
20567 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
20568 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
20569 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
20570 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
20571 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
20573 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
20574 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
20575 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by us
20576 but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
20577 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
20578 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
20579 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
20580 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
20581 get one we don't recognize.
20584 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
20585 o Security bugfixes:
20586 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
20587 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
20588 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
20589 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
20593 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
20594 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
20595 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
20598 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
20600 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
20601 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
20602 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
20603 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
20604 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
20605 its circuits on demand.
20606 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
20607 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
20608 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
20609 connections more stable on average.
20610 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
20611 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
20612 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
20614 o Security bugfixes:
20615 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
20616 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
20619 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
20621 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
20622 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
20623 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
20624 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
20625 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
20626 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
20627 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
20628 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
20631 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
20633 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
20634 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
20635 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
20636 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
20637 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
20638 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
20639 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
20640 it can't resolve its hostname.
20641 - When a client asks us to resolve (not connect to) an address,
20642 and we have a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
20643 Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
20646 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
20647 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
20648 "extendcircuit" request.
20649 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
20650 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
20651 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
20652 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
20654 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
20655 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
20656 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
20658 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
20659 methods: these are known to be buggy.
20660 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
20661 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
20662 we don't recognize.
20665 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
20667 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
20668 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
20669 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
20670 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
20671 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
20672 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
20673 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
20674 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
20675 test reachability, so you won't publish.
20678 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
20679 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
20680 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
20681 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
20682 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
20684 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
20685 own server descriptor yet.
20688 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
20690 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
20691 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
20692 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
20693 make sure to test via one of these.
20694 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
20695 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
20696 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
20697 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
20698 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
20700 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
20701 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
20702 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
20705 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
20706 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
20707 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
20708 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
20709 directory authority.
20710 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
20711 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
20712 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
20713 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
20716 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
20717 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
20718 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
20720 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
20721 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
20722 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
20723 current guards when picking a new guard.
20724 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
20725 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
20726 when we had more than one pending.
20727 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
20728 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
20729 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
20730 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
20731 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
20732 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
20733 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
20734 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
20735 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
20736 debug the reachability problems better.
20738 o Log / documentation fixes:
20739 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
20740 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
20741 about protocol violations by others.
20742 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
20743 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
20744 about what happened to our old torrc.
20747 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
20748 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.0.17:
20749 - Fix assert bug in close_logs() on exit: when we close and delete
20750 logs, remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
20751 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
20752 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by Peter
20754 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
20755 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
20756 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed".
20757 - Setconf SocksListenAddress kills Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
20758 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
20759 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
20760 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you then
20761 HUP, it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
20762 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc when using -f.
20763 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
20764 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
20765 on malicious huge inputs.
20767 o Security fixes, major:
20768 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
20769 non-printable characters. Now we're safer against shell escape
20770 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool users into
20771 misreading their logs.
20772 - Implement entry guards: automatically choose a handful of entry
20773 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
20774 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
20775 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
20776 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
20777 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
20778 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
20779 Fixes CVE-2006-0414.
20780 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
20781 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
20782 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
20783 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
20784 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
20785 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
20787 - Obey our firewall options more faithfully:
20788 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
20789 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
20790 firewall options forbid.
20791 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
20792 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
20793 can only proxy to certain destinations.
20794 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
20795 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
20796 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
20798 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
20799 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
20800 each new connection. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
20801 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
20802 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
20803 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
20804 already present earlier in the circuit. Now we are.
20805 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
20806 are no longer allowed. This also fixes potential vulnerabilities
20807 to servers providing hostnames as their address and then
20808 preferentially resolving them so they can partition users.
20809 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
20810 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for invalid routers.
20812 o Security fixes, minor:
20813 - Adjust tor-spec.txt to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now
20814 Ian Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
20816 - Make directory authorities generate a separate "guard" flag to
20817 mean "would make a good entry guard". Clients now honor the
20818 is_guard flag rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
20819 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
20820 if we've not heard of a server.
20821 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
20822 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
20823 startup. And add entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
20824 - Refuse server descriptors where the fingerprint line doesn't match
20825 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
20826 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
20827 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
20828 don't recognize. Now we just drop that cell.
20829 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
20830 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
20831 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
20832 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
20833 aids some statistical attacks.
20834 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
20835 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
20836 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
20837 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
20838 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
20839 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
20840 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
20841 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
20844 o Packaging improvements:
20845 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Improve
20846 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
20847 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Deal better when
20848 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
20849 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
20850 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. Solaris's cc), use "-g -O" instead of
20852 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
20853 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
20854 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
20855 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
20856 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
20857 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
20859 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
20860 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
20861 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
20863 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
20864 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
20865 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html, INSTALL, and README in the tarball.
20866 They are useless now.
20867 - Add Peter Palfrader's contributed check-tor script. It lets you
20868 easily check whether a given server (referenced by nickname)
20869 is reachable by you.
20870 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
20873 o Directory improvements -- new directory protocol:
20874 - See tor/doc/dir-spec.txt for all the juicy details. Key points:
20875 - Authorities and caches publish individual descriptors (by
20876 digest, by fingerprint, by "all", and by "tell me yours").
20877 - Clients don't download or use the old directory anymore. Now they
20878 download network-statuses from the directory authorities, and
20879 fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
20880 - Clients don't download descriptors of non-running servers.
20881 - Download descriptors by digest, not by fingerprint. Caches try to
20882 download all listed digests from authorities; clients try to
20883 download "best" digests from caches. This avoids partitioning
20884 and isolating attacks better.
20885 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
20886 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
20887 - Directory authorities silently throw away new descriptors that
20888 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
20889 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
20890 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
20891 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
20892 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
20893 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
20894 to bootstrap the first set of descriptors.
20895 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
20897 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
20898 can answer v2 directory requests too.
20899 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
20900 docs, so new directory authorities will be cached too.
20901 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
20902 mirrors still cache and serve it).
20903 - Clients consider a threshold of "versioning" directory authorities
20904 before deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
20905 - Authorities publish separate sorted lists of recommended versions
20906 for clients and for servers.
20907 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
20908 - Put nicknames on the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
20909 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
20910 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
20911 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
20912 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
20913 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This
20914 reduces its bulk by about 1/3, and reduces load on mirrors.
20915 - Mirrors no longer cache the v1 directory as often.
20916 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
20917 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
20919 o Other directory improvements:
20920 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu and tor.dizum.com as fourth and
20921 fifth authoritative directory servers.
20922 - Directory authorities no longer require an open connection from
20923 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
20924 when we add new directory authorities, old servers won't know not
20925 to hang up on them.
20926 - Dir authorities now do their own external reachability testing
20927 of each server, and only list as running the ones they found to
20928 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
20929 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
20930 - Spread the directory authorities' reachability testing over the
20931 entire testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once
20933 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
20934 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
20935 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
20936 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
20937 connections more reliable.
20938 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
20939 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
20940 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
20941 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
20942 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
20943 we fail to connect).
20944 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
20946 o Controller protocol improvements:
20947 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
20948 than binary: tor/doc/control-spec.txt. Add supporting libraries
20949 in python and java and c# so you can use the controller from your
20950 applications without caring how our protocol works.
20951 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
20952 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
20953 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
20954 many bytes we've used in this time period.
20955 - Add a "resetconf" command so you can set config options like
20956 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
20957 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
20958 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
20959 - Add a "getinfo config-file" to tell us where torrc is. Also
20960 expose guard nodes, config options/names.
20961 - Add a "quit" command (when when using the controller manually).
20962 - Add a new signal "newnym" to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to
20963 stop using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we
20964 don't link new actions to old actions. This also occurs on HUP
20965 or "signal reload".
20966 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
20967 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
20968 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
20969 - Add a new controller event type "authdir_newdescs" that allows
20970 controllers to get all server descriptors that were uploaded to
20971 a router in its role as directory authority.
20972 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
20973 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
20974 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
20975 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
20976 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
20977 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
20978 - Permit transitioning from ORPort==0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from
20979 the controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
20980 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
20981 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
20982 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
20983 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the "extendcircuit"
20984 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're starting
20985 a new circuit. Add a new "setcircuitpurpose" controller command to
20986 let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been created.
20987 - Let the controller ask for "getinfo dir/server/foo" so it can ask
20988 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. "getinfo
20989 dir/status/foo" also works, but currently only if your DirPort
20991 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
20992 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
20993 "setrouterpurpose" and modify "+postdescriptor" to do this.
20994 - If the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
20995 message in a string and hand it back to the controller -- don't
20996 just tell them to go read their logs.
20998 o Scalability, resource management, and performance:
20999 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robin reading in 16 KB
21000 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
21001 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
21002 try to be a bit more fair.
21003 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
21004 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
21005 and either a) we could hibernate ever or b) our capacity is low
21006 and we're using a default DirPort.
21007 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
21008 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
21009 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
21010 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
21011 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
21012 services faster on the service end.
21013 - Compress exit policies even more: look for duplicate lines and
21015 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
21016 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
21017 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
21018 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
21019 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
21020 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
21021 of fields. Replace balanced trees with hash tables. Inline
21022 bottleneck smartlist functions. Add a "Map from digest to void*"
21023 abstraction so we can do less hex encoding/decoding, and use it
21024 in router_get_by_digest(). Many other CPU and memory improvements.
21025 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
21026 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
21027 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
21028 purpose is DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
21029 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
21030 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
21031 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
21032 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
21033 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
21034 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
21035 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
21036 - Do round-robin writes for TLS of at most 16 kB per write. This
21037 might be more fair on loaded Tor servers.
21038 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
21039 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
21041 o Other bugfixes and improvements:
21042 - Start storing useful information to $DATADIR/state, so we can
21043 remember things across invocations of Tor. Retain unrecognized
21044 lines so we can be forward-compatible, and write a TorVersion line
21045 so we can be backward-compatible.
21046 - If ORPort is set, Address is not explicitly set, and our hostname
21047 resolves to a private IP address, try to use an interface address
21048 if it has a public address. Now Windows machines that think of
21049 themselves as localhost can guess their address.
21050 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
21051 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
21052 This was causing some Tor servers to keep publishing the same
21053 initial descriptor forever.
21054 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
21055 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
21056 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
21057 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
21058 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
21059 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
21060 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
21061 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
21062 servers and authorities bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
21063 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
21064 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
21065 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
21066 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
21067 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
21068 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
21069 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
21070 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
21071 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
21072 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
21073 socket, we now close it before refusing, rather than just
21074 leaking it. (Thanks to Peter Palfrader for finding.)
21075 - Fix a file descriptor leak in start_daemon().
21076 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
21077 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
21078 ports that have changed.
21079 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies that refuse GET
21080 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0". Reported by Adrian.
21081 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
21082 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
21083 connections once a week.
21084 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
21085 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
21086 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
21087 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
21088 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
21089 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
21090 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
21091 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
21092 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
21093 able to discover them.
21094 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when they
21095 want to make it an NT service.
21096 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
21097 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
21098 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changed IPs.
21099 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
21100 memory leaks better.
21101 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
21102 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
21103 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These
21104 statistics are now uint64_t's.
21105 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
21106 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
21107 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
21108 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
21109 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
21110 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
21111 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
21112 default ulimit -n is 1024.
21113 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
21114 and its existence is confusing some users.
21116 o Config option fixes:
21117 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults
21118 to on. Now all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
21119 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
21120 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB.
21121 - Add new ReachableORAddresses and ReachableDirAddresses options
21122 that understand address policies. FascistFirewall is now a synonym
21123 for "ReachableORAddresses *:443", "ReachableDirAddresses *:80".
21124 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
21125 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
21127 - If the user gave Tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
21128 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
21129 This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
21130 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.
21131 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
21132 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
21133 it would silently ignore the 6668.
21134 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc,
21135 e.g. ExitPolicy, and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
21136 silently resetting it to its default.
21137 - Setconf was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
21138 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section, so operators
21139 will be more likely to learn that it exists.
21140 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
21141 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
21142 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
21143 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
21144 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
21145 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
21146 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
21147 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
21148 - Let directory authorities start even if they don't specify an
21149 Address config option.
21150 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
21151 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
21153 o Config option features:
21154 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
21155 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
21156 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
21157 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
21158 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
21160 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
21161 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
21162 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
21163 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
21164 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
21165 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
21166 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
21167 - Add "HardwareAccel" config option: support for crypto hardware
21168 accelerators via OpenSSL. Off by default, until we find somebody
21169 smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce seg faults
21170 in at least some cases.)
21171 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for directory authorities
21172 as a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
21173 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
21174 - Directory authorities can now reject/invalidate by key and IP,
21175 with the config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject", or
21176 by marking a fingerprint as "!reject" or "!invalid" (as its
21177 nickname) in the approved-routers file. This is useful since
21178 currently we automatically list servers as running and usable
21179 even if we know they're jerks.
21180 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see whether their
21181 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
21182 socks5-with-fqdn. This way they don't have to keep mucking
21183 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
21184 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
21185 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
21186 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
21187 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
21188 because older Tors do not understand it.
21189 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
21190 moria1, moria2, and tor26 have set.
21191 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
21192 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
21193 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
21194 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
21195 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
21196 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
21197 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
21198 unattached before we fail it?
21199 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
21200 at least this many seconds ago.
21201 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
21202 at least this many seconds ago.
21203 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
21204 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
21206 o Improved and clearer log messages:
21207 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
21208 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
21209 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
21211 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
21212 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
21213 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
21214 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
21215 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
21216 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer manually;
21217 move it out of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
21218 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
21219 temporarily unreachable.
21220 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
21221 Windows-style errno back.
21222 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
21223 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
21225 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
21226 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
21227 even when it's an IP address in the "virtual" range we designed
21228 exactly for this case.
21229 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
21230 warn when we're calling a non-named server by its nickname;
21231 don't warn twice about the same name.
21232 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
21234 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
21235 it was self-testing that told us so.
21236 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
21237 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
21238 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
21239 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
21240 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
21241 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
21242 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
21243 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
21244 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
21245 circuit. This will make startup on dir authorities less noisy.
21246 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
21247 established a circuit.
21248 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
21249 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. We suspect a
21250 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
21251 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
21252 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
21253 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
21254 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
21255 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
21256 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
21257 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
21258 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
21259 - Directory authorities now stop whining so loudly about bad
21260 descriptors that they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's
21261 a log complaint, it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
21262 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
21263 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
21264 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
21265 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
21266 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
21267 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
21268 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
21269 testing for reachability.
21270 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
21271 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
21273 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages on Win32.
21276 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
21277 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
21278 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
21279 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
21281 o Other important bugfixes:
21282 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
21283 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
21284 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
21285 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
21287 o Backported features:
21288 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
21289 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
21290 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
21291 without getting overloaded.
21292 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
21293 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
21294 503's whenever they feel busy.
21295 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
21296 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
21297 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
21298 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
21299 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
21302 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
21303 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
21304 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
21305 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
21306 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
21307 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
21308 too -- so detect and avoid this.
21309 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
21311 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
21312 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
21313 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
21314 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
21315 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
21316 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
21317 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
21318 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
21319 rendezvous circuits.
21320 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
21322 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
21323 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
21324 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
21325 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
21326 advertising it because of hibernation.
21327 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
21328 - One of the dirservers (tor26) changed its IP address.
21329 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
21330 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
21331 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
21332 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
21333 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
21334 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
21335 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
21336 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
21337 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
21338 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
21339 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
21340 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
21341 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
21344 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
21345 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
21346 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
21347 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
21348 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
21349 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
21350 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
21351 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
21352 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
21353 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
21354 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
21355 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
21356 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
21357 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
21358 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
21361 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
21362 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
21363 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
21365 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
21366 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
21369 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
21370 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
21371 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
21372 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
21373 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
21374 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
21375 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
21377 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
21378 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
21382 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
21383 o New directory servers:
21384 - tor26 has changed IP address.
21386 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
21387 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
21388 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
21389 pthreads libraries.
21390 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
21391 claims its dirport is 0.
21392 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
21393 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
21397 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
21398 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
21399 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
21400 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
21401 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
21402 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
21403 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
21404 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
21407 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
21409 - Make NT services work and start on startup on Win32 (based on
21410 patch by Matt Edman). See the FAQ entry for details.
21411 - Make 'platform' string in descriptor more accurate for Win32
21412 servers, so it's not just "unknown platform".
21413 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
21414 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on Win32
21415 means you can bind to the port _even when somebody else already
21416 has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
21417 - Clean up the log messages when starting on Win32 with no config
21419 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
21420 Administrator. If seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
21422 o Assert / crash bugs:
21423 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
21424 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
21425 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
21427 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
21428 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
21429 TLS errors better in other situations too.
21430 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert when we have a
21431 pending create cell and an OR connection attempt fails.
21434 - Use pthreads for worker processes rather than forking. This was
21435 forced because when we forked, we ended up wasting a lot of
21436 duplicate ram over time.
21437 - Also switch to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow
21438 reentry and threadsafeness.
21439 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
21440 netbsd and openbsd by default, because they have no reentrant
21441 resolver functions (!), and on solaris since it has other
21443 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
21444 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
21445 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
21446 point at your Tor server.
21447 - Fix possible memory leak in tor_lookup_hostname(). (Thanks to
21449 - Add ./configure --with-dmalloc option, to track memory leaks.
21450 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
21453 o Protocol correctness:
21454 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
21455 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
21456 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
21457 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells
21458 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
21459 to abandon partially built circuits.
21460 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
21461 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
21462 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
21463 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
21464 descriptors we just dropped.
21465 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
21466 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending 'misc',
21467 and to take errno into account where possible.
21468 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
21469 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
21470 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
21471 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
21473 o Robustness improvements:
21474 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
21475 - Annotate circuits with whether they aim to contain high uptime
21476 nodes and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
21478 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
21479 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
21480 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
21481 that will want high uptime circuits.
21482 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
21483 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
21484 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
21485 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
21486 - Reset published uptime when we wake up from hibernation.
21487 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
21488 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
21489 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
21490 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
21491 - New circuit pooling algorithm: keep track of what destination ports
21492 we've used recently (start out assuming we'll want to use 80), and
21493 make sure to have enough circs around to satisfy these ports. Also
21494 make sure to have 2 internal circs around if we've required internal
21495 circs lately (and with high uptime if we've seen that lately too).
21496 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
21497 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
21498 for google.com" problem.
21499 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
21500 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
21501 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
21502 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
21503 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
21506 o Reachability testing.
21507 - Your Tor server will automatically try to see if its ORPort and
21508 DirPort are reachable from the outside, and it won't upload its
21509 descriptor until it decides at least ORPort is reachable (when
21510 DirPort is not yet found reachable, publish it as zero).
21511 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
21512 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
21513 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
21514 - Authdirservers don't do ORPort reachability detection, since
21515 they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a server not
21516 already connected to them.
21517 - Authdirservers now automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc
21521 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
21522 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
21523 nickname+key are allowed.
21524 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
21525 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
21526 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
21527 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
21528 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
21529 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
21530 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
21531 have quite wrong clocks).
21532 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
21533 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
21534 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
21535 their descriptors are being rejected.
21537 o Efficiency improvements:
21538 - Use libevent. Now we can use faster async cores (like epoll, kpoll,
21539 and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better on Windows too.
21540 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue API, and using
21541 kqueue on 10.3.9 causes kernel panics. Don't use kqueue on OS X.
21542 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
21543 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
21544 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
21545 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
21546 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
21547 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
21549 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
21550 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
21551 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
21552 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
21553 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
21554 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
21555 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
21556 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
21557 of CPU time plus memory.
21558 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
21559 directory every time you regenerate it.
21560 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
21561 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
21562 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
21563 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
21564 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
21565 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
21566 lowercase when you first see them.
21569 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
21570 hidden services better.
21571 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
21572 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
21573 when we try to launch one.
21574 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds
21575 after fetching the descriptor, rather than for n (where n=3)
21576 attempts to build a circuit.
21577 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
21578 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
21579 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
21580 normal web requests.
21583 - More Tor controller support. See
21584 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
21585 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
21586 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
21587 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
21588 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
21589 to make it easier to write controllers.
21590 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
21591 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
21592 Matt Edman). Disable debug-level logs while delivering a debug-level
21593 log to the controller, to prevent loop. Update TorControl to handle
21594 new log event types.
21596 o New config options/defaults:
21597 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
21598 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
21599 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
21600 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
21601 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
21603 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
21605 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator and HttpsProxyAuthenticator support
21606 based on patch from Adam Langley (basic auth only).
21607 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
21608 the fast servers that have been joining lately. (Clients are now
21609 willing to load balance over up to 2 MB of advertised bandwidth
21611 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
21612 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
21613 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
21614 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
21615 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
21616 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
21617 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
21618 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
21619 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
21620 required exit node for certain sites.
21621 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
21622 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
21623 your exit keeps changing (based on patch from Mike Perry).
21624 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
21625 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
21626 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
21627 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
21628 - Change compiled-in SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to
21629 a config option "ShutdownWaitLength" (when using kill -INT on
21631 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options: if they say "--"
21632 on the commandline, it's not a config option (thanks weasel).
21633 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
21634 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
21635 private-IP addresses.
21636 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
21637 smart" default value: low for servers and high for clients.
21638 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
21639 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
21640 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
21641 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
21642 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
21643 is valid without actually launching Tor.
21645 o Logging improvements:
21646 - When dirservers refuse a server descriptor, we now log its
21647 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
21648 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist()
21649 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
21651 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
21652 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
21653 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
21654 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
21655 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
21656 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
21657 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
21658 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
21659 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
21661 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
21663 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
21664 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
21665 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
21666 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
21667 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
21668 pretend that getting these occasionally is normal and fine.
21670 o New contrib scripts:
21671 - New experimental script tor/contrib/exitlist: a simple python
21672 script to parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
21674 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
21675 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
21676 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
21677 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
21678 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
21679 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
21681 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
21682 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
21683 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
21684 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
21688 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
21689 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
21690 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
21691 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
21692 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
21693 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
21694 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
21696 - Fix a bug in the RPM package: set home directory for _tor to
21697 something more reasonable when first installing.
21698 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
21699 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
21700 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
21701 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
21703 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
21704 artificially capped at 500kB.
21705 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
21707 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
21708 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
21709 they could use instead.
21710 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
21711 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in certain
21712 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
21713 the user asks you to.
21716 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "externalIP.serifos.exit"
21717 rather than just rejecting it.
21718 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
21719 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
21720 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
21721 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
21722 rather than just "success" or "failure".
21723 - A more sane version numbering system. See
21724 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
21725 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
21726 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
21727 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
21728 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
21729 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
21731 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
21732 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
21733 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
21734 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
21736 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
21737 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
21739 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
21740 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
21741 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
21742 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
21744 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
21745 whether the server is hibernating.
21748 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
21749 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
21750 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
21751 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
21752 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
21756 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
21757 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
21758 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
21759 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
21760 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
21763 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
21764 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
21765 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
21766 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
21767 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
21768 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
21769 busy for more than 100 seconds.
21772 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
21773 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
21774 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
21775 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
21776 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
21777 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
21778 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
21779 creating actual system users.
21780 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
21781 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
21785 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
21786 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
21787 - Add new end stream reasons to maintenance branch. Fix bug where
21788 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
21789 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
21790 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
21791 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
21792 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
21793 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
21794 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
21795 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
21796 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
21797 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
21798 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
21799 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
21801 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
21802 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
21803 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
21804 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
21805 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
21806 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
21807 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
21808 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
21809 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
21810 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
21811 existing torrc files.
21812 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
21815 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
21816 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
21817 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
21818 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
21819 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
21820 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
21821 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
21822 the win32 SYSTEM account.
21823 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
21824 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
21825 file descriptors available.
21826 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
21827 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
21828 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
21831 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
21832 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
21833 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
21834 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
21836 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
21837 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
21838 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
21839 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
21840 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
21842 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
21843 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
21844 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
21845 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
21846 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
21847 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
21848 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
21849 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
21850 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
21851 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
21852 800kB/s of capacity.
21853 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
21856 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
21857 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
21858 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
21859 need as much processor time.
21860 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
21861 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
21862 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
21863 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
21864 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
21865 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
21866 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
21867 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
21868 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
21869 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
21870 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
21871 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
21873 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
21874 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
21875 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
21876 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
21877 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
21878 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
21879 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
21882 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
21883 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
21884 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
21886 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
21887 style address, then we'd crash.
21888 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
21889 a dirserver is broken.
21890 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
21892 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
21893 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
21894 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
21896 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
21897 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
21898 name out of the warning/assert messages.
21899 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
21900 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
21901 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
21903 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
21904 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
21905 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
21907 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
21909 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
21910 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
21911 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
21912 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
21913 values at once couldn't work.
21914 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
21915 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
21916 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
21917 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
21918 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
21919 they can handle any number of routers.
21920 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
21921 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
21922 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
21923 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
21924 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
21925 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
21926 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
21927 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
21928 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
21931 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
21932 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
21933 - Make hibernation actually work.
21934 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
21935 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
21936 don't use the stream status code.
21939 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
21940 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Crashes and asserts):
21941 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
21942 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
21943 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
21944 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
21945 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
21946 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
21947 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
21948 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
21949 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
21950 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
21953 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Win32):
21954 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
21955 win32 socket errors better.
21956 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
21957 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
21958 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
21959 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
21961 - Make unit tests work on win32.
21963 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Path selection and streams):
21964 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
21965 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
21966 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
21967 right after sending the begin cell.
21968 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
21969 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
21970 exit nodes too. Oops.
21971 - When read() failed on a stream, we would close it without sending
21972 back an end. So 'connection refused' would simply be ignored and
21973 the user would get no response.
21974 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
21975 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
21976 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
21978 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
21979 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
21980 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
21981 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
21982 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
21984 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Circuits):
21985 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
21986 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
21987 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
21988 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
21989 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
21990 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
21991 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
21992 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
21993 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
21994 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
21996 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Other):
21997 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
21998 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
21999 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
22000 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
22001 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
22002 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
22003 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
22004 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
22005 so we don't see those messages days later.
22006 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
22007 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
22009 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
22010 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
22011 they ran out of file descriptors.
22012 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
22013 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
22014 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
22015 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
22017 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
22018 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
22019 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
22020 the ones we find in directories.)
22021 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
22022 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
22023 if you don't want it open.
22024 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
22025 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
22026 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
22027 - If a verified OR connects to us before he's uploaded his descriptor,
22028 or we verify him and hup but he still has the original TLS
22029 connection, then conn->nickname is still set like he's unverified.
22031 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
22032 - tor_snprintf wrapper over snprintf with consistent (though not C99)
22034 - Replace sprintf with tor_snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
22036 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
22037 - Avoid strcat; use tor_snprintf or strlcat instead.
22039 o Features (circuits and streams):
22040 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
22041 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
22042 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
22043 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
22044 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
22045 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
22046 the user knows which one it's talking about.
22047 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
22048 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
22049 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
22050 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
22051 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
22052 from Geoff Goodell.
22053 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
22055 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
22056 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
22057 to fill the last cell completely.
22058 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
22059 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
22061 o Features (bandwidth):
22062 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMax" lets you
22063 set how many bytes per month (in each direction) you want to
22064 allow your server to consume. Rather than spreading those
22065 bytes out evenly over the month, we instead hibernate for some
22066 of the month and pop up at a deterministic time, work until
22067 the bytes are consumed, then hibernate again. Config option
22068 "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you specify which day of the month
22069 your billing cycle starts on.
22070 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
22071 hibernation properties by
22072 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
22073 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
22074 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
22075 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
22076 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
22078 o Features (directories):
22079 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
22080 nickname to its identity key.
22081 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
22082 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
22083 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
22084 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
22085 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
22087 - Clients and servers now fetch running-routers; cache
22088 running-routers; compress running-routers; serve compressed
22090 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
22091 will be able to get a directory.
22092 - Http proxy support
22093 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
22094 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
22095 be routed through this host.
22096 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
22097 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
22098 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
22099 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
22100 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
22101 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
22103 o Features (packages and install):
22104 - Add NSI installer contributed by J Doe.
22105 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
22106 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
22107 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
22108 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
22109 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
22110 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
22111 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
22112 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
22113 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
22116 o Features (ui controller):
22117 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
22118 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
22119 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
22120 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
22121 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
22122 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
22123 with the control port.
22124 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
22125 use in authenticating to the control interface.
22126 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
22127 configuration to torrc.
22128 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
22129 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
22130 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
22132 o Features (config and command-line):
22133 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
22134 not on the command line.
22135 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
22137 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
22138 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
22139 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
22140 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
22141 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
22142 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
22143 - New log format in config:
22144 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
22145 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
22146 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
22147 from their dirserver.
22148 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
22150 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
22151 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
22152 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
22153 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
22154 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
22155 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
22156 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
22157 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
22158 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
22159 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
22160 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
22161 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
22162 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
22163 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
22164 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
22165 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
22166 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
22167 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
22168 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
22169 than once per minute.
22171 o Features (other):
22172 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
22173 get back to normal.)
22174 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
22175 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
22176 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
22177 log more informatively.
22178 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
22179 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
22180 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
22181 from each other, to hinder linkability.
22182 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
22183 them act more like real nodes.
22184 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
22185 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
22186 1024) file descriptors.
22187 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
22190 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
22192 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
22193 clients/servers with an open dirport.
22194 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
22195 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
22196 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
22197 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
22198 intermittent connections.
22199 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
22200 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
22202 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
22203 in reporting stats locally.
22204 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
22205 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
22206 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
22209 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
22211 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
22212 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
22213 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
22214 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
22215 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
22216 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
22217 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
22218 list to decide who's running.
22219 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
22220 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
22221 - Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
22222 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
22223 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
22224 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
22225 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
22226 for pointing out this bug.)
22227 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
22229 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
22230 don't put it into the client dns cache.
22231 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP
22232 address should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy
22233 reject *:* until we get our next directory.
22235 o Protocol changes:
22236 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
22237 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
22238 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
22239 hadn't heard of before.
22242 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
22243 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
22244 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
22245 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
22246 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
22247 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
22248 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
22249 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
22250 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
22251 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
22252 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
22253 - When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
22254 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
22255 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
22256 - Directory caching.
22257 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
22258 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
22259 directory they've pulled down.
22260 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
22261 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
22262 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
22263 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
22264 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
22265 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
22266 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
22268 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
22269 This isn't used yet.
22270 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
22271 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
22272 clients don't use this yet.)
22273 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
22274 - Clients avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
22275 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't just replace
22276 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
22277 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
22278 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
22279 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
22280 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
22281 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
22282 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
22283 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
22284 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
22285 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
22286 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
22287 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
22288 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
22289 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
22290 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
22291 - File and name management:
22292 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
22293 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
22295 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
22296 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
22297 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
22298 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
22299 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
22300 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
22301 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
22303 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
22304 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
22305 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
22307 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
22308 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
22309 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
22310 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
22311 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
22312 - New docs in the tarball:
22314 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
22315 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
22316 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
22317 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
22318 know you might want to get it verified.
22319 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
22320 kazaa, gnutella ports.
22321 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
22322 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
22323 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
22324 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
22325 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
22326 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
22327 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
22329 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
22331 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
22332 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
22334 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
22335 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
22336 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
22339 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
22340 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
22341 ask them to resolve the host "".
22344 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
22345 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
22346 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
22349 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
22350 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
22351 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
22354 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
22355 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
22356 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
22357 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
22359 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
22360 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
22361 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
22363 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
22364 hidden service per 15-minute period.
22365 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
22366 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
22367 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
22368 o Fixes for security bugs:
22369 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
22370 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
22371 a trusted dirserver.
22373 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
22374 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
22375 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
22376 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
22377 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
22378 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
22379 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
22380 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
22381 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
22382 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
22384 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
22385 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
22386 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
22387 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
22388 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
22389 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
22391 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
22394 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
22395 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
22396 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
22397 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
22398 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
22399 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
22400 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
22401 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
22402 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
22403 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
22404 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
22405 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
22406 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
22407 - Updated the man page to reflect these features.
22410 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
22411 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
22412 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
22413 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
22416 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
22417 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
22418 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
22419 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
22420 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
22421 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
22422 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
22426 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
22428 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
22429 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
22430 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
22431 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
22432 - We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
22433 - CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
22434 if you decrypted them correctly.
22435 - Retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
22436 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address.
22437 - When we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
22438 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
22439 in-memory directories too.
22440 - Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
22441 - Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
22442 - Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
22443 - Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
22444 just close the circ.
22445 - Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
22446 - Better debugging for tls errors
22447 - Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
22448 - Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
22450 - Fix an assert trigger for exit nodes that's been plaguing us since
22451 the days of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
22452 - Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
22453 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
22454 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
22455 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
22456 it tells you about the first error.
22457 - Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
22458 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
22459 - Don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit.
22460 - Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
22461 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
22462 - Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
22463 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
22464 o Win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
22465 o Win32's close can't close a socket.
22466 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
22468 - check for <sys/limits.h> so we build on FreeBSD again, and
22469 <machine/limits.h> for NetBSD.
22472 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
22473 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
22475 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
22476 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
22477 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
22478 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
22479 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
22480 expect it to have a nickname.
22481 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
22482 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
22483 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
22484 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
22485 the dns farm to do it.
22486 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
22487 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
22489 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
22490 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
22491 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
22492 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
22493 but that aren't warnings
22496 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
22497 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
22501 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
22502 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
22503 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
22504 - include missing header fcntl.h
22505 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
22506 - deal with hardware word alignment
22507 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
22508 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
22509 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
22510 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
22511 by kill -USR1 currently.
22512 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
22513 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
22514 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
22517 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
22518 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
22519 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
22522 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
22524 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
22525 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
22526 - And fix a few endian issues.
22529 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
22531 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
22532 try that circuit again: try a new one.
22533 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
22534 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
22535 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
22536 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
22537 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
22538 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
22540 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
22541 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
22542 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
22544 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
22546 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
22547 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
22548 side isn't reading right then.
22549 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
22550 RecommendedVersions
22551 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
22552 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
22553 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
22556 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
22558 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
22559 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
22562 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
22566 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
22568 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
22569 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
22570 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
22571 connection is finished.
22572 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
22573 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
22574 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
22575 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
22576 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
22577 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
22578 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
22579 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
22580 rather than warn and continue.
22581 - Make --version work
22582 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
22585 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
22587 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
22588 knows it's working.
22589 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
22590 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
22592 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
22593 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
22594 so you can collect coredumps there.
22596 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
22597 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
22598 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
22599 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
22600 dns cache actually gets populated.
22601 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
22602 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
22603 end cell down it first.
22604 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
22605 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
22608 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
22610 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
22611 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
22613 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
22614 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
22615 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
22616 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
22617 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
22618 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
22620 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
22622 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
22623 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
22624 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
22625 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
22626 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
22627 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
22629 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
22630 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
22633 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
22635 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
22636 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
22637 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
22638 tor. It even has a man page.
22639 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
22640 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
22641 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
22642 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
22644 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
22646 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
22649 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
22651 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
22652 it, apt-getters. :)
22653 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
22654 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
22655 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
22656 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
22657 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
22658 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
22659 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
22660 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
22661 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
22662 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
22663 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
22665 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
22666 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
22669 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
22671 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
22672 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
22675 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
22677 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
22678 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
22679 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
22680 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
22681 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
22682 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
22683 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
22684 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
22685 logfile so you know it's working.
22686 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
22687 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
22690 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
22692 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
22693 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
22694 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
22697 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
22699 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
22700 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
22701 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
22704 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
22705 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
22706 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
22708 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
22709 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
22711 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
22712 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
22713 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
22715 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
22716 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
22720 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
22722 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
22723 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
22724 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
22727 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
22728 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
22729 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
22730 - Add port ranges to exit policies
22731 - Add a conservative default exit policy
22732 - Warn if you're running tor as root
22733 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
22734 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
22735 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
22736 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
22738 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
22741 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
22742 o Robustness and bugfixes:
22743 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
22744 really screw things up.
22745 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
22747 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
22748 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
22750 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
22751 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
22752 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
22753 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
22754 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
22755 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
22758 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
22761 - Change default loglevel to warn.
22762 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
22763 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
22765 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
22768 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
22769 o Robustness and bugfixes:
22770 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
22771 - to get ownership/permissions right
22772 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
22773 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
22774 pull down a directory again
22775 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
22776 causing server crashes
22777 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
22778 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
22779 - exit if bind() fails
22780 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
22781 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
22782 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
22783 - fix minor bias in PRNG
22784 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
22787 - Wrote the design document (woo)
22789 o Circuit building and exit policies:
22790 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
22792 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
22793 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
22794 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
22795 exists, rather than failing
22796 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
22797 which AP connections are standing by
22798 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
22799 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
22800 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
22802 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
22803 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
22806 - APPort is now called SocksPort
22807 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
22809 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
22810 hardcoded (for dirservers)
22811 - Reloads config on HUP
22812 - Usage info on -h or --help
22813 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
22815 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
22816 o General stability:
22817 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
22818 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
22819 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
22820 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
22821 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
22822 to take down the network when I approve a new router
22823 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
22826 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
22827 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
22829 o Autoconf improvements:
22830 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
22831 - Make install now works
22832 - create var/lib/tor on make install
22833 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
22834 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
22836 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
22837 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
22838 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
22839 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup